Eros Ramazzotti, ''Ali e Radici''
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The scenography of the tour, shown here during its set-up, realistically reproduces a container terminal.

The stage is built with about twenty practicable fake containers, whose upper side is covered by TCA - Capriccio digital printing floor.

The print simulates the corrugated sheet ...
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... which is reproduced with grey tones and traces of rust.

In front of a dark background, made with a big backdrop made of black ASC - Sceno muslin, other 8 fake containers are stacked and they have a semi-transparent wall made of framed BSU - Super Gobelin tulle ...
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... through which the public will be able to see their interior, where the lighting tests are now underway.

Stacked containers are movable, they can slide and rotate on their axis ...
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... showing their other 3 walls to the public, more opaque to the light because they are made of framed ASC - Sceno digital printing muslin.

Like the floor, the print on the muslin simulates the corrugated sheet of the containers and uses shades of grey ...
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... in order to reflect the colours of the lights and projections without chromatic interference.

The sliding of each of the two stacks of containers towards the sides of the stage ...
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... simulates the opening movement of a Traveller curtain.

The unconventional curtain ...
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... opens on a large backdrop made of HSE - Tempesta silk that actually ...
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... is a Kabuki curtain 12 m wide and 10 m high.

The photo was taken at the moment of the beginning of the curtain fall which ...
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... released by means of a 9SL - Kabuki with motorized tilter, it falls and reveals the large LED screen behind it ...
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... where the musicians are displayed in real time.

Electronically processed video contributions are instead projected onto the containers ...
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... which here are rotating on their own axis, exposing to the public ...
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... their side made of grey BSU - Super Gobelin tulle.

When the interior of containers is illuminated ...
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... the tulle becomes transparent and the performers who are there appear to the public and from there they perform by interacting with Eros Ramazzotti.
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The lighting of the scene with neutral, non-chromatic light highlights the real grey colour of the digital prints, which contrasts with its effectiveness ...
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... in reflecting the colours of the lights and projections.

The scenography by Guillaume Lord and Olivier Landreville seems to highlight how in the dullness, materiality and prosaic nature of contemporary life, represented by containers ...
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... it is possible, thanks to music, to open glimpses of colour and poetry.

After its debut in Italy ...
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... the tour continued abroad touching Mexico, the USA, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo to then return to various countries of the EC, and then reaching Switzerland and Turkey.