Studio Azzurro, DUE LAI

Room 14

«The shooting of this video was curiously born out of a casting requirement. We were at the beginning of the preparation of our film Il Mnemonista and we always imagined Sandro Lombardi as the natural interpreter. We’d known Sandro since the days of Magazzini Criminali, we’d often brushed up against each other for joint projects, and we’d never let go of the idea that the main character in that project we’d been cultivating for some time could only be him. The performance of Due Lai at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan was therefore an opportunity, after his consent to the project, to get closer to his world: to experience his face, his voice, to penetrate through his gestures into the visionary interpretation. The eye of the camera searched the most imperceptible expressions, investigating every potentiality, every beat of poetry. All with our film in mind, cutting out his image solely within our imagined scene. We had not yet discovered Testori, this Testori. But it was Sandro himself who made this encounter inevitable. His transfiguration could not disregard that text, could only induce us to listen to the words, to slip into those explosive combinations, to appreciate the extraordinary imagination that took shape. Thank you Sandro for introducing us to him and for your priceless performance in Mnemonista.
It is a pleasure Testori to have met you like this.»
Studio Azzurro

«Studio Azzurro’s works bring the spectator face to face with a model of the universe that is no longer the one described by science, because order and disorder, simple and complex, living and inert, are no longer opposed, as are the antagonistic polarities of the artistic and the extra-artistic, of realism and abstraction; the values of man and nature, of morality and beauty are essential components of their work.»
Valentina Valentin

THE ARTISTS

Studio Azzurro is a field of artistic research that expresses itself through the languages of new technologies. It was founded in 1982 by Fabio Cirifino (photography), Paolo Rosa (visual arts and cinema) and Leonardo Sangiorgi (graphics and animation).