This autumn,
Fiorucci Art Trust presents the first instalment in Lezioni D’Italiano, a
series of artist lecture performances. Curated by Fiorucci Art Trust Director, Milovan
Farronato, these evening programmes will present Italian artists, or those
that address Italian subject matter, once a month at the Trust’s HQ at Sloane
Avenue. From December through to June next year, artists of different
generations will show work that explores and expands the nature of their
practice in the uniquely intimate environment of the residential HQ, creating a
dynamic platform for participation and engagement.
Lezioni
D’Italiano will
begin with artist Patrizio Di Massimo on Monday 2nd December, followed by Chiari Fumai
in January and Liliana Moro in February.
Patrizio Di
Massimo: Patrizio
Di Massimo will present a performance titled Monologue for two (picture
above). The work is a monologue in the shape of dialogue between the artist and
a video that portrays the artist. Di Massimo will be on stage physically but
hidden behind a curtain; the video is instead realized with Morfo, an iPhone
application that creates 3D avatars through processing a simple bi-dimensional
portrait picture. In this work the artist deals with multiple projections of
the self, in relation to reality and imagination, to what he could have been
and what he is. Monologue for two is an intimate self-portrait, in which
the artist invents himself for what he is.
Arabeschi di
Latte:
Each Lezione will feature a concurrent food element, conceived by
Italian food design studio Arabeschi di Latte. Responding to a culinary
understanding of a lesson as a series of instructions as contained in a
cookbook, Arabeschi di Latte will reinterpret dishes in collaboration with chef
Lucas Dominguez, inspired by the traditional Italian cookbook.
Nicoletta
Fiorucci:
Nicoletta Fiorucci, founder of Fiorucci Art Trust, says: ‘Fiorucci Art Trust
works with artists from all around the world, but we wanted to do something
specifically for artists from Italy or who engage with Italy in their practice.
London offers so many opportunities for these artists which perhaps they are
unable to find elsewhere, and we wanted to capitalise on this to create
something truly exciting for all kinds of audiences.’
Also on show at
the HQ at the same time as the first Lezioni will be Marc-Camille
Chaimowizc’s installation, Cabinet Cocteau. Originally shown at Tate
Modern’s A Bigger Splash show last year, the work is updated and
transformed in the residential environment of the Fiorucci Trust HQ, taking
over the entire first floor living room space. A major new installation by
Goshka Macuga Death of Marxism, Women of All Lands Unite 2013, will also
be on display.
About Fioucci
Art Trust Fiorucci
Art Trust was founded by Nicoletta Fiorucci in 2010 to promote contemporary art
in both conventional and unconventional ways. With Milovan Farronato as
Director, the Trust provides collaborative support for artist projects as well
as publications and exhibitions. Fiorucci Art Trust stages Volcano
Extravaganza, an annual artist-run month of art and design on the island of
Stromboli. The Trust also supports institutions such as Studio Voltaire,
Serpentine Gallery, Gasworks, Kunsthalle Basel, and runs an annual fellowship
at Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten of Amsterdam.
Patrizio
Di Massimo (b. Jesi, Italy, 1983) lives and works in London. He graduated from the
Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, and received
his MA from the Slade School of Fine Art,
London. He is currently exhibiting at Gasworks, London, with the solo show The
Lustful Turk.
He
has participated
in residencies at Stipendium Kunstzeitraum, Munich (2012), de Ateliers,
Amsterdam (2009-2011), Sommerakademie at Centre Paul Klee, Bern (2010),
Fondazione Banna Spinola per l’Arte, Banna di Poirino (2009). His upcoming
exhibitions include solo presentations at Artissima, Turin, Kunsthalle
Lissabon, Lisbon, Rowing Projects, London. Recent solo exhibitions include Voglio
Vivere Così, T293, Rome, The Lustful Turk, Villa Medici, Rome and a
performance at the Stedelijk Museum as part of the public program. In 2012 he
was selected as a finalist in the Premio Italia 2012, hold at MAXXI,
Rome and participated in La Storia che non ho vissuto (testimone indiretto),
Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Ritual without Myth, Royal College of Art,
London.
