Commissioned and displayed for the first time last year at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Bar Luna was conceived from the collaboration of the Italian director with the artistic duo Muta Imago and the florist-landscaper Thierry Boutemy. They came together again at the end of June to create a site-specific design for Cinema Modernissimo in Bologna, a historic theater dating back to the early 20th century.

Bar Luna is much more than an art installation, it is a multimedia, multidimensional, and immersive work, an exhibition itinerary aimed at recreating Alice Rohrwacher’s cinematic imagery, of which visitors can become the leading actors.

The exhibition, named after the bar in her latest film La Chimera, inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set up a dreamlike world with starry skies, magical atmospheres and soundscapes starting from the memory of a suburban bar, which can be accessed by crossing the threshold of an old kitchen. "Visitors," writes the Cineteca di Bologna, "will cross the threshold between what is visible and what is hidden, between the here and the beyond, in search of their roots, to embark on a journey among the stars that can finally remind us that true salvation is here, among us, on Earth. Because the Earth is a celestial body."
 

Opening image: Courtesy La Cineteca di Bologna