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NY – High Line, Thursday May 24
Simone Forti, Huddle. In Simone Forti’s experimental dance, which was originally performed in 1961, dancers begin by tightly hugging each other with their knees bent to form a huddle. The huddle then moves along the High Line as one dancer after another detaches from the group, climbs the human formation, and reunites with the huddle. Read “Simone Forti: Voice in movement/voicing movements” by meghan dellacrosse in Fruit of the Forest issue#2, spring 2012 WWW.THEHIGHLINE.ORG
Milan, Tuesday May 8
Marselleria presents SUN RA a solo show by Ettore Favini. The relationship between time, public space, and nature are in fact among the recurrent themes in the artist practice, and obsession for time is a constant. At the source of his new series of works, on display at Marselleria: giving exposure to an invisible phenomenon, attempting to give shape to time, to narrate it, through a process that has lasted a year. Observing the solar analemma (the technical term of the Sun’s movement across the sky) restores a shape that is similar to an 8, the lemniscate of mathematics, the symbol of infinity. Opening the show SunRa is a work on canvas and an action dedicated to Io che prendo il sole a Torino il 19 gennaio 1969, by Alighiero Boetti. From May 9 to 25, 2012 at Marsèlleria, Via Paullo 12/A, Milan WWW.MARSELLERIA.ORG
Milano, 13 – 23 aprile
UP/MARKET Viale di Porta Vercellina 15 opening venerdi’ 13 aprile
Il design mischiato all’arte, in un luogo fuori dalle speculazioni, recuperato dall’abbandono è a pochi passi dal carcere di San Vittore dove Diana Marrone promuove e produce up/market. 14 firme presentano il loro ideale di habitat in una vecchia officina. Non-tavoli (Simone Berti), un postoristoro e molto altro (Natascia Fenoglio), una collezione di gesti (serenagaldo); un tramonto, un bersaglio e un centrotavola (Alice Guareschi); una giara e una sciarpa (Greece is For Lovers), una sala da bagno in mezzo al salotto (Patrick Hubmann), una collezione intera di arredi marmo di recupero (Giacomo Ravagli); una sedia-ritratto (Karen Ryan); una foresta di lupini (Nicola Toffolini), una collezione di arredi fatta di abiti (Von Pelt), un libro straordinario e uno space divider (Danilo Capasso); uno studio fotografico in trasferta (Alessandro Cimmino); un puntello di quadrifogli (Sabine Delafon) e gli arredi di esterni (una transenna-fioriera e tavoli con cavalletti mobili, da personalizzare). Infine, un catalogo ongoing per “bookare” inventori di sogni (e di mondi) che sarà accresciuto a ogni prossima edizione di up/market in altre città europee. Photo courtesy Beppe Brancato e pr/undercover WWW.PRUNDERCOVER.COM
MILAN, Thursday April 12
Fruit of the Forest BOX 10 @ MiArt – International Modern and Contemporary Art fair. Viale Scarampo, Gate 5, Pavilion 3, Milan
Faenza, giovedi’ 29 marzo
NUOVO – Palazzo Esposizioni, corso Mazzini 92 ore 22:00 Live set di matrice elettronica con Stargate (I), Dracula Lewis (I), Sewn Leather (USA) WWW.NUOVO.TW
NUOVO Canedicoda live 30/31 marzo, 1 aprile
Every night, from 9.30 pm to 8.30 pm. Installation live performance at Palazzo Esposizioni, corso Mazzini 92, Faenza WWW.NUOVO.TW
Los Angeles to Saturday May 12
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles 1945-1980 Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian Theatre 6712 Hollywood Blvd - Los Angeles, CA 90028
( in the pictures) Hand Held Day (1975) by Gary Beydler An entire Arizona day in six minutes of Kodachrome, breathtakingly contained by a small mirror held in the filmmaker’s hand. 16 mm film, color, silent 6 minutes © Gary Beydler. Courtesy of Mike and David Beydler
FAENZA, 29-30-31 marzo, 1 aprile WORKSHOP con Alessandro Gori.Laboratorium
Per la seconda edizione di NUOVO – confini porosi > Laboratorio di grafica sperimentale con Alessandro Gori.Laboratorium. Alessandro Gori e’ un graphic designer con attitudine interdisciplinare ( magazine designer di Fruit of the Forest – colui che ha disegnato i font e ne ha costruito l’identita’ visiva), svilupperà per NUOVO, da giovedi’ 29 marzo fino a domenica 1 aprile, un laboratorio sulla grafica sperimentale . Lavora, tra gli altri, per Pitti Immagine e Pitti Discovery, Central Saint Martins, Raf Simons, Emilio Pucci, Kinkaleri, Damiani, Marsilio, RCS, Museo Pecci Milano, Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi… WWW.NUOVO.TW
Long Island City, Sunday March 18
MoMA PS1 @ 1:30 pm 22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101
Michael Bullock presents Yemenwed and The Freaky Boiz with DJ sets by Honey Dijon and Michael Magnan. Tired of changing the words around in hit songs to make them relevant to their own lives, The Freaky Boiz took to Youtube and uploaded some videos featuring themselves rapping in bed, often shirtless. With only smart lyrics and loads of charisma these videos have attracted over a million views. The Freaky Boiz are 22 year old Terrance “TTgotit” Wilson and Pierre “P-Weezy” Phipps. WWW.MOMAPS1.ORG
