Love Bar
Special book launch of artist’s novel Tamam Shud by Alex Cecchetti
Alex Cecchetti
(1977–2014) was an artist, a poet and a choreographer. Difficult to classify, his work can be considered as the art of the un-representable: tactile and poetic, aesthetic and materialistic, it creates mental and physical environments in which the spectators are often part of the work. Invited to walk backwards into a garden, to sleep at the sound of a choir singing in the deep of the ocean, or taking dance class from stones and staircases, the spectators are no longer defined to the role of the beholder. The artist died for the first time in 2014 for unknown reasons, though he keeps producing new works, present new performances and publish new poems.
Alex Cecchetti has exhibited his work broadly and recent solo exhibition include: At the gate of the music palace at Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2018) and Void, Derry, Ireland (2018); Tamam Shud at La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland (2017); Cetaceans at Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2017); The Printing House of Hell at Kunstraum, London, UK (215); Comrades of fear and wonder at Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania (2012).
His performances have been presented at venues including Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Farnce and ThalieLab / Thalie Art Foundation, Bruxelles, Belgium (2017); Parades, Palais De La Découverte, FIAC 2016, Paris, France and Playground Festival, M Leuven & STUK, Leuven, Belgium (2016); Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2015); Serralves Foundation, Porto, (2014) South London Gallery (2013); MAXXI museum, Rome (2012).
