In the very heart of the International Buskers Festival 2017, the ROUND THEATRE installation stages Maurizio Cavallari’s stunning photographic collection dedicated to the worldwide famous rockstar Bruce Springsteen. Unveiled at the end of August 2017, the exhibition took place at the Chiostro di San Paolo in Ferrara. The compositive conceptual structure is articulated as following: traditional show > disassembling > fragmentation > (re)assembling > ROUND THEATRE

TRADITIONAL SHOW: A traditional back-stage-curtain-audience in line Theatre is here taken as a reference for the extraordinary photographic collection exhibition. The Boss is going to play acoustic on his next Tour! So the setting anticipates the mood and puts onstage a different kind of show!

DISASSEMBLING: The traditional Theatre is here disassembled in its elementary components: performance stage, scene and backstage curtains, technical equipment and audience accommodation special structures.

The project starts from these archetypical ingredients.

FRAGMENTATION: Elementary components are crushed and fragmented in lots of single sub-pieces. Stage has now disappeared, chairs have become a cloud of constructive new items, layer scene-curtains are recomposed in line in order to create a not conventional perceptive unity

(RE)ASSEMBLING: All of the components and sub-pieces are freely shacked and reassembled with a different order. Layer-scenes become an endless black curtain on the edge, while the formerly horizontal stage is now perfectly vertical, not a single surface but a 3d origami!

ROUND THEATRE: The exhibition is shaped in the form of a round theatre. A ring-running black curtain embraces visitors and estimators, a meander-like vertical stage includes people within micro-rooms, the audience in not in front anymore, but all around. Precious images and memories of a lifetime are put onstage into an obscure and cerebral space.

Chronology: 2017 project, 2017 construction

Category: Culture, exhibition setup

Design Team: Tomas Ghisellini, Alice Marzola

Graphics: Lucrezia Alemanno

Photographs: Tomas Ghisellini