Marsèll and Marsèlleria at ALCOVA 2018

Marsèll e Marsèlleria sono ospitati dallo spazio ALCOVA in occasione del Fuorisalone.

Comunicato stampa

On the occasion of Alcova, Marsèll presents an iconic display with rough wooden beams, designing a space inside the space that hosts and represents the multifaceted world of Marsèll.
The structure hosts Marsèll On paper, some pieces of the FW 18-19 collection and works as a set for an events program realized in collaboration with Marsèlleria, with performances, sound activations and readings.
Among the program guests, the artists Jacopo Miliani, Canedicoda, Gianandrea Poletta and Eva Geist.

Program

Wednesday 18/04, 3 – 6 pm
Jacopo Miliani
A slow dance without a name, 2016
Performance
with Antonio Torres

A Slow Dance Without Name is a study about language’s performative power through the act of deconstructing a performative-striptease action. In the performance, dance becomes the starting point for a reflection on the construction of desire. The way such desire flows through all the works in the exhibition constitutes a metaphor enabling one to rethink the conditions for constructing personal and collective imageries.

Thursday 19/04
ALCOVA opening - 5.30 - 8 pm
Eva Geist
Live

Geist's music builds up a cinematic musical journey around rarefied melodies, arpeggiators, soft beats and space disco. "Drum box bossa and trance inducing synthesis" braid an enigmatic story which counterparts are modern tribalism and spiritual technocracy.

Friday 20/04, 3 - 6 pm
Ottaven.
SPRM#123456
Sound activation

Ottaven is the name that Canedicoda chose for his intimate relationship with sound. Music is sound or silence - a sensation bearer. Sound is something physical, a medium for messages and meanings. It’s important to also know to be repetitive, digging and insisting into actions. Ottaven reflects on the idea of a weight of oral/sound language inside our daily life: how much language and message are tied to tones. Through his music he tries to narrate something about his feelings, combining them with concentration and improvisation.

Saturday 21/04, 5.30 pm
Gianandrea Poletta. Taboo
Reading

In collaboration with Untitled Association
Positioning itself between drawing, sculpture and writing, the work of Gianandrea Poletta is defined by the artist’s own life experiences. In his first artist’s book TABOO, published by Cura.books, a selection of short stories written in the first person, lo-fi cell phone pictures, and a rich array of ink and marker pen drawings, are brought together in a sequence that overlaps mediums and temporalities. For Poletta experience underlies and triggers his entire production process, from his chronicle writings from the underground of Milan to his livid gestural drawings depicting ambiguous figures. The artist is not afraid of telling the truth and TABOO is as much a ‘bildungsroman’ or coming of age book as it is a praxis in anarchy and freedom. The book includes an introductory text by Attilia Fattori Franchini.
A limited numbered and signed special edition comes with this book.

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Marsèll highly recommends, inside ALCOVA program, Gataus, a project by Mirko Rizzi and Canedicoda.

Tuesday 17/04 - Sunday 22/04
GATAUS

All along the program time Gataus is also on display, a project by Mirko Rizzi in collaboration with Canedicoda: a series of unique pieces, joining the theme of home with cat - classic domestic animal -, design object and the artist figure, intended as an element of connection and imagination of new possible spaces.

The first series of Gataus is exposed at Alcova.
Different contemporary artists, operating in the most various ways, will be asked to produce seven diverse editions of Gataus.

On this special occasion a series of small marble bowls by William West is also on display.

HOME, CAT, ARTIST
Subjects that include multiple world aspects, far concepts longing for improbable contact points, that become possible and stimulating. Does the artist know the cat? Does the cat know the artist? The house is the artist’s or the cat’s one? Which kind of house would the cat build for the artist?
House as space and home.
Cat as alive and animal presence.
Artist as a trait d’union and additive, a creative enzyme for processes and functions.
Gataus is a project, a trial of an island inhabited by felines and a temporary residency for artists that will build houses and other things…