Whispering Eternity by Claudia Attimonelli

Description of the works
Six drawings of little bits of the universe which Daniele Giunta made with ink, pencil and silver on paper, alongside six small black and white Corpicrudi photographs depicting the three virgins and a precious first communion booklet that accompanies them in their ascent. A big painting by Giunta immerses us in a dazzling landscape while the two Corpicrudi videos of the three girls’ hypnotic round dance transfigure their bodies with white light. The notes of the Piano Symphony composed and performed by the artists, which gives the whole project its name, emerge from a wooden sculpture.

In the Symphony in White minor, visitors are invited to stroll through the chamber of an alchemist of transhumanity, where, among the artefacts and mirabilia, catalogued without any scientific method, we may see the motions and phases of the origins, the end, the artifices and the salvation of earthly bodies. It is a sound vision in the burnt land, in search of a dissolvency in white which draws on the traces left by the passage of the dead virgins.

Ascents
Symphony in White minor is a new hetero-material installation emerging out of the partnership between Corpicrudi and Daniele Giunta. It stages, in a single landscape, the transfiguration underway between two mediatic and post-naturalistic worlds which aspire to last forever, in motion towards eternity: the rhizome-bodies crushed and teeming with mystic essence coming from the constellation of Daniele Giunta’s memorabilia (from Sternbild, D. Giunta 2010) and the algid, phantasmatic bodies of the virgins of Corpicrudi, freed from the deathly immobility of the snapshot (from Le Vergini, Corpicrudi 2011) and launched into an infinite round dance in slow motion. Both galaxies are inhabited by creatures that would seem to have generated themselves, creatures without a past, originating out of the steely earth that legitimates and amplifies the morbid existence that contaminates everything.

The Corpicrudi virgins smell of crushed flower petals and ecstatic sweat, in prey to a frantic round dance that shows no sign of ending and ready to ascend like dervishes to eternity, and Giunta’s roots, cast down between the moss and ash, in a graphic and material sequence of drawings and wooden sculptures that climb past ugliness and death only to evaporate into the pure pictorial events shown on the walls, in an oxymoronic lyrical equilibrium of enlightened correspondences between painting, video, sculpture and music.

The place where all things penetrate one another is in the end the wooden and sound sculpture placed in the centre of the chamber of marvels; the sculpture gives off the sounds of a piano symphony composed by the artists in collaboration to give voice to the ultra-human.
The aesthetic studies of Corpicrudi and Giunta migrate from burnt, glossy black to the ashen white of virginal mourning and come together there, where sound is diffracted into a symphony and they aspire to whisper of the sentiment of eternity in our ears.

Corpicrudi is a visionary artistic project conceived by Italian artists Samantha Stella and Sergio Frazzingaro. They are featured in international contemporary art galleries, museums and theaters, and collaborate with writers, poets, choreographers, fashion designers, visual artists, magazines and cultural networks. Their artistic research has grown during the years throught different media directly used by them - photography, video, live installations with structural and body element - and has highlighted their thoughts on body, death, beauty, harmony and eternity. Besides solo and group exhibitions in art galleries, including their solo show Le Vergini with Guidi&Schoen Contemporary Art in Genoa, Italy (2011), projects presented with Galleria Civica in Trento, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Musei di Strada Nuova in Genoa, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Auditorium Mart in Rovereto. International premières in theaters in New York, Lyon, Belgrade and Miami with the shows Primo Toccare and Le Vergini, and in prestigious Italian theaters including Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Reviews achieved by Financial Times and The Brooklyn Rail in New York; a documentary produced by Sky Classica TV in 2011; and a publication for Les Cahiers Européens de l'Imaginaire.

Daniele Giunta, 1981 Lago Maggiore (Italy). Lives and works in Milan, Italy. Besides many solo exhibitions, including Sternbild curated by Elena Forin with La Giarina Arte Contemporanea (2010), his works has been presented in public and private spaces, including Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Gazoldo degli Ippoliti, Palazzo della Permanente in Milan, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in San Marino, Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, Castello Visconteo in Jerago, Palazzo Foscolo in Oderzo, Spazio Oberdan in Milan, Palazzo d’Avalos in Vasto and Rocca Sforzesca in Soncino. He partecipated in independent projects, including Dolomiti Contemporanee (2011) and his work was published in different books, including Laboratorio Italia - new trends in painting by Ivan Quaroni, Johan & Levi Editions (2007). Paintings, tiny drawings, wooden sculptures, sound compositions and live performances are sections which interact in an osmotic manner as choral elements in a single voyage through Infinity, an exploration of the limits of perception, of the minimal instants in which everything is made out of nothing. Light, stars, glaciers, ashes, minimal cosmologies bundled up to form the maps of a mystic interior geography.

Claudia Attimonelli, researcher in Theories of Language and Science of Signs, is professor at University of Bari where teaches Cinema, photography and television, and at Polimoda International Institute in Florence, where teaches Art and fashion. Her fields are art, sociosemiotics of music, visual culture, media studies and fashion theories. She collaborates as curator with art galleries and theaters. Her last books: To be continued. I destini del corpo nei serial televisivi, (Bari 2011); Underground Zone. Dandy, punk & beautiful people, (Bari 2011); Le Vergini with Corpicrudi (2010); Techno. Ritmi afrofuturisti (2008).

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