Profile PictureManuel Chieregato

Born in BOLZANO (ITALY) on Monday, the 5th June 1978, and engaged in musical composition since the early 1990s, from 2017 to 2020 he composed and published some hundred hours of music as part of »Gardens«, a multimedia project aimed at every artist and scientist, inspired by »Di che giardino sei? Conoscersi attraverso un simbolo / What's Your Garden? Self-knowledge through a Symbol«, a 2000 book by DUCCIO DEMETRIO. This project has recently completed the process of incorporating all his previous projects such as »Drafts«, »Cathedrals«, »Great Waters«, »Actus Spei - Puppenspiel« and »Ὁ Αφροδίτας Κάπος | The Garden of Aphrodite«, a non-narrative multilingual script, written in 1996, revised in 2007 and 2008 and returned to be the subject of in-depth study from 2020, divided into 13 interdependent dadaistic video artworks, characterized by experimentalism and multiple figurative, literary and cinematographic references. Much of his musical repertoire is still unpublished. He collaborates with Italian artists - such as VITTORIO GAZZERA (video artist), NADIA PROUSCH (recorder player), MARA PALUMBO (organist), ANGELO TURCHI and AGNESE M. GARUFI (saxophonists), GUIDO PICARIELLO and FRANCESCA CHIOFALO (pianists) and ELISABETTA TAGLIATI (soprano) - and with other artists from around the world. His music has been exhibited in AOSTA (2018), MILAN (»Memorie Abbandonate«, 2018), TURIN (»Art Awakens the Soul«, 2019; »Paratissima«, 2023), PAESANA (2020), LONGARONE (»Arte in Fiera Dolomiti«, 2021) and VERCELLI (»Biennale Nazionale d'Arte«, 2022), appears in some art catalogs and has been the subject of interviews and broadcasts by »Border Nights« youtube.com/live/RC2lUr9qlh0?si=o1uw3Mv8V4cX4aJV , »Studio Blue Radio« (1st part) spreaker.com/episode/i-dissidenti-di-betty-tagliati-del-12-01-2024-part-i--58281974 , (2nd part) spreaker.com/episode/i-dissidenti-di-betty-tagliati-del-12-01-2024-part-ii--58372051 , the Guatemalan »Radio Experimental Progresiva«, the Chilean »Radio Ambient« youtube.com/watch?v=vJl2GAYocKw&t=313s and others. He was the creator, author and host of three multilingual cultural columns for the web TV »Valle PRO TV«: »Paesana Art Expo 2020« facebook.com/watch/113016160418902/322133535496646 »VallExPo« facebook.com/watch/113016160418902/386650409096516 and »Gardens – Sentieri Sonori di un Progetto Multimediale | Sound Paths of a Multimedia Project« facebook.com/watch/113016160418902/280687756638516 , in which details and curiosities of the development of the »Gardens« project are told. He was the creator and curator of the collective exhibition »Paesana Art Expo 2020« drive.google.com/file/d/1khB1Y4qeWCVJmbNxQEYHEpxNw3Zb0Rtq/view?usp=sharing . Winner in 2023 as a member of the »Libra Space Travel Agency« art collective of the video art award at the first Biennale Nazionale d'Arte »Città di VERCELLI« | National Art Biennial »City of VERCELLI«.