Listening Room - the project curated by Michele Lombardelli for Cremona Art Fair

Cremona Art Fair presents Listening Room, a project curated by Michele Lombardelli that introduces a space dedicated to sound as an artistic language within the fair.

Stanza d'ascolto. Courtesy Michele Lombardelli

In recent decades, sound has become an increasingly central medium in the work of many visual artists, spanning installation, performance, and composition. From Luigi Russolo to figures such as Giuseppe Chiari, Nam June Paik, Carsten Nicolai, and Anne Imhof, the relationship between visual art and the sonic dimension has taken on ever-new forms.

Listening Room was conceived to give shape to this evolution: an environment designed for listening sessions featuring sound works and compositions by contemporary artists, played from physical media through a high-end audio system. An experience that restores centrality to time, quality, and the presence of sound.

The design and installation of the audio system are entrusted to Audio Graffiti of Pandino (CR), a company specializing in high-end audio components.

Alongside the listening space, the project presents an exhibition of artist materials related to sound research—scores, books, catalogues, and documents—testifying to the dialogue between visual arts and music. In a city like Cremona, deeply connected to music and violin-making, Listening Room opens up a contemporary dialogue between musical tradition, artistic research, and the culture of listening.

Sound works by: Vincenzo Agnetti, Cory Arcangel, Robert Barry, Emanuele Becheri, Jacopo Benassi, Joseph Beuys, Alessandro Bosetti, John Cage, Canedicoda, Francesco Cavaliere, Federico Chiari, Giuseppe Chiari, Meike Clarelli, Gianluca Codeghini, Dracula Lewis, Jean Dubuffet, Martin Eder, Attila Faravelli, Marco Fusinato, Geruch Von Blut, Liam Gillick, The Gloria, Renato Grieco, Anne Imhof, Imi Knoebel, Invernomuto, Mike Kelley, Kinkaleri, Martin Kippenberger, Christina Kubisch, Giulio Lacchini, Okkyung Lee, Alan Licht, Claudia Losi, Lux Aeterna, Mirco Marchelli, Christian Marclay, Walter Marchetti, Nicola Martini, Charlotte Moorman, Margherita Morgantin, Nam June Paik, Carsten Nicolai / Alva Noto, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Roman Opalka, Charlemagne Palestine, Luca Pancrazzi, A. R. Penck, Seth Price, Prurient, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Mario Schifano, Jim Shaw, Michael Snow, Takis, Mark Templeton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Valerio Tricoli, David Tudor, Untitled Noise, Nico Vascellari, Patrizia Vicinelli

Tracks: Agnetti, Vincenzo – Machiavelli 30 - LP  Amontillado – Figura 02.11.2023 - CD  Arcangel, Cory – 24 Dances For The Electric Piano - LP  Barry, Robert – Otherwise - LP Barry, Robert – Sky Land Sea - CD  Becheri, Emanuele – Aprés Coup - LP  Benassi, Jacopo – Jacopo Plays Benassi - LP Benassi, Jacopo / Untitled Noise – Rozzo - LP  Beuys, Joseph & Paik, Nam June – In Memoriam George Maciunas: Klavierduett - LP  Cage, John / Tudor, David – Variations IV - LP  Cavaliere, Francesco – I-A-K InterplanetaryAbyssal-Kite - LP  Chiari, Giuseppe – Antologia - CD Chiari, Giuseppe – Gesti Sul Piano - LP  Clarelli, Meike / Losi, Claudia – Voce A Vento - LP  Codeghini, Gianluca – There's Nothing Better Than Producing Sound - CD  Duchamp, Marcel – The Entire Musical Work Of Marcel Duchamp - LP  Dubuffet, Jean – Expériences Musicales - LP  Faravelli, Attila / Martini, Nicola – S/T - LP  Fusinato, Marco – Spectral Arrows: Sidney - LP Fusinato, Marco – Spectral Arrows: Venice - LP  Gillick, Liam – Los Angeles - CD  Imhof, Anne – Faust - LP Imhof, Anne – Sex - LP  Invernomuto – Vaernascacadabra - LP  Julius, Rolf – Music For a Distance - Small Music No. 2 - CD  Klein, Yves – Symphonie "Monoton-Silence" - LP  Kubisch, Christina – On Air - CD  Lacchini, Giulio – 2026 - CD  Lee, Okkyung / Marclay, Christian – Amalgam - LP  Lewis, Dracula – Death Comes Ripping - LP  Lux Aeterna – Esserci, Ego-Death, Oblivium Aeternum - CD Lux Aeterna / Geruch Von Blut – Glass-Castle Session - CD  Marchetti, Walter – Concerto Per La Mano Sinistra In Un Solo Movimento - LP  Marclay, Christian – Guitar Drag - LP  Morgantin, Margherita – Cosmic Silence 5, Fluorescence 4 - LP  Moorman, Charlotte / Paik, Nam June – TV Cello - LP  Nauman, Bruce – Soundtrack From First Violin Film - LP  Nicolai, Carsten – Zone - LP  Nitsch, Hermann – Akustisches Abreaktionsspiel - LP Nitsch, Hermann – Das 6-Tage-Spiel Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters - LP  Noto, Alva – Prototypes - CD Noto, Alva – HYbr:ID II - LP Noto, Alva – Xerrox Vol. 1 - LP  Ono, Yoko – Fly - LP  Opalka, Roman – 1965/1–∞ Passage du cinquième million - CD  Orchestra Of Futurist Noise Intoners, The (dir. Luciano Chessa) – LP  Pancrazzi, Luca – After Panasonic, Ondivago - CD  Palestine, Charlemagne – Arpeggiated Bösendorfer + Falsetto Voice - LP Palestine, Charlemagne – Godbear - LP  Penck, A. R. – Going Through - CD  Ponzini, Ramona – Trees are Columns with Clouds on Top - LP  Price, Seth – Coinos Driftos - LP Price, Seth – Inner Storm - CD  Prurient / Vascellari, Nico – Jesus - LP  Rockenschaub, Gerwald – Private Pleasures - CD  Ruin / Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop – 1/2 Skull - CD  Schifano, Mario – Le Stelle di Mario Schifano - LP  Shaw, Jim / Kelley, Mike – Duets - CD  Snow, Michael – Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder - LP  Suzuki, Akio  – Soundsphere - CD  Templeton, Mark – Two Verses - LP  The Gloria – Discipline - CD  Tillmans, Wolfgang – Moon in Earthlight - LP  Trevisani, Luca – Amazoom - LP  Untitled Noise – I Hate All The Words - LP  Vainio, Mika / Ikeda, Ryoji / Noto, Alva – Live - LP  Vicinelli, Patrizia – Tuonando - LP  Young, La Monte / Zazeela, Marian – The Black Record - LP STANZA D’ASCOLTO | ARTE E SUONO A CREMONA ART FAIR Coordinamento generale: Paolo Batoni Consulenza musicologica: Benedetta Broegg Impianto audio: Audio Graffiti srl, Pandino (CR) Pannelli sonori: Poliart srl, Capannori (LU) Allestimento: Poliart, Capannori (LU) 8/10 MAGGIO 2026