On June 9 it has been unveiled the Reggio Parma Festival’s venture of the 12 months, “Il Bestiario della Terra” by Yuval Avital. A wealthy system comprehensive of situations structured all about the 12 months amongst the metropolitan areas of Parma and Reggio Emilia, engaging various spots, from museum to theatres, but also communities and regional societies.
The Reggio Parma Pageant, a single of the most crucial and prestigious artistic affiliation in Italy, due to the fact 2001 has been realising many routines for cultural advertising in the territories of Parma and Reggio Emilia, collectively with the Ministry of Tradition to aid the firm of significant musical and theatrical releases, this kind of as Pageant Aperto in Reggio Emilia, Teatro Competition and Competition Verdi in Parma.
In 2022, in buy to encounter the pressured disintegration imposed by the pandemic, the Reggio Parma Festival decided to commit to relocating forward in the path of uniting professionalism, specificity and likely of all the theatres and metropolitan areas engaged in this job, relying on an artist, Yuval Avital, for the creation of an inventive route that, as a result of situations, exhibitions, performances and installations could be capable to interact the best inventive expressions, the two nearby and nationwide, on a special idea and its project.
“Il Bestiario della Terra” is the challenge born thanks to the Reggio Parma Festivals’ initiative, arranged in Parma and Reggio Emilia from June to December 2022. The task is a powerful and suggestive reinterpretation of those people traditions that have strongly characterised the inventive, religious and scientific society of this spot in Emilia from the Center Age to these days. This challenge, the end result of a wonderful productive and organizational dedication, has been realised participating numerous musical, cultural and artistic affiliation of the territory and in shut collaboration with the a few theatrical foundations which are associates of the Reggio Parma Competition: Fondazione I Teatri in Reggio Emilia, Teatro Regio in Parma and Fondazione Teatro Thanks in Parma, involved by the artist for the elaboration and definition of each exercise, in a virtuous match amongst abilities and experts.
Avital, with “Il Bestiario della Terra”, dives into an unconventional investigation about the sense of incompleteness felt by individuals, a experience which turns into a propulsive thrust to appear for and uncover the innermost fold of the Ego, in a hybridization or contamination with the animal nested in just about every of us.
So exactly where does humanity end and where does bestiality begin? The place is the monster hiding and, earlier mentioned all, who is it? The artist attempts to respond to to these issues via a multifaceted, experiential and multimedia approach, a true inventive ritual composed by dozens of unpublished functions, from performances, videoart, visible and photographic will work to sculptures, scores, theatrical staging and installations.
The presentation on 9th June 2022 kicked off the initial two gatherings in the Bestiario: the participative monographic exhibition “Anatomie Squisite”, held in the Musei Civici in Reggio Emilia, and the icon-sounding installation “Il Canto dello Zooforo” at the Casa del suono in Parma.
A abundant plan comprehensive of functions will be unveiled for the subsequent months, to deliver a dive into Yuval Avital’s imaginary, dropped into record, tradition and area customs. A special working experience to are living firsthand.
at Reggio Parma Competition, Reggio Emilia and Parma
until finally December 11, 2022
