Three Songs

“Three Songs” is an intervention between gallery spaces and underground cellars, entrusted to Marco-Augusto Basso and Flavia Spasari, it is the fourth part of TORRSO’s Un/Natural exhibition series, dedicated to the mobile, ubiquitous, unpredictable, industrious, and living nature of culture, for Pesaro Capitale della Cultura 2024.

We witness a dialogue that tends toward the impossible of stillness, fixity, and the aseptic. With extreme reluctance, we realize how art no longer serves our purposes rationally. There comes to a time when these languages cannot serve our purposes without being emptied. We may advance the hypothesis that almost nothing beyond the solicitation of certain perceptual conditions may no longer be necessary. Difficult conditions for minimal commentary.

The curatorial fact is entirely aimed at subduing certain emotional elements; the installation components agitate a nonviolent and unjustified terror. The space on the ground floor, in the gallery spaces, is a liminal universe, made up of assemblages of common objects, that create an uncanny atmosphere via their placement and visual identity. Existence on this floor is insoluble, we are the subject that produces it, just as it produces slag. After descending through an elevator in the underground floor that hosts the cellars and warehouses, all this abandons us and leaves us in the company of three songs and three prints,  which alternate in a dialogue of pure sinewaves between two speakers, inviting us to travel the underground space, experiencing the refraction of sound as we move towards the wall to see the prints closer.