Photo exhibition La Meraviglia dai vostri occhi
curated by Photogem
Grottino del Teatro Vittoria (p. 6)
Shots selected from the Artisti in Piazza 2024 Photo Contest.
Shots selected from the Artisti in Piazza 2024 Photo Contest.
Thirteen works created by sculptor Brunivo Buttarelli (Casalmaggiore CR – 1946) in a journey that results in a metaphorical and at times provocative narrative inspired by Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.
Buttarelli’s interest in the 16th-century author stems from a dialogue with poetess Tania Di Malta and, later, with professor Giuseppe Langella, and leads to a rereading of the poem and the rediscovery of the dynamism and richness of its characters and, above all, of certain situations prophesied by Ariosto that are very close to today’s world.
Through his reinterpretation of the literary masterpiece that has nurtured the epic-love strand of the chivalric poem for centuries, Buttarelli takes us on an imaginary journey of Astolfo riding his hippogryph to recover Orlando’s lost wits in that metallic moon where everything that man unwisely throws away is piled up.
On the one hand, the sculptor retrieves discarded materials, giving them functionality, form and the higher sense of art; on the other, he issues an ultimate warning, which has the peremptoriness of an s.o.s., before an irreparable catastrophe.
These videos were shot, on super 8 film, during the Festival. The images you will see are unwrapped: nothing was removed during editing to return an experience as authentic as possible. Through images and sounds thus characterized, the childhood experience of the event is restored.
The dream and the memory have the same quality as the film.
Collective work created during the ArS RuRaliS workshop, composed entirely of plant material collected on site.
“Human dialogue is intertwined and merged with that of the land and the landscape that inhabits it.”