Massimo Bartolini
dal 28/2/2013 al 18/5/2013
Segnalato da
28/2/2013
Massimo Bartolini
MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo
Hum. This exhibition pays homage to Glenn Gould (1932-1982), and includes two new sound installations -HUM, and Singing North- constructed around two Gould's pieces. Lettura, a performance created specifically for the Marco's venue, pays tribute to Gould by reading aloud The Loser, the renowned novel by Thomas Bernhard.
Curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi
Massimo Bartolini’s show HUM, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, inaugurated a new exhibition project of the Fondazione Musica per Roma devoted to the art of sound. This exhibition pays homage to Glenn Gould (1932-1982), and includes two new sound installations —HUM, and Singing North— constructed around two Gould’s pieces: the humming of the Canadian musician in the second recording of the Goldberg Variations (1981); and the contrapuntal radio documentary The Idea of North (1967), an interview programme produced by Gould on the geographic — and philosophical — concept of the North.
Lettura, a performance created specifically for the MARCO’s venue, pays tribute to Gould by reading aloud The Loser, the renowned novel by Thomas Bernhard. It will also take place during the opening Phonology of noise: the voice as sound object, live streaming aural transmission of experimental sound artists from the website of Radical Matters - Editions/Label series.
Massimo Bartolini’s show HUM, inaugurated the new exhibition project of the Fondazione Musica per Roma devoted to the art of sound, One Space/One Sound, a periodical project of three exhibitions a year for the AuditoriumArte venue.
Sound has always played an important role in the work of Massimo Bartolini who here presents HUM, an exhibition that pays tribute to one of the most brilliant and visionary personalities of the 20th century: Glenn Gould (1932-1982), on the occasion of the celebrations which took place in 2012 as an homage to the artist’s birth 80º Anniversary and the 30º Anniversary of his death.
Massimo Bartolini’s two installations —HUM, and Singing North— are constructed around two Gould’s pieces: the humming of the Canadian musician in the second recording of the Goldberg Variations (1981); and the contrapuntal radio documentary The Idea of North (1967), an interview programme produced by Gould on the geographic — and philosophical — concept of the North.
Gould’s famous humming from the 1981 recording of the Goldberg Variations, the HUM, is transformed here into an autonomous vocal score interpreted by the baritone Nicholas Isherwood. Bartolini’s sound installation, specifically adapted to MARCO’s first floor galleries — the walls are painted with colors corresponding to the G Major tonalities, the dominant theme in the Goldberg Variations — transforms the exhibition spaces in a surprising and unexpected way, creating an atmosphere of intimate beauty that only comes to life in the presence of voice: a bodiless voice which, stripped of the ego of the artist's presence, now finds its ultimate meaning in the presence and interpretation of the audience dience.
With respect to the radio documentary piece, the cooperation between Bartolini and Isherwood has resulted in the installation Singing North. Here, several fragments of Gould’s original text —philosophical and poetical descriptions on the Northern Canadianss isolated life— are recreated and used as a libretto.
Lettura, a performance created specifically for the MARCO’s venue, pays tribute to Gould by reading aloud The Loser, the renowned novel by Thomas Bernhard. It will also take place during the opening Phonology of noise: the voice as sound object, live streaming aural transmission of experimental sound artists from the website of Radical Matters - Editions/Label series. A selection of works by artists that have been experimenting with the voice since the late 70’s. This recording is available at MARCO’s library.
With this exhibition, MARCO, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo, takes another step in a tendency of projects related to the art of sound. This interest has been reflected in several exhibitions such as ‘The Invisible Show’ (2006), ‘Escoitar.org’ (2007), or Loreto Martínez Troncoso’s solo show within the series ‘Entering the Work’ (2011), as well as the presence of sound works and installations in numerous projects or group shows produced by MARCO.
On the occasion of this exhibition, Fondazione Musica per Roma & Magazzino Arte Moderna, Rome, have published a catalogue which includes an audio CD of the two sound works, and a DVD recording of the baritone Nicholas Isherwood playing HUM.
HUM. Catalogue, CD, DVD
Published by: Fondazione Musica per Roma & Magazzino Arte Moderna, Rome, 2013
PRODUCED BY
Fondazione Musica per Roma
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