Kinoglaz

At the Galleria Marcolini, Roberto Paci Dalò – visual artist, musician and film director – presents his first comprehensive exhibit in Romagna, Kinoglaz. The artist displays an array of drawings, sounds and sculptures to create a “total” work of art, blending his works with the space hosting the show. Lights, projections and sounds link different areas of the gallery via site-specific interventions, molding the space into a single immersive environment.

The exhibition displays itself like an electric field – a place activated by history and people –, or a radio station – a device producing vibrations, flashes, sparks and shadows, and creating gaps between the internal and the external environment.
Kinoglaz (kino-eye) cites explicitly Dziga Vertov’s revolutionary cinema vérité: “The Kinoglaz [represents]… what the eye cannot see… the microscope and the telescope of time… the negative of time… the possibility to see without boundaries or distances… life caught unaware” (1924).

Site-specific practices

Site-specific practices are among the most important features of Paci Dalò’s research: his works exceed traditional spaces devoted to art (such as galleries, museums, or theatres), aiming to inhabit and transform different forms of environment, as well as the people living there (including ghosts haunting ghost towns). To Paci Dalò, relationships with people are important to create bonds which, even though sprouting from art, can also transcend art, activating collaborations on many levels.

Cage's Mesostic for Roberto Paci Dalò

The exhibition also includes the mesostic dedicated to Roberto Paci Dalò by John Cage. Cage composed and dedicated a sort of acrostic poetic, a mesostic, to Roberto Paci Dalò during his stay in New York. It is an emblematic composition, which reserves many interpretative possibilities, mostly accessible to the musicians with whom Roberto Paci Dalò collaborated at the time.

Here is John Cage’s Mesostic for Roberto Paci Dalò:

in two worlDs roberto
the one of nAture and the other
the musicaL
One

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8 February-25 March 2017

Galleria Marcolini

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