An installation by Teatrino Giullare in New York
TALES is an artistic installation created by Cikuska and Teatrino Giullare as “a tribute to storytellers, to theatre, to those who know how to tell stories that save lives”. It represents a large nest full of masks, backlit and visible even at night: they are the thousand faces of characters who are about to take flight.
The work is dedicated to the memory of the Italian poet and playwright Giuliano Scabia who wrote: “It is with love that masks sometimes reappear, but as soon as they are recognized they take refuge in the shadows from which they came. They keep warm the nests of dreams”.
TALES was selected by the New York City Department of Parks for its temporary park art program, and was installed in the Hunter’s Point South Park, where it will remain on view until April 2023.
On the occasion of the inauguration on last August 20, Teatrino Giullare read a fragment of "Seconda lettera a Dorotea" by Giuliano Scabia.
In New York, Teatrino Giullare also presented the performance An Inventory of Dante’s Monsters, staged at the Montauk Library on August 21.
The show created, performed, and directed by Teatrino Giullare is one of the winning projects of the “Dante e il contrappasso” contest – one of the initiatives celebrating the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante promoted by the Municipality of Imola, in whose Municipal Library precious testimonies on Dante are preserved.
As the subtitle states, it is a journey among the monstrous beings of the Divine Comedy. Dante had at his disposal a wide and diversified repertoire of biblical, symbolic, allegorical, moralized, exemplary, scientific, poetic monsters that populated the imagination to the point of entering his masterpiece.
Within this literary and fantastic panorama, two actors tell the philosophical monsters of the Divine Comedy that lead us to the final threshold: what is imagination?