Locked Inside. Music to Survive the Barbed Wire. A Concert Story with Francesco Lotoro

On Thursday, April 4, 2019 , at 9:00 p.m. , in Piacenza, at the Auditorium of the Piacenza and Vigevano Foundation (via Santa Eufemia 12/13), Maestro Francesco Lotoro, pianist, conductor, expert in concentration camp music , and president of the ILMC Foundation, will be the protagonist of the MEETING-CONCERT “Locked Inside. Music to Survive the Barbed Wire. Stories of Musicians Locked 'Inside' the Concentration Camps”. The event is organized by the Piacenza and Vigevano Foundation, in collaboration with the Foundation Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria and Intergea Production.

The event is preceded at 10:00 a.m. in the Tapestry Room of the Alberoni Gallery (Via Emilia Parmense, 67), by the meeting "Music for Surviving Barbed Wire," open to schools only. The Tapestry Room displays a masterpiece of contemporary art: The Violin with Barbed Wire , the masterpiece and final work of Jannis Kounellis (1936-2017). The great artist, the father of Arte Povera, pairs barbed wire with a musical instrument, representing the condition of the detainee and, "with absolute simplicity, all the possibility and impossibility of man."

Dis-chiusure | From the noun "closure," it indicates its opposite: the creation of an opening, the act of unfolding, a new birth. It's the title of an exhibition that doubles as a cultural event, featuring prominent contemporary figures, and a forum for discussion on historical and contemporary closures and openings.