FERMO – The Caroussella Association and the Cassa di Risparmio di Fermo, under the patronage of the Municipality of Fermo, present an artistic performance by Riccardo Banfi on Thursday, August 3, at 19:00 in the Carifermo Garden, at 17 Corso Cavour. contemporary art.
Canzone d’amore is a karaoke of exclusively Italian love songs. Under a starry sky and against the backdrop of Pinguini al Mare (2015), a group of inflatable penguins hugging each other on the shores of a sunny beach, the public is invited to perform 100 timeless hits from Italian history. music. Selected works include Canaglia’s Nostalgia, Amarsi un po’, L’appuntamento, Se telephoning…
The love song stands out from the traditional idea of karaoke as a form of entertainment. In fact, the emphasis is on music as a tool of expression, communication and exchange that transcends age, origin and identity.
“More Than This…” is the song that Bob (Bill Murray) sings in a key episode of “Lost in Translation” at the karaoke can in Shibuya, during a nightlife scene in which the two main characters, Bob and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) come into perfect resonance. and reveal their characters, showing their fragility and melancholy with gestures and songs. During the scene, the exchange of glances and lyrics reinforce the subtext of the closeness present between the two characters. Singing is their way of “translating” the attraction they feel for each other. Karaoke is an important moment that brings out the emotional connections between the characters through the songs they choose to sing. If isolation is one of the main themes of this film, then the karaoke scene is the one that serves as the key to revealing the relationship between the characters, to revealing their complicity. How self-confident Charlotte seems to us with the iconic pink wig/bob, who is extremely “closed” throughout the film, and how awkward Bob is in his forays into the slot machines and while singing, maintaining instead a confident and settled character. This scene, with the last symbolic image of Charlotte resting her head on Bob’s shoulder, reveals the sweetness of meeting another as an opportunity to overcome one’s own melancholy through the ability to let oneself go.
Canzone d’amore is an action conceived by the artist Riccardo Banfi to be a catalyst for performance, it is a performance in itself that invites the audience to become the protagonist through the invitation to take action. In this case, singing becomes a place of opportunity for meeting. The same garden on Corso Cavour, which until now was a place devoid of its functionality and identity, is being returned to the community.
The performances will be documented with videos and photographs, and whether you choose to boldly take the microphone or sing your favorite song with a drink in hand, they will remain a moment of “meeting” of common feelings.
Canzone d’amore is conceived by Riccardo Banfi in collaboration with Caroussel and anticipates the exhibition I called to tell you that I love you, curated by Matilda Galletti, planned for December next year and installed at Palazzo Brancadoro, Palazzo Matteucci, headquarters apartment of Cassa di Risparmio di Fermo and again in Giardinetto.
SAVINGSBANK GARDEN OR FORMER CHURCH OF SAN MATTEO
Some evidence suggests that this small space seems to have been the site of the Church of San Matteo, a 12th-century building whose traces are lost in the 13th century.
In the early 1900s, the Cassa di Risparmio di Fermo took over the management of the area, turning it into a small garden with the intention of expanding and making more pleasant what used to be the entrance to the Palazzo Matteucci, headquarters of the banking institution. . The statue of Annibal Caro, made by Edoardo Tabacchi in Vigiu stone, was to be placed in this garden and is now in the courtyard of the Teatro dell’Aquila.
This place has a special history to be discovered, but above all, its purpose as a space that welcomes the arts can be activated through the efforts of Carifermo Spa in collaboration with the Karussell Association.
Such a special place, unique in the skyline of the city, is perfect for implementing projects related to contemporary art. This space, where specific interventions take place, is transformed into an open-air project room: contemporary art opens up for dialogue with the urban community, generously offering itself to the eyes of passers-by along Corso Cavour. Artists identified among young people doing high-quality research are invited to create work that will beautify this enchanting place and help enhance its personality.
The Giardinetto is an annual event during which the Cassa di Risparmio di Fermo supports and promotes the work of young emerging artists and revitalizes the historic space of the city. Offering new opportunities for reading and rediscovering places whose history is little known and connected to the local community is a virtuous act to preserve and enhance less visible but no less important heritage.
EXECUTOR
The photography practice of Riccardo Banfi (Milan, 1986) consolidated around the theme of the club and is generally associated with the exploratory nature of the gaze in identifying anonymous moments or unexpected insights potentially hidden in every place. Documenting everyday life, Banfi creates a variety of works that combine figurative and abstract elements, as well as biographical and documentary perspectives, offering a representation of the contemporary world that is both personal and universal.
Banfi’s work has been featured in international institutions and festivals such as COLLI and the Museo delle Mura (Rome); Fonderia Artistica Battaglia and Conversation Piece (Milan); Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Casa dei Tre Oci and Serra dei Giardini (Venice); CNEAI (Paris); Agora (Berlin); Photo Winterthur Museum (Winterthur); State Museum of Assam (Guwahati); Loop (Barcelona); Landskrona Photo Festival. In 2011–2012, he was Artist-in-Residence at the Spinola Banna Foundation in Turin; in 2012 at the Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, Venice, and in 2013 at the Dehn Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris. That same year, he won DE.MO./MOVIN’UP, a MiBACT scholarship from GAi. In 2015, he took part in the Guwahati Research Program in India and published his first photobook, Tnx. In 2020, he published Sunshine Noir, a survey summarizing and bringing together the many antipodes that shape the physical and emotional topography of Los Angeles, and was one of the finalists for the Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Art (Treviso). In 2021, he instead became one of the finalists for the Talent Prize 2021 (Rome).
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