Karlsruhe, Sunday March 11
Workshop with Simone Forti ZKM |Museum of Contemporary Art Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
Moments. A History of Performance in 10 Acts is a live exhibition on the history and relationship of dance, performance and fine art. Live acts will be performed throughout the course of the exhibition. The project elaborates and presents new formats and methods in a dynamic presentation of performance history in the museum before and with the public. The thematic focus of Moments is the “heroic” period of performance history of the 1960s through to the 1980s, and in this case, specifically the performances of women. WWW.ZKM.DE
BERLIN, Saturday March 10
Chert
Skalitzerstr. 68 /10997 Berlin
The german artist Heike Kabisch (Munster 1978) has been producing sculptures and installations which detach themselves completely from all what the spectator expects from young contemporary sculpture: Kabisch goes right back to figuration and representation creating her subjects from real studio models who need to pose in sometimes very awkward an uncomfortable positions. WWW.CHERT-BERLIN.COM
NEW YORK, Thursday March 8, 7 p.m.
New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street
Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Paul Holdengraber will explore the many lessons of Metabolism—the first non-western avant-garde movement—for today: how an activist state mobilized its best talents and meticulously planned the future of its cities, how the media adopted the architect as a serious agent of social change (rather than the hyped “starchitect”), how various disciplines—architecture, art, sociology, technology—collaborated to produce something new… WWW.NYPL.ORG
NEW YORK, Thursday March 1
Sculpture, painting, installations, and photography – as well as dance, theater, music, and film – will fill the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The 2012 Biennial takes over most of the Whitney from March 1 through May 27. WWW.WHITNEYBIENNIAL
BROOKLYN, Sunday February 26
SOLOWAY presents: Krypta an exhibition of the collaborative group DRAOK. Giorgio Guidi and Marta Pierobon formed Draok in 2010 to work collaboratively on shared interests including architecture, perception and social systems. Both Guidi and Pierobon grew up in the city of Brescia, outside Milan – Italy – where they where inspired by the cathedral of St. Filastrio: an interesting architectural composite, layering of different historical forms and styles that make up the present building, from the secretive crypt to the public place of worship. For the exhibition at Soloway, the artists have rebuilt this labyrinthine structure, as a theater set. WWW.SOLOWAY.INFO WWW.SHORTVISIT.IT
LOS ANGELES, Sunday February 26
TOTAL LOOK at MOCA PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER.
The Creative Collaboration Between Rudi Gernreich, Peggy Moffitt, and William Claxton.
MOCA.ORG
SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday February 18
Language, performativity, and process are preoccupations for many contemporary artists. The works in Descriptive Acts engage with both text and image, foregrounding complex and often fraught acts of description, narration, translation, and communication. The exhibition is presented in two consecutive configurations: Act I (February 18 through April 15, 2012) features works by Aurélien Froment, Dora García, Shilpa Gupta, John Smith, and Tris Vonna-Michell; Act II (April 21 through June 17, 2012) highlights works by Anthony Discenza, Gupta, Lynn Marie Kirby and Li Xiaofei, Smith, and Vonna-Michell.
WWW.SFMOMA.ORG
NEW YORK, Wednesday February 15
The 2012 New Museum Triennial will feature thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives—totaling over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US. The Triennial is curated by Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs. WWW.NEWMUSEUM.ORG
Friday 11 May 2012 posted by fruitoftheforest
Kal Rieman is a line designed by Cally Rieman that is astonishingly bold in its simplicity. It may at first seem contradictory that her primary aesthetic inspiration is the 19th century English gentleman dandy, who, although not titled, lived a way of life that eschewed the values of the emerging, crass bourgeoisie (how unsettling was the French Revolution!) in favor of the more refined values of gentlemanly conduct: an elegant, understated manner of dress, attention to quality details and materials, personal grooming, and the pursuit of higher intellectual ideas—art, music, design, philosophy. The idea, first made popular by self-made George Bryan “Beau” Brummell, was not to appear to be trying, but rather to affect unfettered elegance as a matter of course, to pull back from excess and pomposity.
