Musica ad Arte. Corrado Levi, performer

For the 56th Venice Art Biennale, Levi is offering Musica ad Arte — in the drawing room on the first floor of Ca’ Rezzonico, a performance centred on the correspondences between the emission of sounds of the cello and the manner of controlling the brush in painting.

The sounds – extended, brief, staccato, fluid, sliding, intense – that appear in some musical compositions are compared to different brushstrokes in works of art: rapid, hesitating, pecked, of infinite length. A parallel between sound and paint is created forming a metaphor of the spirit to “explore – as Levi writes – some of its infinite forms and, who knows, to offer an invitation to you and I to think beyond”.