SOUND TRAJECTORIES by Caracristi and Rahbarian ON THE BACK of the Poppy store

From April 20 to May 05, 2019 the artist and composer Edgar Caracristi presented his solo show “Sul Retro” of the Il Papavero store in Rovereto.

Rovereto, which has always been a city of culture, also houses illuminated shops such as Il Papavero which reserve a room for cultural activities: the Orizzonte degli eventi hall has been enriched in recent days by works by the artist Edgar Caracristi.

The multi-talented artist not only boasts a culturally rich birth, born in Parma in 1972 of a Roverese father and a German-Dutch mother, but also his training is extraordinary with a degree in Fine Art Set Design Gian Bettino Cignaroli from Verona and one in Musicology at University of Cremona (IT).

Recently exposed (from 05 to 21 April 2019) to the commemorative exhibition “Il Muro al muro” (The Berlin Wall banned) in Palazzo Thun for the 30 years since the fall of the Wall organized by the artist and friend Gentile Polo, Edgar Caracristi presents his solo show in the city father:

“… Next to his obsessive images, the Passacaglie on an oil wreck a decade ago, evanescent prows in a desolate abyss. A series of very recent works of smaller size and mixed media have appeared that focus on theme of the Retro. ” (from ON THE BACK EMBLEMATICAL EXHIBITION OF EDGAR CARACRISTI. by Nicoletta Redolfi in RoveKnews April 20)

Evanescent marine atmospheres and suggestions are combined with works set in specific contexts (the house, the wall, the exterior of the camps, an overhanging rock …) but generic enough so that we can all find ourselves in them, the latter strongly engaged: the everyday weariness, the walls of history that are topical, the camps, the political and social ugliness that overwhelm us and much more.

At the inauguration of the event, the exhibition “Sul retro” (On the back) was presented by Chiara Gafforini, Museum Educator at the International Art Gallery of the Developmental Age Aldo Cibaldi (Rezzato, Lombardy).

Enrico Toso’s poems and Gianpiero Costaraoss’s clarinet execution of the compositions of Caracristi enriched the event.

The evening of Friday 3 May the large audience intervened could appreciate other TRAIETTORIE SONORE (SOUND TRAJECTORIES) of the artist himself and of the Iranian composer Abolfazl Rahbarian, graduated in Composition at the Conservatory of Music “F.A. Bonporti “of Trento (14 March 2013) with” Two studies for orchestra on traditional Iranian melodies “.

The musical evening was introduced by the bassoon by Francesco Fontolan, continued in a more delicate way by Francesca Tirale’s harp, followed by a composition for clarinet performed by Marco Bruschetti, which nicely warned the public “If on a lectern you will see gigantic sheets , you’ll know I’m from Edgar! ”

The individual instruments were then joined together in a crescendo, first with two with harp and clarinet for the performance of “We are in two”, then all together for Rahbarian’s compositions.

The same artist Gentile Polo, present at the event as his colleague Renata Di Palma, warmly complimented his friend Caracristi for the musical compositional maturity reached and for the paintings exhibited both at the “Sul retro” (On the back) event of the Il Papavero store that to the historical collective “Il Muro al muro” (The Berlin Wall banned) at Palazzo Thun in Trento.

(In the photo: the artist Gentile Polo portrayed in front of one of his favorite “marine” by Edgar Caracristi.)