NEW acquisition
IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Journey of One Breath (2024)

Very grateful to IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art for the acquisition of my installation The Journey of One Breath (2024) into the National Collection.

The group of works acquired constitutes a complete installation of video, silks, mural painting, music, and a jellyfish-mother hammock. The Journey of One Breath is an ecosystem made of breath, bodies, water, and time.

A meaningful moment, and an honour to be part of this important group of new acquisitions.

PUBLIC ART WORK
GRATITUDINE
Alex Cecchetti

19 september 2025

Location: historic center of Monforte d’Alba, UNESCO site, Langhe
Commissioned by: Fondazione CRC, DISTRUZIONE / Landscape Requalification call
Curators in Commission: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Commission President), Francesca Comisso, Luisa Perlo

Selected through the call DISTRUZIONE / Landscape Requalification, Gratitudine is a site-specific ceramic and ecological wall artwork located in the historic center of Monforte d’Alba, inside the UNESCO World Heritage landscape of the Langhe.

Alex Cecchetti presents a large installation, more than 400 ceramic tiles, each hand-painted with glazes, enamel, and mineral colors by the artist, representing a deep marine seabed. Here, enlarged phytoplankton forms appear within the composition — microscopic organisms that produce 70% of the planet’s oxygen, honored by the artist as the mothers of our atmosphere and life.

The artwork becomes a temporal portal, where geology, seasons, plants, and glaze-painted organisms collaborate, revealing the past, present, and future of the Langhe through one living wall.

Le Chant des Sirènes
L’eau racontée par les artistes
Villa Medici / Accademia di Francia
Rome, IT

Group exhibition
04 October 2024 – 13 January 2025

From 4 October 2024 to 13 January 2025, the Accademia di Francia – Villa Medici in Rome presents Il Canto delle Sirene. L’acqua raccontata dagli artisti (The Song of the Sirens. Water as Told by Artists), a major group exhibition exploring the cultural, ecological, mythological, and political dimensions of water through the works of around thirty internationally renowned contemporary artists.

Curated by Caroline Courrioux and Sam Stourdzé, the exhibition is structured around the cycle of water, inviting visitors to navigate its infinite forms — from rain, sea, and streams to clouds, mist, dew, and tears — framing water not only as a material presence but also as a symbol of transformation, loss, continuity, and responsibility toward the environment we share, especially in the context of the ongoing global ecological crisis.

The hybrid figure of the siren, rooted in myth and metaphor, guides this exploration: sometimes malefic, sometimes protective, half-woman and half-animal, her ambivalence mirrors that of water itself — a primal force that has shaped human imagination from submerged civilizations to the rituals of everyday life.

Among the works featured is Alex Cecchetti’s Blue Underwater Visions, a series of water-inspired watercolors where paper, immersed in baths of metals, pigments, and natural elements, becomes a fluid surface evoking underwater landscapes and liquid light, echoing the exhibition’s attention to water’s poetic and material force.

The show brings together a diverse roster of artists, including Monira Al Qadiri, Simone Fattal, Estrid Lutz, Yiannis Maniatakos, Gaëlle Choisne, Laure Prouvost, Pamela Rosenkranz, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Pamela Rosenkranz, and many others, several of whom created works specifically for the occasion.

Take a Breath
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)

Group Exhibition Featuring Alex Cecchetti’s Underwater Installation “The Journey of One Breath”
14 June 2024 – 17 March 2025
Dublin, Ireland

From 14 June 2024 to 17 March 2025, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin presents Take a Breath, a major exhibition that offers a historical, social, political, and personal examination of breathing — why we breathe, how we breathe, and what we breathe. The show features works by international artists including Marina Abramović, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Ana Mendieta, Isabel Nolan, and Alex Cecchetti, among many others, alongside a programme of performances and sound pieces. Take a Breath encourages reflection on air, breath, and the interconnections between bodies, environments, and histories. IMMA

Alex Cecchetti’s contribution to Take a Breath is an immersive installation titled “The Journey of One Breath”, which evokes his underwater explorations and the poetics of breath and immersion. Installed in Gallery 2 of IMMA, Cecchetti’s work unfolds as a fluid environment composed of hand-dyed cotton and silk hammocks in indigo and ocean blues, created with natural dyes and traditional techniques, where viewers are welcomed into spaces that reference water, currents, and suspended states of being. IMMA

