BIBLIOTECA DELLE OBLATE
Via Dell’Oriuolo 26 – Firenze
Sezione Contemporanea – I piano

PIANETA POESIA 2009/2010

a cura di Franco Manescalchi

 

Performing and multimedial poetry edited by

Liliana Ugolini

“Adoptive Florentines”

 

Tuesday the 2nd of March 2010 - 5 p.m.

Performance by

Ivano Vitali

”Yellow in Florence”

(the Italian pun giallo= thriller is untranslatable)

critical text by Elena Ginanneschi

Music by Laura Manescalchi

readings by Maddalena Ghini

 

Through a ludic-didactic performance, Ivano Vitali intends to transmit his passion both for printed paper, in particolar that of newspapers and for tradition with the techniques of weaving, knitting, crocheting etc.

 

Ivano Vitali: ecologist, sculptor and  performer was born in Campotto di Argenta ( Ferrara). Since 1974 he has worked with installations in poor materials and experimentations  on new materials in various places and on different occasions.

In 2000 he presented  Defilè della Performance at the Limonaia di Villa Strozzi on the occasion of the Festival della Performance which he himself created. Since 2002 he has been  creating fabric for his garments  wearing them on special events. He opened  Artnest studio where he organizes various performing occasions. He started  by transforming newspapers into thread balls without using scissors or glue. In 2003 he took part as a performer in the project  Brain Accademy Apartment at the Biennale Arti visive di Venezia. He went on with his activity  participating in important exhibitions in Belgium and Holland. Recently in Italy at the Pecci Museum in Prato.

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