On Thursday 10 April, a preview of the Festival of Listening Education Onde Sonore at the MAR under the banner of the relationship between art and music with MusArte: sound mosaics, followed by a lesson on the invention of the landscape and a journey through melodies and paintings Arie d’Arte in the 17th-century hall.
9 a.m.
MusArte: Sound Mosaics
MAR – Workshop classrooms
The interweaving of art and music and the mosaic as a metaphor for musical composition
With Filippo Farneti, Edoardo Cavallari and Elena Maioli
Organised by MAR Ravenna Art Museum and the Civica Scuola di Musica di Comacchio.
Aimed at primary school students, the workshop explores the connection between visual arts and music through the soundtrack of the illustrated book Tessere d’Arte. Contemporary Mosaics in Ravenna by Filippo Farneti. The transformation of images into sound experiences will be conducted by Edoardo Cavallari and Elena Maioli, experts from the Civica Scuola di Musica di Comacchio. The experience will be enriched by a visit, guided by Filippo Farneti, to the permanent collection of mosaics in the Museum.
free admission
4.30 p.m.
The Invention of Landscape
MAR – Martini Hall
Spatial representations and the construction of national identities
With Roberto Alessandrini – Salesian Pontifical University
Lecture with projection of images
The birth of the landscape as an autonomous genre anticipates by a few decades the revolution in spatial perception that occurred in the West after the discovery of America and the iconographic revolution provoked, especially in northern Europe, by the Lutheran Reformation. The iconoclastic twist of Protestantism, albeit with nuances, variants and exceptions, created the conditions for a new non-religious clientele, which favoured landscapes, seascapes, portraits and genre scenes. Nature, from time to time reassuring or terrifying, conquers pictorial space and anticipates the romantic elaboration of national landscapes, whose echoes reverberate in the representations still adopted today in tourist promotion and which is revolutionised by the graphics of the euro banknotes.
Roberto Alessandrini teaches Cultural Anthropology at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome and at the Pratesi University Institute in Soverato (Catanzaro) and collaborates with the UNESCO Chair Education, Growth, Equality at the University of Ferrara. He has translated texts by Girard, France and Le Lionnais, and published essays in Orientamenti Pedagogici, Il confronto letterario, Lifelong, Lifewide Learning and Educazione aperta.
free admission
6 p.m.
Art Arias
MAR – Sala ‘600
A journey between melodies and paintings, where visual art meets the emotions of opera.
Organised by the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Ravenna in collaboration with the Civica Scuola di Musica di Comacchio.
In the heart of the Ravenna Art Museum, the evocative seventeenth-century hall is transformed into an exceptional stage for an unprecedented encounter between music and painting. The students of Maestro Simone Alberghini’s singing class will create a journey through the most famous pages of opera, interweaving the evocative power of the voice with the beauty of visual art in a dialogue between opera and painting that have always influenced and inspired each other.
From Mozart to Puccini, the audience will be taken on a sound journey in which music tells stories of love, torment and passion. The works on the programme include the famous ‘Recondita armonia’ from Tosca, in which the painter Cavaradossi reflects on the beauty that inspires his canvases, and other immortal arias from masterpieces by Verdi, Mascagni and Leoncavallo. The proposal will include, among others, ‘Mamma quel vino è generoso’ (Cavalleria Rusticana), ‘Vesti la giubba’ (Pagliacci), ‘Ah la paterna mano’ (Macbeth) ‘Quando men vo e donde lieta uscì’ (Bohème).
admission free