Within this atmospheric setting, fluid architectures of hanging textiles form corridors and chamber-like spaces that echo the shapes and movements of ocean waves. These textile forms, shaped by natural dyeing and ecological processes, create a backdrop for video projections of freediving and undersea encounters interwoven with a song written by Cecchetti that draws on the sonic qualities of breath and water. IMMA

Central to Cecchetti’s piece are the “medusa mother” hammocks, crafted from cotton and silk, where participants are invited to rest, breathe, and enter into a multisensory dialogue with the work. Within the installation’s blue-toned space — where walls and windows are treated in deep pigment — the projected video diaries of submerged environments intertwine with recordings of two operatic vocalists performing a musical composition by the artist, creating an immersive interplay of colour, movement, sound, and breath. studiointernational.com

Take a Breath situates Cecchetti’s underwater installation within an exhibition that explores ecology, culture, politics, meditation, and resistance through breath as both a physical act and symbolic gesture. The work stands in dialogue with other installations and performances in the show that consider the act of breathing as a fundamental human condition and as a site of social and environmental meaning. IMMA

As part of IMMA’s broader programme, Take a Breath includes public talks, guided tours, and performance events that deepen engagement with the exhibition’s themes and invite audiences to consider breath as a shared and contested space across disciplines and histories. IMMA

THE COUNCIL OF THE ABYSS
CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS

Alex Cecchetti SOLO SHOW
From September 12 to November 26, 2024
Forum –1, free entrance

Program of performances related to the show:

12 SEPTEMBER 2024, 18:15 and 19:15
Sortilegio, enchantment for two voices, Lili Aymonino (soprano) and Alexandre Adra (baritone), based on a score written by Alex Cecchetti

14 SEPTEMBER 2024, 16:00
The Stories of Ocean Currents, a poetic immersion and visit of the show in the presence of the artist, duration 1 hour

15 SEPTEMBER 2024, 15:30 and 17:00
Dance on My Forehead, Love, swirling dance with François Chaignaud, Alex Cecchetti, Uriel Barthélémi

On the occasion of the Pompidou’s festival Extra!, artist Alex Cecchetti invites us into the depths of the ocean. In this vast blue world that he loves to explore through free diving, the artist creates a reef-shaped scene, where the audience nestles into coral-shaped sofas and jellyfish hammocks. These seats and cocoons, made from natural fibers that mimic the forms and colors of coral reefs and jellyfish, have been hand-dyed by Alex Cecchetti and his team in different studios between Grasse and Italy, in collaboration with plants and other forms of non-human intelligence.

To further express these vital themes, the artist’s skirt-poems are brought to life by dancer François Chaignaud, in a performance inspired by the transformative swirling movements of life and life forms. The exhibition forms a phantasmagorical space, inhabited by mythology and literature, where the challenges of today’s world—ecology and gender issues—are transfigured by Alex Cecchetti’s fertile and extravagant imagination.

In this work, poetry becomes a real place: here, as in the ocean, nothing begins and nothing ends, but everything is welcomed. Perhaps it is with this simple, fluid formula that life itself plays at reinventing and metamorphosing into millions of artistic forms.

Bio:
Alex Cecchetti is a French and Italian artist, poet, performer, gardener, storyteller, and choreographer. He creates environments where the public is fully part of the work. His exhibitions are celebrations of nature, and his performances incantations.

Curated by: Jean-Max Colard in the frame of the EXTRA! Festival
The solo show was prolonged until November 26, 2024

Support:
With the valuable and precious support of the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation and La Società delle Api.

Thanks:
The artist would like to thank all the plants that worked with him and his team for the production of new shapes and colors.

Biennale Gherdëina ∞ — SENTIERO

Alex Cecchetti — Walk-Based Project Presented at Biennale Gherdëina ∞
20 May – 25 September 2022
Val Gardena, ITALY

Alex Cecchetti’s walk-based project SENTIERO is presented as part of the Biennale Gherdëina ∞, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, set against the unique natural landscape of Val Gardena in the Italian Dolomites. The Biennale Gherdëina ∞, which unfolds from 20 May to 25 September 2022, is a multi-site, ecology-driven exhibition platform inviting international artists to reflect on landscapes that are both cultural and geological.

SENTIERO manifests as an immersive walk-piece rooted in the body, environment, and collective experience. Conceived as a land art intervention, a community art project, and a performative walk, the work explores the act of walking itself — both as physical movement and as a poetic, imaginative gesture. The project invites participants to enter the living narratives of the landscape, bridging sensory perception, ecological presence, and the unfolding of place as an experiential terrain.

