Compagnia Finzi Pasca, ''Fête des Vignerons''

Vevey, 2019

The Arena with 20,000 seats that hosted the Fête des Vignerons ceremonies.Built specifically for the 2019 edition, it was designed by the scenographer Hugo Gargiulo and was dismantled at the end of the celebrations.

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The entrance to the arena of one of the three gigantic backdrops made of silver HLU - Lucilla with flat making.

Each of the silver HLU - Lucilla backdrops measured 52 x 27 m and weighed about 60 kg.

Each backdrop was carried by about a hundred celebrants who, arranged along its perimeter, made it perform evolutions.

The silver surface of the HLU - Lucilla fabric has been used as a reflective support for the games of light.

The creative direction and the scenography of the show used the lightness, the resistance and the capability to hold the air of the HLU - Lucilla fabric to create a polychrome mantle that was apparently endowed with its own life.

The symbolic meaning of the large mantle, which here highlights its natural silver colour, has not yet been revealed.The evolutions of the backdrop and of the celebrants, although hypnotic and aesthetically engaging, would seem until now to be an end in themselves, but now ...

... with the use of chromatic lighting, the lighting designers Daniele Finzi Pasca and Alexis Bowles let the reflective surface of the fabric take on the colours of the grape must.

Fête des Vignerons

Vevey, 18/7/2019 - 11/8/2019

The Fête des Vignerons is a traditional festival that takes place once per generation, on average five times per century.
It is organized by the Confraternity of Vignaioli di Vevey since 1797 and since 2016 it is part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO.
The artistic contents of the celebrations were created by the famous Ticino company Finzi Pasca.

Scenography

Hugo Gargiulo

Costume design

Giovanna Buzzi

Light design

Daniele Finzi Pasca, Alexis Bowles

Video design

Roberto Vitalini for BASHIBA

Music

Maria Bonzanigo

Creation and direction

Daniele Finzi Pasca

Staging

Compagnia Finzi Pasca of Lugano

Materials used in this production

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

HLU - Lucilla

Metallic aspect fabrics

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