HAY CELLO

HAY CELLO

HISTORY

As in fairy tales, sometimes things happen without wanting to look for them, so simply, because lives and people intersect in paths that most often have the taste of infinity.

Working with hay is complex, tiring and sometimes very painful because the dry stems pierce the sin, causing injuries to hands and feet.

You have to bend and work every single tuft with great concentration and to achieve this result I have always used the music of Giovanni Sollima, able to carry me away to “other” places and flood me with passion. Giovanni Sollima, capace di trasportarmi in luoghi ?altri? ed inondarmi di passione.

And for this reason, I did not want words as a background to the video telling my work, but I wanted the music that accompanies me every day in my search for the sublime.

Mi hanno detto devi pagare i diritti e io ho pensato che avrei cercato il Maestro Sollima e gli avrei proposto uno scambio, è cosi che è nato il primo violoncello di fieno, e a questo è seguito un secondo realizzato a Teatro Valle durante la performance dei 100 celli che per incanto ha suonato tra lo stupore di tutti.

It is nice to think that a blade of grass in its humility could have produced so much beauty.

  • Measurements: about 1,20 m x 40 cm.
  • Weight: 5 kg approximately
  • Materials: Hay, Rope, Wood
  • Price: upon request

The cello can be replicated mute or playing.

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L?evento Orticola a Milano, vivaisti e mondanità.
Tra ecologia e nuove mode.

It is a protest that led a woman from Friuli to become a sculptress using hay as raw material. "The theme of my work is the abandonment of the woods: the hay on our mountains was a value - explains Julia Artico -. I made dolls pigs mules. Then cellos. The cellist Giovanni Sollima asked me to build a hay instrument that he played at Teatro Valle in Rome. It seems strange but it does: hay plays. Extravagance is at home in Orticola.

Anna Tagliacarne (Corriere Della Sera)

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