In Reggio Emilia an exhibition dedicated to Francesco Guccini

“And I will speak of worn stones, of finished cities, dead sensations / I will tell of my dull visions of ghosts and people throughout the seasons / And I will only sing of time”. From these verses of “The theme”, a song taken from the album “L’isola non trova” (1970), the name show “I’ll just sing the time” dedicated to Francesco Gucciniin Reggio Emilia.

In that song, one of the common threads of his artistic production clearly emerges: the relationship with time, which runs through much of his poetics. Guccini’s creative universe is extremely coherent and based on the value of the word and narration. Whether it’s songs, novels, stories or simple conversations, telling stories becomes the means by which to give meaning to passage of time and the experience of life. In an inevitably ephemeral present, it is often looking at the past that allows us to fully understand what we have been and what we are.

The exhibition presents itself as a sort of visual atlas: images and materials connect places and landscapes linked to Pavana – evoked many times, from the album “Radici” to Guccini’s literary texts – with domestic objects and details. These elements they tell a cultural journey rooted in popular tradition and marked by passions for literature, comics and dialect speeches.

Alongside this narrative universe is the photographic work of Kai-Uwe Schulte-Bunertwhich seeks to represent time in a visual way. In his works, time is broken down and reinterpreted, both symbolically and through concrete interventions on images, until it becomes a sort of continuous flow in an indefinite space. The photographic lens manages to capture it only in random fragments, just like what happens to memory when a detail brings distant and blurry images of the past back into the present.

The exhibition also includes illustrative works by Simona Costanzo, Arianna Lerussi, Veronica Ruffato, Silvano Scolari and Gianmario Taurisano.

It can be visited at Gerra Spacein via XXV Aprile 2, a Reggio Emiliawith free entry. It will be open from April 18th to October 18th.