MUSICA : Michele Ardu
In his studio, in a still environment, isolated from unwanted air movements, Michele Ardu has been working on his collection of sound portraits for years. Cleverly surrounding a line of smoke that flows dense and linear in the air with speakers that play selected songs, the sound itself crosses this mouldable material column creating multiple shapes, which are portrayed in the works "Musica", in different times and ways.
Nel suo studio, in un ambiente isolato da spostamenti d’aria indesiderati, Michele Ardu, porta avanti da anni la sua ricerca artistica lavorando sulla sua collezione di ritratti sonori. Circondando sapientemente un filo di fumo che scorre denso e lineare con delle casse che suonano le canzoni scelte, il suono stesso che attraversa questa colonna materica modellabile ne forgia la forma in instanti e modi differenti, ritratti nelle opere di "Musica".
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Michele ArduMaybe it’s time – (Bradley Cooper, from A Star is Born), MUSICA , 2019Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm100 x 150 cm on 120 x 170 cm
39.37 x 59.06 in on 47.24 x 66.93 in1/3 -
Michele ArduCandle in the Wind - Candle in the Wind – (Elton John), MUSICA, 2017Giclée Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310 gsm50 x 75 cm on 61 x 91.4 cm
19.69 x 29.53 in on 24.02 x 35.98 in
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Michele ArduToo much Love will kill you - (Queen), MUSICA, 2017Canson Rag Photographique 310gsm50 x 75 cm (framed 61 x 91.4 cm)
19.69 x 29.53 in (framed 24.02 x 35.98 cm)3/5 -
Michele ArduWish you were here – Wish you were here (Pink Floyd), MUSICA, 2018Giclée Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310 gsm50 x 75 cm on 61 x 91,4 cm
19.69 x 29.53 on 24.02 x 35.83 in4/5 -
Michele ArduGoodbye...from a Country lost without your soul – Candle in the Wind - (Elton John), MUSICA, 2017Giclée Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310 gsm44 x 64 cm on 50 x 70 cm
17.32 x 25.2in on 19.69x 27.56 in2/4 -
Michele ArduDo you think you can tell - Wish you were here – (Pink Floyd), MUSICA, 2018Giclée Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310 gsm50 x 75 cm on 61 x 91,4 cm
19.69 x 29.53 on 24.02 x 35.83 in3/5 -
Michele ArduCandle in the Wind - Candle in the Wind – (Elton John), MUSICA, 2017Giclée Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310 gsm50 x 75 cm on 61 x 91.4 cm
19.69 x 29.53 in on 24.02 x 35.98 in
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Michele ArduJumping Jack Flash - (The Rolling Stones), MUSICA, 2018Giclée Print on Canson Rag Photographique 310 gsm20 x 30 cm on 30 x 40 cm
7.87 x 11.81 in on 11.81 x 15.75 in1/9
MUSICA
Have you ever seen the shapes of sound?
Ardu’s Musica exhibition exposes the viewer to a completely new visual sound experience - by seeing it. The shapes of music are captured in this mesmerising sound portraits photographic exhibition.
The energy of the sound waves hits the smoke breaking its equilibrium and letting the sound creating its own shapes.To Michele Ardu, the flow of smoke is like the timeline of our lives. Any sound wave and notes hitting this stream of smoke can be seen as a person or an event crossing our life in a specific given moment.
Combination of factors affect the stream of smoke as well as life and the shape generated cannot be repeated, cannot ever be identical to any other, as created by sound lasts a single instant and will never be perfectly identical to the others. Just like the moments of our lives, sometimes they might look similar, but they are always new and different.
Ardu used songs by Pink Floyd, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Zucchero, Ludovico Einaudi to name a few, and creates a new perception of sound as a sculpted meanings, painted by the waves of sound. In his works, Michele Ardu expresses the mutable nature of life itself, with all of its factors and unpredictabilities, showing the impossibility to grasp any moment for longer than a just a second.
Like an untouchable statue, the smoke and the music always change shapes, intact the same way.
