Dario D'Aronco
28 Sep - 20 Oct 2013
DARIO D'ARONCO
(eidolon) 3 illustrations for voice
28 September - 20 October, 2013
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
(eidolon) 3 illustrations for voice is an installation by Dario D’Aronco which, starting from the work of the composer Giacinto Scelsi, avails itself of the collaboration with Michiko Hirayama, performer on which Scelsi shaped his music for voice. During the opening Hirayama will perform live interacting with the installation in De Vleeshal.
Using records obtained from the vocal improvisation by Hirayama, D’Aronco creates a track conceived at first as in a dialogue with Hirayama herself, and then transformed in the exhibition as a live performance.
Through the figure of Michiko Hirayama the artist recalls the thoughts that distinguished the entire work of Scelsi, as it was for most of the composers and artists of its age, right after the Second World War: they intended art as a mean to create a “new world” and as an augmentation of a human being by the use of technology.
A thought that became more radical by bringing the Form to a zero grade, obtained with the consistent use of technology, on one hand, and with the research of an ancestral shape, on the other, which anticipate the meaning intended as a description.
Dario D’Aronco
Born in Latina in 1980. His lates exhibitions were: 2013: Veduta isomorfica per voce e luce, Fondazione Volume!, Rome (IT) curated by Lorenzo Benedetti // Soundcorner, Auditorium parco della musica, Rome (IT), curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi // Lost &Found, Waag Society, Amsterdam (NL), curated by Alma Mathijsen, Julia van Mourik e Suzanne Wallinga 2012: Vetrinale-festival d’artecontemporanea, Rome (IT), curated by Cecilia Casorati, Micol di Veroli, Yuri Elena // Teatrodelleesposizioni 3°, Villa Medici, Rome (IT), curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Laurent Montaron // Three Artist Walk into a Bar, De Appel, Amsterdam (NL), curated by Black Swan // Dream insomnia seminar, FondazioneRatti, Villa Sucota Como (IT), curated by Eric Alliez // Landscape on the move, SAM Sound art museum/De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL), curated by Riccardo Giagni, Lorenzo Benedetti, Cesare Pietroiusti.
Michiko Hirayama
Born in Tokio in 1923, where she graduated in Vocal Arts, she moved to Europe in the fifties, spreading the tradition of Japanese singing. Thanks to the special relationships with many artists, especially with Giacinto Scelsi (I Canti del Capricorno), she was very important for the development of the Avant-guard of the second post war period, because of her path and research in the field of improvisation.
A publication with a text by Lorenzo Benedetti is realized by Cura and will be documenting the project.
The exhibition is made in collaboration with Fondazione Volume and Fondazione Scelsi in Rome, and supported by the Istituto di Cultura Italiano of Amsterdam.
(eidolon) 3 illustrations for voice
28 September - 20 October, 2013
Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
(eidolon) 3 illustrations for voice is an installation by Dario D’Aronco which, starting from the work of the composer Giacinto Scelsi, avails itself of the collaboration with Michiko Hirayama, performer on which Scelsi shaped his music for voice. During the opening Hirayama will perform live interacting with the installation in De Vleeshal.
Using records obtained from the vocal improvisation by Hirayama, D’Aronco creates a track conceived at first as in a dialogue with Hirayama herself, and then transformed in the exhibition as a live performance.
Through the figure of Michiko Hirayama the artist recalls the thoughts that distinguished the entire work of Scelsi, as it was for most of the composers and artists of its age, right after the Second World War: they intended art as a mean to create a “new world” and as an augmentation of a human being by the use of technology.
A thought that became more radical by bringing the Form to a zero grade, obtained with the consistent use of technology, on one hand, and with the research of an ancestral shape, on the other, which anticipate the meaning intended as a description.
Dario D’Aronco
Born in Latina in 1980. His lates exhibitions were: 2013: Veduta isomorfica per voce e luce, Fondazione Volume!, Rome (IT) curated by Lorenzo Benedetti // Soundcorner, Auditorium parco della musica, Rome (IT), curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi // Lost &Found, Waag Society, Amsterdam (NL), curated by Alma Mathijsen, Julia van Mourik e Suzanne Wallinga 2012: Vetrinale-festival d’artecontemporanea, Rome (IT), curated by Cecilia Casorati, Micol di Veroli, Yuri Elena // Teatrodelleesposizioni 3°, Villa Medici, Rome (IT), curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Laurent Montaron // Three Artist Walk into a Bar, De Appel, Amsterdam (NL), curated by Black Swan // Dream insomnia seminar, FondazioneRatti, Villa Sucota Como (IT), curated by Eric Alliez // Landscape on the move, SAM Sound art museum/De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL), curated by Riccardo Giagni, Lorenzo Benedetti, Cesare Pietroiusti.
Michiko Hirayama
Born in Tokio in 1923, where she graduated in Vocal Arts, she moved to Europe in the fifties, spreading the tradition of Japanese singing. Thanks to the special relationships with many artists, especially with Giacinto Scelsi (I Canti del Capricorno), she was very important for the development of the Avant-guard of the second post war period, because of her path and research in the field of improvisation.
A publication with a text by Lorenzo Benedetti is realized by Cura and will be documenting the project.
The exhibition is made in collaboration with Fondazione Volume and Fondazione Scelsi in Rome, and supported by the Istituto di Cultura Italiano of Amsterdam.