Poetry is my passion

La poesia é la mia passione

Cecilie Hjelvik Andersen e Bruno Muzzolini

Da un’idea di Cecilie Hjelvik Andersen e Bruno Muzzolini il teaser Dips presentato dalla Fondazione Arthur Cravan racconta le pratiche di Meisam Seraj, poeta e body builder iraniano. Il suo tempo diviso tra poesia e allenamenti in palestra funziona come un dispositivo che attiva domande intorno al concetto di limite: fino a che punto possiamo andare oltre le nostre possibilità fisiche e in che luogo possiamo trovare nuove articolazioni del linguaggio? Con una narrazione non lineare e sospesa Dips ci parla di muscoli, poesia e cuori infranti, tra la ricerca di una forma e le energie che abitano i nostri desideri. La Fondazione Arthur Cravan, è ispirata al performer dadaista A. Cravan ed ha l’obbiettivo di supportare, produrre e promuovere idee e progetti considerati ‘Irrealizzabili’, ‘non convenzionali’ e ‘Senza Futuro’. La Fondazione Arthur Cravan è a cura di Cose Cosmiche.

COSE COSMICHE è una piattaforma di ricerca, produzione e collisione di idee in cui artisti, scienziati e ricercatori provenienti da varie discipline sono invitati a presentare le loro ricerche più recenti. Le arti e le scienze hanno utilizzato i concetti di spazio, tempo, energia, vuoto per definire l’universo in cui viviamo e proporre sempre nuove forme, idee e teorie per rappresentare e spiegare il mondo. COSE COSMICHE è a cura di Helga Franza e Silvia Hell.  www.cosecosmiche.org

Poetry is my passion

Cecilie Hjelvik Andersen e Bruno Muzzolini

From an idea by Cecilie Hjelvik Andersen and Bruno Muzzolini the Dips teaser presented by the Arthur Cravan Foundation recounts the practices of Iranian poet and body builder Meisam Seraj. His time divided between poetry and the exercise sessions in the gym functions as a device that activates questions around the concept of limit: how far can we reach beyond our physical possibilities and in which place can we find new articulations of language? With a non-linear and suspended narrative Dips speaks to us of muscles, poetry and broken hearts - between the search for a form and the energies that inhabit our desires.

Cecilie Hjelvik Andersen born in Porsgrunn, Norway in 1984. She finished her Master’s Program in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at NABA (Milan, Italy) in February 2016 – where she also earned her BFA (2013). Prior to, and after her studies she lived and worked in Spain for approximately 8 years in total. At the moment she is in Oslo.
A part from several group shows and a couple of solo shows (Dear Mr. President – AVTO Istanbul (2017), FINISSAGE – Milano 2015, BAHAMAS – Room galleria Milano (2013) she has participated as a performer in numerous events with among others Nicolò Parsenziani – VideoSoundArt Festival, Villa Simonetta, Milano (2012), Marcello Maloberti – Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennial (2013), Steve Piccolo – reading, magazine E il Topo, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano (2013), driver for director Alessandra Galletta during the making of documentary Ossessione Vezzoli, MOCA – Los Angeles (2014), project coordinator for the unedited performance One hundred people say UMBRELLA by John Baldessari, NABA, Milano (2015) as a performer for Cassina 9.0: 2017-1927, Horizontal Freedom, Fuorisalone at Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Milano (2017) as well as a performer at Villa Paradiso, Oslo (2018 - current). In 2012 she attended the VIR Viafarini-in-residence program, in 2016 she held a talk at the ArtHouse (Skhodra, Albania) and in 2018 she participated at the amazing Senseless Residency curated by Cose Cosmiche. Between 2012 – 2014 she worked as an assistant to artist Adrian Paci, September – November 2015 assistant to architect and curator Lorenza Baroncelli for the Serpentine Pavilion and Summer Houses 2016 as well as assistant to artist Aldo Gigli for Papaya, Marbella (2017).

Bruno Muzzolini born in Brescia in 1964. He graduated in Painting at the Brera Academy and later at the IUAV in Venice. He currently teaches video at the Brera Academy. His work has been exhibited on multiple occasions in Private Galleries and Public Institutions, in personal and collective exhibitions, Art Fairs and festivals dedicated to video art, including: Listasafni ASI, Reykjavik -54 International Art Exhibition of the Biennale Venice, Italian Pavilion, Corderie dell’Arsenale, – National Gallery of Kosovo, Prishtina – SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico – at the National Gallery of Arts Tirana – at MAMM of Medellin in Colombia – The Living Art Museum of Reykjavik, Iceland – Palace of the Arengario Milan – Mercahandise Mart, Chicago, USA – Laboratorio Museum, Città S. Angelo, Italy – Videoart Yearbook 2009, Bologna – Fabioparisartgallery of Brescia Italy – Galleryonthemove of Tirana – Parallel, Vienna, Austria – MART, Museum of Modern Art e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto – Multimedia Gallery, Brescia – Fies Central, Dro, Trento – Basel Switzerland Scope – Artissima Turin – Artefera Bologna – Miart Milan – Art Fair Suomi19, Helsinki – Art Cologne. In 2007 he won the first prize at the Venice Video Art Fair and his work was awarded at the National Gallery of Tirana, Onufri Prize.

Arthur Cravan Foundation, inspired by the Dadaist performer A. Cravan, is dedicated to supporting, producing, and promoting projects and ideas deemed to be “unrealizable,” “non-conventional” and “No Future”. Curated by Cose Cosmiche.

COSE COSMICHE is a catalyst/platform for artists, scientists and researchers from various disciplines interested in reflecting and exchanging views on space, time, energy and matter. Cose Cosmiche is curated by Helga Franza and Silvia Hell. www.cosecosmiche.org