Between art and music, Mirco Marchelli's good offices on display in Sarzana

Art and music come together at Sarzana ’s Cardelli & Fontana Gallery with the new solo exhibition of Piedmontese artist Mirco Marchelli (Novi Ligure, 1963), who in Sarzana, at the gallery’s headquarters, presents his latest works in the exhibition entitled Buoni offici, running from Dec. 9, 2023 to Feb. 17, 2024.

The exhibition revolves around Marchelli’s original sound composition of the same name, for solo violin and percussion instruments (violin is played by Luca Santariello, percussion by Alessandro Salandrini), which originated from fragments of Widmung, a piece by composer Bruno Maderna. The music emanates from a large workshop cabinet, placed in front of the entrance; on the walls a new series of works, a combination of poor materials and golden ornaments, very different in history, appearance and origin.

The inspiration is somehow related to the very city hosting the exhibition. Sarzana is in fact the city of three popes: St. Eutichiano (275-283), Sergius IV (1009-1012) and Nicholas V (1447-1455). Marchelli decides to deal with papal intercession and workshop industriousness, with “good offices,” in fact, and dedication(widmung) doubling the meaning of the exhibition’s title, with the irony that has always distinguished his work.

Thus, we find in the plastic application of the polymaterials, displayed in the exhibition, a reference to the themes inherent in the ecclesiastical world, with its infinite nuances, while, in the sound part, the world of the work is musically evoked by the clear rhythmicity and cadence of the use of percussive organ.

The exhibition catalog, with a text by Daniela Ferretti, will go to press in January 2024. The exhibition opens Monday through Saturday from 10 to 12:30 a.m. and 5 to 7:30 p.m. For all info: www.cardelliefontana.com

galleria@cardelliefontana.com, telephone 0187.626374 and 339.607927272.

Between art and music, Mirco Marchelli's good offices on display in Sarzana

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