In SENTIERO, Cecchetti traces a path in the landscape with the support of a group of local guides trained by the artist. These guides play a dual role: they ensure the integrity of the work as it moves through the valley, and they activate its performative dimension through embodied storytelling, choreographed movements inspired by the rhythms of seasons and celestial cycles, recitation, song, and collective engagement with the terrain. Their costumes, printed and embroidered with natural pigments, become part of the ecology of the work itself.

The project situates itself within the Dolomites — a UNESCO World Heritage site — and invites participants to recalibrate their relationship to landscape, time, and ecology through shared presence and embodied reflection. Each step along the path reveals new encounters with vegetation, light, sound, and the elemental materials of the mountains, offering spaces for contemplation, dialogue, and participation.

By presenting SENTIERO within Biennale Gherdëina ∞, Alex Cecchetti expands the discourse of contemporary art beyond the gallery and museum, asserting that art can be a path walked, a narrative lived, and a landscape felt. The project’s inclusion in this edition of the Biennale underscores its commitment to ecological thinking, collaboration, and multi-sensory engagement, situating it as a key moment in Cecchetti’s exploration of how we inhabit and imagine the world around us.

SENTIERO
WINNER OF THE ITALIAN COUNCIL 2022

Biennale Gherdëina ∞
Alex Cecchetti – Winner of the 10th Edition of the Italian Council
Val Gardena / Ortisei, ITALY

February 2022

Alex Cecchetti’s project SENTIERO has been selected as one of the winners of the 10th edition of the Italian Council, the international art promotion programme organised by the Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea of the Italian Ministry of Culture. The award, announced in February 2022, supports the global dissemination and realisation of innovative contemporary art projects, and enables SENTIERO to premiere at the 8th Biennale Gherdëina ∞ and continue its journey across prominent institutions internationally.

From 20 May to 25 September 2022, SENTIERO will be presented as part of the 8th Biennale Gherdëina ∞ in Ortisei/Urtijëi (Val Gardena, Dolomites), curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, within the unique landscape of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

SENTIERO manifests as a path immersed in nature, conceived as a collaborative community art project, a land art installation, and a performative walk-piece exploring the notion of walking itself—both physical and imaginary. The work invites participants to experience the landscape as a living narrative, rebuilding the relationship between the human body, the environment, and aesthetics.

The path is traced by Cecchetti together with a group of local guides trained by the artist. These guides accompany participants, ensuring the integrity of the work while activating its performative dimension. Wearing costumes printed with natural pigments from local plants, they tell stories, recite poems, sing, and invite the public into direct sensory cooperation with the environment.

Between 2022 and 2023, the project will continue internationally, travelling to institutions including Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol (Innsbruck, Austria), IASPIS (Stockholm, Sweden), Kestner Gesellschaft (Hannover, Germany), Somalgors74 (Tschlin, Switzerland), and MAXXI Aquila (L’Aquila, Italy). The work will then enter the permanent collection of MUSEION – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Bolzano, Italy). This institutional cycle reflects the work’s nomadic vocation and its ambition to cross cultural, political, linguistic, and species borders, especially those that historically characterise the region between North and South Tyrol.

Along the walk, experiential stations rhythm the journey of participants: places to perceive the landscape, commune with trees and other species, observe astronomical events, or simply breathe the air shaped by plant ancestors. A yurt structure, inspired by nomadic dwellings of Mongolian and Afghan cultures, is entirely embroidered and painted with natural plant dyes harvested from local flora. This structure acts as a refuge where participants can stay overnight and, in collaboration with a local chef, share a meal, a gesture of hospitality at the heart of the artwork.

The project is realised thanks to the support of the Italian Council 10th edition, recognising SENTIERO as a project of international relevance, ecological care, and poetic collaboration with the living world.

WALKING BACKWARDS
SERPENTINE GALLERIES

Walking Backwards, Alex Cecchetti
14 Sep 2019 - 11:00 AM to 15 Sep 2019 - 6:30 PM
SERPENTINE GALLERIES
Myddelton House Gardens, Enfield EN2 9HG

Artist, poet, choreographer and gardener Alex Cecchetti presented the incantation, Walking Backwards (2013-ongoing), specifically re-conceived for the eight-acre, historical garden of the little-known and enchanting Myddelton House, once the home of gardener and botanist Edward Augustus Bowles.

