chiaroscuro

The Raising of Lazarus

What a wonderful way of exploring the movement in painting, and bringing an era to life! (And that is still one of my favorite words and artistic concepts)

Tableaux Vivants
A project by Malatheatre - Ludovica Rambelli Teatro

It all started in 2006, when the Malatheatre company’s founder Ludovica Rambelli, who died last year, attended a lecture at the University of Naples on the way of working by Caravaggio, who used actors to build the scenes he painted. That’s when Ludovica realised that the best way to explain it was with a theatrical performance. “He used actors to build the scenes he painted, in fact we did not reproduce his paintings, but we recreated what happened in his studio,” said current company director, Dora De Maio.

 

The intention of this technique is to achieve “a great visual impact” with a minimalist scenography, baroque melodies by composers such as Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi and a focus located on one side, which emulates the light effect that appears in the Italian painter’s works. The company offers new performances once a month at the Museo Diocesano in Naples. Thanks to its success on the Internet, the theater group is close to fulfilling its founder’s dream of acting outside of Italy. “We have never been able to do it for budgetary reasons, but in recent weeks we have been called from Spain, France, Israel and a theater festival in Portugal, going abroad would be a great tribute to Ludovica,” says Dora.

via {doniso punk}