"Befrag’ die Meere aller Zonen, befrag ’ den Seemann, der den Ozean durchstrich: - er kennt dies Schiff, das Schrecken aller Frommen: den fliegenden Holländer nennt man mich "* The Municipality of Macerata, in line with the cultural project of the Marche Region, gives voice to contemporary with the exhibition The Flying Dutchman by the artist Fabrizio Cotognini, for celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first opera at the Sferisterio. Opera is one of the founding identities of the Macerata community which, over the years years, with continuous experimentation and contamination, has contributed to promoting its international diffusion, and the theme chosen for the exhibition - the Flying Dutchman - lo testifies. The Flying Dutchman project will lead the visitor to move around the halls of the Civic Museums of Palazzo Buonaccorsi through play, storytelling, anthropology, contemporaneity, the representation and obviously the music that sublimates everything: a synaesthesia in pure form which came to life in the dialogue and work between the artist and the artisan realities of the area Macerata. In fact, Cotognini, born and raised in Macerata, wants through this project also bring to light the expertise and mastery of the know-how of his land, redefining the boundaries of a new geo-localization of applied arts with a national scope e international, operation made possible thanks also to the support of the Santoni shoe factory in Corridonia (MC), main sponsor of the exhibition and example of Made in Marche in Italy and in world. The artist offers his vision of the Flying Dutchman, the archetype par excellence of who for overcoming limits challenges himself and God, with a narrative path that winds through the halls of noble floor of Palazzo Buonaccorsi, one of the most important testimonies of the late baroque. The exhibition, through an immersive journey consisting of drawings, sculptures and installations, proposes a conceptual transposition of a historical literary work, on the stock of the various representations and interpretations that have been attributed over time to the flying Dutchman. In the collective imagination it becomes the ghost ship captained by Davy Jones and Will Turner in the film Pirates of the Caribbean, but it is also August Strindberg's drama. As well as the song by Jethro Tull, which tells of the impetuous fulfillment of the adverse fate of those who do not your way of acting will change: "you will be Dutch / Floating slowly towards the sea / In a misty suffering ". It's the comic Uncle Scrooge and the Ghost Ship, and it comes true in the story of the Silver Surfer and in the famous American cartoon The Simpson (Frying dutchman). But it will also become the nickname of footballers Marco van Basten and Robin van Persie, and again, the novel by Joe Lansdale and Enrico Palandri, as we read it in the works of Osvaldo Licini, Willem van de Velde, Anselm Kiefer and Andreas Achenbach. Fabrizio Cotognini collects all these representations of the Flying Dutchman and gives them a voice within a timeless story. The Flying Dutchman by Fabrizio Cotognini is no longer, and is not only, Der Fliegende Hollander by Richard Wagner, first performed at the Königlich Sächsisches Hoftheater in Dresden on January 2, 1843, but it is a choral opera that tells a story social transformation, a radical renewal of society, combining visions, quotations, tributes, discoveries and rediscoveries by novelists, poets, playwrights, singers, cartoonists, directors cinematographers and artists. Within a conception of cyclical time, where the historical-literary tradition is reborn from his own ashes in the eternal search for topicality, Fabrizio Cotognini gives shape to a unique, inclusive and at the same time imaginative sensory experience where possible recognize yourself in the legendary and archetypal figure of the Flying Dutchman.