Valerio Losito - Alias, Amor (Five Chapters for Viola d'Amore) (2020)

ALIAS is a unique contemporary artistic project designed around what it’s considered one of the most fascinating Baroque instruments: the viola d’amore. ALIAS is music with the notes by composer Elvira Muratore, conveyed to the hands of Valerio Losito, tailored to suit the warm sound of the 1775 Ferdinando Gagliano’s viola d’amore, property of the Elsa Peretti Foundation. ALIAS is also image pictured in artistic photography by Federica Cocciro. Music and image together play, because ALIAS is what we choose to keep untold to protect it from misunderstanding and strumentalization, even when its presence is obvious and irrefutable. That which must be kept untold, has already been suggested within the name of the starring instrument. Viola d’amore suggest the love that will be displayed in 5 chapters, and 5 different nuances, displayed in five texts from international literature and poetry. ALIAS is a bridge that connects the earthly with the divine, and the past with our present, or rather, contemporary!