Exhibition at Chiesa di San Vittore e 40 Martiri  Viale Lucania 18, Milano

The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, according to hagiographic traditions, were a group of Roman soldiers belonging to the Legio XII Fulminata, martyred for their Christian faith in 320. They were arrested for their faith and sentenced to be exposed naked on a nearby frozen pond of Sebaste during a winter night. The only one of 3 confessors who could not stand it was Meletius, who, after abandoning his companions, found refuge in hot baths, but due to the sudden change in temperature he died instantly.
The life memories of these Saints offer us the opportunity to reread contemporaneity in a visual and musical key. The aesthetic reinterpretation of the interior of the church through sacred figures and elements will coincide with the musical reinterpretation of the mass in honor of the Forty Martyrs. Music and images will thus flow into a single ecstatic and celebratory experience.

The church of San Vittore thus becomes the sacred container for a celebratory synaesthesia that will involve musicians and visual artists oriented, through their work, to reinterpret a centuries-old tradition that closely resembles the recent present.
Songwriters and pianists, during the 5 hours of the final rite, will musically interpret the hours of martyrdom. The public will be able to recall the martyrdom suffered by the Saints, walking without shoes on the floor installation evoking the frozen lake.
At the end of the exhibition and concert, a mass in honor of the Forty Martyrs will be celebrated, set to music by Gianluca De Rubertis.

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