{"id":3939,"date":"2021-05-03T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ponderosa.it\/arto-lindsay-lectura-dantis-voce-e-vortice\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T10:00:00","slug":"lectura-dantis-voce-e-vortice-arto-lindsay-suona-carmelo-bene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ponderosa.it\/en\/lectura-dantis-voce-e-vortice-arto-lindsay-suona-carmelo-bene\/","title":{"rendered":"Arto Lindsay, Lectura Dantis. Voice and vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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10.05.2021, by Giacomo Luperini<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the occasion of the \u201cYear of Dante\u201d, and the 40th anniversary of Carmelo Bene\u2019s Lectura Dantis, Arto Lindsay breathes new life into an immortal body of work.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

On November 23d of the year 530 B.C. Thespis, the first actor in the recorded history of theater, went up on a theatrical stage in Athens. Rumor has it that before that day, stories had only been told in the third person, and that Thespis was the very first man to ever impersonate somebody else. Even though the tales about Thespis are almost the stuff of legend, he remains an important figure, the symbol of a deep need for communication finally coming to life. There are several artistic forms capable of expressing what is abstract, ecstatic and unreachable. Sculpture, acting, writing and music, together with other forms of art, create an intricate mosaic describing things that by their very nature defy description. Today\u2019s story joins together three artists, separated by time, space and means of communication, but with the same tale in common: the Divine Comedy, more specifically the Inferno.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Dante Alighieri, the most famous Florentine of all time, wrote his poem between 1304 and 1321. At the time he was living in exile, as a punishment for refusing to pay a fine for his militancy in the political faction of the <\/span><\/span><\/span>guelfi bianchi<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>. In 1305, just as he was writing about his existential anguish and punishing the evil-doers of his time by throwing them into the flames of what we now know as the \u201ccircles of hell\u201d, the poet spent some time in the city of Bologna. <\/span><\/span><\/span>And in the same city<\/span><\/span>, many centuries later, another exalted artist (though considerably less famous than Dante) brought to the stage a massive, rock-concert-like event in which he read the verses of Dante\u2019s immortal classic. His name was Carmelo Bene, and he was an irreverent and peculiar artist from the southern region of Salento. The day was July 31st 1981, almost a year after a far-right terrorist bomb attack had killed 85 and mauled about 200 in Bologna\u2019s main train station. The attack had been organized and financed by far-right figures such as Licio Gelli, Mario Tedeschi, Umberto Ortolani and Federico Umberto D\u2019Amato. Carmelo Bene chose Bologna\u2019s Torre degli Asinelli, the highest, most visible symbol of the city, as his stage, and made a dedication to the victims of the massacre.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00abAs one who feels fatally injured, I dedicate this night not to the fatalities, but to the injured of this horrible massacre\u00bb<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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