Il MACRO presenta Secret Garden, mostra dell’artista camerunense Pascale Marthine Tayou, tra i più significativi della scena artistica contemporanea. La sua poetica – così come il nome declinato al femminile – è deliberatamente eterogenea, priva di schemi predeterminati; ne scaturiscono opere che sono esito di un processo artistico sospeso tra il racconto eccentrico del quotidiano e la necessità di mescolare culture, situazioni, peculiarità umane e geografie.
 
Per la sua personale al MACRO l’artista ha operato in stretta connessione con gli spazi espositivi dedicandosi, come suggerisce il titolo, alla magia dei luoghi e al fascino della luce e delle forme architettoniche del Museo, sfruttando l’altezza e la singolare estensione della Sala Enel. Denominatore comune delle sue opere è l’idea di viaggio, non solo fisico ma anche mentale, che si manifesta come un incessante nomadismo geografico e culturale anche nella scelta di materiali (scarti e detriti urbani o oggetti quotidiani provenienti spesso dal luogo in cui si trova a lavorare).
 
Due opere hanno anticipato questa grande mostra: Plastic Bags, una monumentale installazione di oltre 10 metri d’altezza esposta nella Hall del museo da marzo 2012 e l’opera site-specific Crazy Wall. The Red Line realizzata per la mostra NEON. La materia luminosa dell’arte. Entrambe le opere fanno parte della mostra, assieme alle installazioni The Magic Calabash, composta da un’enorme quantità di zucche sospese, e Black Diamonds, in cui strutture in ferro dalla forma di diamante scendono dall’alto; completano l’esposizione i recenti lavori realizzati per il Musée d'Aquitaine di Bordeaux, come la serie di sculture Poupées Pascale, vestite di cioccolato ed esposte su colonne greche, i Sauveteur Vendor e Masques, eseguite in cristallo e materiali vari, e le stampe fotografiche di grandi dimensioni Les Fresques.

A Theatre Cycle | Workshops
 
Marinella Senatore
Common Archive School
 
Monday 25 - Friday 29 June 2013,
10 am -1 pm and 4 - 7 pm
Teatro Valle Occupato, Via del Teatro Valle 21, Roma
 
Nomas Foundation in collaboration with Teatro Valle Occupato closes A Theatre Cycle, a cycle of events focusing on theatre, with Common Archive School, a workshop by Marinella Senatore, which follows Cantiere Comune di Immaginario Politico, a performance-event conducted by the artists Marzia Migliora and Luigi Coppola.
 
Common Archive School is an open workshop, which will activate an education process involving people of different age and background, the disciplines that will be addressed span from illumination to writing, with a focus on the relation between theatre and cinema dramaturgy.
 
Common Archive School is a branch of The School of Narrative Dance a nomadic school, proposing a didactic system based on emancipation, inclusion, self-education, that aims at rethinking social structures and organization, founded by Marinella Senatore in 2013.
The school is based on storytelling and is rooted in a variety of languages, from cinema to performance, stage techniques, poetry, oral history, and offers the occasion to its participants and communities to share individual skills and acquire new knowledge. The School of Narrative Dance involves activists, academics, workers associations, teachers and whoever is interested, in the attempt to foster education, sustainability, and the transmission of practical knowledge.
 
Common Archive School will involve external tutors as well as professionals formed in the course of the educational programme of Teatro Valle Occupato and aims at creating an archive of collective memories, shared narratives and stories.
 
Marinella Senatore was born in 1977 in Cava dei Tirreni, Italy. She lives and works in Berlin. After graduating from the Accademy of Fine Arts in Naples, she continued her studies at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome, where she learned about the light, its effects and its narrative potential. As an artist and filmmaker, in her projects -often developed in collaboration with institutions, museums and universities- she involves entire communities. The public participate as co-writer, actor and director of the entire creative process.
In 2010 she won the New York Prize, in 2011 the scholarship of the American Academy in Rome and in 2012 the Italian Cultural Institute Gotham Prize, New York.
 
Solo exhibitions (selected): The trilogy, Viafarini DOCVA, Milan (2012); Rosas, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2012); Rosas, Peres Project Gallery, Berlin (2012); Abierto Por Obras, Matadero, Madrid (2012); Perfect Lives, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2012); Furla Art Award, Bologna (2011); Roommates, MACRO, Rome (2010)
Group exhibitions (selected): 11ª Havana Biennal, Artistic Practices and Social Imaginaries, La Havana, Cuba (2012); Visible Award, Serpentine Gallery, London (2012); Moscow International Biennal, Moscow (2012); Mission Afterviews, Victoria Theater, San Francisco (2012); Dublin Contemporary - Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance; Dublin (2011); ILLUMInazioni - ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennal, Venice (2011); Persona in meno, Fondazione Sandretto Re Raudabengo, Guarene d’Alba (2010); Italics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008)
 
Entrance and participation in the workshop is free, you can join one lesson or the entire programme
For information and registration: intern@nomasfoundation.com
Tel: +39 (0)6 86398381
www.nomasfoundation.com
www.teatrovalleoccupato.it
 
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