“Fuochi d’Amore” Imago Dominae / 
A Viva Voce: Poetare Musicando
Cesena | Italy

 

Arch. Andrea Pompili, curator of the exhibition, decided to bring poetry listening in a provincial town, under the arcades of Cesena, in a place of transit and passage. Arch. Pompili has always thought of ‘knowledge’ as dense listening with vision. The word penetrates us beyond our active and conscious desire to hear. Just as sight can grasp us through our gaze and bring us unsuspected things. With “Fires of Love”, she brought the poetic word to a concept of synaesthetic savoring mixed with music. Poetry denudes us, and speaks to us with exactness, with intuition. In the historic center of Cesena – a public place of transit that also lends itself to being ‘converted’ and transformed from time to time – encounters and metamorphic, ever-changing relationships are woven. Then, even in the fragmentariness of these evenings, the sense of a poetic word spoken ‘aloud’ can crystallize. The sound of poetic words generates an immaterial echo that triggers a new relationship with the frequencies of the surrounding reality. The different sounds of the three voices – those of Gianfranco Lauretano, Monica Guerra, and Angela Fabbri – once heard – rehearsed – generate different timbres and tones in the memory.

With “Sonnets in Cesena”, G. Lauretano has created mild words, a kind of ‘style exercises’ capable of generating small, mysterious miracles where hendecasyllables, rhymes, and stanzas alternated and followed each other in harmony. With “Loving is from the crumbs”, M. Guerra led the audience to the boundless and diverse shores of love, screwing words into the miraculous vortexes of life. A. Fabbri with ‘Tanka and Haiku” created the feeling of bringing the audience closer to things in a different way, activating a new look.