Mirco Marchelli Voices in the chapter

February 12 - July 2, 2023

Edited by Paolo Bolpagni and Giovanni Battista Martini.

Catalog Dario Cimorelli Publisher

With the patronage of the Municipality of Lecce

The Biscozzi Foundation | Rimbaud is dedicating his fourth exhibition to Mirco Marchelli (Novi Ligure, 1963), a very original figure of composer-artist, who has conceived a sort of "total work" for our spaces, including a piece for six mixed voices in three parts, through loudspeakers in the rooms, creating a real sound installation, and a unitary nucleus of eighteen ad hoc polymaterials. Biographically, Marchelli's starting point is music: first, at the beginning, practiced in the guise of an interpreter, then carried forward – as a parallel, complementary and integrated activity to that of a visual artist – in the ambit of composition, with a freedom and an originality out of the ordinary. Considering it separating these aspects, or ignoring one or another, detracts from the force of a multifaceted but coherent aesthetic thought. Voices in Chapter is a project created for the Biscozzi Foundation | Rimbaud: in each of the three rooms of the exhibition, six works hang on the white walls, for a total of eighteen, which form a compact cycle, and the recording of the original composition written on verses by Edoardo Sanguineti can be listened to via a sophisticated audio system , thus combining the visual element with the musical one.