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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 Hebson, Francesco 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

RIVIERA - 16 June '16 - Francesco Pedraglio / BookWorks

Sheffield Fringe 2016: Object Documentary

Sheffield Fringe 2016: Object Documentary

The fifth edition of Sheffield Fringe investigates ‘documentary’ film as an art object. It does so on the premise that thinking of and trading documentary as an object opens up the possibility of the ‘objectification’ of actuality.

With: Mox Mäkelä, Timo Menke & Nils Agdler, Patricia Bandeira, Ted Kennedy, Peter Martin, Francesco Pedraglio, Leafcutter John, Emma Leach, Alison J Carr, Jumana Manna & Sille Storihle, Rosalind Nashashibi, Richard Wiebe, Pat Law, Sasha Litvintseva, Sarah Beddington, Mairéad McClean, Xiaowen Zhu, Tinne Zenner, Daniel Jacoby, Ben Balcom, Sky Hopinka, Andrée-Anne Roussel, Zachary Epcar, Patricia Azevedo & Clare Charnley, Scott Willis, Ian Nesbitt, Liz von Graevenitz, Alistair Macdonald, Michael Day, Richard Bartle, Maud Haya-Baviera, Lesley Guy & Lea Torp Nielsen & Dale Holmes, Jenni Olson, Bloc Studio Artists.

1/2.3.4... / 19 February 2016 / Norma Mangione Gallery / Turin

Working Title - readings at Museo Tamayo - Saturday 6 February - from 6pm

Tania Pérez Córdova / Francesco Pedraglio - Descripción de una entrevista - Parallel Oaxaca - 20nov/17dic 2015

Descripción de una entrevista

Tania Pérez Córdova / Francesco Pedraglio

20nov - 17dic, 2015

www.paralleloaxaca.com 

FACTS

-    He moves a temporary wall previously constructed to cover one of the two doors and blocks one entrance

-    With a knife, he cuts a frame into the temporary wall and partially reveals the street behind

-    He starts talking…

-    Imagine 9 possible scenarios for Calle Santo Tomas…

-    Using the leftover cut off from the temporary wall, he traces the contour of a frame on a large sheet of paper

-    Scenario 1: a man walking down a busy market with a crate of avocados on his left shoulder…

-    Using a brush, he glues a sheet of paper to the wall

-    Scenario 2: a fleeting love story… he draws the contour, glues paper to the wall

-    Scenario 3: a detective story… drawing and glueing

-    Scenario 4: the beginning of a novel as a yet-to-be-written story… drawing and glueing

-    Then again: the intermezzo story, the patriotic story, the filmic story, the dark story, the surreal story… all while glueing and pasting.

-    In the meantime, night falls over the whole scene

-    Outside on the street, a parked car with hazard lights on

-    The alarm goes off

-    She lowers the driver’s window

-    A yellow frame is fitted onto the temporary wall as to perfectly frame the street, the sidewalk, the parked car, and her…

-    Now turn of about 180 degrees on your own axis

-    The 10th scenario is about her dream and goes more or less like this:

-    A man and a woman, a dusty road, a car and a gun 

The Place of the Scene - @ new 'Bloc Project' space - Sheffield

• Rowena Harris
 
• Fay Nicolcon
 
• Joanne Masding
• Francesco Pedraglio

Friday 23 October 2015
7-9pm

Exhibition continues to 21 November 2015.

Bloc Projects look forward to welcoming you to our new gallery space for the preview of The place of the scene, featuring:

- Rowena Harris – Fay Nicolson – Joanne Masding – Francesco Pedraglio -

A special preview event will take place on Friday 23 October 2015, with a new exhibition in the gallery and food, drinks and music in the courtyard.

As the first exhibition in our newly completed space, we are delighted to present The place of the scene, a group exhibition featuring new and existing work by Rowena Harris, Fay Nicolson, Joanne Masding and Francesco Pedraglio.