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Inspired by the remarkable biodiversity of the vegetation, guides led audience members, one by one, on a backwards walk. Accompanied by the whispers of a guide, as plant species, pathways and thoughts came into unexpected view, Walking Backwards weaved together dream, botany, poetry, intimacy and trust. 

Produced by Emily Rudge. Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti as part of General Ecology.

Featured Image: 
Alex Cecchetti, Walking Backwards, 2019, commissioned by the General Ecology Project at Serpentine Galleries, Myddelton House Gardens, 14-15 September 2019. Photo by Talie Rose Eigeland.

From the Home to the Museum
From the Museum to the Home
Homages to the Works of the Cerruti Collection
Chapter 2

CASTELLO DI RIVOLI

From 08 July 2019 to 06 January 2020
Castello di Rivoli
Museum of Contemporary Art
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia 
10098 Rivoli - Torino

Castello di Rivoli inaugurates the second chapter of its program of contemporary art commissions in homage to the Cerruti Collection, initiated in May 2019 to celebrate the opening to the public of this extraordinary collection. New artworks by Ed Atkins, Alex Cecchetti, Nalini Malani, and Michael Rakowitz join the works by Anna Boghiguian, Camille Henrot, Liu Ding, Giulio Paolini,Giuseppe Penone, Susan Philipsz, and Seth Price, presented last May in the first chapter of the series.

Interested in the unseen side of the Cerruti Collection – the collector’s “desire” –, Alex Cecchetti presents a delicate fabric made using some of the artist’s paintings – stitched together like precious cloth. They portray plants and sensual flowers valued for their healing properties, yet commonly considered as undesirable weeds to be ripped out. Another work by Cecchetti also addresses the erotic nature and intelligence of plants. Both a cabinet and a collection with over sixty erotic drawings, it is displayed as a counterpoint to the fabric and resonating with the Cerruti Collection. Untitled (2019), a painting on board realized for the occasion by Ed Atkins, offers another, personal interpretation of the art collector’s “desire” – an ironic and uncanny image of the collection as a self-portrait by proxy, an autobiography and public display of one’s inner world.

Inspired by one of Francisco Goya’s renowned etchings from the series Los caprichos (1799) in the Cerruti Collection, a new video by Nalini Malani interprets a tragic episode of recent Indian news. Goya’s figures and Malani’s silhouettes overlap and uncover each other, merging just to then dissolve into the cry of protest of a society where violence and oppression seem never-ending. Trough collaborative processes and rituals that involve the repair or transformation of damaged objects, the reactivation of lost memories and intangible cultures, Michael Rakowitz implements new means through which overcome war trauma – from the destruction of works of art to the fleeing of entire communities. In homage the wealth of expertise Francesco Federico Cerruti brought to Italy in the late 1950s thanks to his bookbinding business Legatoria Industriale Torinese (LIT), the artist had a book from his personal collection whose binding had been destroyed re-bound in Turin. This prayer book, written in both Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic and printed in 1935, belonged to the now departed Jewish community of Iraq, from which the artist himself hails. Since the original binding is damaged beyond repair, according to tradition, it must be buried. However, Rakowitz decided to have it sent to Turin to renew the pages proximity to one another, and “repair its words” in order to give birth to a new work.

Conceived by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev with the curatorial coordination of Sara Catenacci and the assistance of Elena D’Angelo to the production.

WALKING BACKWARDS
FOG FESTIVAL - TRIENNALE MILANO - TEATRO DELL’ARTE
Alex Cecchetti

24 — 26 MAY 2019
Secret Place

Premiere
Friday and Saturday every 30’ from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Sunday every 30’ from 11 a.m. to 12.30 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Limited availability. Performance for 1 participant at a time
Duration: 30'

“In a garden everything is green and nothing is the same.Tree after tree, step after step, the story of this garden and its plants is revealed, until it merges with our own. When we walk backwards, we leave the future behind, and the past presses in the distance in front of us, on the horizon. We have the chance to say your goodbyes. And if a branch touches our back, or a flower gently caresses our hand, suddenly it will become apparent that images do not depend on light – as we dream with our eyes closed, don’t we?” In this site-specific work by Alex Cecchetti, the spectators are invited to walk backwards along a narrative path. With a guide walking on their side and stories of trees, plants and herbs whispered in their ears, they are accompanied in this immersive experience until they become the garden itself and realise that there are no beginnings and no ends: the path welcomes all choices.

