Invisible Cities, a spectacular journey between sound and vision inspired by Italo Calvino, curated by Saint Louis and RUFA, at the MAXXI Videogallery.
Students from the two-year live electronics program at the Saint Louis College of Music and the Multimedia Arts and Design Department of RUFA bring to life an immersive experience where sound and image merge into a single sensory narrative.
Published in 1972, Calvino’s famous book is a journey through fantastic and symbolic cities told by Marco Polo to Emperor Kublai Khan. Each city is a metaphor for desire, memory, language, and time. From this narrative universe arises a multidisciplinary project that transforms the space of the MAXXI Videogallery – National Museum of 21st Century Arts – into an emotional geography made of electronic sounds, possible architectures, and inner visions.
Five movements, inspired by as many categories of Calvino’s cities, build the rhythm of the experience: each group of students interprets a theme through sound and visual installations, generating a deep dialogue between music and image, technique and sensitivity, dream and reflection.
The event will take place on Saturday, May 31, 2025, at 4:00 PM, at the MAXXI Videogallery – National Museum of 21st Century Arts, via Guido Reni 4/A, Rome. Admission is free.
The movements of the work:
THE CITIES AND MEMORY – Movement I
Lorenzo Cervini, Rachele Cominella, Ayla Mueller, Lorenzo Tomasucci
THE CITIES AND DESIRE – Movement II
Luca Marchignani, Marta Zorzan, Simona Vacca
THE CITIES AND SIGNS – Movement III
Caterina Salzano, Ogulcan Akca, Angela D’Onghia, Cor Langerak
THE SUBTLE CITIES – Movement IV
Greta D’Alessandro, Elisa Catalano, Raffaele Esposito
THE CITIES AND THE SKY – Movement V
Andrea De Donato, Annarita Debellis, Giuseppe Di Capua, Silvia Baldo