The exhibition concerns intersections between the physical, mental and digital, exploring the possibility of occupying them simultaneously, and accepting the slippage of fiction between them. Interwoven through the works are suggestions of the body, interruptions and eruptions of sound, fragments of narrative alongside ambiguous materials and architectures. Through works in video, sculpture, painting and print, the show points to the elusive nature of the place and moment of production, and with it a sense of something unfolding, like a gesture within a broader sense of actions.

Nemici: Saturday November 7th 2015 at the Rich Mix Arts Centre - London

Saturday November 7th 2015 at the Rich Mix Arts Centre 

www.theenemiesproject.com/nemici

An ambitious celebration of contemporary Italian & British poetry and art in London!

The first instalment of the Nemici project will take place in London, and will bring together Italian poets from all over Italy and all over Europe, to work in collaboration, as pairs, with a series of British poets. Each pair will produce original work for the night, in what should be a great testament to the dynamic potential of collaboration alongside the best of the rapidly evolving 21st century Italian literary tradition.

Featuring: 

Daniela Cascella & James Wilkes 

Giovanna Coppola & Clover Peake

Alessandro Burbank & SJ Fowler

Christian Patracchini & Richard Skinner

Livia Franchini & Georgia Rodger

Francesco Pedraglio & Paul Becker

Roberto Minardi & John Goodby

Davide Castiglioni & Alex Houen

Francesca Serragnoli & Annabel Banks

Marco Fazzini & Douglas Reid Skinner

Andrea Inglese & tba

& videopoetry from  Ariadne Radi Cor

The Protagonist - Piano Nobile, Geneva - September 24th to October 31st

The Protagonist, an exhibition by Francesco Pedraglio
PV: Thursday, September 24th

September 24th to October 31st

Francesco Pedraglio's film, produced for this exhibition and extended into an installation, is a collage of literary references, filmic language and broken-up narratives that reveal its own inner workings. The construction of a main character becomes a happening in front of the camera and becomes the focus of the film itself, starting with a conversation recorded in a legendary Geneva cinema.

Curators: Madeleine Amsler and Marie-Eve Knoerle

Fig. 2 - Monday 13 / Sunday 19 July

13 – 19 Jul 2015

At ICA Studio (in association with Outset)

Opening Monday 6 – 8pm

Patrick Coyle and Francesco Pedraglio’s first collaborative exhibition takes the form of a conversation based on recent bodies of work. Both working with forms of visual and spoken language, investigating the dichotomies of meaning, narrative and thought forms, their exhibition forms the ground for a dialogue that manifests itself as text, images, objects and spoken word. The aesthetic articulations and conceptual approximations converge and diverge from one another, creating a breathing space for emergence of unprecedented meaning and associations. The opening and closing of the exhibition will host two performances by Coyle and Pedraglio influenced by a floating cedilla and based on an unauthorised translation of a poem by Edoardo Sanguineti, respectively.

(poema) - Norma Mangione Gallery - Turin - 16 giugno – 25 luglio 2015

Norma Mangione Gallery

Via Matteo Pescatore 17

Turin, Italy

www.normamangione.com

A poem that is also another poem or a poem in a language that is the same poem in another language yet also a different one (in both languages) and that is imaginable as an intermittent line that becomes a wall drawing deliverable out loud in a room and that at the same time is also a dialogue between two friends discussing a group of objects some of which are images that could be read as symbols or should be read simply as a poem that is also another poem and so on.

At the same time, other things happen in every other place.

Kunsthalle Wien - Function Follows Vision - 26 May 2015

SINKHOLE - new online publishing project

Newly commissioned sound and spoken-word works are presented alongside occasional archive material. Recordings are available for sale as downloadable MP3 files.

With works by Michael Dean, Francesco Pedraglio, Holly Pester and Ivan Seal.

DOWNLOAD you copy HERE:

https://sinkhole-audio.net

@SinkholeAudio

Performance - Museo de Arte Zapopan - Guadalajara (MX)

Saturday 29 November 2014, 8.30 pm
Museo De Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara

Performance as part of :NDEX, a Art Book Fair organised by PA/PER VIEW, Publish and Be Damned and Casa Bosque