(t)here - FINISSAGE

June 9, 2024

CANTIERI D'ARTE

Saturday saw the conclusion of (t)here, Elsa Mencagli Andersen's solo exhibition at Biancovolta, curated by Cantieri d'Arte and realised thanks to the support of the Danish Arts Foundation.

We leave you with an excerpt from Marco Trulli's text for the exhibition: "Around the sculptures presented, Mencagli Andersen invited groups of people to compose collaborative gestures, trying to sow relational attempts, resonances. Resonance is an element pursued by the artist as a method and practice in the attempt to activate a circular process that begins in a certain way but with unpredictable outcome - it is the connection of bodies and thoughts that activate a song that resonates, from the sculptures to the bodies, in their visible and invisible parts. "

Thank you to everyone who has been with us this month of openings, encounters and micro-actions inhabiting the margins of verbal language, in the spaces between sound, gesture and meaning!

Photography: Fabrizio Farroni

(t)here - ENCOUNTERS

May 9, 2024

CANTIERI D’ARTE

Saturday is the opening of (t)here, Elsa Mencagli Andersen's solo exhibition.
Here is the calendar of the encounters that will take place at Biancovolta, Via delle Piagge 23, Viterbo:

Reservation is required at arte.cantieri@gmail.com

Photography: Fabrizio Farroni

(t)here

May 7, 2024

CANTIERI D'ARTE
(t)here is an invitation to linger at the margins of verbal language, in the spaces between sound, gesture and meaning.

Elsa Mencagli Andersen opens the doors of her solo exhibition at the Biancovolta, seeking to probe the territory in which one transitions from rational, verbal experience to the exploration of space with the body, in a slow, dilated time in which the public and artist can experience together modes of embodied knowledge.

For about an hour, a group of people is invited into the exhibition space where they encounter sculptural installations, a video, sounds and drawings. Here the artist invites the visitors to participatory micro-actions; moving from word to gesture, shaping sounds, and experimenting with practices of intimacy related to touch and sound that open up other ways of connecting between people and between people and artworks.

The artworks and micro-actions are part of an artistic research that explores different forms of language (verbal and non-verbal) through word, movement, sound and matter. By inhabiting the space that exists within language production, the works attempt to convey the registers of language that are manifested through rhythm, form, vibration and gesture.
The artistic research interweaves art with neurology, speech therapy, voice training, somatic movement and lived experience. It is developed in conversation with doctors and therapists, as well as with the writings of philosopher Erin Manning, neurologist Jill Bolte Taylor and others.

(t)here is a solo exhibition by Elsa Mencagli Andersen curated by Cantieri d'Arte, produced with the support of the Danish Arts Foundation.

Photography: Ozge Sahin

Celestial Bodies - RESIDENCY

March 30, 2024

Celestial Bodies Residency at Centrum w Ruchu in Warsaw, supported by Apap Feministfutures.

With: Paula Diogo, Ellen Lili Vanderstraetenand, and Elsa Mencagli Andersen.

Photography: Ellen Lili Vanderstraeten

The residency was a time for each participating artist to ask: (1) what is at play in my artistic practice, and (2) how do I think with others in the doing-together? The invitation for each participating artist was to share with the group a proposition to be carried out together, in order to open up space for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection.

parlano un'altra lingua i fiori di questo campo

March 22, 2024

Sabato presenterò l'opera Parlano un'altra lingua i fiori di questo campo al Castello Sonnino di Montespertoli, nell'ambito di ARTE & SOSTENIBILITÀ - una mostra collettiva e tavola rotonda realizzata dall’Associazione Sincresis a cura di Alessandra Scappini.

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Saturday, I will present Parlano un’altra lingua i fiori di questo campo at Castello Sonnino in Montespertoli, as part of ART & SUSTAINABILITY - a group exhibition and round-table realised by Sincresis Association with the curation of Alessandra Scappini.

Photography: Aurora Pica