Bologna, art animation short burns the Vecchione on the notes of Dalla

Once again this year, as it has for almost a hundred years, Bologna burned its traditional Vecchione in Piazza Maggiore to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new, but it did so in a digital guise through the poetic animated short by Chiara Rapaccini, aka RAP. In fact, the artist, also testimonial of a fundraiser in favor of children, for a New Year’s Eve in the sign of solidarity, gave the city an author’s animated short: against the backdrop of a stylized and dreamy Bologna, with its symbols and architecture, from the Portici to San Luca to San Petronio, a lone rider rides through the deserted streets on New Year’s Eve. Behind the windows of the houses, images of the new everyday flow, between video calls to distant loves, the boredom of days that are often the same, the uncertainty that enters living rooms lit by TVs broadcasting the news. From the windows fall the words to be disposed of, which the rider collects in his carrier to make a bonfire in the Piazza, burning the old to make way for the hope of a new year that can give us back the life we had before. Accompanying the animation are the notes of Lucio Dalla ’s Futura (a famous song that turned 40 in 2020), thanks to the collaboration of Lucio Dalla Foundation, Universal Music Publishing Ricordi Srl, Emi Music Publishing Italia Srl and Sony Music Entertainment Italy spa.

Chiara Rapaccini is also spokesperson for the New Year’s Eve of the Heart crowdfunding campaign active on the ideaginger.it platform in favor of Ageop Ricerca and Piccoli Grandi Cuori Onlus. Those who contribute, even by paying a small amount, receive in return original RAP-style rewards in limited and exclusive editions: masks, magnets, notebooks, shoppers, up to unpublished sketches of the New Year’s Eve 2021 campaign, produced in a numbered series and autographed by the artist.

“The short film is a tribute to Bologna, but it actually speaks to all of us: it tells about feelings that we can never before define as universal,” explains artist Chiara Rapaccini. “I wanted to give the people of Bologna a light-hearted and confident end of the year in the future, with irony but with respect for these difficult times. I hope they like the video and it is a wish for hope.”

RAP’s video enlivened Bologna’s New Year’s Eve, which was streamed on the website and YouTube channel of the Municipality of Bologna, along with a tribute by the Cineteca di Bologna and a closed-door Concert by the Orchestra and Chorus of the city’s Teatro Comunale, with a program full of famous pieces, from Puccini to Mozart, Rossini to Mendelssohn.

Bologna, art animation short burns the Vecchione on the notes of Dalla

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