Max Pellegrini: The veil and the fortress. A voyage around the metaphors of silence
Max Pellegrini: The veil and the fortress
A voyage around the metaphors of silence
Duomo | OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni
Endless figures of speech might be used to narrate the silence. The concept of sound absence has originated through time an incredibly rich series of linguistic images, often contradictory ones: silence is fragile as ice and impenetrable as rock, silence can go down as a curtain or raise as an embankment, breakable by a flow of words. Silence might be a thin veil around a mouth or an impervious fortress, destined to stop any form of communication. Literature and music, but also dance and painting have taken inspiration from these metaphors.
The veil and the fortress, the project realized by OGR in collaboration with Torino Spiritualità, wants to investigate the generative and creative forces behind it, looking at images, thoughts and movements invented to speak about what cannot be spoken about without denying it. Starting point and ideal background of the research is Max Pellegrini’s oeuvre, Turinese painter whose research began in the 60’s and developed in the following decades focusing on the relation between silence and fantasy, influenced by the partial deafness of the artist.
The big canvases by Pellegrini represent allegories and visions imbued with mysticism and spirituality, ascetic and silent dreams, where sound becomes painting and where hidden words become apparent only in the long titles of the works. The works are shown on mobile structures, moving as theatrical set always changing the space of Duomo –spiritual space per definition inside OGR– transforming it in a stage for multidisciplinary takes on silence: from theatrical meditation to experimentation on silence in contemporary music.
The synesthetic contaminations are presented here for the first time, The veil and the fortress will be the occasion to listen to silence as thematized in philosophy, theology and antropology, thanks to public meetings with experts, the experience of lack of words through yoga sessions –in its different schools and traditions– and meditation for adults and children. Visitors are invited to enter a contemplative space, to embark in a mystical and metaphorical voyage between words and their negation.
Free entry. All events are free, with mandatory reservation.
- Thursday 02.05.2019 from 6 pm
The silence of art and gods. Make the invisible visible.
with Don Paolo Scquizzato
For booking, click here. - Saturday 11.05.2019
Yoga with the teachers of Associazione Yani.
30 minutes sessions for practitioners or beginners.
10.00 - 10.30 > Chiara Di Martino – Sara Borio
10.45 - 11.15 > Elena Borda – Lia Donalisio
11.30 - 12.00 > Rosanna Di Girolamo – Silvia Facciabene
12.15 - 12.45 > Bhaktibhavana Saraswati – Laura Anzuoni
15.00 - 15.30 > Camilla Guillaume – Maddalena Caccamo
15.45 - 16.15 > Stefania Fusetti – Silvana Scalise
16.30 - 17.00 > Laura Barale – Alessandra Di Mario
17.15 - 17.45 > Arcangela Adamo – Angela Swidinsky
For booking, write to prenotazioni@ogrtorino.it - Sunday 12.05.2019 from 4 pm
Solitudo Bimbi Project
Laboratory for kids and adults.
For booking, write to prenotazioni@ogrtorino.it - Wednesday 15.05.2019 8.30 pm
Il velo e la fortezza
Presentation of the book Il velo e la fortezza, with texts by Nicola Ricciardi, OGR artistic director, Laura Mattioli, founder of CIMA (Center for Italian Modern Art) of New York, Mario Rasetti, founder and president dell'ISI - Istituto Scientifico Italiano and Elvira Moretti, author of a dissertation on Max Pellegrini's painting.