Performance of Francesco Arena

“Patrimony of competences. Dispertion of a patrimony. To extinguish a patrimony. Burning a patrimony. Writing as a way to transmit a patrimony. Wasting time. To make a knowledge base available. Translate a knowledge base into currency. A quantifiable patrimony. An experience base. Expenditure of a patrimony of competences. A man and a woman sitting at a table, copy with pensil on a white sheet of paper a text in morse code. When they finish to copy the text they erease with a rubber the previously traced. lines and dots previously traced.”

Francesco Arena
Riduzione di mare, 2012 (detail)
Performance
Courtesy the artist
Photo Massimo Valicchia

Francesco Arena born in Torre Santa Susanna, Brindisi, 1978. Lives and works in Cassano delle Murge, Bari. His work stems of the analysis of hidden and repressed historical and social events, reactivated trough sculptural forms. Solo exhibitions(selection): 2015 Francesco Arena – Autumn lines, Sprovieri Gallery, London; Francesco Arena – 7, 1, 4, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan. 2014 3 Ludwig reflections and 1 horizon. 2013 Onze mille cent quatre-vingt sept jours, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims. 2012 Trittico 57, Project Room, Museion, Bolzano; Orizzonte con riduzione di Mare, Monitor, Rome. 2011 Com’è piccola Milano, Peep Hole, Milan. 2010 Art Statement, Art Basel; Teste, Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, Fabriano. Group exhibitions (selection): 2015 Ennessima, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Triennale, Milan; Nero su bianco, curated by Robert Storr, Lyle Ashton Harris, Peter Benson Miller, American Academy, Roma; Pass. Kunst in dorpen, curated by Jan Hoet Junior, Kris Martin, Melanie Deboutte; Mullem, Huise, Wannegem, Lede; TUTTTOVERO, curated by Francesco Bonami, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli; Sculptures Also Die, curated by di Lorenzo Benedetti, Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze. 2014 Art Parcourse, Curated by Florence Derieux, Art Basel 45, Basel; Ritratto dell’artista da giovane, Curated by Marcella Beccaria, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli; Liberdade em movimento, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Fundação Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brasil. 2013 Vice Versa, Padiglione Italia, 55 Biennale di Venezia, Venezia.  2012 La storia che non ho vissuto. Testimone indiretto, Curated by Marcella Beccaria, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli. The revolution must be made little by little |part 2: The Squaring of the Circle, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, San Paolo, Brasile; Sotto la Strada la Spiaggia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino. 2011 Il bel paese dell’arte, GAMEC, Bergamo; Pleure qui peu rit qui veut – Premio Furla 2011, Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna. 2010 Temporaneo – contemporary art in the evolving city, organized by Nomas Foundation and IMF Foundation, Roma; Practicing Memory – In the time of an all – engaging present, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella.