Vieo-ambientation by Regina Huebner with compositions by Luca Lombardi and life-performance by Roberto Fabbriciani 

MMKK Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Austria, 2016 

Text Luca Lombardi, time and person

Text Arnulf Rohsmann, regina huebner / zeit

time and person

spatial ambientation at the MMKK Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Kunstraum Burgkapelle in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria. April - September 2016

Curated by director Christine Wetzlinger-Grundnig, text by Arnulf Rohsmann

Especially selected compositions for flute and violoncello by Luca Lombardi

Events:

regina spricht - dialogue between Arnulf Rohsmann and Regina Huebner about the artist's work

stay connected - time and person - online-happening by Regina Huebner and participators

Die Floete und das Bild - performance by flutist Roberto Fabbriciani, who plays the compositions of Luca Lombardi

time and person is an installation with two large-format video projections on suspended or fixed screens by Regina Huebner and the specifically combined music by composer Luca Lombardi, which will be performed live by flutist Roberto Fabbriciani.

In time and person we see on a large screen the video time: oversized drops of milk are continuously falling down on a red background forming a white lake of milk. At the certain extension of this lactic lake the direction will reverse and the drops will rise, representing the infinitely ongoing of time.

On a second, smaller screen in spatial relation to the first one, we see the the video person: the image of a moving and dancing figure in black and white. This 5 year old child has very long, never shortened hair. This little person reflects the sense of the desired freedom and symbolize human existence. The length of the hair is exactly her lifetime at that moment.

The flutist Roberto Fabbriciani plays music by composer Luca Lombardi in a special performance, related to the videoinstallation, moving in the space, introducing another phenomean of time: “the present”.

See the videoclip of part of the performance by Roberto Fabbriciani, held in the baroque chapel of the Museum of Modern Art in Austria, in 2016: https://youtu.be/VmNtDTiqDO4

Video-clip of time: https://youtu.be/CQa9K0_OOWU

Video-clip of person: https://youtu.be/yhfIosakxPE Please note: the music is the original soundtrack on which the performer danced. Due to the video-edition, the music DOES NOT CORRESPOND on the real compositions by Luca Lombardi, but it is alterated!

The internationally recognized flutist Roberto Fabbriciani leads up the compositions by Luca Lombardi in a musical performance and stages his concert in the spatial installation time and person interacting with the images and the artistic concept. His live performance adds the “present” as a further element of time to Regina Hübner’s artwork, in which the two video projections are representing the personal time and the global flow of time, setting Luca Lombardi’s works in a spatial and temporal music experience.

Maestro Roberto Fabbriciani, one of the most important interpreters of contemporary music and soloist at the highest level, is a profound expert and interpreter of Lombardi’s music.   

Roberto Fabbriciani will play the compositions Schattenspiel (1984), Flatus (3 peaces) (1997/1999) and Nel vento, con Ariel (2004), all by Luca Lombardi.

Those pieces were combined under common regie in a special sequence with repeats and pauses for the whole zyklus (77') of the videoinstallation time and person. The compositions were compiled for time and person in a special combination with repeats and pauses by Lombardi himself. They are in a close connection with the visual form and the conceptual idea, but they retain their independence as musical compositions. They stand with the visual form and the conceptual artistic idea, but retain their independence as musical compositions. 

"… regina hübner‘s ironic impetus is based on the overt reference to the reversal of a process as represented in the chosen medium of video. the system of reference changes from the philosophy of time to the level of communication. the transformation of a process – in this case dripping- from a physical to an electronic medium breaks open the closed system which is one of the conditions of entropy…” Arnulf Rohsmann, art historian and scientific writer, in regina hübner / zeit (¹ 2005, Change + Partner 2001 – 2005, Rome, Italy and ² 2016, MMKK Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria).

Informations about Roberto Fabbriciani, Luca Lombardi.

Roberto Fabbriciani was born in 1949 in Arezzo, Italy.  

Fabbriciani is one of the most important interpreters and soloist of contemporary music.

Original interpreter and versatile artist, Roberto Fabbriciani has innovated flute technique, multiplying through personal research the instrument's sonorous possibilities.

