Archeus, Mozart’s labyrinth for the 1600th anniversary of Venice – Art
(ANSA) – VENICE, FEBRUARY 18 – A new path of dialogue between the arts to offer quality cultural events to an ever-wider public throughout the year and in ‘decentralized’ locations from the historic center of Venice. This is the goal that the Venice Biennale has set itself by presenting “Archeus, Labirinto Mozart”, a multidisciplinary installation by Damiano Michieletto opened in Forte Marghera, in Mestre, a few steps from the lagoon, from today to 5 June.
The event, which is integrated into the special projects of the Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts, aims to celebrate the 1600 years of the city of Venice on the occasion of the Carnival and is organized by the Biennale in collaboration with the Teatro La Fenice. It is the result of a dialogue between arts and artistic crafts, in which the musical theatricality and the fantastic atmosphere of Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’ blend with contemporary aesthetic forms. The installation includes five rooms joined by as many tunnels to be traveled in the dark and with the sole aid of a handrail and sound sources that refer to Mozart’s work.
A sort of journey from the dark of the imponderable to the light of knowledge, from death to rebirth, in which the viewer participates in the reversal of the characteristic perspectives of Mozart’s masterpiece, as the very structure of the installation creates games of sensorial illusion that represent as many stages of the transformation process. The previously uncertain steps become more and more secure in the initiatory journey proposed to the visitor who starts from death to make a new life triumph in the end.
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