Alex Cecchetti
Art Center
Fri 3 Dec 2016 at 7 pm - Abreuvoir
Manque d'imagination
presentation-performance / with contralto Anne-Fleur Inizan and countertenor Florian Ranc
Currently in residence at the art centre, Alex Cecchetti is presenting works. This performance gathers together invisible, hidden or intangible works in the form of poems. Accompanied by two opera singers, these narratives hark back to the chansons de geste, France's medieval verse romances, in a recreation of an artistic journey.
Combining the talents of visual artist, poet and choreographer, Italian-born Alex Cecchetti devises interactive performances and idiosyncratic objects that can turn up in exhibitions or other contexts. Drawing his inspiration from literature, philosophy, science and music, he displays enormous playfulness and wit: whether involving a stand-up comedy routine on death, a backwards stroll through a botanic garden or a "tour of the Louvre without the Louvre", each work is an authentic, shared experience whose community of spectators is mysteriously brought together by a poetic, gestural language and launched into rituals and journeyings that call perception and life's great existential issues into question.
Alex Cecchetti settled in at the Ferme du Buisson in October 2016, with a yen to draw, read poetry, rehearse with dancers, build a staircase, garden and cook. Come along and meet him!