He has collaborated with some of the major composers of our time: Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Elliot Carter, Niccolò Castiglioni, Aldo Clementi, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luis De Pablo, Franco Donatoni, Jindřich Feld, Brian Ferneyhough, Jean Françaix, Giorgio Gaslini, Harald Genzmer, Adriano Guarnieri, Toshio Hosokawa, Klaus Huber, Ernest Krenek, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Luca Lombardi, Giacomo Manzoni, Bruno Maderna, Olivier Messiaen, Ennio Morricone, Luigi Nono, Goffredo Petrassi, Henri Pousseur, Wolfgang Rihm, Jean-Claude Risset, Nino Rota, Nicola Sani, Giacinto Scelsi, Dieter Schnebel, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mauricio Sotelo, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, Isang Yun, many of whom have dedicated numerous and important works that he performed at their premiers.

He worked for many years with Luigi Nono, in the experimental studio of the SWF in Freiburg, blazing new and unusual trails in music.

Fabbriciani has played as soloist with the conductors Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Bruno Bartoletti, Luciano Berio, Ernest Bour, Bruno Campanella, Aldo Ceccato, Riccardo Chailly, Sergiu Comissiona, José Ramón Encinar, Peter Eötvös, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Gabriele Ferro, Daniele Gatti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Michael Gielen, Cristóbal Halffter, Djansug Kachidse, Bernhard Klee, Vladimir Jurowsky, Peter Maag, Bruno Maderna, Diego Masson, Ingo Metzmacher, Riccardo Muti, Marcello Panni, Zoltán Peskó, Josep Pons, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Arturo Tamayo, Lothar Zagrosek, and with orchestras including Orchestra della Scala di Milano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre della Rai, London Sinfonietta, LSO, RTL Luxembourg, BRTN Brussel, Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie, WDR of Colonia, SWF Baden-Baden, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bayerischer Rundfunks, Münchener Philharmoniker.

He performed concerts at prestigious theaters and musical institutions: Scala in Milan, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Festival Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Carnegie Hall in New York and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and has frequently participated in festivals like the Venice Biennale, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Ravenna, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Brussels, Granada, Luzern, Warsaw, Salzburg, Wien, Lockenhaus, Donaueschingen, Cologne, Munich, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Cervantino. Has recorded several albums and has been professor of master classes at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Lives in Florence, Italy.

Website Roberto Fabbriciani: http://www.robertofabbriciani.it

Luca Lombardi (Rome, December 24, 1945) is one of internationally most known Italian composers.

After the baccalaureate at the German School in Rome, he studied composition in Rome, Vienna, Cologne and Berlin (among others with K. Stockhausen, B.A. Zimmermann, P. Dessau). At Rome University he earned a PhD in German Literature (“Lingua e Letteratura Tedesca”).

From 1973-1994 he was a professor of composition at the Conservatories of Pesaro and Milan, since then he is a freelance composer.

He composed around 160 works, including 4 operas (Faust. Un travestimento, 1991, Dmitri, 2000, Prospero, 2006, Il re nudo, 2009), 3 symphonies (1975, 1981, 1992), as well as numerous orchestral works and chamber music, with or without voices.

He got commissions from institutions like Ircam (Paris), several German Radios, the Swiss Radio, the Italian Radio, Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), The Opera Houses of Basel, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Rome, Milan (La Scala).

He was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (1988/89, 1995), of the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst (1998/99, 2003/04, 2010, 2012), a guest of the “Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD” (Berlin, 1997) and spent 2002 six months in Japan at an invitation of the Japan Foundation.

Together with an acoustical physicist and a musicologist, he published the treatise on orchestration,”Instrumentation in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts”, Celle, 1985.
A selection of his writings was published under the title Construction of Freedom (Baden-Baden, 2006).

The renowned German publication “Musik-Konzepte” published in 2014 a double issue with 8 essays on his music.

He is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (Munich).

In 2015 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) from the President of Germany Joachim Gauck.

In 2008 he acquired the Israeli citizenship and since then he divides his time between Lake Albano (Rome) and Tel Aviv.

Luca Lombardi is one of the most represented and internationally recognized italian composers.

Website Luca Lombardi: www.lucalombardi.net