On Wednesday 18 June at 6.30 p.m., as part of the review AlbumArte | VideoArtForum, AlbumArte presents the video Gesti di relazione: la ballata (2025), realised by the artists Grossi Maglioni, a project at curated by Claudio Libero Pisano. Until 27 June, the video, produced with the support of the Catel Foundation, will be shown on a loop accompanied by an exhibition of a set of unpublished images realised with the support of the PSMSAD Fund. Relational Gestures is a project Grossi Maglioni has been pursuing for some time, which investigates the non secondary role of gestures, also understood as positions, in the consolidation of social behaviour and personal relationships . In the gesture there is the affirmation of a stereotype. In the still image of a figure we can read an entire story because it is also in that fragment that a vision of the world is imposed and revealed. With the performance Gesti di relazione, la ballata, from 2017, the comparison is with art history. The in-depth study of the frescoes in the Casino Nobile of Villa Torlonia, in Rome, suggested the artists to re-propose some scenes, whose characters, painted in their positions, become the centre of the performative action. Despite their unquestionable beauty, those bodies and postures suggest established habits that hint at relationships based on domination and oppression. The living bodies of the performance mimic the painted figures and make clear how time in the passage of centuries has culpably allowed, and made tradition, the error that underlies all relationships: the absence of a recognition of equality between subjects.
Grossi Maglioni (Francesca Grossi and Vera Maglioni, Rome, 1982) are two visual artists that started collaborating in 2006, their research being mainly in the fields of performance, installation, relational and educational practices. Their artistic research is combined, through the use of different media and group work, with the production of installations that host workshops, meetings and public events on politically controversial topics, to explore how care and relationships participate in the construction of shared forms of experience, including motherhood, ecology, education and storytelling. Their works have been exhibited in galleries, public spaces, museums and academic institutions, including: Palais Carli in Marseille, Baruchello Foundation in Rome, Museum of Contemporary Art in Lissone, Picture Gallery in Kaunas, centre for contemporary art in Graz, Kunsthalle in Bratislava, Swiss Institute in Rome, AlbumArte in Rome, American Academy in Rome, Viafarini in Milan, MACRO in Rome, Verkstad for konst in Norrköping, Konsthall museum in Vasa.
Video loop and exhibition until 27 June (Wed, Thu and Fri, h: 15.00 – 19.00)
Project realised with the contribution of the PSMSAD Fund and with the contribution of the Catel Foundation