This basic look originated in the Regency period of the early 1800s—think of Colin Firth in his high crisp collars in Pride and Prejudice, tortured that he cannot rid his mind of Elizabeth Bennett, leaving a strenuous fencing bout (in a fabulous flowing white shirt) to plunge himself hotly in a nearby pond. (Tom Ford certainly did not forget that white shirt when he styled Firth for A Single Man.) When you compare the look of the 19th century dandy, dressed in dark blue or black and white color scheme, to that of the 18th century gentleman—with his stuffy wigs, powdered face and satin, brocaded waistcoats—it was a quantum leap in the right direction.
So, let’s bring this all back to women’s fashion because both sides of the dandy story make sense in the context of the Kal Rieman aesthetic. The simplicity and restraint of the 19th century dandy is lovingly translated into the austerity of Kal Rieman designs, but also, for a woman, the act of wearing a tailored, masculine suit is a statement of independence and courage, fitting the definition of the modern-age dandy. A dynamic woman dressed in men’s attire is always arresting when it’s done with authenticity—think of Marlene Dietrich, Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, or Janelle Monáe, all of whom have, in different ways, created memorable images of female strength and purpose. Rieman, in fact, on her blog quotes Dietrich, “I dress for myself. Not for image, not for fashion, not for the public, not for men.” Again and again, Rieman returns to the tailoring and profile of Yves Saint Laurent’s iconic tuxedo suit circa 1968, not just for the lines, but because what it meant in the 1960s for a woman to wear a man’s suit—“I’m an equal being”—still rings true today. Rieman’s goal is to “open up the world of the suit” for women and allow them to move forward effortlessly in self-reliance.
(by anne shisler-hughes)
the entire article in Fruit of the Forest #2
Saturday 5 May 2012 posted by fruitoftheforest
Il romanticismo a cui allude Robert Fekete (1987, Satu Mare, Romania) sembra risalire direttamente all’origine del termine romantico, ovvero l’aggettivo inglese romantic, attestato nel Seicento con il valore di inverosimile, quello stesso termine che successivamente assunse il significato di fantastico. Il termine venne applicato, in pittura, ai paesaggi selvatici e pittoreschi, con un significato in opposizione alle forme d’arte razionaliste. L’artista, nello sviluppo della produzione più recente, si è concentrato sulla distanza tra uomo e natura, tra desiderio e possibilità. (by marco tagliafierro)
Wednesday 2 May 2012 posted by michela
CANDIDATE Lovett/Codagnone - Michele Pauli (Casino Royale)
Chi sono? CANDIDATE è una ghost-band.
Com’è iniziata? Com’è avvenuto, cos’è successo? È da trent’anni che ci studiamo… ora ci siamo scelti.
Il vostro primo lavoro? It’s Necessary che era parte dell’installazione When Darkness Falls Again, 2009, era un’urgenza, hard-core, ed è stata soddisfatta spontaneamente.
Qual è la caratteristica principale del vostro suono? Le affinità elettive, CANDIDATE.
Quali sono gli strumenti con i quali vi piace lavorare? Laptop.
Come realizzate le performance? Come un attacco.
Qual è la vostra nozione di tempo? Il tempo è una percezione in “discesa”.
Cosa vi ispira? Le idee degli altri.
L’ultimo lavoro che avete realizzato? Potete descriverlo? 4.25.11, un benefit concert per Participant Inc. a New York (a cui hanno partecipato Jim Fletcher, Gary Indiana e Kate Valk). Al momento stiamo lavorando all’installazione La verità è figlia del tempo, non dell’autorità / Truth Is Born of the Times, not of Authority che presenteremo al Museo Marino Marini di Firenze il 3 maggio 2012 con una performance di CANDIDATE, Like Nightfall in the Morning con partecipazione di Sandra Ceccarelli, Gary Indiana e Marco Mazzoni. Il catalogo della mostra contiene anche il primo vinile di CANDIDATE.
… se dico rumore, cosa rispondete? Il rumore è un segno di vitalità.
Guardando al mondo che ci circonda, cosa vi piace? Poco, ma ci divertiamo a decontestualizzarlo nel racconto.
Wednesday 18 April 2012 posted by michela
Fruit of the Forest presents Frutti di bosco
a very special italian edition featuring: marco tagliafierro on milan, meghan dellacrosse from new york, lyra kilston from los angeles, ayaki aron hortz on tokyo. milovan farronato meets chiara fumai, sabrina ciofi introduces todays italian fashion. Also david casini, servomuto, candidate, seth, hilde de decker, stars and much more….
