Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred) | A Performance Cycle
24 March 2010
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), March 24th, 2010. Ph. Altrospazio
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), March 24th, 2010. Ph. Altrospazio
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), March 24th, 2010. Ph. Altrospazio
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), March 24th, 2010. Ph. Karolina Szewczyk
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), March 24th, 2010. Ph. Karolina Szewczyk
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), March 24th, 2010. Ph. Karolina Szewczyk
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), video still, 2010
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), video still, 2010
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), video still, 2010
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), March 24th, 2010. Ph. Karolina Szewczyk
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), March 24th, 2010. Ph. Karolina Szewczyk
Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), March 24th, 2010. Ph. Altrospazio
A project by Nomas Foundation, Rome
Curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni
In collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Cattedra di Fenomenologia delle arti Contemporanee, Professor Cecilia Casorati
Under the Patronage of Comune di Roma Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione
March 24th, 2010, at 6.30pm - Patrizio Di Massimo, Untitled (Throughbred), 2010
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (Ferro di Cavallo), piazza Ferro di Cavallo 3, Rome
In 2008 I organised an event in London titled Untitled (Pureblood) where a horse and a rider inscribed a route connecting the inviting exhibition space, FormContent, with the closest equestrian sculpture at Bank Station. Upon invite from Nomas Foundation, Rome, to propose a performance that would be hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts, I decided to repeat the same event. The context was entirely different: on one hand the city has a very definite and intense relationship with the monument, on the other hand Marco Aurelio being the closest equestrian monument to the Academy, its symbolic aspect would confer the work a new and unexpected aspect. When we applied for the required permits for the passage on public ground for the development of this new work, titled Untitled (Throughbred), it turned out that the City Hall did not wanted to help us. In accordance with the Foundation I decided to organise the event early in the morning and to video document it. In the afternoon, at the scheduled time, we invited art historian Valeria Pica to hold a lecture on the idea of equestrian monument, its history, its meaning in the past, present and future, with relation to my work. The lecture, accompanied by the images of the video documenting Untitled (Throughbred), which took place in the morning. For me suggestion is part of education in as much as it is connected to fantasy. If the performance functions as a surreal apparition breaking with the ordinary, the lecture holds a mythological function, carrying the interpretation and memory of who witnessed it or only heard about it.
Patrizio Di Massimo