A work by Roberto Pugliese and installations curated by Sineglossa for the room dedicated to the Jewish pianist Bogdan Zins, in the Museum of Memory in Campagna, Salerno province
YEAR
2022
ROLE
Design and layout
CATEGORY
Art and technology
[...] Here in the camp, given the lack of a piano, he is absolutely unable to play and practice the necessary exercises. The writer is in this special situation unlike all other professionals [...] in this particular case, the undersigned, not practicing and not being able to continue his musical studies, loses his technique and ability to play, finding himself in a situation, which is getting worse day by day. So that, having to stay here in the camp for a few more months, he is seriously threatened regarding the possibility in general of exercising in the future his favorite art, which represents for him in all respects the content and purpose of his life. In view of all the above, the undersigned allows himself to respectfully apply to the Honorable Ministry, that he be kindly granted a transfer to some place in the Kingdom, where there is a piano and where he could practice and continue his studies
The staging "A furious love of music"
Bogdan Zins was an outstanding pianist, composer, concert pianist, conductor, musician, impresario and lawyer. For him, music was a deep part of human nature, not just entertainment but nourishment capable of keeping the sense of the Jewish people alive, even in confinement in the prison camp.
The staging celebrates the Jewish pianist with a giant picture of him together with the German baritone Siegbert Steinfeld in the Ferramonti camp for the Farewell Concert on April 5, 1942.
Next, the “Plea for a Piano,” a letter in which Bogdan Zins, in 1941, applied for a transfer to the Ministry of the Interior so that he can reach some location in the Kingdom where there is a piano.
The work "Sonic Holographic Visions"
Created by artist Roberto Pugliese, whose research is positioned between sound art and kinetic and programmed art, Sonic Holographic Visions tells-through the optical illusion of holographic projection and the sound reproduction of Composition No. 32 in D minor by Anton Arensky, which Zins was particularly fond of,-the insatiable desire to play and celebrate the ecstasy that music can provide, even at a time of such immense madness and barbarism as the Holocaust.
Read more
You can read Tradotti agli estremi confini. Musicisti ebrei internati nell’Italia fascista (Mimesis, 2019), by musicologist and lecturer Raffaele Deluca, the scientific advisor of the installation.
Credits
The exhibition is carried out for the Palatucci Museum of Campagna (SA) with the contribution of UOD 50.12.01 Promotion and Enhancement of Museums and Libraries of the Campania Region – General Directorate for Social and Cultural Policies, with co-financing from the Municipality of Campagna, with scientific advice by Raffaele Deluca and holographic installation by Roberto Pugliese.
