Progetto ROS / Rossini Opera Stampa; a 'KAUS Urbino Project' related to the Rossini Opera Festival 2012
These pages keep track of the participation of professor Joseph J. Visser in the project.
The aim of the project is
to explore the stature of Pesaro's musician Gioacchino Rossini
(February 1792 - November 1868) until his early retirement in
1829 the most popular opera composer in history;
the man's creative oeuvre "through the eyes and hands of
an international group of artists / printmakers". The participating
artists are "selected from the most accomplished teachers
at top-tier international art academies and institutions";
one invitation is "reserved for a young, emerging Italian
artist":
The artists involved, all active professors, or emeritus professors
at academies and art-institutes in Europe, are:
Andrzej
Marian Bartczak, Poland,
Egidijus
Rudinskas, Lithuania,
Gus
Mazzocca, United States
of America,
Kestutis
Vasiliunas, Lithouania,
Joseph
Johannes Visser, The
Netherlands, (keeping the copyright
of these pages)
The younger emerging artist is Giovanni
Piccini, Italy
These artists are invited to read and listen to opera's to be
staged in the 2012 Rossini Opera Festival, and be inspired by
it. This should at least lead to the making of one 64 x 88 original
print in a signed and numbered edition of 10 exx.
The finished works will be exhibited in Pesaro at Rossini's birthplace,
the 'Casa Natale di Giochino Rossini' during the ROSSINI OPERA
FESTIVAL XXXIII Edizione, in PESARO, 10 till 23 Agosto 2012.
Focus will be the opera's: Ciro in Babilonia, Matilde de Shabran, and Il Signor Bruschino
Ciro in Babilonia
http://www.italianopera.org/libretti/l237317.htm
Matilde di Shabran
http://www.italianopera.org/libretti/l237343.htm
http://www.rossinioperafestival.it/en/3/stories/matilde-di-shabran.html
il Signor Bruschino
http://www.italianopera.org/libretti/l237321.htm
+ folder
Il Viaggio a Reims
http://www.italianopera.org/libretti/l237347.htm
http://www.rossinioperafestival.it/en/3/stories/il-viaggio-a-reims.html
Tancredi
http://www.italianopera.org/libretti/l237322.htm
http://www.rossinioperafestival.it/en/3/stories/tancredi.html
KAUS
Urbino:
The association Keishiro Arts Urbino manages the International
Centre for the Artistic Engraving KAUS which is lodged in the
Pensile Garden of the ex St. Chiara's Monastery - see http://www.kaus.it
Joseph J Visser joined the project on
the 23rd February and will be working on the edition of prints
in Urbino from the15th till 29th of May.
Reading has started from 24th of February.
Joseph J. Visser, Composer, Visual Artist , Author/translator & Lecturer.