Songs and poetry by and with Linard Bardill
Friday, 20 December 2019, 17:30 hrs
Segantini Museum St. Moritz
The songwriter and author Linard Bardill reads from his poem written in 2018 on La Gomera in 12 songs «The Island».
In between he sings Rhaeto-Romanic songs — echoes on Giovanni Segantini’s triptych Werden – Sein – Vergehen (Becoming – Being – Passing away)
For 4 years Linard Bardill has been organising conferences in his studio on the subject of «The art of staying alive or dying for beginners». The result was a large card box with songs, lectures and essays. From the collected texts, Bardill wanted to write a non-fiction book on the subject of living and dying. In the winter of 2017/18 he retired to the island of La Gomera for two weeks. And it came completely differently than planned.
Already on the ferry he wrote the first poem and in a short time he wrote “The Island”, a poem in 12 songs about becoming, being and passing away.
Giovanni Segantini wrote that his attitude to painting corresponded to the emotion of a young man declaring his love to his beloved for the first time, and that he wished that his emotion before creation would be passed on to the viewers of his pictures.
With Segantini’s triptych, Bardill’s songs dance around the mystery of life, which from death receives its inexhaustible lightness and heaviness, its light its lust and its seriousness.
Reading and singing complement each other in the claim and address of reading, concert and the enormous presence of Segantini’s pictures.
«Bardill’s Poem is a Memento Mori and Sun Song, brings Odysseus together with Gandhi on an island which I, a convinced continental German, leave after reading as a born islander. Out into a world that dances me too, to say it with the pen, the 12 songs.» Hardy Ruoss
«The work impresses with the seriousness and passion with which the last questions of human existence are posed and answered.» Peter von Matt
Admission: Fr. 30.–
Limited number of seats.
Reservation essential: T +41 81 833 44 54 – info@segantini-museum.ch