1985
Sentieri segreti are familiar with a country house: a vegetable garden, a workshop, cherry trees and vines. A few roses, then the trees. It is here, in this wide space on the threshold between strong identity and radical openness, that the performance is born, from an idea by Roberto Paci Dalò and Isabella Bordoni. The music, specially composed for the performance, is performed live. Bare in their solitude, the pieces present themselves with quiet naturalness. Mapped onto the scores are paths, geographies of sounds and signs. Orientations for our explorations.
The eye can see all and even beyond the observation range. It becomes whole within itself when the thought remains there, so ideas move in perceptive leaps of space and time. Every picture is an event where the shapes have an evocative force and the significance of signs, their staticity becomes fragments in the play of lights. And so through darkness takes us, once again to the recesses of our thoughts. So too, silence is an event and within it the movement of things rests or wanders. The opening of the room and its successive dilations allows us to play with space perception. On the outside we can recognise places in our memory, rest, the hospitality of some canopies, later the observer partecipates in crossing over. These two dimensions and the abstraction is in a play of visions, materials, colours, signs like marks of existence. The end is an explicit call back to earth, here the lights and the sounds hang and hold the visions still, real. Here the evident solidity makes the space in which to enter; larger, wider and more secret.
