Lucia
Ronchetti

SOUND INSTALLATION
PAOLO BUONVINO
ÇIATU, 2022 (30’) ***
Paolo Buonvino, concept and composition
Irma Blank, art installation
Marco Lucarelli, light
Antonello Pocetti, mise en espace
Fabio Venturi, audio project
La Biennale di Venezia – CIMM, Centro di
Informatica Musicale Multimediale
Thierry Coduys, sound diffusion
production of the Irma Blank art
installation by Bureau Betak for DIOR
Madre, video animation
Maria Alicata, curator visual project
Commission La Biennale di Venezia
Production La Biennale di Venezia
Thanks to House of DIOR
for the production of the costumes
Thanks to P420, Bologna
for Irma Blank’s artwork

The Sicilian composer Paolo Buonvino, known for his film scores, has composed a scenic concerto entitled çiatu (breath), based on the experience of collective breathing as sound and as a living gesture. The project is inspired by Sicilian and Mediterranean culture and by the relationship between the rhythm of human breathing and that of the waves that surround the island. In collaboration with Maria Grazia Chiuri, creative director of the Maison Dior, and the artist Irma Blank, Paolo Buonvino and director Antonello Pocetti have designed a stage structure to contain, protect and accommodate the audience, within which the musicians will create a collective breathing exercise which, with the participation of the audience, will evoke and transcend the experience of suffering and fear that the pandemic has brought to our lives.