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ROBERTO OPALIO / MAURIZIO OPALIO - "Il Lungo Inverno" Private Art Edition Ltd.9

ROBERTO OPALIO / MAURIZIO OPALIO
"Il Lungo Inverno"
Lathe cut LP + Drawings

Private Art Edition of 9 copies.

Roberto Opalio | music - wordless vocalizations, old zither, effects
Maurizio Opalio | visual art - black Indian ink drawings

Lathe cut record LP containing a full-lenght previously unreleased soloist album by Roberto Opalio, recorded in Western Alps in winter 2010-2011.
Original black Indian ink drawing by Maurizio Opalio on 30x30 cm canvas hard-cardboard panel, signed and numbered by the artist.
5 fine reproductions of works of art by Maurizio Opalio on high quality 135gr acquerello paper, 21x30cm, individually signed and handnumbered 1/9.
Handbound hardcover gatefold jacket; canvas panel as front cover; heavy weight cardboard folder as back; appositely designed inner disc holder.
20x15cm color photo portrait of Roberto Opalio by Ramona Ponzini.
Written introduction to the project.

Edition designed and handmade by Maurizio Opalio.
Lathe cut record manufactured in 9 copies by Peter King in New Zealand.
Published in June 2011 by Opax Editions. Printed in Western Alps.

"Il Lungo Inverno" ('The Long Winter') is not a soloist project, but a four-hand collaborative project by brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio. The juxtaposition of visual matter and sonic matter is intended to be creative and enlightening. The artists' establishment of a relationship of consonance or dissonance between each other's work generates an expansion of the entire work of art, interacting with the true and proper creative impulse. The visual work of one artist relates to the musical work of the other, as a creative action responding to a creative action. In the more and more desolate and desolating landscape of this beginning of the third millennium.