Alex Cecchetti is an Italian artist, poet, painter and performer based in Paris. His performances have been presented in museums throughout Europe, including the Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Serpentine Galleries in London, the MAXXI in Rome and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. In 2012 the CAC in Vilnius hosted his solo exhibition. In 2015, on the occasion of FIAC in Paris, he developed the project Voices of Urgencies at the École de Beaux Arts, blending poetic interventions with the social sciences. In 2017 two solo exhibitions at CCA Ujazdowski in Warsaw and at the Ferme du Buisson in France showcased his latest “post mortem” work Tamam Shud. In 2018, Spike Island in Bristol (UK) and Void in Derry (IR) have hosted exhibitions focusing on his research on musical sculptures, “At the Gate of the music Palace”. The Serpentine Galleries in London will present this year The Astronomic Weather Choir, a choir singing atmospheric events. Forthcoming this year are also collaborations with Castello di Rivoli in Turin for the Cerruti collection.

Credits
Concept: Alex Cecchetti
With: Alex Cecchetti, Edoardo Di Maria, Laura Dondi, Laura Finozzi, Claudia Gambino, Gil Giuliani, Aurora Beatrice Mamprin, Marta Zito, Fabio Zulli 
Production: FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts
With the support of: Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati - Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea
In collaboration with Francia in Scena, artistic program of the Institut français Italia / Ambasciata di Francia in Italia

PLANTSEX

Serpentine Galleries

Ciné Lumière at the French Institute / Institut français
12 Apr 2019 - 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT (map)

Fully Booked - click here to watch live

 The Serpentine Galleries' General Ecology project presents an evening of talks, screenings and performances reflecting on the long and deep relationship between botany and eroticism. Participants include Chloe Aridjis, Alex Cecchetti, Emanuele Coccia, Jenna Sutela, Laurence Totelin and more, as well as films by Melanie Bonajo, Dineo Seshee Bopape and Victoria Sin. The evening will also mark the launch of a special, co-edited issue of MAL journal, also titled PLANTSEX.

PROGRAMME: 6:30-10:30pm

Melanie Bonajo, Night Soil: Fake Paradise (2015, video, 32')
Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, Introduction
Maria Dimitrova, MAL
Chloe Aridjis, Uprooted
Dineo Seshee Bopape, Feelin Cosmic (2008, video, 2')
Emanuele Coccia, Sex through a Third Party: Flowers and Pollination
Jenna Sutela, Let's Play: Life, 2015, audio broadcast, 3’11”
Laurence Totelin, Orchids and Lettuce: Plants as Sexual Aids in Antiquity
Alex Cecchetti, Belladonna (2016, video and live performance, singers, foley artist)
Victoria Sin, If I had the words to tell you we wouldn't be here now (2019, video, 22')
Jenna Sutela, Oceanic Feeling

PLANTSEX is curated by Lucia Pietroiusti (Curator, General Ecology, Serpentine Galleries), writer and editor Filipa Ramos and Kostas Stasinopoulos (Assistant Curator, Live Programmes, Serpentine). Producer: Holly Shuttleworth.

In partnership with the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and with the support of Fluxus Art Projects.

MAL's special issue: PLANTSEX is co-edited by Maria Dimitrova, Lucia Pietroiusti, Filipa Ramos and Kostas Stasinopoulos. 
MAL is supported by Feeld, the dating app open to all genders and sexual identities.

CONCERT PERFORMANCE

NUIT DU ROSSIGNOL

UNE SOIRÉE POÉTIQUE POUR FÊTER LE PRINTEMPS : CONCERTS, PERFORMANCES, DJ-SETS, ATELIERS, BAR ÉPHÉMÈRE...

Jeudi 21 mars 2019 à 19h00
Musée de la musique - Cité de la musique
Paris

Programmation dans le Musée, entre 19h30 et minuit 
Alex Cecchetti - performance Song of Solitude avec appeaux d'oiseaux
Jean-Boucault, Johnny Rasse, chanteurs d'oiseaux et Shani Diluka, pianiste
Molécule - création électronique autour des oiseaux
Élèves du Conservatoire de Paris - concert et chorégraphie ornithologiques
Installation d’oiseaux naturalisés du Museum national d’histoire naturelle.

Pour sa première Nuit du rossignol, le Musée de la musique expérimente un parcours jalonné de concerts, chorégraphies et performances insolites autour des oiseaux.

