Art, technology and innovation meet in May in Bergamo, Italian Capital of Culture 2023, thanks to artist Beatrice Sancinelli’s first solo exhibition, a deeply emotional, physically engaging and fully inclusive multisensory journey. An experience that will make visitors experience the artwork in a totally innovative way, where real and digital come together.
May 5 marks the opening of the first solo exhibition of Beatrice Sancinelli, a young artist with a background in filmmaking, who presents her latest work Noise of Mood, a multisensory and immersive journey made possible by recent innovations in virtual reality. The audiovisual work was created in collaboration with dancer and performer Emanuele Algeri and make-up artist Angelica Primavesi.
The artist chose for this debut Bergamo, his hometown that is also, together with Brescia, the Italian Capital of Culture 2023. The exhibition curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli is housed in the Chiostro del Carmine, a fascinating place and hidden treasure of Bergamo Alta, a 16th-century monastery usually closed to the public that opens its doors for this Italian Capital of Culture to welcome visitors to discover a new and innovative work.
The idea for Noise of Mood was born in the spring of 2020 when, like everyone else, the artist was forced into her first lockdown. The solitary and silent experience turned into a dialogue with Emanuele Algeri and finally into an opportunity to rediscover the world around them, too often ignored by routine, to focus on their own perceptions and moods that now acquire and reveal their own specific noise that gives voice to the body itself and that is accompanied by the sounds of nature, rediscovered and experienced with new and conscious eyes.
This sensory journey can be interpreted by visitors as a contemporary via crucis illustrating the search for faith and hope, which has always been a constant in the artist’s life and work that she finds in nature, in human relationships and in her own freedom of expression.
Between real and digital
“Beatrice’s work starts from an internal emotional journey within her own room, in the period of quarantine. The focal point of her research starts and develops around the concept of the room. Room in architecture as a minimal portion of living, or the room understood in the world of poetry as a portion of a more mighty composition. What intrigues us, however, are the boundaries from which one can trespass. And so the walls become the threshold. And the room opens and from an enclosed environment allows the sky to enter,” writes Maria Vittoria Baravelli.
“A white room, a closed world like a digital screen awaits and collects the infinite and discordant moods of a woman in her vital oscillations. What emerges is a narrative at once personal and universal in which feelings are investigated in their objectivity; yet, also thanks to immersive technology we share the idea that all the noises that surround us make much less noise than ourselves, because the real noise is the echo of the emotions that vibrate in us,” adds Maria Vittoria Baravelli.
All these revelations take shape in Bergamo where, inside the completely darkened rooms of the Chiostro del Carmine, nine audiovisual performances in which Beatrice Sancinelli directs Emanuele Algeri, a dancer and performer who has espoused the artist’s research and contributed his interpretation to the creation of the works, are enjoyed in a completely innovative way.
The fruition of Noise of Mood is something never seen before in Italy, multisensory, individual and inclusive, because it can also be enjoyed by the blind and deaf: in fact, one enters the exhibition in groups of ten visitors at a time and each will be equipped with headphones and the innovative Vest3, a haptic technological vest made by the American company Woojer, capable of making sound perceived through the rib cage that becomes a sound box. The novel sound experience was conceived through the artist’s collaboration with sound designer Nicola Gualandris.
The Vest3 was created as an accessory for gamers, to live the gaming experience to the fullest by experiencing the sensation of being almost inside the screen, of hearing movements before even seeing them. Taking advantage of haptic technology, sounds are perceived throughout the body, in a completely new multi-sensory physical involvement where perceptions are amplified to 360 degrees.
After being appreciated by the world of gaming, music and cinema now Woojer’s product is about to enter the world of art thanks to Beatrice Sancinelli’s visual installation that brings for the first time in Italy this multisensory experiment in which the technological innovation of virtual reality meets video art to create a large multi-narrative space in which visitors participate in a total and unprecedented way.
Noise of Mood is not only a work of art, but also an experiential journey where the boundaries between the digital and real worlds are thinned and blurred, breaking down even disabilities, creating a new world governed by color, movement and sound that engages the physicality of the whole body. Reservations and online purchase at https://rumoredellumore.com recommended.
Who is Beatrice Sancinelli
Born in 1995, she is an artistic director, author and producer. Specializing in 16-35mm analog filming at The National Film and Television School and a graduate in experimental cinema at the Cineteca di Bologna, she has worked in the arts as an independent producer, video artist, filmmaker, film critic and radio host. Photographer assistant and producer for Alessandro Treves in 2018. Under the guidance of Silvio Soldini, in 2019 she made the short film Point of view about Design Week, under the patronage of the municipality of Milan. In the same year he produced Ossigeno, an animated short film with an ecological theme in competition at Giffoni Film Festival 2020, PitchMe! at Cartoons on The Bay 2020, Sardinia
Film festival 2021 and at the parallel Young and Short Award section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. Winner of the Environmental Visions Award at Visioni Italiane 2020 and the Cartoon Kids Award at Cartoon Club Rimini 2020. Between 2020 and 2021 he will serve on the jury of several national Film festivals and begin his video art research. He shoots in 35mm film WHO WILL SAVE THE THORNS?, an unpublished work shot in Catania, soon to be shown. In September 2020, he began collaborating with different realities and artists on immersive and trans media contemporary art projects, including the theatrical performance FUNAMBOLE and the immersive work RUMORE DELL’UMORE. In parallel, she has cultivated her passion for radio and television hosting, working as an author and anchor since September 2021 for Rai.
Info
RUMORE DELL’UMORE (Noise of the Humor) by Beatrice Sancinelli
curated by Maria Vittoria Baravelli
May 5 – 28, 2023
Cloister of the Carmine
Via Bartolomeo Colleoni 21 24129 Bergamo BG
Hours
Mon – Thu 16:00 – 21:00
Fri – Sun 10:00 – 13:00 / 14:30 – 19:30 / 21:00 – 23:00
Admission limited to 10 people every 30 minutes
Reservation and purchase online at https://rumoredellumore.com/ is strongly recommended
Single price 12€
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