The exhibition offers an intimate, although not private, glimpse in which Guccini’s voice takes the visitor metaphorically by the hand and accompanies them through the rooms. It is a game that foregrounds his words, songs and voice, with its unmistakable grain.
Various materials have been made available by the author, many of which have never been displayed before, helping create a constructed narrative, almost like a concept album, around memory, remembrance and time, understood as the flow of life. A series of photographs from Guccini’s personal collection retrace some of the salient moments of his life and career. Each exhibition section has also been interpreted visually by artists, photographers and illustrators invited to provide their contribution.
In this context, two new photographic productions on display have been inspired by Guccini’s favourite themes and those he himself describes as “faded visions of ghosts and people”. With Pavana e ricordi, Paolo Simonazzi goes in search of glimpses of Guccini’s sentimental geography.
While Kai-Uwe Schulte-Bunert tries to give shape, however abstract, to time. Dismantling its mechanisms both metaphorically and physically, he presents it to us as a continuous fluctuation in an undefined space that the camera lens is capable of capturing only in a fragmentary and random way.
Further illustrations on display are the work of Simona Costanzo, Arianna Lerussi, Veronica Ruffato, Silvano Scolari and Gianmario Taurisano.