Lucio Dalla who cannot be forgotten

If you scroll through Twitter looking for Lucio Dalla these days there are many quotes from his songs. These are verses that many have wanted to approach with hopes of peace in the face of the war in Ukraine. «The Russians, the Russians, the Americans … and if she’s a girl she’ll be called Futura. Today I remember you Lucio like this, as you can see from up there nothing has changed ». «It is a night of fire, where your hands are, our son will be born and he will not be afraid…». And so on between memories and quotes.

Ten years have passed since the death of Lucio Dalla: on March 1, 2012, three days before his 69th birthday, that March 4, 1943 became a song and hymn. Judging from social media, it is missing more than ever and together it is more present than ever. Because poetry does not pass, it returns when it is needed to help us to read reality, to tell it, to overcome it.

Lucio Dalla was so unique that it is hard to define him inimitable. He had learned by himself to play the clarinet with deep envy of Pupi Avati who played with him in Bologna when they were both boys. He spent his last day playing. He didn’t wake up the morning after a concert in Montreux.

The day of his funeral Piazza Maggiore it was full as never before, in the previous days the line was never finished for the last farewell. It was difficult not: Dalla and Bologna have always been inextricably linked. He lived the city and sang it in universal and local texts together, always able to anticipate the future.

The city dedicates an exhibition-event to him, LUCIO DALLA. Even if time passes, which opens on 4 March at the Civic Archaeological Museum and will remain there until 17 July. In autumn, from 22 September, it will be at the Ara Pacis in Rome and then in 2023, on the occasion of the eightieth birthday, in Naples and Milan. Lucio Dalla, a man and musician, tells it all, and is curated by Alessandro Nicosia with the Lucio Dalla Foundation, conceived and organized by the company COR Create Organize Realize, supported by the Municipality of Bologna and the Emilia-Romagna Region.

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There is always and constantly the relationship with music in this story. «Presenting the Dalla Universe in a space of 1000 square meters was a difficult but certainly fascinating undertaking; in him the music flows from the earliest age, with extreme naturalness. Thanks to his innate ability to shape any musical expression that came to his ears, gave birth to this incredible career, long, intense, multifacetedalways in the name of new and unexplored paths ”, explains curator Alessandro Nicosia.

Together with the documents, many photos, videos, stage clothes and other aspects that tell about his life, art and his passions. Andrea Faccani, President of the Lucio Dalla Foundation: «The purpose for which we created the Lucio Dalla Foundation in 2014 is to keep Lucio’s memory alive and to tell his story. This becomes even more important and significant in the two-year period that marks the tenth anniversary of his death and the 80th anniversary of his birth. We would like the memory of Lucio to be shared, shared and widespread in these two years. May the memory of this great artist and of this incredible man cross our country like a thrill of emotion, and then go further, far away and carry the memory of Lucio around the world as when I accompanied him to concerts ».


Source: Vanity Fair

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