Seasons of Music. From December 2009 in all the bookshop
This new project of Luca Artioli is inspired by the Four Seasons of Vivaldi in collaboration with the prestigious Theater La Scala of Milan. The images and the words of this book seem to touch the time that fly away and the current of emotions spreading in the hours of our life. Music is sound that once arose, vibrates towards the sky overpassing and beating any borders.
Artioli unique tecnique capturing a world in constant motion, is a perfect vehicle to show the deep poetic correlation of music and that of the nature surrounding us. Just like Vivaldi's Four Season this book will be music for the heart.
The window onto my silence has opened with a perfume of light…
One evening, at La Scala, the seasons entered my soul. I listened with eyes closed and, in the darkness, the music awakened colors and forms that I had believed dulled in my life. I cherished them, caressed them, then pinched them lightly awake. Fostered by my breath, the newborn images arose; like weightless photographs they took on a light, varied form, and then, visible even to my memory, they slipped away. Our life is a long sequence of images. We do not know where the great archive of lights and shadows that lives within us lies, but music helps us open unsuspected channels of discovery. It opens doors and passages, creating a current of fresh air in which everything starts running again, like a film when its frames encounter the light of a projector...