- country:Italy
- style(s):Jazz, Contemporary
- label:not signed
- type:Band
- instrumentation:instrumental
- artist posted by:F & B Promotion
Line up
- Gabriele Amadori (painter)
- Michele Rabbia (drums)
- Stefano Battaglia (piano)
The musical image is dynamic and three-dimensional and should not have any relationship with painting, which is static and two-dimensional. Usually, there is a relationship with the musical field on the symbolic, theoretical and psychological point of view. The American Art of '40ies and '50ies, with action painting, brought a different meaning of "making" painting without any link with the musical field. In the work of Gabriele Amadori, which has not much in common with the improvisation of Action Painting, the connection element is not only linked to the chromatic metamorphosis but, necessarily, to the physical act and action into time and space, where time is music and space is the painting surface. The synergy and overlap of Time and Space in a field of total insight determine the possibility, through the act and its action, to interpret, in a visual way, the musical field with the same tension of who interprets a landscape or an abstract composition (..Van Gogh , Kandinskij, Pollok ... ). Sometimes sound drives action, sign and colour while in other moments the opposite happens and improvisations are mutual. With a canvas of 7,50 mt x 2,50 mt, the painter Gabriele Amadori measures himself with the two extraordinary musicians of jazz improvisation: Stefano Battaglia and Michele Rabbia with whom has developed a deep interdisciplinary symbiosis and a creative level which is unique in its genre.
GABRIELE AMADORI
Painter, set and light designer, works in Italy and abroad and is the only artist who deals with music in each application synergy from painting to theatre, from light to cinema. He was born in Ferrara (Italy) in 1945 and experienced with Magic Lantern in Prague from '64 to '69. He started his artistic career very young and created in '70ies with Demetrio Stratos his first performances on relationships among concrete sounds, voice and their pictograph image. He has collaborated with very famous composers like Franco Donatoni, Ivan Fedele, Fabio Vacchi, Huber Wheskemper and Alexander Livaneli. He made several performances in important galleries and festivals with musical pieces by Bartok, Nono, Berio, Reich, Cage, Coleman and Monk with recorded and live music. Tableau Vivant Magic Flute, an interdisciplinary installation between art and technology on 10 arias of Magic Flute by W.A.Mozart which received the patronage of UNESCO in 1999. He is professor of set and light designer at Politecnico of Milan.