Interior travel (1/6). Artists sometimes need somewhere else to find inspiration. It is in the enchanting framework of the Villa Medici that the singer and composer Barbara Carlotti renewed her repertoire.
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“It is as if I sorted my cupboards and that I could no longer put certain clothes.” By listening to part of his compositions at the end of the confinements, Barbara Carlotti noted that several of them did not correspond to him More: “We all came out groggy from this traumatic moment and, in matters of melody, harmony, text, they told something that no longer interested me.” In 2020, the musician and singer preferred to surprise her audience With Corsica, island of love, an album of covers of songs typical of the region from which his family is from. “A form of cultural reappropriation,” she says.
But, once this identity crossing path has been carried out, it had to go back to his creations in the world before and sort between the raw material still exploitable and what she deemed less relevant. To do this, it was in Rome that Barbara Carlotti landed, in October 2021, in the amazing setting of the Villa Medici, where she won a residence of twenty days. She goes there for a week, first. Then two other stays followed, in December then in the spring of 2022. “I especially knew Rome through the great Italian cinema that I admire, that of Fellini, Pasolini, Antonioni. I was there, but I had Forgotten how a city is a city of beauty, “she says.
At the Villa Medici, she is assigned a “stripped-down”, with high ceilings, large windows that let the light enter, a fridge, plates “. At night, she walks in the gardens of green oak and orange trees, reviews films filmed next to it, such as Roman holidays, by William Wyler (1953), or La Grande Bellezza, by Paolo Sorrentino (2013). During the day, she descends Place d’Espagne, wanders in the streets and, once back to the villa, stroll through the long corridors of the building: at each detour arises a sculpture or a fresco. “The impression of being immersed in a child’s dream or in Beauty and the Beast, Cocteau.”
one elsewhere in weightlessness
One evening, after a dinner in the center with friends, the director of the place, Sam Stourdzé, trains him in the towers, climbing the endless stairs. “All up there, in front of the panoramic view of Rome, illuminated at night, I was blown away and I cried with joy. I could kiss all the geography that I had surveyed at a glance on foot . It is a very powerful feeling that I had already felt on the heights of Sao Paulo, “recalls Barbara Carlotti, who, for her fourth album, love, silver, wind (2012), had gone GLANING ISSPIMPTION especially in Brazil.
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