After the summer break, Galleria360 reopens its exhibition rooms with a collective exhibition entitled “Rhythms of emotions”.
“Don’t turn around, if you want me alive, don’t look at me.” These may have been the words of Eurydice, Orpheus’s beloved, when the two were almost about to cross the gate of the underworld to return to the kingdom of the living. This famous archetypal myth, told by Ovid in the “Metamorphoses”, highlights all the power of music, capable of strengthening love and giving new life.
Eurydice, stung by a snake in the act of escaping Aristaeus’ attacks, falls to the ground lifeless. Suddenly, where the harmony resulting from Orpheus’ song reigned, a painful, unbearable silence descends, which is filled with his tears. In this moment, he decides to challenge the impossible: descend into the kingdom of the dead to try to bring his beloved back to life. Orpheus has no other weapons to oppose Hades and Persephone, the gods of the underworld, other than his lyre and his song. Having gone down there, he takes up the instrument and sings.
The lyre, associated with Apollo, god of the sun and the arts, in the ancient world represented that “aspect of Greek life and soul that is usually called Apollonian: a miraculous alchemy of wise moderation, harmonious control and balance of the mind” (Curt Sachs). In fact, the gesture of plucking those strings, of artfully setting them in vibration, meant the ability to set the universe in motion, tuning, in some way, to the harmony created by the gods.
Ovid still tells us that, while Orpheus sings in the Underworld, the bloodless souls begin to cry and all around a rare and unknown emotion is awakened in the abyss and even the queen of darkness gives in. Orpheus therefore challenges death and wins it, thanks to his music which brings within it that harmony of the universe to which not even in the kingdom of Hades can they remain indifferent.
In the “Rhythms of emotions” exhibition, international artists take up their “lyre”, entrusting their meditation on feelings and life to pure and instinctive color.
That is, an artistic review where the melodic rhythm of emotions pulsates, floats free and vibrates under the skin of the works, giving life to an artistic polyphony capable of shaping the original chaos into new dancing stars; to bring to the surface the interiority of a world dormant in the silence of our soul.
In the contemporary art exhibition “Rhythms of emotions”, art, guided by the rhythm of emotions, delves into the invisible movements that govern the soul and the world.
The inauguration will take place on Friday 13rd September 2024, at 7.30 pm, in via Borgo Ognissanti 77r, Florence. During the evening, a welcome cocktail will also be offered while jazz musicians will play live, livening up the evening and creating a happy union between Art and Music.
