An extensive program of collateral events has been organized to accompany the exhibition Art Returns to Art, which presents over forty works by thirty-two contemporary artists in the historic premises of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence. All promoted by the Florentine museum, they will span a wide range of fields––from cinema to music to meetings with artists––and are intended to expand on or examine more closely the themes proposed in the exhibition.
Planned for the autumn is a short series of concerts, which will be held from 9 pm in the Tribuna del David at the Galleria dell’Accademia, with entrance free of charge while seats last. The musical performances, conceived and organized by Daniele Lombardi and staged in collaboration with the Fondazione Atopos, outline in music the theme of historical continuity, of common roots and the persistence of formal models in their dialogue with research and innovation. The choice has fallen on three leading figures who are regarded as emblematic in their relationship with models and forms of sound, bearing witness to the unbroken line that connects an enormous legacy of the past with the invention that looks to the future.
Scheduled for October 1 are the first 11 Klavierstücke by Karlheinz Stockhausen: for the first time in Florence, the performance will provide the opportunity to listen, one after the other, at a single concert, the pieces that make up this monument of structuralism, played by the pianist Bernhard Wambach-Havemann.
On October 22 it will be the turn for a homage to John Cage, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. The celebrated father of aleatory and the happening will be presented by the recital of Daniele Lombardi, who has programmed a series of piano compositions of different character in order to explore the multiple aspects of this composer, who introduced the concept of “chance” into the history of the music of the last century.
Finally, on November 5 it will be the turn of Luciano Berio, who seems to represent better than anyone else the multicultural synthesis that emerged from the historic moment of the 1960s. The concert will see a collaboration between the violinist Danilo Rossi, the percussionist Jonathan Faralli and the Centro Tempo Reale, with sound direction by Francesco Giomi.