CAM Sugar has unveiled previously unseen photos of Ennio Morricone’s studio

They were presented at the press conference for the International Film Score Festival, organized by CAM Sugar and Triennale Milano.

The Artist’s Studio is a 2022 book written by James Hall and published in Italy by Einaudi, which tells the story of art through the places where art materializes in the world: the studios of artists. The book’s synopsis reads: «The artist’s studio has always been an imaginary yet real place; an idealized utopia, as well as a dirty, chaotic space, a perfect visual exemplification of a tormenting, mad, and exhausting work», a perfect description of the image that forms in each of our minds when we think of these places that are both so mundane and so mythical.

Who knows if Ennio Morricone would have agreed with this description as well. His studio, in fact, is also marked by the apparent disorder that unites all artists’ studios, that disorder in which only the author can perfectly orient himself. If we can make these observations about Morricone’s studio, we owe it to CAM Sugar, which on the occasion of the second edition of SLAM, the International Film Score Festival, presented together with Triennale Milano, unveiled for the first time a selection of photographs from the Maestro’s “creative laboratory”. Photos showing everything one imagines Morricone held most dear in the world: piles of books and scores, a small cabinet full of old cassette tapes, vinyls and CDs scattered everywhere, posters of his concerts stuck here and there, and many, many photos of his beloved wife, Maria Travia. The photos were all taken by Niccolò Barca.

Speaking of the International Film Score Festival: it will take place from December 11 to 13 in Milan, with a preview at La Scala on November 29. The program – still being updated, with more guests and events to be announced in the coming weeks – includes concerts, screenings, DJ sets, listening sessions, workshops, and talks. Among the guests arriving in Milan this year are the noble father of techno Jeff Mills, Romain Gavras, Stefano Nazzi, Hania Rani (author of the score for Sentimental Value), Christopher Chassol, Randall Poster, Pino Donaggio, Andrea Fabrizii, and Joan Thiele.