Works by Alison Nguyen from her Ellipse series (2026) are on view at D. D. D. D., as part of the group exhibition Rara.
Rara
Exhibition period: 24 June - 1 August 2026
Venue: 79 Leonard St, SBE, New York 10013
In 1969, avant-garde composer Sylvano Bussotti completed a filmic portrait of his creative milieu in Rome, Rara, which captured the likes of Cathy Berberian and Daria Nicolodi in fragmentary vignettes. While silent, Bussotti nevertheless scored Rara with various forms of exogeneous sound, accompanying the film with music from his own catalog or even playing the piano live during screenings. With each showing of Rara, then, there was a mediatic break between film and sound in which the concept of the score moved away from sonic narration to become part of a disjointed, almost cubist scenography. This reconfiguration is also reflected in the graphic scores Bussotti made for Rara and other projects throughout his practice, where clefs, staffs, and bars play host not to musical notation but calligraphic abstraction and figurative drawings. The artists in this exhibition approach the score with a similarly expansive perspective.
Text and image courtesy of the artist and D. D. D. D.
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June 24, 2026
