Roberto Paci Dalò presents Time Line, a retrospective exhibition in the spaces of Marsèlleria, in Milan. In Time Line, drawings, sounds, sculptures and videos are set up to create a “total” work.
The exhibition is enriched by some unpublished works by the artist.
Time Line is closely related to the medium of the radio. The spaces of Marsèlleria are connected to each other to create a single large radio environment.

In Time Line, the artist’s works are located along spatial and temporal, visual and acoustic lines.
Time Line looks like a radio field. Roberto Paci Dalò creates a micro radio station within the exhibition that transmits in frequency modulation (FM) an audio work based on the voice of John Cage, to whom the project is dedicated. Some small radio receivers are placed in various points of the exhibition space, so as to allow visitors an intimate but distributed listening.
Marsèlleria spaces are inhabited by John Cage’s voice, in addition to the artist’s works.
For the first time, John Cage’s Mesostic for Paci Dalò is shown in the exhibition.

Exhibited works

The following works are exhibited in Time Line:

Atlas of Emotion Stream (2009); The Conference of Birds (2011); John Cage Mesostic (1990); Pulviscolo (2010); Liu Ni (2012); La macchina da Guerra (2006); Smallville #2 (2011); Taccuini (2011-2012); Storie di Lupi e Lepri (2009); Radioscape (2012); De Bello Gallico – Enklave Rimini (2011); Petroléo México (2005); Gruelmärchen (2006); Ye Shanghai (2012); Radio Cage (2012).

In addition to these works, are presented some external contributions in the exhibition. There is a space within the exhibition which houses the works of Yu Xiaolu, Yu Xueou, Qin Mei, SunMengxuan, in collaboration with Arthub Asia and SH Contemporary.

There is a corner dedicated to soundOhm by die Schachtel, an independent record label, present throughout the period of the exhibition with records and books, for sale, dedicated to sound art and relations with visual art.

The exhibition is accompanied by a critical text by Andrea Lissoni, entitled Time Line.

And various live performances

During its exhibition, Time Line hosts various live performances.

In addition to the opening, for which Roberto Lucanero, musicologist and organist of Roberto Leydi’s school, performs in concert, Time Line welcomes Everydayjohncage and The Shanghai Night.

On November 12, 2012, Andrea Felli, Roberto Paci Dalò and Leonardo Sonnoli give life to a performance of Everydayjhoncage, an artistic recomposition from the multimedia materials of John Cage.

On November 19, 2012, The Shanghai Night is projected, is a performance made of images and sounds related to Ye Shanghai, the project created by Roberto Paci Dalò for SH Contemporary – Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair and Arthub Asia. At the center of the audio-video performance is the history of the Shanghai Ghetto during the Japanese occupation.