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Photo: ©Kateryna Gorina - Fog Triennale Milano Performing Arts

Photo: ©Kateryna Gorina - Fog Triennale Milano Performing Arts

June 3, 2019

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

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The wait is over, Tamam Shud, the artist's novel by Alex Cecchetti, is here! Edited by The Book Lovers, published by Sternberg Press and Ujazdowski CCA Warsaw, Tamam Shud is the outcome of a two-year long art project that entailed five episodic perf…

The wait is over, Tamam Shud, the artist's novel by Alex Cecchetti, is here! Edited by The Book Lovers, published by Sternberg Press and Ujazdowski CCA Warsaw, Tamam Shud is the outcome of a two-year long art project that entailed five episodic performances, an exhibition, and the artist's novel itself. Details of the protracted creative process can be found here: http://www.thebooklovers.info

Soon in your favourite book store!

NEW BOOK:
MANQUE D’IMAGINATION
Alex Cecchetti 2016
Les Contemporaines
Idex Sorbonne Paris Cité
Éditions P


The book MARIE & WILLIAM is out now on MOUSSE - MIDI publishing! 


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TAMAM SHUD on the radio
FRANCE CULTURE

LA DISPUTE par Arnaud Laporte

LISTEN HERE

Au menu de La Dispute ce soir : la première rétrospective César au Centre Pompidou, l'hommage à Degas par Paul Valéry au Musée d'Orsay et l'expérience symphonique et immersive d'Alex Cecchetti à la Ferme du Buisson.


Discover photos and video of Alex Cecchetti at Serpentine Galleries "Summer is not the Prize of Winter"


Hear the "Tamam Shud" for Lezioni d'Italiano at  Fiorucci Art Trust


Read Alex Cecchetti ""Clouds As Propellers" on The Nordic Notebook of Anthony Blunt


BBC

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THE ART SHOW program

radio interview on BBC about the solo show : At The Gate Of The Music Palace at Void, Derry, Irland

Listen here


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BBC
SOUND SCAPE

BBC just released a sound scape episode of my solo show "At The Gates Of The Music Palace" at Void in Derry, Ireland. You can listen to the podcast here

CONTACT: alex.cecchetti.studio(at)gmail.com