In Reggio Emilia the big exhibition on CCCP for their 40th anniversary

One of the groups that have most marked the history of Italian rock. CCCP - Fedeli alla Linea, the historic punk band that told in its own way and according to its own point of view all the contradictions of the 1980s, is the protagonist of an exhibition that, in Reggio Emilia, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the group’s birth. Taking up, in the title, the phrase from one of their famous pieces(Spara Jurij), the exhibition Felicitazioni! CCCP-Faithful to the Line 1984-2024 can be visited from Oct. 12, 2023 to Feb. 11, 2024 at the Chiostri di San Pietro in Reggio Emilia and is organized by the Palazzo Magnani Foundation in collaboration with the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.

It was 1984 when Orthodoxy was released, the first EP by CCCP, composed of Giovanni Lindo Ferretti on vocals, Massimo Zamboni on guitar, Umberto Negri on bass and drum machine, and accompanied by the “artist of the people” Danilo Fatur and the “well-deserving soubrette” Annarella Giudici, who performed in avant-garde theater performances accompanying the group’s music. The EP contained three tracks that would later go down in the group’s history, Live in Pankow, Shoot Jurij and Punk Islam. And to mark the occasion, the exhibition reopens the band’s drawers by pulling out images, sounds, lyrics, clothes, sets and experiences to make visitors relive the moments that marked their existence and continue to create cultural connections between opposing eras and places.

Reggiani by birth anagrafica, but conceived in Berlin (frontman Ferretti has always considered Emilia as the extreme outskirts of Berlin since the Brenner freeway starts in Carpi), born in the Paranoid Emilia of the 1980s, fell together with the Wall at the end of that decade and reformed with a new formation as CSI - Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti (but that is already a whole other story), CCCP - Fedeli alla Linea emerged as a phenomenon that, far from running out of steam in those years, was able to continually rediscover its relevance thanks to insights that still serve as a reference for a multitude of fans. Not infrequently, the members of the group, who have since gone on to different careers, still re-propose historical pieces, from Emilia paranoica, perhaps their most representative song, to Io sto bene, which instead is the most famous and quoted one (“I don’t study I don’t work I don’t watch TV I don’t go to the movies I don’t do sports”), on a par with Morire , which instead includes their most abused refrain (“Produce consumes crack”).

The exhibition also aims to demonstrate the disruptive power of CCCP’s lyrics and the almost mythological aura surrounding the group, tracing its entire history, a history that has intercepted some of the most characterizing of the 1980s, from Pier Vittorio Tondelli to Luigi Ghirri (who photographed the CCCP in some famous shots) to Amanda Lear with whom the group recorded a hypnotic version of Tomorrow, the French-British singer’s famous song. Structured according to a chronological and anthological path, the exhibition will take the visitor to discover the records released by CCCP, the gestation of each of them, the narrative of the world that surrounded them and from which they were inspired, and then the universes generated through the sounds, lyrics, clothes and performances created. The chronological narrative will also leave room for immersive settings apt to reconstruct, through sound installations, videos, words and images, the chaos of being CCCP, the daily experiences of the various creative phases, experimentations and concerts.

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Starting from Reggio Emilia, the exhibition will project the visitor into an unlimited human space, connecting from time to time East and West Berlin, the Europe of frontiers, Beirut, the Arab world, the USSR and satellite countries, China, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Kabul, Palestine, Israel, Moscow, Leningrad, and swirling those places into peripheries and centers of a single mental empire. The exhibition, by the way, will be carbon neutral: the Palazzo Magnani Foundation is committed to totally offset the tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere for the production of the cultural activities it organizes.

Until Oct. 11, early bird - open date - tickets can be purchased for €10 (+€1 pre-sale): https://www.palazzomagnani.it/biglietteria. After this date, ticket prices will be as follows: 15 euros full, 12 euros reduced (for over 65s, groups of at least 10 people, YoungER Card holders, disabled, conventioned), 10 euros for students 19-26 years old, 6 euros for children 11-18 years old. Possibility of family ticket with various formulas from 16 to 32 euros. Free for Friends of the Palazzo Magnani Foundation, children under 10, accompanying persons with disabilities, registered journalists with ID card, members of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Friends of Palazzo Strozzi, Friends of Camera, ICOM members. Accompanying the exhibition is a book-catalogue published by Interno4 editions, available for pre-order on the publisher’s website and in major bookstores.

And along with the exhibition, on Oct. 21 the Reggio Emilia Theater will host the “Grand Punk Gala” with the presence of Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Massimo Zamboni, Annarella Giudici and Danilo Fatur: an evening dedicated to their music, with Daria Bignardi and Andrea Scanzi, during which rare and unreleased footage will also be shown, all directed by Fabio Cherstich. To learn more, visit the Reggio Emilia Theaters Foundation website.

In Reggio Emilia the big exhibition on CCCP for their 40th anniversary

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