Other State
✩ 12-13-14 March 2025 | ore 18 | Palazzo Poggi Museum [maps]
OTHER STATE
Taken from Life is a dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Creation | Maria Federica Maestri_Francesco Pititto
Interpreter | Barbara Voghera
Musica | Claudius Rocchetti, Johann Sebastian Bach
In collaboration | University museum system – University of Bologna
The question of Calderon's masterpiece «What is life?» is enriched by a further and fundamental philosophical enigma: "Who am I?»
In a continuous textual mirroring, the classic duality of the dramatic couple of prince/servant characters – Sigismondo/Clarino, il funny/fool of Spanish baroque dramas – is taken away from its elementary and simplifying sociological truth.
The figure of funny by Calderón de la Barca appropriates Sigismondo's verses, suspended between reality and fiction, placing himself in the same human condition as the protagonist, on the same threshold between reality and dream, past and present, imagination and reality.
Forced into the unique psychic body of the sensitive actress Barbara Voghera, prince and servant chase each other in search of a single identity with the only certainty that «there is no escape from the force of destiny and cruel fate; so every gesture is in vain, if you want to escape Death you are sure to die".
Voghera's sentimental body establishes an instant emotional closeness, a lightning-fast psychic alliance with the spectator: Barbara does not object to being seen for who she is, but it superimposes an unexpected and unimagined expressive power on the viewer's gaze/screen.
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Now in the museum
The Lenz Foundation project pushes to reflect on the dynamic reading of the finds of science, of art, botany, of human thought through performative actions that live in the contemporaneity, that bring the original poetic function back to the center of the museum place.
The regeneration of the past in an imminent present means restoration and new life for every good guy, a new imaginary habitat in which everything can represent itself, through the languages of contemporary art, In one's essentiality together with the intrinsic aesthetic and historical value.
✩ INFO AND RESERVATIONS
12-13-14 March 2025
ore 18
Palazzo Poggi Museum, Via Zamboni, 33, 40126 Bologna BO [maps]
Ticket office:
Full 7 € reduced 3 € (Unibo and ababo student people)
Info and reservations:
www.sma.unibo.it/agenda/altro-stato | 051 2099610 | sma.museizamboni33@unibo.it
