Beco­ming, 1898
Being, 1897–1899
Pas­sing away, 1898–1899

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

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