Wings between visual art and music.
Art is made to overfly. To get rid of the daily life powder, and fly high.
Music is spirit without body , said Schopenhauer.
‘Give me wings, give me space’, wrote David Bowie, later, in a song. Wings : an immortal symbol of something ‘high’, pure and cosmic.
Mix all these elements , and you’ll have the perfect connection between visual art and music; a connection made of freedom, essentially .
There is a great love for Anarchy and cosmic energy, both in Yves Klein and in italian rockstar Omar Pedrini.
No rules, but freedom, feelings, life in its essence.
In colours and in rock’n’roll.
Yves Klein is one of the most famous artists known for his spiritual research in the arts , mixing music and painting : while an orchestra was playing an oriental music ( Klein was enchanted by zen values), his models, painted with his mesmerising BLUE KLEIN PIGMENT, left traces on paper called ‘anthropometries’ , to celebrate an immaterial state of lightness, cosmic energy, life ‘in progress’ .
This happens in a rock concert,too, where the energy is flowing and dinamic, in Klein’s art everything is in the ‘happening’, his paintings (the anthropometries) are just, to him, the dusts of his art (a sort of memory of the energy gone).
Energy, music, primary instincts. He wants art to be immaterial: to be and not to appear.
Is there anything closer to music than this ?
It is all so evident in the traces of his ‘blue wings’ : human wings, like the Nike’s ones, in a sort of ‘vital rush’, a visual ode to fly upon the material world. So Sixties/Seventies .
Music (rock music) leaves traces on the soul, too: that’s why you can see two guitars with wings on the t-shirt of a true, inspired italian rockstar , Omar Pedrini , a guitar like a gothic rock angel . They are the symbol of that kind of energy Klein was looking for . In both cases they are symbols of the same research : artists that are looking for Lightness, against the gravity , “swimming in the air”, just in the arms of artistic inspiration .
Pedrini’s songs talks about that kleinesque inspiration from the Energy : “vado via con me verso oriente” (I go away, with me, to the East), “sarò acqua che si disseta da sé, Io e me vento che si rincorre” (And I will be water that quenches itself, Me and me, wind that chases itself). Yves Klein has said : “I wish to play with human feeling, with its ‘morbidity” and “ I painted some monochrome surfaces just to ‘see’ with my own eyes absolute freedom!”.
Lots in common : Space, natural elements, emotions in sound or colours. Sometime visual art is spiritual, and music, viceversa, gives visions. These are the great connections that different Arts can generate.
Day is blue
silence is green
life is yellow;
light traces,
lines, and never ends…YKlein
Anthropometries, Yves Klein,
Omar Padrini , photo by Giovanna Tagliati .
