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 Visual Arts 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, 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
