Reflection in Black and White

TENUTA DELLO SCOMPIGLIO
from Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 september
from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 september

Riflessi in bianco e nero (Reflection in black and white)
Compagnia Dello Scompiglio

An itinerant performance in 4 steps:
On the Collina dell'Uccellieria (Aviary Hill): "L'Attesa" (The Wait);
at the ash tree: "La Perdita" (The Loss);
In the abandoned vineyard: "Il Cimitero della Memoria" (The Graveyard of Memory) (collective exhibition);
At the pond: "Il Funerale del Tempo" (The Funeral of Time).

Idea, direction and scenary design: Cecilia Bertoni
Music and sound: Carl Beukman
Performers: Maria Lucia Carones, Serena Gatti, Marco di Campli San Vito, Piero Leccese, Luigi Petrolini and Alessio, Andrea, Cipriano, Deniel, Derox, Fausto, Federico, Francesco, Paolo and Simone
Exibition works by: Enrico Vezzi, Clara Conci, Gian Maria Tosatti, Chiara Scarfò, Pablo Rubio, Davide Orlandi Dormino, Claudia Zicari, and Silvia Giambrone, curated by Angel Moya Garcia with Cecilia Bertoni
direction assistant: Luigi Petrolini
Exhibition construction: Cipriano Menchini
Scenery construction: Vincenzo Suriano
Tree climber: Paolo Carrara
Tecnic: Paolo Morelli, Luca Telleschi

Together with "Tesorino perchè hai perso?" (Sweetheart, Why did you Lose?), "Riflessi in bianco e nero" (Reflections in black and white) forms part of a trilogy in its creation phase, which confronts and becomes entangled in the themes of victory and defeat, and their relationship with time in all its different dynamics, in and out of reality.

The phase "Riflessi in bianco e nero" concentrates on losing, loss, the losers, time and memories. The itinerary is in 4 stages, following a descending path, each stage in a very different location.

The first stage, "L'Attesa" (The Wait), in the shade of the holm oaks in the collina dell'uccelliera (aviary hill), orchestrates in an image the themes of the performance.

The second stage, "La perdita" (The loss), takes place on a pyramid of terraces next to an enormous ash tree. 3 present but distant men, and absent men. At the foot of the terraces 2 holes, 2 women confide their secrets to the bowels of the earth. Lose...End to own life, breath, time, memory, matter, people, feelings... We can only lose that which we have.

The third stage, "Il cimitero della memoria" (The graveyard of memory), will develop in the area of the old vineyard, amongst the remains of the concrete pillars. 8 artists have been invited to reflect and develop a subjective interpretation of memory using their own ephemeral memories, illusions, trampled empty spaces, libraries of forgotten fragments, private spaces, untended images, half-closed passageways or mental places that hover between the past and the present.

The forth stage, "Il funerale del tempo" (The funeral of time) - performed during the Settembre Dello Scompiglio 2009 programme - focuses on the dynamics of time. The concrete time binds us to a precisely defined linear journey from birth to death. The internal time, among memories that recall the past and desires which project us into the future, confuses us in the present. Like breathing, time is always there, anyway and always present.
The entire route is marked by music and sounds in the form of sound installations.

"...Starting over again."
"I do not think we can start again. We started.... a long time ago. Began. We cannot start again. We can end again."
"But we never finished.
"Oh, yes. Many, many, many times. And we can finish again and again. And again."
"You're not making improper use of the word end? End means end. You can't finish ‘again'. You can finish only once. "
"No, you can finish once and then end again."

Harold Pinter, "Ashes to Ashes"

Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 september
Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 september

16:30 in the secret garden

Get together /encounter and stories with a wayfarer
curated by Cesare Galli
and snacks at the Cucina Dello Scompiglio

A wayfarer, a shepherd passing by, watches, laughs and accompanies children on the path of fairytales.

Visual arts

In the Chapel and inside the Tenuta: works of Alfredo Pirri, Maurizio Nannucci, Jannis Kounellis and Marco Raparelli.

Admission € 5,00
Children's activity with snack at the Cucina Dello Scompiglio: € 2,00

sports shoes are recommended
dogs not allowed

For capacity reasons, the promenade performance of Riflessi in bianco e nero (Reflections in Black and White) is limited to groups of 25 people and booking is required.


Tenuta Dello Scompiglio - via di Vorno, 67 - Vorno (LU)
information and reservation: 0583 971475 - 338 7884145
press office: Giovanna Mazzarella - mazzarella@fastwebnet.it
info.ac@delloscompiglio.org
www.delloscompiglio.org

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Cucina Dello Scompiglio
The restaurant, just outside the walls of the Tenuta, will be open throughout the day giving the opportunity to have lunch, a snack, a drink or dinner either inside or outside.
information and reservation restaurant: 0583 971473 - 320 8838907