Le temps d’une nuit printanière, le spectateur déambule dans la collection du Musée, devient lui-même rossignol et découvre la puissance de l’imaginaire suscité aujourd’hui par les oiseaux. Dans la Rue musicale de la Cité de la musique, animations et dégustations prolongent l’expérience dans une ambiance festive et décalée.

En collaboration avec le Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, l'École de Condé, la Fondation Gecina, le Lycée Octave Feuillet, la Ligue de Protection des Oiseaux, le Musée de la chasse et de la nature, le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

Love Bar
Alex Cecchetti

OPLÀ. PERFORMING ACTIVITIES
ARTE FIERA BOLOGNA

1+2+3 February 2019
Opening hours: 17.30>19.30
Location: the Costituzione (main) entrance to the art fair

A collection of “stories to drink”, the Love Bar has existed since 2012, an apparition, a strange temporary mirage, a wild apparition. The exchange of stories and drinks – made from herbs and local plants collected by the artist himself – takes place at the bar counter, a sort of proto-theatrical stage where the role of spectator and performer becomes indistinct. In this countrified, almost renaissance setting, Cecchetti has created a place in which the speaking and the drinking happens in the mouth at the same time. Every love story told will be rewarded with a cocktail, an elixir, a potion, or another love story. For it is said that every potion is also a story, a remedy or a question. People meet at the Love Bar on leaving Arte Fiera at the end of the day in a liminal area between two worlds, a haven amidst the flow of visitors in a mental sunset that never finishes.

Alex Cecchetti is an artist, poet and Italian performer based in Paris. His artistic practice is difficult to classify. Some call it the “art of evasion”. Invisible choreographies, phantasmagorical narrations, objects that produce experience for and with the spectator are all part of his modus operandi. His performances have been presented in museums throughout Europe, including the Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the MAXXI in Rome, and the Serpentine Galleries in London.

LOVE BAR
and BOOK LAUNCH TAMAM SHUD
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Performance 31/10/2018 19:00
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Warsaw

Love Bar is a collection of stories that can be drank, and is presented as a feral apparition, a temporary wild mirage. The exchange of stories and drinks happens at the bar table, a sort of proto-theatrical stage in which the role of the spectator and that of the performer is blurred. A place in which the speaking and the drinking happens in the mouth at the same time. For each love story told there is a cocktail, a potion, an elixir, or another story.Every preparation is made with local herbs, gathered and harvested by Alex Cecchetti. It is told that each potion is at the same time a story, a remedy,and a question. Do you drink Justice or Love?

Love Bar is an ongoing project since 2012. Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw will host Love Bar on the occasion of the book launch of Tamam Shud. The book was an art project in the form of a novel by artist Alex Cecchetti that spanned more than two years, and was published in 2018!

Tamam Shud has emerged through a series of episodic performances and an exhibition featuring guided tours, seminars on poetry, synesthesia piano concerts, tarot readings, and dances on river stones—all of it sprinkled with mystery, humor, literary references, and biographical tidbits.

Tamam Shud is the post-mortem investigation of the victim into his own assassination. The only clue that detectives have recovered—found in a secret pocket sewn inside his trousers—is a fragile piece of paper torn from the pages of a book with the words Tamam Shud, “this is the end,”written on it. Experts, antiquarians, and opium smokers have been consulted. These are the last two words in the Rubaiyat, an ancient collection of esoteric poems written by a Persian poet named Omar Khayyam.

The art project and the artist’s novel are linked together as much as the life of the victim is connected to the piece of paper found in his pocket.

Join us to hear stories and to drink savoury coctails in Love Bar, before you read the novel!

CETACEANS
THANKS FOR NOTHING

Le Pont des échanges
Nuit Blanche 2018
Pont ALEXANDRE III

Le Pont des échanges
Saturday 6 October 7pm – 2am
Cetaceans (Human/Whale Choir) by Alex Cecchetti 10pm
Nuit Blanche // 2018
Pont Alexandre III 
PARIS

At the heart of the Invalides Constellation and the Super Kilomètre, created by Gaël Charbau, Artistic Director of this year’s Nuit Blanche, Thanks for Nothing will be on the Pont Alexandre III, exceptionally reserved for pedestrians for the occasion.

In the spirit of Thanks for Nothing’s previous projects, Le Pont des échanges creates a dialogue between the art world and civil associations.

