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Writings against time
ph: Nicola Galli
ph: Matteo de Fina
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ph: Nicola Galli
concept
Francesca Pennini
action and creation:
Andrea Amaducci (grafica live)
Francesca Pennini (movimento)
artistic residency:
Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
performance for exhibition and urban spaces
year 2009
duration 20 minutes
A live dialogue between a dancer and a visual artist in the attempt to grab the instant in the only way possible: transforming it under the impulse of perception from one hand to the other in a rigorous proliferation of movements, sounds and images.
While Francesca moves on a white panel, Andrea jumps from one side to the other, closes his eyes and opens them just for a second, than he sketches the frame he just saw.
Ephemeral actions that tries to catch each other despite their fleetingness, bouncing between movement and writing and leaving trace of its existence in a visual art work as the score of a past moment.
And in the midst of this magnetic field, made of fragments of allusions and impulses, what is most fascinating is the trace that movement can leave of itself: the only truly meaningful one, which passes through the experience of others, planting itself there and sprouting, modified. Perhaps even augmented.
This is how Pennini's movement—made of arms suspended toward another that then dissolve into vigorous serpentine shapes; fingers with a feverish tremor, almost sounding the air; and rubbery legs that are always seeking unexpected supports and pathways—becomes a huge stylized painting with dozens of human creatures in motion, a painting in which the dancer can contemplate her altered and multiplied image.
And so the spectator, perhaps blinding themselves in the same luminous darkness from which Andrea Amaducci's drawings emerge, can find their own path of interpretation in that jungle of limbs and movement frames, fused into a dynamic trail in which it is easy to get lost.
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