Francesco Guccini: Seasons of everyday life
Carpi (province of Modena), Innsbruck 2003-2006
In collaboration with Carpi town council, and Kulturverein INNcontri of Innsbruck
Curated by Roberto Festi and Odoardo Semellini. Catalogue courtesy of Carpi town council
The exhibition is available for new showings

Considered by Umberto Eco as the most cultured of Italy's singer-songwriters, Francesco Guccini has had a career spanning over forty years, leaving a lasting mark on every season. Since the early Sixties he has been creating tracks such as "Auschwitz" and "Dio è morto" (God is dead), which offer an intelligent and interesting approach to the hot topics of current affairs. He made a name for himself in the Seventies as a singer-songwriter, mainly with the record "Radici" (Roots) - one of the most important achievements of the Italian popular song - and continues even now to produce work marked by deep lyrical inspiration and increasingly mature musicianship. His work as a writer is also of a high calibre, and enjoys a enduring glowing reception from both critics and the public. The exhibition is made up of LPs, CDs, scores, period magazines, books and autographs, laid out to provide a chronological reconstruction of Guccini's oeuvre. The curators' aim has been to offer the visitor a journey through the "roots" of the artist from Modena, Emilia Romagna, represented by a series of large photographic images which also bear the most evocative of the lyrics from his songs, and by a generous gallery of portraits of Guccini, his musicians and his companions in art and life. The exhibition is completed by a video, previously unseen in Italy, of a concert of Guccini's in Amsterdam, and an 80-page catalogue documenting his artistic life.