Enrico Vezzi: L’ordine immaginario / Cecilia Bertoni: Danze vuote

On Saturday, November 19, from 5 to 8pm, in the SPE-Performance and Exhibition Space—Tenuta Dello Scompiglio (Lucca, Italy), the following installations will open: Enrico Vezzi: L’ordine immaginario (The Imaginary Order) and Cecilia Bertoni: Danze vuote (Empty Dances)

Enrico Vezzi: L’ordine immaginario (The Imaginary Order)
Curated by Angel Moya Garcia
Until February 26, 2023

L’ordine immaginario, is a work in which natural elements, history and political books and artefacts of various cultures unfold like a constellation that flows according to how history has passed through us, not in chronological or predetermined order, but as a flow, according to the suggestions that emerge during the physical construction of the work. A counter-narrative of the relationship between man and the natural environment that invites us to a physical journey, stimulating considerations on the relationship that each of us has with the current order of the world and questioning ourselves on current events to understand where humanity took the wrong path in its history. A research on current propensities, how they have evolved and how they have led us to conceive society and culture as we know it today. Read more.

Enrico Vezzi was born in 1979 in San Miniato (Pisa). In 2005, he graduated in Psychology at the University of Florence. Since his debut, Vezzi considers art as a means for stimulating new thinking on the relationship between collective history and personal memory. His works are always an attempt to trace the relationship of historical memory to the places to which it is connected. All of his projects show the process in which the work manifests itself and seeks to encourage and form a dialogue aimed at change.

Cecilia Bertoni: Danze vuote (Empty Dances)
Curated by Angel Moya Garcia
Until February 26, 2023

Four panels suspended in the darkness give life to a visual poem that is also a tribute to the work of Samuel Beckett and to his literary word, stripped to the limits of its expressive possibility. Through the language of embroidery, the linens and fabrics that make up the installation become the surface on which are imprinted textures of tight spaces, images of locked out or dancing figures and words engraved in relief like scars, in a poetic universe suspended between immateriality and incarnation. Read more.

Cecilia Bertoni was born in 1961 and grew up in Italy, but lived elsewhere. Poetry, musicality, the architecture of the body and of space in movement—or not, and their dynamics—are the subjects of her research. The spaces suspended between life and death, between dreaming and awake, are the scenes in which these subjects play and are played out, like fragments of memory and of longing: the absence of what is no more and what is yet to be.

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Opening of L’ordine immaginario, Danze vuote (November 19): free admission