ARTIST’S RECORD + ART PRINT
2023. Edition of 30 + 6 APs numbered and signed copies.
33rpm one-sided silkscreened lathe-cut clear vinyl disc with no label, hosted in a signed and numbered cover, printed on translucent Fedrigoni GSK paper;
Contains the Art Print
Rosa Barba, No, 2023
Relief Ink and red Chinese Marker on duplex paper
20 x 19,5 cm
All inserted in clear acetate pvc sleeve.
Inspired from the installation
NO - Orchestra con nastro
2022
Film loop 16mm, optical sound, piano strings, kinetics
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by MAXXI-co-produced by Bertelsmann/Archivio Storico Ricordi
MAXXI Collection
Die Schachtel, in collaboration with Archivio Ricordi and MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo of Rome, is proud to present the latest release in its ART Series, dedicated to the publication of art multiples that make use of the vinyl record as the media of creative exploration. Following a stream of previous editions dedicated to such names – among others – as Christina Kubisch or Bruce Nauman, the present one is dedicated to the Italian- born but Berlin-based Rosa Barba, an established artist that engages within the medium of film through a sculptural approach. In her works, Barba creates installations and site-specific interventions to analyze the ways film articulates space, placing the work and the viewer in a new relationship.
In NO-Orchestra con nastro (NO - Orchestra with tape), Rosa Barba composes with film, light, sound, and space to create a Gesamtkunstwerk – a synthesis of the arts. Her inspiration came from her research at the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milan, one of the world’s leading private archives on the History of opera which houses an extensive collection of documents relating to premieres as well as stage and costume designs, photographs and letters. In this work, Rosa Barba devotes special attention to Luigi Nono’s partitions structures. She uses the visual, musical and sound excerpts to fragment them into another “instrument” consisting of suspended piano strings, a film, and a kinetic pendulum.
Drawing from this work, the artist’s record aims to encapsulate in an “editorial” format the different layers and meanings that constitute the installation. The image on the cover is in fact a frame of the video of the work, whilst the graphic sign silkscreened on the vinyl disc is taken from a score (Prometeo) by Luigi Nono. The audio is a collage of sounds extracted from video and tape recordings, notably snippets and sparse sounds from Nono’s works as well as the early electronic music experiments of the Milan RAI Studio di Fonologia. A printed and hand-drawn original artwork sheet completes the edition.
The Edition insert is part of a larger series of sculptures and prints made with thousands of old metal letterpress blocks. While the function of these letters has been overtaken by new methods of printing and distributing texts, their arrangement follows the logic of form rather than an alphabetical order—an encryption that formulates the instability of knowledge, or perhaps a lost or new language. In form, it connects to the work NO - Orchestra con nastro, 2022 which breaks down Luigi Nono’s music into individual elements, reinterprets it in a new musical notation and a renewed artistic sensibility.
Rosa Barba
Archives are not just static repositories of the past: they can be vibrant organisms in the present. Indeed, documentary sources from earlier times may offer fresh raw material that inspires new meanings. The collaboration with the artist Rosa Barba, promoted by the MAXXI Museum on the occasion of the “Opera Opera - Allegro ma non troppo” exhibition and freely inspired by the materials of Luigi Nono conserved in the Archivio Storico Ricordi, represents a compelling example of this modern idea of an archive.
Pierluigi Ledda, Director
Archivio Storico Ricordi
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33rpm one-sided silkscreened lathe-cut clear vinyl disc with no label, hosted in a signed and numbered cover, printed on translucent Fedrigoni GSK paper; in addition a signed 20x20cm art sheet, carbon printed and hand-drawn by the Artist. All inserted in clear acetate pvc sleeve.
Duration of audio 5’ 39”
Inspired from the installation
NO - Orchestra con nastro
2022
Film loop 16mm, optical sound, piano strings, kinetics
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by MAXXI-co-produced by Bertelsmann/Archivio Storico Ricordi
MAXXI Collection
In NO-Orchestra con nastro (NO - Orchestra with tape), Rosa Barba composes with film, light, sound, and space to create a Gesamtkunstwerk – a synthesis of the arts. Her inspiration came from her research at the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milan, one of the world’s leading private archives on the History of opera which houses an extensive collection of documents relating to premieres as well as stage and costume designs, photographs and letters. The archive also preserves the manuscripts of famous composers such as Verdi and Puccini, but also those of contemporary music composers such as Luciano Berio and Luigi Nono among others. In this work, Rosa Barba devotes special attention to Luigi Nono’s partitions structures. She uses the visual, musical and sound excerpts to fragment them into another “instrument” consisting of suspended piano strings, a film, and a kinetic pendulum.
Deawing from this work, the Artist’s record aim to encapsulate in an “editorial” format the different layers and meanings that constitute the installation work.
The image on the cover is a frame of the video of the installation, whilst the graphic sign silkscreened on the vinyl discs is taken from a score (Prometeo) by Luigi Nono conserved at the Archivio Storico Ricordi. Same for the as the audio part, a collage of sounds extracted from video and tape recordings, notably snippets and sparse sounds from Nono’s works as well as the early electronic music experiments of the Milan RAI Studio di Fonologia.
credits
released September 22, 2023
Produced by Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni
Design: Bruno Stucchi, Dinamomilano
Lathe Cutting: Dubplate, Italy
Artwork: Rosa Barba, No
Cover Image: Frame from the video of the installation No-Orchestra con Nastro, MAXXI, Rome
Vinyl silkscreen artwork: Luigi Nono
Thanks to Pierluigi Ledda
