Bracciano Art Week, Les Fleurs
Friday, May 16, 2025, at 9:00 PM
Bracciano (RM) – Collegiate Church of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr

Premiere:
Pristina (2025) for solo flute by Giovanni Scapecchi
Commissione Bracciano Art Week, 2025
Claudio Marani, performance video
Monica Limongelli, flute

Les Fleurs is a performance born from the dialogue between sound and light; both are “ethereal” forms, two physical elements that exist only when, as waves, and each according to its own nature, they move through space, vibrating in the air. Each expands, creating its own form. These ethereal shapes—made only of breath and light—cut through the air, cross space, transform, intersect, and create images, figures, colors, emotions.

The technology behind Les Fleurs is an interactive projection in which sound transforms the image in real time. The vibrations of sound, interpreted by the artist, become an immense, multiform painting—ever-changing as it comes to life on the façade of the Collegiate Church of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr. Pristina, in its world premiere, is dedicated to this performance by the artistic duo Claudio Marani-Monica Limongelli.

PRISTINA, for solo flute, is a journey through the symbols and mysteries woven into the figure of the rose, an emblem of esoteric knowledge and alchemical transformation. Through suspended and intensely expressive gestures, the piece moves between mystical visions and inner suggestions, evoking the arcane power of a flower that embodies, more than any other, the essence of the ephemeral and at the same time the eternal.
“Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.” — The primordial rose exists only in name; we hold only bare names.
Like a fragment of hidden truth, the diegesis is revealed in an intimate ritual, where the breath of the flute shapes space and time, weaving a delicate fabric that unfolds between past and present, between the visible and the invisible.

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