YUVAL AVITAL

“Never before had Yuval dreamed of creating such a monumental work, which required a year and a half of research (and preparation) and such an imposing deployment of resources, instruments and musicians. On paper #Urla was presented a sonic opera unfolding along the streets of the Sassi of Matera, placed on the final day to be the climax of the festival, but in practice it was a true triumph of bagpipes, cowbells, arbresche, sonic carnival masks, guitars, percussions and bands that not even the Materans had never seen in a single day. “.

(Editorial, Rolling Stone Magazine, September 2019 Italy)

‘The tour is best started on the 3rd floor […] while the Italian Avital examines in his two expansive video and sound installations Foreign Bodies and Lands V2 the relationships of man and Nature. Moving through a kind of visual-acoustic tunnel with video imagery of women in nature scenes, one reaches an apocalyptic space in which seemingly random objects try to connect with the viewer‘

‘It’s The Rattles Garden, the poetic dimension that the multimedia artist Yuval Avital has created for the territory of San Floro, Calabria, with the desire to create a synesthetic meeting place for the voices and stories of the countries of the Mare Nostrum’

‘È Il Giardino dei Sonagli, la dimensione poetica che l’artista multimediale Yuval Avital ha progettato per il territorio di San Floro in Calabria, con il desiderio di creare un sinestetico luogo di incontro delle voci e delle storie dei paesi che si a affacciano sul Mare Nostrum.’

‘Driven by the wind, which abolishes boundaries and distances, these bells coming from every corner of the Mediterranean will come together to generate a single sound, in which the history, culture and tradition of each donor country will echo‘

‘Sospinte dal vento, che abolisce i confini e le distanze, queste campane provenienti da ogni angolo del Mediterraneo si uniranno per generare un unico suono, nel quale riecheggiaranno la storia, la cultura e la tradizione di ogni paese donatore’

‘Avital's 'Fuga Perpetua' is the subtle opposite of a platitudinous dogmatic theater [...]. His performance is an insistent Lamento, circling around displacement and shelter, that makes little use of language, but even more intense one of the sounds (of the sea) and visual visions projected on a double screen. [...] The message is unmistakable: Europe owes it to its Western Christian and humanist tradition to remember its human values’

‘What will stick most in one’s mind in the end of an extraordinary concert are the faces. Faces of people who had to escape from their homelands and who are telling about that with gestures and facial expressions, mute but eloquent. Faces marked by the eternal flight, the 'Fuga Perpetua'. [...]’

“When the river flows, not during the summer, in which it is exhausted, it produces a white noise, that similarly to white colour, is a sound that contains all the sounds. The ancient Greeks were used to go to the river and listen it for compose their melodies. And all these melodies are truly there, because the river has all the frequencies inside itself, it is a complex sound”.