September 23 & 25, 2010
by Franck Krawczyk
New version for solo cello, string quartet and 8 cellos
Co-produced by Plein Jour, Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, and Hangar Bicocca.
Funding provided by SACEM Foundation and the agnès b. Endowment Fund, Cultures France, Ambassade de France en Italie BCLA, BCLA-Délégation Culturelle/Alliance Française di Bologna, Conservatorio « G.B. di Martini » di Bologna, MAMbo, Associazione parenti delle vittime della strage di Ustica, Comune di Bologna, Provincia di Bologna, Provincia Emilia-Romagna Angelica, Cronopios, Officina Immagine.
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After Polvere in Paris (Monumenta/Grand Palais) and Dawn in New York (Park Avenue Armory), Polvere (b) / Fuga
in Milan and Bologna marks the end of the dialogue with Christian Boltanski’s Personnes installation which will be destroyed after Milan.
Polvere (b) / Fuga gathers young French and Italian musicians from renowned music schools (CSNMD in Lyons and Conservatorio G.B. Martini di Bologna) around a famous cellist in collaboration with two museums which exhibit Christian Boltanski’s works.
At Hangar Bicocca (Milan), Polvere (b) / Fuga will kick off the dispersion of the clothing from the installation while Fuga will mark the dispersion of the musicians in the museum and the garden of the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica in Bologna where Christian Boltanski’s permanent installation sits.
Polvere (b) / Fuga
A strong gust of wind blows over the Pompei’s antique theater. Gripped by the sudden gale, the people stand still like the statues they were looking at. History seems arrested to be played back. Times mingle. Slowly ash ascends back to Vesuvius. |
Six recomposed times
I. Just after...
II. Long ago...
III. Moment when...
IV. Just before...
V. Long after...
VI. Fuga... (after Brahms' Fugue
in A-Flat minor, WoO 8) |
Fuga
There are two pieces of music : a fugue of mourning and a lamento, a space that is being emptied
while the other is being filled.
The end of the concert leads to an endless concert.
The fugue dissolves in the garden and then is recomposed in a different way in the museum.
The lamento absorbs the fugue, what is inside absorbs what is outside until what is inside can be heard outside. |
With:
- Sonia Wieder-Atherton (Milan) | Sarah Givelet (Bologna), solo cello
- Quatuor à cordes (Milan): Amaryllis Billet, violin | Jean-Christophe Morel, violin
Marion Duchesne, viola | Sarah Givelet, cello
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Quatuor Guido Reni (Bologna): Marco Polizzi, violin | Fiammetta Casalini, violin
Michele Maria Costantini, viola | Sorayya Russo, cello
- Bologna Cello Project: Maria Paola Balducci | Antonello Manzo | Miriam Moroni | Antonio Mostacci | Maja Petrusevska
Marta Prodi | Myriam Raccah | Giacomo Serra | Sofiya Shapiro, cellos
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Milan - Hangar Bicocca on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 9 pm: Polvere (b) / Fuga
Bologna - Museo per la Memoria di Ustica on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 6 pm: Fuga |