A traveling exhibition featuring ten Dalla songs reinterpreted in urban art stops in Parma

From December 17 to 23, 2022, the church of San Marcellino in Parma’s Collegio dei Nobili street will host the traveling exhibition A volte basta una canzone. Lucio Dalla, 10 songs on display, under the patronage of the City of Parma.

Already presented in Bologna, thepictorial and sound exhibition will feature ten paintings by painter and urban artist Antonio Cotecchia through which he intends to reinterpret ten songs by Lucio Dalla. Ciao, Come è profondo il mare and Felicità are some of the titles chosen from the Bolognese singer-songwriter’s extensive discography. Each canvas will also have audio headphones next to it that can be worn to listen to the songs reworked by the artist himself on the computer with audio effects and a new spectrometric mastering.

The aim of the exhibition is to engage the public in a pictorial and aural journey into contemporaneity, starting with the singer-songwriter’s worldview, addressing themes such as diversity, the decadence of human nature, war andindividualism, which are of stringent relevance today.

Music has always been a constant in Cotecchia’s life and artistic research: in Henna, for example, Dalla’s words about the fate of human nature between pain and love intersect with the frenetic rhythm of Pink Floyd’s The Trial. In Futura’s interpretation, the struggle of the powerful to divide the world opens up two possible scenarios for young people: save the world with concrete actions or take refuge in the Metaverse.

The exhibition can be visited Dec. 17-23, Monday through Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to 7:30 p.m. Free admission.

A traveling exhibition featuring ten Dalla songs reinterpreted in urban art stops in Parma

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