Artist Donatella Lombardo rewrites the scores of female composers from the 12th to the 20th century in an exhibition in Bologna

ART CITY Bologna 2020 is enriched with a new exhibition, open from Jan. 21 to Feb. 23, 2020 at the Museum of Music in Bologna, entitled Mute Scores. Notes on the Margin.

This is a project by Donatella Lombardo in which she shows her research on female composers who lived in different eras, from the 12th to the 20th century, still little known yet of recognized talent.

On some excerpts of their scores, the artist intervened with a personal rewriting made of light plots of colored threads wound on pins and bobbins, interpreting in a spatial key their rhythms, colors, intensity. In this anomalous performance, entrusted to the artisanal tools of embroidery instead of musical ones, an otherness emerges as skillful as it is unrecognized, capable of asserting itself discreetly in the rooms of the Museum of Music, whose itinerary it integrates as a timely historical counterpoint, enhancing the contributions of female composers such as, to name but a few, Hildegard von Bingen, Maddalena Casulana, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, EIisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Fanny Hensel, and Anna Bon.

The exhibition is curated by Uliana Zanetti with scientific advice from Anna Rosa Vannoni - Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini in Bologna, Dario Lo Cicero - Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini in Palermo, Adkins Chiti Foundation - Women in Music.

For all information you can visit the official website of ART CITY Bologna 2020.

Pictured: Donatella Lombardo Partitura 19 - Hensel Fanny - Lieder fuer das Pianoforte Bote Pastorella (2016). Sewing and digital print on fabric, Plexiglas, polyurethane foam, spindles, pins Cm 49 x 20 x 13 ca (including spindles)

Artist Donatella Lombardo rewrites the scores of female composers from the 12th to the 20th century in an exhibition in Bologna

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