Also the Gentile Polo's Art Studio was among the numerous acclaiming public in the Great Hall of the Diocesan Vigilianum Cultural Center of Trento (Italy) for the show "The Man of Sorrows: the Passion of Christ". It is always difficult to find parking in the city center, especially in the late afternoon, but with a good dose of luck and good legs the artist Gentile Polo and I managed to get to the gates of the Major Seminary. At the entrance we met some students of the Anastasia course for the voluntary guides to the cultural ecclesiastical assets that have finished the pre-Easter lessons and, after the greetings and best wishes for the holidays, have recommended a shortcut to reach the Vigilianum on foot. Turning around the Seminary and taking paths among the well-kept flowerbeds of the ecclesiastical complex we have reached the entrance where a diligent employee has diverted us to the third floor. I say hijacked because, after a few minutes of disorientation, we realized that in the library we were about to hold an event, but not the one to which we had been invited. Fearing I had the wrong day or the hour I went back to the porter's lodge asking for clarifications and the question was resolved: the event to which the Studio d'Arte Polo was invited would be held shortly but in the Great Hall at the ground floor. Recovered my boss, Gentile Polo, we finally could thank the artists Alfonso Masi, for the invitation, and greet the actor Vito Basiliana who in the past has worked with us during the bi-solo exhibition "Zapige" of the artist Dear Polo with Sabrina Broll. During the finissage of the exhibition, the actor had enthusiastically offered to read and interpret some poems extracted from the book "Pensieri ... una strada in salita" published by Aletti Editore. http://www.alettieditore.it/emersi/2017/Polo.html The show that took place yesterday, Friday, March 23, at 17.30 saw therefore engaged some known names in the field of acting: in addition to the two main actors, there were Fiorenzo Pojer, Tiziano Chiogna and the female voices of Ester D'amato and Beatrice Ricci. Underlined by slides of ancient paintings on the Passion and soundtracks, the passions of the characters (apostles, people, accusers and accused) have come to life through a passionate dialogue with many voices. A choral story between tradition and innovation, biblical story and voices that have no voice in the Sacred Texts, thanks to the development of a Youth Project in Bologna collected by the artist and creator Alfonso Masi. "The man of sorrows: the passion of Christ" was a success, appreciated by the public as by the artist Gentile Polo, who found the dialogue-reading to more voices of the protagonists, "forced" to entrust the emotional nuances of the story to the vocal timbre only.
(Lucia Martorelli - Gentile Polo Art Studio)