Made of images that shape each other in a game of reflections, Reflecting bodies is a very simple installation about stonemasonry where technology is very little used. Ten monitors are arranged in pairs at an angle of ninety degrees, so that the screens are reflected in each other to form Read More
May 11, 1946. Evening. Arturo Toscanini steps up the podium to conduct the reopening concert of the restored Scala Theatre. The whole event is rendered by the fragmented image from the screens of the video wall created by Studio Azzurro. On the night of August 16, 1943, bombing raids began Read More
All the movies from the film festival are on Vimeo “More than movies in the common sense, ours are cinematic experiments. At the beginning, we wanted to use this medium by linking it to the particular experiences we had had in the field of visual arts, without following the path Read More
Our headquarters at Fabbrica del Vapore, with its large square, has a long history. A small part of it is shown in a video/movie by Giuseppe Baresi, who was with us when we shot Il mnemonista and thus made his Mnemo.Diario (A Mnemonic Diary). In 1999, before the competition for Read More
Super8/video, colour, 29’, 1991/2017 A collection of interviews to Japanese masters from the Buddhist tradition. Directed by Paolo Rosa Cinematography Fabio Cirifino Video shooting Mario Coccimiglio Video editing Cinzia Rizzo, Alberto Danelli Production Miho Takechi
This text tells about one of the most significant works in the orientations of video research in the 1980s, and about Studio Azzurro’s early interest in the audience’s perceptive experience.
“The Swimmer (going to Heidelberg too often)” develops the usage of the new electronic means to reveal a series of minimal signs of persistence, variety and complexity of perceived differences. Screens are lined up in an empty pool, a clock marks a time which is both real and artificial together, while images appear in short flashes and glide. The viewer is involved in an ambiguous situation.
Every gesture we make leaves a trace. We are the Earth. In a time of pandemic and confinement, we created a short video for Earth Day, working on our archive and on the possibility to reinterpret and re-edit it. It is a moment when we want to invite everyone to Read More
The sound of lutes and cymbals from a faraway time accompanies the first steps of the visitor walking toward the second order of the Colosseum to enjoy its extraordinary view, looking out on the Arch of Constaintine, the columns of the Temple of Venus, and Rome. The history of this Read More
«Musician», «Architect and General Engineer», map-maker, and painter. Because of his studies and of the machines he designed, Leonardo is sometimes defined less as an artist than as a «scientist». Sometimes he is considered as the truest embodiment of the Renaissance man, with the fickleness that we recognize as such Read More
Staged by Studio Azzurro from an idea of the students of the Memory Journeys We are coming closer to the centenary of the Great Crisis of 1929, of the Germaan laws about eugenic spaying (1933), and of the Italian Racial Laws (1938). After about four generations, direct transmission of these Read More
I am tired, as if I too belonged to the family of statues and were just as old. Yannis Ritsos Offered by Studio Azzurro and Moni Ovadia for the first time in 1990, DELPHI, a cantata stages Yannis Ritsos’ short poem Delphi featuring an original score by di Piero Read More
This work is a new leg of the Mediterranean project started in 2000, in which Studio Azzurro already took part in 2002 with an installation in Naples, and in 2010 with a work in Genoa. The exhibition includes three sections: a design part, which shows the formation of thought through Read More
Many craftsmen at work have been filmed during the research trips made by Studio Azzurro to create the installations of the Mediterranean Meditations cycle. Bowmakers, fishermen, saddlers, casters, glassmakers, chisellers, potters, weavers, olive pickers, winemakers, boat builders, restorers, bookbinders, blacksmiths, tanners, doll makers: all of them filmed in their workplaces, Read More
In a game of shadows and projections, Pinocchio turns into an immersive fairy tale, a multimedia journey taking the protagonist from puppet to flesh and blood child. Visitors are directly involved in this metamorphosis in a story full of sounds and events. As it moves along a corridor, the shadow Read More
Over 30 years after the Basaglia Law, mental health services in Italy are now widely integrated into the National Health System. On the ground floor of the complex of Santa Maria della Pietà, a former psychiatric hospital, the path of the Museum-Laboratory of the Mind, designed by Studio Azzurro in Read More
In 2010, Studio Azzurro took once again part in a leg of the previously started project (2000) about the Mediterranean, this time with a sensitive environment for Palazzo Ducale, in Genoa. The space is transformed by showing faraway scenarios that evoke the origins of Mediterranean peoples, the genesis and the Read More
