THE LIGHT WITHIN THE SHADOW
date » 02-09-2025 19:53
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tags » Nicola Morandini, Teatro Basaglia, Nazario Zambaldi, Casa Basaglia, Scandalo, La Torre, PEA Pedagogy Ecology Arts, The Light within the Shadow, 00A,
PEA Pedagogy Ecology Arts
August 26 - September 11 2025 - MERAN
The images captured by Nicola Morandini portray the theater workshop led by Nazario Zambaldi at Casa Basaglia in Sinigo, a neighborhood on the edge of Merano. It was from this experience that Teatro Basaglia emerged — a fully-fledged theater company...
For PEA "power", the exhibition — continuing in the spirit of Franco Basaglia’s revolution, from whom both the Casa and the Teatro take their name — expands into the city with ten large-format prints (2 x 2 meters) displayed from August 26 to September 11. The installation brings visibility and significance to what has often been hidden or kept in the dark — both in the past and still today. Like our vulnerabilities, these images can become a precious gift, bringing light when opened up to a social and civic dimension.
The black-and-white photographs emphasize the photographic technique as an emergence of light and a crystallization of time. At the same time, they metaphorically echo the artistic work — particularly theatrical — which, like photography, traditionally begins with the opening of a curtain onto a lit stage. The eye, covered and uncovered by a hand since childhood, represents the play of reality itself: like the blink of an eye, an Augenblick, or the click of a camera shutter.
This symbolic dimension is further emphasized by the psychiatric context in which the theater — always a form of play and theater of shadows — searches for light, both inward and outward, through and beyond the shadows.
The theatrical journey led to the company’s first full production in 2005 at the Puccini Theater in Merano with NO (a story of Wall Street), followed by performances at Teatro Studio in Bolzano and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. The work continued with theatrical actions and productions aimed at breaking through barriers and building bridges.
One of the spaces that welcomed this openness was Merano’s street art festival Asfaltart, where OZ: The Inhabitants of the Emerald City debuted in 2007. This was followed in 2008 by La Torre (Seasons), based on Hölderlin’s Tower Poems — some of which are referenced in Nicola’s photographs — and in 2009 by Scandalo!, also depicted in the images, along with several shots taken during the workshop itself.
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August 26 - September 11 2025 - MERAN
The images captured by Nicola Morandini portray the theater workshop led by Nazario Zambaldi at Casa Basaglia in Sinigo, a neighborhood on the edge of Merano. It was from this experience that Teatro Basaglia emerged — a fully-fledged theater company...
For PEA "power", the exhibition — continuing in the spirit of Franco Basaglia’s revolution, from whom both the Casa and the Teatro take their name — expands into the city with ten large-format prints (2 x 2 meters) displayed from August 26 to September 11. The installation brings visibility and significance to what has often been hidden or kept in the dark — both in the past and still today. Like our vulnerabilities, these images can become a precious gift, bringing light when opened up to a social and civic dimension.
The black-and-white photographs emphasize the photographic technique as an emergence of light and a crystallization of time. At the same time, they metaphorically echo the artistic work — particularly theatrical — which, like photography, traditionally begins with the opening of a curtain onto a lit stage. The eye, covered and uncovered by a hand since childhood, represents the play of reality itself: like the blink of an eye, an Augenblick, or the click of a camera shutter.
This symbolic dimension is further emphasized by the psychiatric context in which the theater — always a form of play and theater of shadows — searches for light, both inward and outward, through and beyond the shadows.
The theatrical journey led to the company’s first full production in 2005 at the Puccini Theater in Merano with NO (a story of Wall Street), followed by performances at Teatro Studio in Bolzano and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. The work continued with theatrical actions and productions aimed at breaking through barriers and building bridges.
One of the spaces that welcomed this openness was Merano’s street art festival Asfaltart, where OZ: The Inhabitants of the Emerald City debuted in 2007. This was followed in 2008 by La Torre (Seasons), based on Hölderlin’s Tower Poems — some of which are referenced in Nicola’s photographs — and in 2009 by Scandalo!, also depicted in the images, along with several shots taken during the workshop itself.
OUT RAUS FUORI
...
READ MORE
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