Arshake is pleased to present a conversation between Giorgio Cipolletta and Luigi Pagliarini on his latest project and Manifesto for a Choral Art. Today, to anticipate the interview that will be published the next week is the Choral Manifest introduced by the author.
Luigi Pagliarini, in his personal vision, has “decided to break up time, tear it to pieces, with the urgent internal need to change his useful non-existence beyond recognition”.[1] It is precisely here that the artist’s inner need to design a choral trajectory can be found, gathering the testimonies, faces, signs and feelings of one hundred and fifty young artists during the time of lockdown. #restaCorale (#stayChoral) represents a transcendent manifesto, which listens to details in order to trace “a straight line containing a past-present directed towards an eternal future”.[2]
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[1] Personal conversations with the author
[2] Personal conversations with the author
Giorgio Cipolletta
Our choice is new because the moment is new, as are needs and objectives, those that in the Covid-19 era necessarily move towards connective ways of thinking that see human beings united with one sole aim: a new humanity – rigourosly ecosystemic, cultured and, above all, re-humanised. All this encouraged my research on aesthetics to take a direction that was, yes, collective but could also move beyond the very concept of “collectivity”. It is what I like to consider as choral art. An art form where groups of artists converge towards a single sign, a single definition, a single purpose. Where personalism disappears and the whole emerges as the most important value, as the highest value.
Thus, within a work of Choral Art, what is exalted is the strength of the effect derived from a multi-crafted work carried out with extreme coherence and discipline within the margins of a single thematic, technical and methodological commission. Choral Art is the place of artistic thought where creators converge voluntarily towards a choral perspective, this being the classical one of musicality, composition, orchestras, consonance and sound harmony that starting from sound then becomes a sign. A universe of signs that, while leaving timbre, sound and voices differentiated from each other, proceeds cohesively towards a single aesthetic direction.
It is precisely in this synergistic, collective and unanimous orchestration – where the ensemble of signs agree in the search for a choral act – that we find the intangible manifestation of the concept of humanity where individuality has meaning only within a collective order, indeed, a ‘choral order’. Within the whole, individuals bring with them the originality of their actions, transmitting them to others, without any intention to compete or be free, so that this action-replication is agreed in a plural and evocative composition of a new human way of feeling. It is an aesthetic score in which the well-tuned organism coordinates its genetics and its artistry to ensure the latter spreads out into the immense concert of individual lives.
Luigi Pagliarini
images and video: (cover 1) Luigi Pagliarini, «restaUmano-restaCorale. train», 2020 (2) video trailer (3) Luigi Pagliarini, «restatrascendente», 2020