From 7pm to 2am, Thanks for Nothing has created an exceptional programme with performances, readings and screenings for the visitors of Nuit Blanche.

Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Julien Derouault and the Théâtre du Corps will present an exceptional performance of their next creation Lorenzaccio, to discover at Salle Pleyel from February 1 to 10, 2019.

8 contemporary artists – Wael Alkak, Uriel Barthélémi, Alex Cecchetti, Valérie Mréjen, Melik Ohanian, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Laure Prouvost and Noé Soulier – will present works created especially for this occasion.

In parallel, Thanks for Nothing invites 5 NGOs that work towards the integration of underprivileged communities through access to culture: Fondation Abbé Pierre, agency of artists in exile, Libraries Without Borders, Cultures du cœur et Music Fund.

Thanks for Nothing also organizes a giant collection of cultural objects on the Pont Alexandre III. A list of material needs for activities and workshops organized by the NGOs has been established: books, textbooks, crayons, different pens, musical instruments, and more. Visitors of Nuit Blanche are called upon to participate in solidarity and make a donation of these objects. The programme and performances are immaterial acknowledgements for participating in the collection.

Le Pont des échanges is designed by architects and scenographers Jasmin Oezcebi and Franck Vinsot. The project is a nod to inhabited bridges, a contemporary translation of the historic Pont au Change. Spatially, the modules housing the associations are arranged on the Pont Alexandre III, creating visually and symbolically the link between the projects, artists and the visitors between the two banks of the Seine.

THANKS FOR NOTHING : Bethsabée Attali, Blanche De Lestrange, Anaïs Ds, Marine Van Schoonbeek, Charlotte von Stotzingen. With: Paula Delaplace and Katarina Jansdóttir 

Le Pont des échanges is made possible thanks to Carnibird, la Fondation Abbé Pierre and le Perchoir.

LOVE BAR
FEY RENCONTRES D’ARTS

Friday 5 October 2018 from 7pm untill the last drop
Château du Feÿ
Villecien, Yonne, 89300
France

Find the Love Bar in the middle of the forest. For each love story we have a cocktail, a potion, an elixir or another story. Every preparation is made with local herbs. Do you drink Justice or Love?

From October 5 to October 7, 2018, Feÿ – Rencontres d’arts transforms the historical Château du Feÿ into a new creative and experimental platform just 1 hour and 30 minutes away from Paris. A three-day artistic laboratory, this multidisciplinary festival gathers about a hundred artists and presents their works in a unique, otherworldly environment. Cinema, publishing, music, gastronomy, performance and visual arts encounter one another to create an ephemeral village in the green hills of Burgundy.

The Château du Feÿ was first built to serve as a second home for one of Louis XVII’s councillors. Having welcomed both Ninon de Lenclos, a French courtesan and freethinker, and Saint-Vincent de Paul, this 17th century castle is classified as a Historical Monument. It is just steps away from Joigny, a city renowned for its gastronomy, wines and architecture (19 listed monuments). It is located within a hundred acre forest and overlooks the Yonne valley, offering a breathtaking view of the Jovinian. During the last thirty years, the British author and culinary historian Anne Willan organized cooking classes with renowned chefs in the château. By opening the doors of this monument to the public for the very first time, the domain’s recent acquisition in January 2017 and the organization of Feÿ-Rencontres d’arts both participate in the revitalization of this rural French region.

info@fey-arts.com

THE ASTRONOMIC WEATHER CHOIR
ALEX CECCHETTI
VOID

Culture Night
Friday 21st September
Off-Site: Walker Plinth, Derry City Walls, IRELAND
7pm – 7.40pm: The Astronomic Weather Choir by Alex Cecchetti

Join us as a choir sing every variation in a landscape as if they were in front of a music score. From the clouds in the sky, to the breeze on top of the trees, from the celestial movement of the moon to the flickering appearing of the first stars of the evening, the choir will sing atmospheric events like rain and fog and also astronomical events that will happen in front of them, such as the movements of astral objects.

In association with the Derry Walls, the Siege Museum and Derry 400

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PERFORMANCE
ALEX CECCHETTI

CENTRE NATIONAL DES ARTS PLASTIQUES (CNAP)
LA NOUVELLE ADRESSE

Le Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) ouvre exceptionnellement, avant travaux, les portes de sa « nouvelle adresse » les 14, 15, 16 septembre dans une configuration sans lendemains ni précédents. Performances, musiques et paroles live, œuvres in situ, salon d’écoute et cinéma éphémères sont à découvrir tout le long du week-end dans cet entrepôt de 25 000 m2 , qui accueillera le nouveau Cnap en 2022.

