Piero Dorazio at La Scala
by Vittoria Crespi Morbio, Scenes of Lights
Interview to Piero Dorazio by Vittoria Crespi Morbio, I believe in art that exalts man’s perceptive faculties
Appendices: biography; catalogue of works; chronology of performances
Amici della Scala – Grafiche Step Editrice, Parma 2021
Italian – English edition, pp. 179
The theatrical catalogue of Piero Dorazio (1927–2005), an iconic name in Italian avant-garde painting, is not extensive.
And yet it was by working as a scenographer that Dorazio realized his ‘being in colour’, the identity attributed to him by his friend and fellow artist Achille Perilli.
In Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, performed at La Scala in 1972, everything is abstraction, freedom, colour and light. The few set structures, the dancers’ white leotards are the surfaces of a highly mobile game of colourful patterns, weaves, criss-crossing lines projected by the spotlights.
It all comes to life in an infinite chromatic metamorphosis whose only limit is its own intrinsic rhythm, its joie de vivre, its nature of dance.