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Over Gina Pane – 4 Azioni Sentimentali

dal 18 al 20 September 2024 | ore 21 | Lenz Theatre [maps]

Over Gina Pane 4 Azioni Sentimentali

Performative iconostasis

 

Ideation, creation, installation Maria Federica Masters
Performers in co-creation Monica Barone, Valentina Barbarini, Tiziana Chapel, Carlotta Spaggiari
Visual refractions Francesco Pititto

'What role does pain play in your works?‘
What a role? Here... I am crossed by all the external stimuli of violence...
in the partitions I no longer query the body, I no longer question it, I'll listen to it (…)’.
From an interview by Lea Vergine with Gina Pane (1985)

Being able to be directly inspired by one of the reference artists of your creative path is both an aesthetic trap and a conceptual refuge. I won't try to stay balanced, well balanced between the parts, ma oscillerò in ‘partition’, divided between the painful memory of her wounds - the sentimental terrorism of Gina Pane - and the poetry of the sacred, joy-generating force of his latest works. To fall and get up we will be multiple bodies, exorcists and adventurers of our underwater world. The scene dedicated to Gina Pane is not the canvas on which to paint the wound in dark colors, but the living space in which to erect the monument to the body not tamed nor subjected to the profitable functioning of the discriminating ableism of our time.

 

OVER GINA PANE_4 SENTIMENTAL ACTIONS

Over Gina Pane_4 Sentimental Actions is a performative creation in which the bitter and harsh beauty pursued by Gina Pane in her irreducible artistic practice, takes the embodied and disturbing form of the four performers: injured bodies, bodies of the disaster, martyr bodies, holy bodies that survived the nothingness of pain.

In close poetic and formal concatenation with the radicality of Gina Pane, this new iconostasis by Lenz becomes an affective and poetic reflection of the extreme actions of the wound artist, 'without lulling ourselves in his memory, but trying to be reborn in the oxidized drops of his bloody footsteps'.

Over Gina Pane_4 Sentimental Actions takes place at the center of the images-Observations, made during the performance of 1973 by Gina Pane which took place at the Diagramma gallery in Milan, entitled "Sentimental Action", in which the artist's actions metaphorized female pain as an expression of love for humanity and Nature.

The religious symbolism of the torn body as a gift and of the physical and psychic wound as a multiplication of sensorial capacity are elements of great germinative power in the training and artistic practice of Maestri, whose 4 Sentimental Actions return as the fruit of inspiration, in a non-radial echo, ma multiforme.

The symmetry between Gina Pane's research on the body of saints, characteristic of the last phase of the 'Partition' (works inspired by Saint Francis, San Lorenzo, Saint Peter, Saint martin, Saint John) and the martyr-body of the four performers returns to the present, in a conceptual flip button, in a process of identity transposition – Saint Apollonia, Santa Dinfna, Sant’Agata, Saint Mary of Egypt – the actual physics of physical and emotional wounds.

Gina Pane's installation rereading of the saints is transmuted, in the iconostasis of Maestri in performative revival, 'Painful way' (title of a work by Gina Pane del 1988) to be explored 'here and now' to reunite through the truth of one's poetic lesions, physical and existential to the aesthetic and political thought of the artist.

INFO AND RESERVATIONS

18-20 September 2024
ore 21
Lenz Theatre, via Pasubio 3/e, Parma [maps]

Biglietto intero 12 €
Biglietto ridotto 8 €
Reservation required: (+39) 0521 270141 | (+39) 335 609 6220 | info@lenzfondazione.it

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