Saturday 8 July 2017

A rock that keeps tigers away - Kunstverein München - PV 14 July 2017

'A rock that keeps tigers away' – an exhibition with new and recent work by Beth Collar, Tania Pérez Córdova, Jason Dodge, Laura Kaminskaitė, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Francesco Pedraglio, Adrien Tirtiaux, Freek Wambacq, and Herwig Weiser in the 1. OG and Kino – opens on 14 July 2017, from 7-9pm. A new publication has been produced, in collaboration with Roma Publications, which will be ready at the opening.

It's also our 'Sommerfest', so an afterparty will follow, with music from Kyselina TM, until late.

Francesco Pedraglio will present his performance 'Few Stories in the Shape of Abstract Objects' in the Kino, as part of the exhibition 'A rock that keeps tigers away' on Saturday 15 July 2017, at 7pm, followed by a presentation by Laura Kaminskaitė at an undisclosed location.

Monday 19 June 2017

An Entertainment in Conversation and Verse - Galleria Tiziana di Caro - Naples - PV 21/06/2017

An Entertainment in Conversation and Verse
group show curated by Maria Adele Del Vecchio
featuring Maria Adele Del Vecchio, Gaia Di Lorenzo, Sara Enrico, Giovanni Giaretta, Andy Holden, Thomas Jeppe, Ninon Liotet, Eleonora Meoni, Pentti Monkkonen, Marta Orlando, Francesco Pedraglio, Benedicte Gyldenstierne Sehested.

Saturday 13 May 2017

Francesco Pedraglio
Scripting Anticlockwise
Part of DRAWN ONWARD
an exchange project with Progetto Diogene (Turin, IT)
7 May – 4 June 2017
Thu-Sun, 14-18 hrs
FADE IN from BLACK (abruptly)
It´s not night yet, but it’s definitely not day anymore. The whole scene might be permeated with a faint yet detectable scent of wet paint. Outside: a light rain starts falling.
The voice-over:
imagine a series of abstract shapes. Picture each and every one of these shapes respectively containing a smaller and being contained by a larger one so that, when describing any of the aforementioned figures, you could already envisage the existence of both a predecessor and a successor. For instance… 
Moving anti-clockwise (slowly):
a first man – maybe the protagonist of this story – starts talking about the making of a film around the idea of portraiture… a film where the main character – a second man, which happens to be the first man’s alter ego – ends up not appearing in front of the camera at all, obliging the first man to imagine how a portrait of an absent person might look like. To do so, the first man asks for the help of a third person, a photographer and an old-time friend of his. The solution is simple: to shoot the portrait of, let’s say, X and to do so through Y (with Y being absent), well, they would shoot through the eyes of Z who, by knowing X, could better picture the absent Y. Or more simply…
Reflective pause… then:
a group of men and women is invited to play “being actors” just by leaning against a wall of a gallery space during a performance. By doing so – as in: by “playing actors” – they play being the audience of that very same show. Finally…
Sparse signs of approval: someone is nodding, most stand still… a man yawns loudly:
finally two equal and equally independent alphabets. One, the first one, is the alphabet of the teller. It could be noisy and complicated. But it could also be extremely entertaining, or moving. The second is the alphabet of the wanderer. It’s silent and schematic, borderline childish, but it has the same drive as the instinct to cover up your face when fearing a hit. Now picture the two alphabets coexisting one in front of the other, as if mirrored. They both tell stories: a man or a honeybee or a chacma baboon or a spider-monkey or a woman or a group of people walking or running or leaning or sitting or standing still, as if dead, etcetera…
The voice-over stop speaking and silence fills the room. Someone is singing in the distance.
FADE to BLACK (slowly).Keep the scene going with the screen totally black (close your eyes!) Then:And one last time: CUT

Tuesday 24 January 2017

NEW BOOK OUT! 99 battles and 1 war (an extract)


99 battles and 1 war (an extract)
Part of a larger, ongoing writing project, this is a collection of 10 between short stories and narratives poems all somehow unified under the louring presence of constantly impending conflicts, being these historical, physical or psychological… real or imagined.
Each text is paired with a Linoprint from the ongoing series 'Ideal space for a performance'.
Published by Piano Nobile (CH)
Get your copy at MOTTO
or Piano Nobile

Only CHF 5 (4.6 Euro) + shipping

ZIGZAG INCISIONS - CRAC Alsace


ZIGZAG INCISIONS

WithARMANDO ANDRADE TUDELA, RAVEN CHACON, TANIA PÉREZ CÓRDOVA & FRANCESCO PEDRAGLIO, ROBERTO EVANGELISTA, XIMENA GARRIDO-LECCA, SEULGI LEE, PIERRE LEGUILLON, FELIPE MUJICA, EDIT ODERBOLZ, BLINKY PALERMO, FALKE PISANO, JULIA ROMETTI, JORGE SATORRE.

A group show presented in collaboration with SALTS, Birsfelden and CRAC Alsace, Altkirch.

Curated by Victor Costales & Elfi Turpin.

OPENING BRUNCH ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 AT 11.30 AM AT CRAC ALSACE.OPENING ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 AT 5 PM AT SALTS.






Tuesday 8 November 2016

Luis Felipe Fabre - Flores para los Muertos / Flowers for the dead - Juan de la Cosa / John of the Thing - Mexico city launch!










Juan de la Cosa / John of the Thing presents:
Flowers for the Dead by Luis Felipe Fabre
Wednesday November 9th at 7:00pm
Poetry reading starts 8:00pm
Address: José García ,mx, Dresde 2, Juárez, 06600 Col Juárez, D.F.


Editors: Tania Pérez Córdova, Francesco Pedraglio
Translators: Amanda Hopkinson, Daniel Borzutzky, Cole Heinowitz
Design: Sofia Broid
Bilingual Edition: Spanish/English

Para ordenar tu copia:
En Europa: MOTTO
En las Americas: BURÓ BURÓ

Juan de la Cosa / John of the Thing is an independent publishing project interested in commissioning, republishing, translating and distributing works of fiction and poetry by writers and artists alike.

www.johnofthething.net


Tuesday 28 June 2016

Drop City, Düsseldorf - July 2 2016












Dear friends,
we invite you to join us on July 2. from 19:30 to come together in the heart of Europe and celebrate the final collection of new works commissioned as part of our programme Drop City, Düsseldorf. Since the start of 2016, we have been guests in the city of Düsseldorf, presenting a programme of new artworks throughout the Hotel Ufer in parallel to exhibtions in Brussels, Vienna and Newcastle.

Works by 
Nadia HebsonFrancesco Pedgraglio and Eleanor Wright will be accompanied by a newly developed performance by Nadia Hebson and Sophie Macpherson as well as an opportunity to see current works by Katie Schwab.


Drop City, Düsseldorfat / Hotel Ufer / Gartenstrasse 50 / 40479 Düsseldorf
post@drop-city.net