On Friday, October 31, 2025, at 3:30 p.m., the Atelier Marco Bagnoli in Montelupo Fiorentino hosts Visioni Estatiche // The Victory over the Sun, an event conceived by Marco Bagnoli and organized by Associazione Spazio X Tempo.
The initiative unfolds in two parts: a symposium dedicated to Fulvio Salvadori, followed by the premiere of the scenic work L’Oracolo infranto – Fragments from The Victory over the Sun, with music and dramaturgy by Alessandro Magini and direction by Giuseppe Scali.
The day opens with a roundtable honoring Fulvio Salvadori (1937–2021) — writer, philosopher, and art critic — whose thinking continues to shape contemporary discourse. The speakers include Bruno Corà, president of the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, and Father Bernardo Gianni, abbot of San Miniato al Monte, moderated by art historian Marco Bazzini. The event marks the official presentation of the Biblioteca Sospesa – Fulvio Salvadori Study Center, a collection of over 5,000 volumes preserved at the Atelier Marco Bagnoli and now open to scholars by appointment. The initiative, supported by Bagnoli, aims to safeguard and promote Salvadori’s intellectual legacy — a rare synthesis of philological rigor and poetic insight.
The creation of the Biblioteca Sospesa is part of a wider project that includes the publication of Scritti Sospesi (Lindau, 2020) and the 2023 symposium Il Tempo del Testimone. Together, these initiatives seek to reinterpret Salvadori’s thought as a tool for reading the contemporary world. Closely connected to artists such as Marina Abramović, Shirazeh Houshiary, Chen Zhen, and Marco Bagnoli, Salvadori embodied a form of criticism that combined intellectual precision with metaphysical openness.
The second act of the day is devoted to the performance L’Oracolo infranto – Fragments from The Victory over the Sun, a one-act composition for voices, violin, and electronic music, structured in seven tableaux. Inspired by the 1913 Russian Futurist opera by Aleksej Krucenych, with music by Michail Matyushin and stage design by Kazimir Malevič, the work revisits the visionary roots of modernism. In his essay The Square Set Diagonally, Salvadori linked Malevič’s Black Square to the liberating energy of The Victory over the Sun, interpreting it as a passage toward “a space of levitation and cosmic freedom.”
For Magini, L’Oracolo infranto is “an abstract liturgy, a shattered oracle, a suspended vision. A theater of residue, where words, images, and sounds rise from the depths of time as fragments of an unfinished rite.” The score unfolds as a broken prayer — a sonic vision for a post-luminous world in which light and meaning dissolve into pure perception.
By intertwining critical memory and contemporary creation, Visioni Estatiche // The Victory over the Sun renews the dialogue between art and thought, celebrating the spiritual tension at the heart of Salvadori’s legacy and Bagnoli’s practice.
The conference will be recorded and later made available on the Atelier Marco Bagnoli platform, furthering Spazio X Tempo’s mission to preserve and activate a living archive of ideas and visions.
Atelier Marco Bagnoli
Via della Quercia, 9 Montelupo Fiorentino - FI
Date
31 Ottobre 2025
