If images alone are no longer enough to attract even non-experts into the artistic sphere, then art must reinvent itself and open up, revealing its latent potential.
This is precisely the case with the exhibition that opened yesterday in the Hercules Hall of Palazzo d’Accursio, a medieval municipal building now transformed into the vibrant core of some of Bologna’s most significant cultural initiatives.
Colors and Sounds of the Origins—as the title suggests—expresses a clear intent: a connection that originates in painting but integrates sound as an intrinsic signifier of the works, promising viewers an aesthetic and synesthetic experience.
Alongside Andrea Benetti’s paintings—highly two-dimensional panels that reference contemporary art through their polycentric and non-figurative construction—the exhibition presents Fiori di Loto, the latest acquisition by MAMbo, also created by Benetti.
For this occasion—which might otherwise have gone unnoticed amid the vast sea of artistic events—the decision was made to stage an exhibition-event, involving Vasco Rossi’s multi-instrumentalist Frank Nemola, who composed a soundtrack specifically for the visitors.
The exhibition is curated by Silvia Grandi, professor of Phenomenology of Contemporary Art—a visionary scholar and admirer of Marshall McLuhan—who has been recognized among the five outstanding women of Italy.