Chiara Fumai was born in Rome (1978)
and lives in Milan. Recent exhibitions include: MUSAC, Leon (2013); Muzeon Art
Park, Moscow (2013); Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2013); Futura Center
for Contemporary Art, Prague (2013); Museo del Novecento, Milan (2013); Maison
Rouge, Paris (2013); dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012); Fondazione Bevilacqua La
Masa, Venice (2012); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2011); Museo MAXXI, Rome (2011);
Volcano Extravaganza, Stromboli (2011); Survival Kit Festival, Riga (2011),
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2010), and SMART Project Space,
Amsterdam (2009). The artist was the winner of the ninth edition of the Furla
Prize 2013 which featured the staging of her new work I Did Not Say or Mean
‘Warning’ as parallel event of the Venice Biennale.
Liliana Moro was born in 1961 in
Milan, where she lives and works. She graduated from the Accademia di Belle
Arti di Brera a Milan, where she studied with Luciano Fabro. In 1989 she
founded, with other artists, the Spazio di via Lazzaro Palazzi in Milan, active
until 1993.
Liliana Moro has
shown in major international group exhibitions includine Documenta IX, Kassel
(1992), Aperto XLV Venice Biennale (1993) Castello di Rivoli, Turin (1994),
Quadriennale, Rome (1996/2008), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1998), PS1 ,New York
(1999), De Apple, Amsterdam (1999) and the Biennal de Valencia (2001). Solo
shows have included Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan (various); Gallery Greta Meert
Bruxelles; MUHKA Antwerpen; and Fondazione Ambrosetti Brescia.
Recently,
Liliana Moro has shown at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles (2008),
and Fabbrica del Vapore Milan (2008), Fondazione A.Ratti Como (2012), and has
participated in important group exhibitions including: Italics, Palazzo Grassi
Venice (2008), Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, Mambo Bologna (2008),
Celebration, Institution, Critique, Galleria Civica di Trento (2009), La
Magnifica Ossessione, MART Rovereto (2012).
Arabesche di
Latte is
an Italian food design studio founded by Francesca Sarti in 2001. Blurring the
boundaries between food and design and using food as a tool to communicate,
Arabeschi di Latte has created and exhibited a variety of food-related projects
such as pop up cafés, special dinners, performances and workshops around the
world.
Among the
projects realized are pop-up cafe “Pastificio”, presented for the first time in
Tokyo in 2009; interactive installations such as “The Archeo Mill” for The
“Future Food House” curated by Marije Vogelzang in Rotterdam; special food
consultancies for brands including Fendi, Bally, Kenzo, San Pellegrino, Boffi,
Discipline Design and galleries such as Phillips De Pury; and fruitful
collaborations with Studio Toogood, Design Marketo and Apartamento Magazine.
Nicoletta
Fiorucci is
founder of the Fiorucci Art Trust, as well as a collector of contemporary art
and supporter of museums and cultural organisations. Over the course of her
career she has been chairwoman of the Fiorucci family business, founder and
honorary president of ANIMA a foundation for the promotion of corporate social
responsibility,
and president of Alta Roma fashion week. She has received several international
awards for women who have made outstanding achievements in business.
Milovan
Farronato is
an art critic and independent curator. He is Director of the Fiorucci Art
Trust. On behalf of the Trust he is developing the residential itinerant
project Roadside Picnic and Volcano Extravaganza: a series of
exhibitions, conferences and events in Stromboli. From 2005 to 2012 he was
director of the non-profit organisation Viafarini and curator at DOCVA
Documentation Centre for Visual Arts. From 2006 to 2010 he was Associate
Curator of the Galleria Civica di Modena, where he has curated the solo
exhibitions of Runa Islam, Ugo Rondinone, Yayoi Kusama, Katharina Fritsch,
Katharina Grosse, Tobias Putrih, Christian Holstad and the group show Egomania.
Farronato is
editor of the book Rolling Stone Roadside Picnic, Stromboli (Salerno
Editore) and the catalogues: Repertorio Ornamentale – Enrico David (Kaledoiscope),
Souvenir d’Italie – A non profit art story (Mousse Publishing), Un
altro uomo che ha fatto sgocciolare il suo pennello – Katharina Grosse (Verlag
der Buchhandlung W. König). He is a contributing editor of Mousse Magazine,
Flash Art, ATPDiary, Fashion Trend. From 2001 to 2004 he worked as features
editor for tema celeste. In 2010 and 2012 he was a consultant for MiArt
Fieramilanocity. In 2010 he curated the Veuve Clicquot Art Prize and he was a
member of the Jury of Arianne De Rothschild Prize. He teaches History of
Contemporary Art at CLADEM, University IUAV, Treviso – Venice.
Picture caption:
Patrizio Di Massimo
Monologue for two, 2013
Performance, HD video, curtains
11 minutes
