MASBEDO
INVIDEO - BIELLA, 13/07/2011 - 17/07/2011
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Italy, 2010
Three-screen video-audio installation: 16:9 vertical and 4:3 horizontal
Duration: 8’ loop
Direction: MASBEDO
Sound design and live recording: Fabrizio Romagnoli
Editing: MASBEDO - Cristina Sardo
Production: A.I.A.C.E.-Milano
Thanks to Fondo Bruno Produzioni S.R.L.
More than any other work they have produced in the last few years, the Masbedo installation project draws life from the close relationship between sound and image. An upright piano is hit by gunshots, emitting a melody of heart-rending sounds; a melody generated by the violence of the impact, the shattering of the keys, the strings being torn apart, the wood ruined. The work is inspired by an existential theory that combines aggressiveness with melancholy in artistic symbiosis.
In this project, which will consist of a videoinstallation, the intention is to create a relationship between sound and image. What strikes us on the one hand is the bitter and aggressive melody of the shots at the piano and on the other the intensity, the hope of humankind which endeavours to compose something that is alive and human “out of what remains”. The video is shot in high definition and the entire soundtrack recorded live.
MASBEDO is a name combining segments of the duo’s surnames: Nicolò Massazza (Milano 1973) - Iacopo Bedogni (Sarzana 1970), who live and work in Milan. Right from the start they have followed a multi-disciplinary and transversal artistic direction in which they collaborate with different artists including writers, film actors, experimental theatre actors and performers in dance theatre. They are present in the most prestigious European collections and their video works are to be found in Italian and international museums. Since 2000 they have started to exhibit intensively in international galleries, museums and film festivals.
The Moving Stories event at INVIDEO 2010
Whilst awaiting the 2011 Milan presentation of the six works in the Moving Stories project, in its 2010 edition INVIDEO presents the preparatory study for the work that MASBEDO have undertaken to produce for this international joint project.
Untitled. Preparatory study for the videoinstallation
by MASBEDO
Italy, 2010, 5’
Monochannel Video
Directed by: MASBEDO
Sound design and live recording: Fabrizio Romagnoli
Editing: MASBEDO, Cristina Sardo
«More than any other work we have produced in the last few years, this work draws life from the close relationship between sound and image. The project arises out of an initial study (Untitled) which has generated this video and will subsequently be transformed into a video installation on several screens. The result of this “untitled” study can be summed up in a series of shots (wide and narrow) of an upright piano abandoned in a concrete corridor. The piano is hit by gunshots to the keyboard and the steel strings, producing a melody of heart-rending sounds, a melody that arises from the shots fired by the gun, generated by the violence of the impact, the shattering of the keys, the strings being torn apart, the wood ruined. The work is inspired by an existential theory that combines aggressiveness with melancholy in artistic symbiosis. In this study the intention is to create a relationship between sound and image. What strikes us on the one hand is the bitter and aggressive melody of the shots at the piano and on the other the aesthetics of destruction». (MASBEDO)
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