Every Thursday 6pm
Enrico Astuni
Invites you to attend to
Censor
A performance signed by Simone Forti that will take place weekly in the exhibition space of Galleria Enrico Astuni, until May the 15th, as part of the double group show 66|16 curated by Lorenzo Bruni.
Simone Forti, Censor, 1960-2016, two people, a pot, screws, audio.
On the occasion of the exhibition 66|16 Enrico Astuni Gallery presents Censor, an action Forti first performed in 1961 in Yoko Ono’s loft within an evening of performances she called Five Dance Constructions & Some Other Things.
The work Censor is in collection at the MOMA in New York, it was lent after the artist specific request, to provide a new reason for being. The sequence of photographs of the different actions will constitute a poster / document unedited for its genre.
Simone Forti (Florence 1938; lives and works in Los Angeles), is an Italian American artist, coreographer and dancer, pioneer of modern and contemporary dance. During the Fifties she studied in the workshop that Annah Halprin founded in San Francisco and then she will continue to follow her in the Dance Improvisation’s practice. In New York she knew the work of John Cage and she attended classes at the Merce Cunningham Studio. Here, Simone met and began to work with some pioneers of the Postmodern Dance as Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton, who cited her Dance Construction as a work which encouraged them to establish the Judson Dance Theatre.
Censor, performance by Simone Forti for the 66 16 curated by Lorenzo Bruni, Allevents.eu