Rome lights up with eighteen site-specific light works

From December 19-22, 2020, RGB Light Experience, the urban light art, urban light and video-mapping festival produced by Luci Ombre and directed by Diego Labonia, returns to Rome. Now in its fifth edition, the festival brings to the capital eighteen site-specific light works signed by national and international visual artists and light designers. These will be placed in four locations in Rome, transforming the city into an open-air museum for four days: a traveling exhibition that intends to redesign urban architectural surfaces, creating new imagery that focuses on a different relationship between man and nature.

Due to antiCovid security measures, this year’s festival is changing modes: “In these times dictated by distance, isolation and fear, the RGB project has been completely rethought to allow it to unfold to its full potential. Instead of the usual walk along a route littered with artworks, it will be the artworks themselves that will move within the urban fabric,” said Diego Labonia, artistic director of RGB. Each day two equipped trucks will bring to a different site of the four selected ones all the scheduled works that will be visible to the public from 6:30 p.m. until curfew time.

The title and leitmotif of this edition is Naturare: an invitation to overturn the anthropocentric conception of nature and to consider humanity as part of a living and interconnected system, whose balances are today seriously compromised precisely because of human action. A concept evoked right from the visual, created by artist Mariano Peccinetti, in which the human element has towards the natural element a contemplative attitude.

Video-illuminators, motorized lights of various types, lasers and sound speakers will be the tools with which the selected artists will be able to create emotional environments, interacting with the architecture of the chosen places. From Tutto tatto a perdere, an audiovisual work by intermediary artist Lino Strangis dedicated to the loss of human contact in times of pandemic to a celebration of the genius of Yves Klein in Y.K. L’altra metà del cielo, a work by artist and architect Diego Repetto in collaboration with Gianni Maroccolo. From the multiple interventions of actress, videomaker, director and performer Simona Verrusio, who in Ellissi 2.0 moves between astronomy, mathematics, painting and cinema, to the soft polychrome lights enhanced by sounds that are at times gentle, at times vibrant, of Giardino di cemento, an intervention signed by the all-female duo composed of Chiara Patriarca and Francesca Cecarini. And if Overflow, a project by multimedia collective DELTAPROCESS, moves through Guy Debord’s psycho-geographical maps and drift technique, showing the process of spatial evolution of a mold on the map of Pigneto, Dutch artist Hinrich Gross in Groninger Tiles reflects on the nature of pixels. Then we move on to the contemporary reinterpretation of the optical box proposed by Lea Brugnoli and Anna Torrazza, artists but also mother and daughter, who at RGB present Dissolvenze, a new piece in their cycle on pre-cinema. Instead, multidisciplinary artist Luca Cataldo presents Legame, a work that reflects on some symbiotic modalities that link the plant and animal worlds, while the interaction between man and nature within a metropolitan context is the focus of Crescerà l’erba sulle nostre città, a work signed by Luca Mauceri with the Florentine collective MediaMash Studio. In Data Storming, a work by the creativeensemble Quadro Quantico, a chaotic flow of data finds its own harmonious balance in the juxtaposition with the sinuous movement of birds in the sky, becoming a true digital painting that invades public space while changing its perception. On a similar front moves Concrete Walls by the international duo Collective L4R: brushstrokes of light ready to redefine city walls to compose a representation in the form of a mosaic of nature and activate processes of contemplation, an activity almost forgotten by those who live in concrete forests. In Fino a qui, Daniele Spanò instead proposes a reflection on architecture as a surface that separates the inside from the outside, in this case an intimate space like the theater with a public space like the square. A line of reasoning also developed in a different form by artists Olga Tuzova and Lorenzo Pagella with Teatri d’Italia, a melancholy overview of empty theaters in this pandemic period. At RGB Tuzova and Pagella also present Life Before and After, a work that refers to the dramatic temporal rift in our lives generated by the pandemic. Signs of Light by the photographer and performer collective I light, on the other hand, will be a looped anthology of their best light painting works, while young artist Flavia Tritto’s Raw Flows (Dancing Bodies Change the World) will present a series of four video installations showing RGB (digital oscilloscope) waveform patterns derived from video sequences, whose protagonists dance in different locations. French sound and visual artist Jeremy Oury plays between audio and video in Emersive, a hypnotic work/performance that through grids and fractals explores the various types of space in a microcosm, over a sound carpet that evokes the contribution made to our society by scientific discoveries and technological evolution. Rounding out this rich programming will be the work Attraversamenti#02 by Simone Palma and Raffaele Settembre, two artists active in the theatrical field focus on the question of identity and self-perception.

Also scheduled from Dec. 20 to 30 will be The Need to Modify Existence, a series of meetings with managers, lecturers and artists that will also include workshops for young children and workshops to learn more about light art and digital art.

Venues

Giordano Sangalli Park | Dec. 19
Viale dell’Acquedotto Alessandrino

Pavoni-Pigneto parking lot | Dec. 20
Between via del Pigneto and via Luigi Pavoni

Tangenziale Est overpass | Dec. 21
Prenestina street, height of civic number 52

Ligini Towers - EUR | December 22
Viale America, street number 266

For info: http://www.rgblightfest.com/

In the image, the project of the collective Deltaprocess

Rome lights up with eighteen site-specific light works

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