Music is an invaluable propeller for those who seek the incipit in sound to give life to an artistic fact. There are those who, through music, grasp the elements necessary to make a composition. There are those who through listening find a source of inspiration for writing a poem or a story. There are also those who instead try to extrapolate out as much as possible from music. Even that phrasing that can be interpreted through a sign, a color, a background. And this is precisely Luca Ciuffoletti's attempt: to extrapolate the characteristics of visual art from musical language.
Luca Ciuffoletti and his Visual Music
Luca Ciuffoletti is a composer who has chosen to pursue the dream of reproducing conceptual pictorial works related to music. An objective cost him the effective renunciation of the concert activity. For a couple of years, Luca has retired near Tokyo, having denied the contradictions that a life lived above the stages can reserve. Here he deals with poetry and reflects on the current relationship between logical-scientific characteristics and instinctive elements of visual art. Anacoretism seems to help him in the search to extrapolate from his artistic insights, still unknown elements of music, which the concert performance will never be able to fully express.
The reflection on the artistic question certainly comes to him from his family roots, as both parents are involved in the universe of representative art. Neither of them dealt professionally with music, but the general attention on the creative theme unequivocally determined a profound debate on art within the family. Luca Ciuffoletti's thematic sensitivity will certainly derive from this.
Music and images
Despite his virtuous chamber music career, which allowed him to become part of the world classical music scene, through a series of concerts between Italy and Japan, Luca decides to take a divergent but decisive step. To give music a pictorial, visual character, extrapolating from it elements that cannot be heard from the ear.
It seems that Bach was the first great composer on whom he experimented his new expressive technique. The practice of pictorial execution occurs simultaneously with listening to the piece being transposed. The score, the dynamics included in it and the harmonic and rhythmic characteristics undergo a real mutation in the musical texture. The intensity of the brushstroke, the density of the chromatic aspects, are never the result of free will; but they are determined by the dynamics and sound intensity of the piece.
The attempt sought in each of his works is the alienation to paradigmatic and schematic logic; to espouse a doctrine of instinct and uninhibited impulsiveness. The first performances lend themselves to a complexity, completely concentrated on the sublimation of the musical scientific rule. The following ones, on the other hand, espouse a criterion of abstractionism, which simplifies the content of the sign of the work itself.
Luca Ciuffoletti's works have been exhibited at Roppongi Hills, also Tokyo, on the occasion of an artistic event organized on the spot. But also Italy will host Luca's works in various locations in April, until the end of July; Cremona (21-30 April), Bologna (1-10 May), Guardamiglio (12-14 May), Rome (19-21 May) Naples (22-29 May), Rende) 1-15 June), Sesto Fiorentino ( June 18-July 9) and Venice (July 11-20), organized mainly by Anlai.