YUVAL AVITAL

"It is possible to experience a real hive of creativity, with actors, dancers, singers, musicians and puppeteers working together to give life to a strong, courageous, revolutionary poetic act."

Written by Cristiana Gattoni

“To understand what Yuval Avital's Mostrario really is, you would have to enter it, touch it with your hand, smell its complexity, walk through its rooms and immerse yourself into it with yourbody and your head.

Written by Livia Savorelli

“It is almost impossible to define Yuval Avital through a single medium of expression. Painter, composer, sculptor... The fluid transition between different languages is a known fact to inspire questions and reflections.”

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Written by Alessandra Quattordio

“His eloquence is extraordianary, matching the flow of his unique vision, and to commit to his words is to take a journey through human inner nature and his very personal perception of the world.”

Written by Lucia De Ioanna

“Shattering the crust of forms, breaking the false stability of boundaries that would like to separate the human from the beast, allowing the traces of a destiny of fragility that unites us with other living beings to emerge on the map of the body and the cartography of the face: Enacted by Yuval Avital, multimedia artist, composer and musician, creator of visual-sound installations and collective performances capable of shaking the stability of the traditional categories that separate the arts by posing questions that are never ephemeral or vague, Lessico animale stands as a vertiginous and risky exploration of the relationship between man and animality.”

Written by Giulia Bassi

“Reggio Emilia Yuval Avital's Il Bestiario della Terra, the Reggio Parma Festival's project of the year 2022, continues its journey with the opening of "Lessico animale. Prologo", on show until 18 September at the Ape Parma Museo. "Lessico Animale" is a complex exploration of the relationship between man and animality, an art rite in which the artist intends to unveil the authentic essence of the human being, taking him back to his instinctive and animalistic origins, overcoming the taboos and cultural superstructures that keep him away from them. An invitation to free oneself from the domination of tomorrow, to live fully in the present moment, to accept and even embrace one's own visceral vulnerability.”

Written by Erick Ceresini

“In its pathways, one finds oneself with dancers, contemporary music ensembles, masters of ancient cultures and traditions, individuals or communities recruited in participatory works, multi-projection videos, meditative and high-tech tactile environments, archive materials, collaborations with scientific institutes, sound sculptures, photographs, paintings and prints.”

Written by Stefania Provinciali

“A great master told me more than 20 years ago "the problem with being an artist is that we are so focused on the urgent things that we forget the important ones" but I think this applies to all of humanity.>> Thus began Yuval Avital, born in Jerusalem in 1977 and resident in Milan, an internationally renowned multimedia artist, composer, known for his sound and visual installations and collective performances. An emblematic sentence that already renders the artist's personality.”

Written by Samantha de Martin

“Two years ago, after the first lockdown," explains Avital, "each of us came out of our lair, feeling alienated from the others. In a hundred days, my whole future life was like erased. I felt extremely lost, but it was during that time that the caged animal came out, along with the will to live, to do something meaningful. The Reggio Parma Festival was an opportunity to reinvent myself through experimentation and research'. A research that, as the artist himself confesses, and as is evident in his speeches, "does not originate as a form of extreme gentrification, but as a dialogue that matures and makes its way within the human fabric and its history.”

Written by Carla Macrì

“The creative dominus of The Bestiary of the Earth, Yuval Avital, has in fact developed exhibitions accompanied by music and immersive moments that often break the physical boundary between the work and the spectator, to allow the latter to walk, sit, meditate or mirror himself within the work. Evidence of the transversal and multidisciplinary aspect of the project was delivered at the end of the press conference through the inauguration of Anatomie squisite, a participatory monographic exhibition in close dialogue with fossils, stuffed animals and objects belonging to the collection of the Civic Museums, in particular the collection of Lazzaro Spallanzani. It is also participatory because the veins and arteries that emerge from the rooms of the Museum have been created thanks to the scenic and tailoring skills of the Fondazione i Teatri di Reggio Emilia. It is a brightly coloured and contrasting exhibition characterised by the presence of hybrid creatures and materials, with a surrealist and disturbing appearance that make us reflect on the complex functionality of the human body and the organs that compose it. During the day, the sound installation Il Canto dello Zooforo was inaugurated at the Casa del Suono and Chiesa di Sant'Elisabetta in Parma. The title comes from the bas-reliefs of Benedetto Antelami's Zooforo, the source of inspiration for Avital's graphic score interpreted by the voices of the children of the Balducci municipal infant school in Reggio Emilia. It is a monumental material sculpture resembling a female belly that welcomes spectators inside it to experience an impromptu moment of profound reconnection with themselves. The work stems from a question posed by the artist: "in the womb are we already human?". Entering inside the installation implies an attempt to glimpse that union between man and animal through a journey towards a deep and forgotten self. The external part of the installation features another composition inspired by St. Francis' Canticle of the Creatures, performed by the Children's Voices Choir of the Parma Theatre.”