In 2017, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation participates in the celebrations of the great Sicilian writer, Luigi Pirandello, the 1934 Nobel Prize winner in literature, to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth.
On this occasion, the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) will present the US premiere of a new live installation conceived and performed by visual artist Samantha Stella and musician Nero Kane. The live installation Love in a Dying World, which includes the reading of Italian poetry by Dante Alighieri, Giacomo Leopardi, Ugo Foscolo, Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Pirandello on the themes of love, decadence and tension towards the infinite and their connection to the visual and audio landscape of the American desert.
A small reproduction of the work Madonna del Cardellino (1506) by the famous Italian painter Raffaello Sanzio, will be displayed and projected images of a melancholic desert will alternate with ones of Nero Kane.
The performance is part of a project that includes a film directed by Samantha Stella during the trip the two artists took through California and a new album by Nero Kane that has been recorded between Italy and Los Angeles.
The artists are returning to Los Angeles after the US premiere last September in the IIC’s gallery of their performance Hell23. Samantha Stella, with her project Corpicrudi, had debuted with choreographer Matteo Levaggi in a show held for LA Fashion Week 2014.
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