Toute la programmation : www.cnap.fr/lanouvelleadresse

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PLUS D'UNE CENTAINE D'ARTISTES RÉUNIS AUTOUR DE 25 PROJETS

Œuvres de la collection et commandes inédites cohabitent, disposées sur le plateau du rez-de-chaussée comme sur une place publique. La peinture/lumière murale de Flora Moscovici, le dessin aérien d'Esther Ferrer, les instruments de Tarek Atoui, le gonflable Video Ozone de Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Bernard Joisten, Pierre Joseph et Philippe Parreno constituent autant de stations, activées ponctuellement lors des trois jours d’ouverture.

Les sculptures, installations et performances de Nicolas Moulin, Amalia Pica, Cécile Paris, Davide Balula et Alex Cecchetti semblent émaner du bâtiment, évoquant un passé volontiers fantasmatique.

Une programmation composée par Juliette Pollet,
avec Pascal Beausse, Philippe Bettinelli, Pascale Cassagnau, Sandra Cattini, responsables de
collection (Cnap), Max-Louis Raugel pour le Cneai (programmation LIVE = de La nouvelle adresse), Aymar Crosnier et Fany Corral.
Production artistique : Marc Sanchez, directeur du pôle développement culturel, partenariats et éditions (Cnap).

Horaires et accueil du public :
Vendredi 14 septembre : 19h-5h 
Samedi 15 septembre : 12h-20h 
Dimanche 16 septembre : 12h-20h

Tout au long du week-end, accueil par des médiateurs. 
Buvette et restauration légère sur place.
Entrée libre

Transports

81 rue Cartier-Bresson à Pantin
Métro 5 : Église de Pantin
Métro 7 : Aubervilliers – Pantin – 4 Chemins
RER E : Pantin

Des navettes circuleront tout le week-end entre La nouvelle adresse et l'ESMOD.

Signature Alex Cecchetti Tamam Shud

Palais de Tokyo

Le Palais vous invite à la signature de Tamam Shud, libre d'Alex Cecchetti

7 septembre 2018 de 19h à 21h.
Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris

Je suis mort sans identité. Les étiquettes des vêtements, les empreintes digitales, la taille des chaussures ont été décousues, supprimées, lavées, blanchies, et livrées à l'oubli. Seul indice, un petit morceau de papier caché dans une poche secrète du pantalon. Écrit-là, les derniers mots d’une poésie persane : Tamam Shud. Ceci c'est la fin (en persan).

S'emparant d'un étrange fait divers, et invoquant la musique, la littérature et la danse, Alex Cecchetti interroge les mystères de l'identité et de la disparition.

Copublié par Sternberg Press et Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Varsovie
Commissionné par The Book Lovers
Traduit de l'italien par Johanna Bishop
Design de Jakub de Barbaro
Publié en Juin 2018, anglais
11,7 x 18,7 cm, 268 pages, couverture souple
15,00 €

Alex Cecchetti, La Chapelle aux cent mille yeux

FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur 

Solo Show / Exposition Personelle

Du vendredi 31 août au dimanche 14 octobre 2018
plateau expérimental
Vernissage vendredi 31 août - 18h30 à l’occasion de la nocturne
Nocturnes jusqu’à 22 h vendredi 31 août et samedi 1er septembre
Entrée libre de 18h30 à 22hCommissaire : Pascal Neveux

En partenariat avec Paréidolie, 5e édition du Salon international du dessin contemporain

"J’essaie de créer des chapelles dans tous les centres d’art ou toutes les expositions auxquelles je suis invité. Ces chapelles fonctionnent comme des espaces qui concentrent et accentuent le caractère de la vie auquel elles se réfèrent. L’exposition La Chapelle aux cent mille yeux évoque l’érotisme et la sexualité et leur rapport aux souvenirs et aux expériences partagées. Le cabinet érotique, avec ses scènes d’amour mythologiques revisitées, et ses copulations fantastiques, a été inspiré par les fleurs. Il s’ouvre comme une fleur, pétale après pétale, invitant le spectateur à entrer de plus en plus dans sa structure. Voile après voile, pétale après pétale la récompense est aussi un piège, et une vue de l’extérieur se révèle dans le dernier dessin du cabinet."
Alex Cecchetti