A musical suite
This series of 9 prints came as a "divertimento", my first abstract incursion out of my usual world of inspiration, into a subject dear to my heart: music.
Over a few months, this musical suite was originally drawn while listening to pieces of classical music I love, played on a loop, sinking in a particular mood.
Each print is made of at least two linoleum plates, printed on 30 x 40 Fabriano paper. The first plate illustrates a tempo, the color being the atmosphere that exudes from the piece, and a binding element for a suite, and the second plate expresses the theme of music; sometimes it's been removed in the end.
I have put myself one constraint to the making of this series, that is, the landscape format, akin to the linear representation of sounds on a sonagram, giving myself a possibility to print it later as a concertina book, together with the illustrative poems or quotes.
VIBRAZIONI
Chladni's frequency plates at play
ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO
Intertwined volutes with a reverted and truncated treble clef.
ANDANTE SOSTENUTO
Music vibrating like ribbons, rivers and brooklets, flooding the inside of a grand piano.
ALLEGRO MOLTO LEGATO
It’s raining notes in rivers; their hands are running up and down.
LARGO AMOROSO
Schubert’s languid sighs, in endless lines like a continuous long bow ride,
ANDANTE CANTABILE
A dirge with a clear and sweet sound, and yet powerful
APPASSIONATO
Twirls mingling in a frenzied choreography.
SILENZIONE
A call for quarter rests vanishing into full silence
Prelude and fugue
VARIATION IN TURQUOISE
