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36 YEARS LATER: A RECOVERED PROJECT BY STUDIO ALCHIMIA, CURATED BY BRUNO GREGORY
36 YEARS LATER: A RECOVERED PROJECT BY STUDIO ALCHIMIA, CURATED BY BRUNO GREGORY
Reconstruction on laboratory of the Sound Furniture Project of the Edoardo Chiossone Oriental Art Museum Park in Genoa on the occasion of the events of "Japan avant-garde of the future, visual arts, theater, music and cinema" promoted by the Municipality of Genoa in 1985
"(...) It was an intense bustle of communications, packages, photos, faxes, telephone calls, in the triangle of Genoa, Tokyo, Milan, as I documented in the text for the catalog of the Event (and Electa, 1985). first of all from the public, with the gardens of the Chiossone Museum as frequented as never before, due to those sounds that inhabit nature in resonance with the physical environment, birds, frogs, rustling of leaves, insects, cars, screams, children. It was also successful in the press. In addition to the reports on various Italian newspapers, several were published in Japan. And a lot of space dedicated to that installation in the monographs Alchimia edited by Kazuko Sato (and Taco, 1985) and Guia Sambonet ( ed. Allemandi, 1986). Subsequent passages were planned, in other cities and gardens. But once the Genoa event ended, the manifestations of interest did not materialize immediately or even later, and all those thirteen creatures, indeed sculptures, real and their own works of creative community which by now were or become common heritage, part of the landscape for the city of Genoa, ended up in some deposit who knows where, and we must consider them lost. "
Daniela Bezzi, Curator for "Il Gergo Inquieto", Genoa 1985
Bruno Gregory. Known since the 1980s in the form of the binomial "Bruno Gregori / Alchimia" (Ancona, 7 July 1954), he made his contribution to the many projects of the famous avantgarde design studio in the ten years spent together from 1979 to 1989, such as co-author of various art and event design collections. Since 1985 he has embarked on a personal research path that will lead him to split from the group. The project, now "rediscovered" for the Arrivada Gallery, developed in the Alchimia "climate", represents the turning point towards the new visions of the technological imaginary that will then recur in his artistic production.
Haruomi Hosono. Born in Tokyo on July 9, 1947, he is a Japanese musician and record producer. In 1978, he formed the Yellow Magic Orchestra with drummer Yukihiro Takahashi and keyboardist Ryūichi Sakamoto. The band, among the pioneers of electro-pop music, achieved great success both at home and abroad thanks to singles like Rydeen and Behind the Mask, contained in their second album Solid State Survivor. After the group disbanded in 1984, Hosono, like the other members, embarked on a solo career, releasing ambient music. He is also credited with inventing the so-called "videogame music", which became a popular subgenre in Japan. in the early 2000s he reunited with his old colleagues from the Yellow Magic Orchestra with whom he resumed playing live and in the studio.
The Endless Talking Music. In 1985 Hosono produced a trio of albums on Monad Records. Each is a collaborative effort, representing more facets of research than him. The Endless Talking, the least consequential, was composed for the Italian art exhibition entitled "Japan, Avant Garde of the Future". Hosono improvised his 13 short pieces by looking at the photographs of the sculptures created for the exhibition that would be played on a loop. The tracks are designed to "talk endlessly", but not with each other like in a symphony.
"My memory is vague, but I remember being happy to be able to participate in the installation, in historic Genoa ...
The moment I saw the Alchemy sketches, I heard some sort of sound. That's why the 13 songs came out so well, and I was able to improvise them in just one day. It was a very experimental, exciting and fun task!
If I remember correctly, the images you sent me were photographs. Each piece had to be played on audio cassettes, so I decided to use a loop tape for playback. The loop had a three minute limit, so I enjoyed making this my musical limit. It was fun to imagine that the resulting work would take place in a garden, outside, rather than inside. (...) "
Haruomi Hosono, composer
The hypothesis of making an exhibition at Galleria Arrivada
Bruno Gregory
“I started with video simulations on my Instagram profile. The 3d modeling of the 13 sculptures was not a problem because I had kept the original drawings and the specifications for the realization, but the difficulty was to trace the artists who participated in the collective painting that would cover the various models like a fabric; some of the artists were untraceable, some unavailable, others sadly deceased. The idea of bringing to life that distant experience of creation, even plural, arose from a conversation with Andrea Crosa, one of the artists involved, who provided me with useful information to reconstruct his work and his pictorial dress; the first of this new series of pieces much smaller than the originals and therefore a little fetal: all white, in the nylon thread of the three-dimensional printing of the digital age, and all resurrected in the virtual images contained in the screens of small tablets, like flowers or plants scattered on the gray floor of the Arrivada Gallery "
"(..) In the exhibition in Galleria Arrivada, the 1985 project relives and is transformed, starting from the existing documentation and expanding by incorporating new techniques for reproducing images and objects, such as rendering and 3D printing. The exhibition space becomes a garden in where you can get lost in shapes, sounds and colors, and where you can dialogue with these strange objects that are both organic and mechanical, real and virtual. "
Andrea Lacarpia, Curator for Galleria Arrivada
Two of the seven reduced-scale models of the 13 original structures installed in the Villetta di Negro Park in Genoa in 1985. Printed in white resin, made by ABPrint 3D Milano.
The video animations presented on each of the 13 tablets installed in the three rooms of the Arrivada Gallery. Each movie is set in a 48 seconds loop
HOSONOSFERA
Live Set performed on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition on 21 March, in which the Milanese performer and musician Bentos interprets the sounds of Haruomi Hosono by producing a sound continuum in site specific, lasting one hour, using various electronic devices.
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