(Feb 17) – Performance, video, painting, sculpture. An overview on the work of Alex Cecchetti, the 36 year old artist from Terni, will be on show on March 18th at the National Gallery of Art and the Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre. “A chance for geometry” is the title given to the show. The vernissage was accompanied by the performances “H – a choreography for hidden nude”, “Summer is not the prize of winter”, “Disaster is a shelter” and by the video “Theory of Rising.” On February 29th will be presented “I giocatori (The Players)”, a series of events where Cecchetti invites a different artist (Liudvikas Buklys will be the first one) to confront him not using words but using objects, actions and materials. Then it will be the turn of the performance “Comrades of fear and wonder”, in collaboration with the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre and with the support of the French Institute in Lithuania, whose first part will be presented March 10th and the second one on March 15th. Cecchetti has also presented his works in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Berlin, Tirana. (Roc)
WHO IS ALEX CECCHETTI
Alex Cecchetti, born in Terni, lives and works in Paris. He is an absolutely original artist, who conceives new ways of working through the manipulation of objects, ideas and language. Symbolic is the performance “The Player”, in which Cecchetti create a cultural dialogue with other artists as in a game without rules. He created the magazine “The Unready”, which is published in other journals and publications.
