In Parma, Tresoldi's choral installation that narrates the breath of a day in its landscape

From Sept. 10 to Oct. 30, 2022, as part of the sixth edition of Parma 360 Festival of Contemporary Creativity, Parma ’s Palazzo del Governatore will host ánemos, theinstallation that Edoardo Tresoldi created together with Studio Azzurro and Max Mangaldi. The Festival, which has the artistic direction of Chiara Canali and Camilla Mineo, is dedicated to the highest expressions of contemporary visual arts and creative thinking; this edition’s theme is PASSAGGI/PAESAGGI. Space and Time in the Contemporary.

Conceived as a single work, designed specifically for the Festival, ánemos is achoral art installation that combines different expressive languages: in fact, it is developed through the sculptural dimension of Tresoldi, the video projections of Studio Azzurro and the sound record ings of Max Magaldi. Together they narrate a simple phenomenon: the breath of a day’s evolution in its landscape-its ánemos-synthesizing it in an enclosed environment that contains anthropic interactions. In this way, the work aims to present the casual relationship between man and nature by translating it into a dimension suspended between the real and the virtual.

"ánemos virtually translates the elements of a landscape: clouds, a thunderstorm, the sound of a bell, wind, architecture. A synthesis of sensitive archetypes recognizable to viewers and listeners as part of the collective imagination with trajectories along which everyone can read and reconstruct their own landscape, Tresoldi commented.

If Tresoldi’s architecture traces the spatial rhythms of the installation, its counterpart will be Absent Matter that breathes and becomes mutable through Studio Azzurro’s visual narratives and Magaldi’s sound suggestions making ánemos a contemplative environment.

Studio Azzurro’s work, originally conceived as Skies of Italy, is a large animated fresco that simulates with “eyes up” a journey along an imaginary Italy, the sigh of the sky, that unfolds and changes over the course of a day. “Unlike many works of art in museums or collections, which are sometimes placidly still and dormant in the way they expose themselves to the public gaze,” the artists explained, “our works show a propensity to be vital, the images in their continuous propensity to move and reappear in different ways and places give the impression of being breathing works of art.”

Linked to these images is thesound ecosystem designed by Max Magaldi, composed of sound variations. Each visitor, through his or her own device, can add and amplify sound elements in the space transformed into place. “The result,” as Mangaldi explains, “is a transparent experience in which sound waves multiply and yet become subtle and imperceptible, while light composes Studio Azzurro’s video streams and pierces Edoardo Tresoldi’s wire mesh structure.”

For info: www.parma360festival.it

Photo by Roberto Conte

In Parma, Tresoldi's choral installation that narrates the breath of a day in its landscape

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