Red indicates eroticism, love, anger, but also the blood of war, the cloak of power, and the flames of hell. The strongest emotions of man have been associated with this colour, for it is the colour of heat and blood. But there is not just one red: purple, carmine, cardinal, Read More
The Charting Table represents the territory of the province of Rimini, and makes it possible for the audience to explore it interactively. Its navigation brings out one of the elements that distinguish these areas, i.e., the cinematographic imagination in its connection to places and people. Works by great authors from Read More
If you wait, sooner or later you’ll believe you are waiting for someone. Samuel Beckett Three hundred deckchairs are arranged at the centre of the large square of Fabbrica del Vapore, facing the “cathedral”, a long early twentieth-century industrial archaeology building. People take their seats a few minutes before Read More
The aim of this exhibition is taking the visitor for a stroll among the houses, palaces, churches, streets, and countryside of medieval Europe through one city: Parma. Set in the Voltoni del Guazzatoio of Palazzo della Pilotta, this path illustrates the economic and political life of Parma, the transformation of Read More
This exhibition highlights figurative culture in the Duchy of Savoy, revealing its patrons, artists, the paths of devotion, and aspects of everyday life. Over three hundred works illustrate the artistic flourishing from the Late Gothic period to early Renaissance: painting on wood, illuminated manuscripts, precious jewellery, skilful carving. These masterpieces Read More
This exhibition stemmed from the idea of enhancing and sharing the rich cartographic heritage preserved at Turin’s State Archives. The enormous maps on display recount the intense activity of portrayal of the territory that took place in the eighteenth century in the Kingdom of Sardinia. Six rooms from the archive Read More
This exhibition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Domenicale, the cultural section of the Italian newspaper Il sole 24 Ore, in the rooms of Palazzo Te in Mantua. The Renaissance residence of Frederick II Gonzaga has a strong symbolic value, for it is a villa dedicated to spare time, culture, dialogue, Read More
Stemming from international research conducted by Ezio Manzini and François Jégou, this exhibition reflects on the possible answers to questions about sustainable society. The temporary path focuses on the future of living and on different ways of living that are opening up new possibilities and raising new questions. Visitors are Read More
Rock Songs Triptych is a composition by Giovanni Sollima for a string orchestra and a choir, dedicated to the Dolomites and to mountain culture. Triptych of Songs, a video opera that blends with musical composition, was projected onto three large screens behind the orchestra, in synch with the score, thus Read More
Moving clouds appear in a maze of glass as evanescent and constantly changing interweaving vapours. Visitors move among transparent walls and transform images as they puff on them, giving life and unleashing figures – clouds cut into silhouettes – accompanied by equally unstable sounds. The public activates a metamorphosis of Read More
A “naked ape”: according to Desmond Morris’s definition, human beings retain their ancestors’ fur almost exclusively in one place, i.e., their heads. Despite being equipped with a natural covering of the head, man felt the need to double it with an artificial headgear, i.e., the hat. The exhibition space is Read More
Fragments from Ejzenstejn’s movie and footage from a concert performance of Prokofiev’s cantata alternate in an edited video in which they finally intermingle thanks to video processing: the protagonists of the film and those of the performance end up side by side in the same image. Ejzenstejn and Prokofiev worked Read More
This exhibition talks about the body and its transformations between the early twentieth century and the 1980s. The body-food relationship and its symbols are explored through a plurality of languages that respond to a complex theme and generate strong emotional involvement. The path includes six thematic areas, each consisting of Read More
The story that inspired this show is a part of the Racing Stories project and takes place in a thick bamboo scenery that in a wonderful, disturbing way, imprisons images without ever giving them entirely back. The stage is crossed by a luminous sign, a long path of horizontal monitors Read More
Four elements: fire, air, water, and light. Each is represented by a column formed by four screens. They act as hourglasses carrying images from video to video, turning them into something else at every step. The fire turns into a thin burning line, and the line coincides with a red Read More
This work stems from a workshop commissioned by Palazzo Fortuny and entitled Photos with Video Disturbances. Its challenge was seeing how the narrative value of photography could be increased by the insertion of video elements, that is, how the moving image could record traces of a story on those already Read More