FASHION HEADLINE editorial team · 24 October 2019. Also syndicated in the archived file labelled Nifty News; the actual page bears Infoseek News branding.
CHANEL Nexus Hall will host contemporary composer Jacopo Baboni Schilingi’s photographic exhibition Bodyscore—the soul signature from 15 January to 16 February 2020.
Baboni Schilingi is an Italian-born, Paris-based contemporary composer. As well as orchestral, ensemble and solo music, he has produced music for installations and moving-image works.
Bodyscore, a kind of performance in which he writes musical notation by hand directly on human skin, is simultaneously an act of composition and a painting made with a living body as canvas. Bodies bearing scores take different poses, are photographed and are exhibited as artworks. It is thus a composite work crossing music, painting and photography.
He calls these photographs IDENTIGRAPHIES. Literally a coined term meaning the “inscription of identity”—selfhood, originality and individuality—each photograph records artistic choices made in a particular instant and the artist’s consciousness in making them. The poses he asks models to take are closely connected with the music he wishes to create, expressing its character. Passing through the medium of the body increases the music’s expressivity.
Bodyscore—the soul signature will present thirty photographic works. Some include a mechanism playing music when viewers stand before them. Visitors can experience Baboni Schilingi’s works with all their senses, not only sight and hearing.
Exhibition information
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi: Bodyscore—the soul signature.
Dates: 15 January–16 February 2020.
Venue: CHANEL Nexus Hall, fourth floor, Chanel Ginza Building, 3-5-3 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
Hours: noon–7.30 p.m. Open throughout the exhibition; free admission.
Captions: Ricardo Barrett—Atlas (Aura-Phoenix), 2019; Manni [Maarjan Pärn]—Caucasian Face (N.5), 2018. © Jacopo Baboni Schilingi.
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