When Piuma Knocked Out Massimo, 2024, performative reading by Andrea Celeste La Forgia & Max Fletcher with Kate Price and Tomasz Niewinski, Rib Rotterdam, NL
Original text by Elsa Morante, 1942, translation and adaptation by Andrea Celeste La Forgia & Max Fletcher
Original text by Elsa Morante, 1942, translation and adaptation by Andrea Celeste La Forgia & Max Fletcher
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Vrouenproblemen: spinning the mechanisms of troublemaking, 2024, performance (duration: 35 minutes), in collaboration with Gloriya Avgust, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Gloriya Avgust, Sarah Aztori and Julia Dahee Hong
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Vrouenproblemen: spinning the mechanisms of troublemaking, 2024, performance (duration: 35 minutes), in collaboration with Gloriya Avgust, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Gloriya Avgust, Sarah Aztori and Julia Dahee Hong
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Vrouenproblemen: spinning the mechanisms of troublemaking, 2024, performance (duration: 35 minutes), in collaboration with Gloriya Avgust, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Gloriya Avgust, Sarah Aztori and Julia Dahee Hong
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Vrouenproblemen: spinning the mechanisms of troublemaking, 2024, performance (duration: 35 minutes), in collaboration with Gloriya Avgust, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Gloriya Avgust, Sarah Aztori and Julia Dahee Hong
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Vrouenproblemen: spinning the mechanisms of troublemaking, 2024, performance (duration: 35 minutes), in collaboration with Gloriya Avgust, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Gloriya Avgust, Sarah Aztori and Julia Dahee Hong
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Detail of In the Economy of Promises (Chiusano 1980), 2023, oil on linen, 80 x 65 cm
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In the Economy of Promises (Chiusano 1980), 2023, oil on linen, 80 x 65 cm
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In the Economy of Promises (Chiusano 1980), 2023 oil on linen, 180 x 120 cm
In the Economy of Promises (Chiusano 1980), 2023, oil on linen, 80 x 65 cm
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Verdure, granchi, scope e tricicli (vegetables, crabs, brooms and tricycles), woodcut collage, 2024
Rot,
Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn, CH. Photo: Cedric Mussano. Courtesy of Kirchgasse
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Todo Modo (in collaboration with Max Fletcher), 2023, woodcut prints, dimensions variable
Didactic Poetry,
Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn, CH. Photo: Cedric Mussano. Courtesy of Kirchgasse
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Todo Modo (in collaboration with Max Fletcher), 2023, woodcut prints, dimensions variable
Didactic Poetry,
Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn, CH. Photo: Cedric Mussano. Courtesy of Kirchgasse
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Todo Modo (in collaboration with Max Fletcher), 2023, woodcut prints, dimensions variable
Didactic Poetry
Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn, CH. Photo: Cedric Mussano. Courtesy of Kirchgasse
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Todo Modo (in collaboration with Max Fletcher), 2023, woodcut prints, dimensions variable
Didactic Poetry
Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn, CH. Photo: Cedric Mussano. Courtesy of Kirchgasse
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This art here is about other people's art, via the detour of 'work'. Or, the unpaid break dialogues, 2022, performance (duration: 35 minutes), concrete-cast pasta boxes, Canuti t-shirts, oil on canvas painting, almonds
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Silvia Arenas, Niloufar Nematollahi, Sarah Aztori, Tiago Santos, Linus Bonduelle
This is Reality (and it was, but one chat away)
July 2022, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
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This art here is about other people's art, via the detour of 'work'. Or, the unpaid break dialogues, 2022, performance (duration: 35 minutes), concrete-cast pasta boxes, Canuti t-shirts, oil on canvas painting, almonds
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Silvia Arenas, Niloufar Nematollahi, Sarah Aztori, Tiago Santos, Linus Bonduelle
This is Reality (and it was, but one chat away)
July 2022, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
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This art here is about other people's art, via the detour of 'work'. Or, the unpaid break dialogues, 2022, performance (duration: 35 minutes), concrete-cast pasta boxes, Canuti t-shirts, oil on canvas painting, almonds
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Silvia Arenas, Niloufar Nematollahi, Sarah Aztori, Tiago Santos, Linus Bonduelle
This is Reality (and it was, but one chat away)
July 2022, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
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Portrait of my mother as a bag of pasta, installation view, 2022, UBIK, Rotterdam, NL
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Portrait of my mother as a bag of pasta (tortellini), 2022, oil on canvas, 152 x 112cm
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Portrait of my mother as a bag of pasta (tagliolini), 2022, oil on canvas, 152 x 112 cm
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Portrait of my mother as a bag of pasta (passatelli), 2022, oil on canvas, 152 x 112 cm
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Portrait of my mother as a bag of pasta, 2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 152 cm
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Performance props: concrete-cast pasta boxes, Canuti t-shirts, almonds
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There are no painters, but only people who engage with painting among other activities, 2020, performance (duration: 15 minutes), oil on canvas paintings (dimensions variable), almonds, rocks, performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia
THE INDIPENDENT
Andrea Celeste La Forgia & Max Fletcher
Jan 27 - Nov 1 2020, Museo MAXXI, Rome, IT
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Colonie, Rimini 1937 (with Max Fletcher), 2021, oil on canvas, 200 x 152 cm
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Bambole, Rimini 1967 (with Max Fletcher), 2021, oil on canvas, 152 x 112 cm
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Gattini, Rimini 1967 (with Max Fletcher), 2021, oil on canvas, 152 x 112 cm
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Mary Burns' copper clogs, 2021, copper and wood
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King Buzz The Wristband, or how to split a lazy group scratching, 2021, performance (duration: 15 minutes), copper and wood clogs, screenprints
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Piet Zwart Project Space, Rotterdam, NL
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Ai Cusinn Economich (with Max Fletcher), 2020, oil on canvas, 274 x 365 cm
MARCH MOSTRA 2020
March 15th - 29th 2020, British School At Rome, Rome, IT
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Ai Cusinn Economich (with Max Fletcher), installation view, 2020, oil on canvas, 274 x 365 cm
MARCH MOSTRA 2020
March 15th - 29th 2020, British School At Rome, Rome, IT
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Postcard to Gramsci (with Max Fletcher), 2020, oil on canvas, 180 x 140 cm
JOHN MOORES PAINTING PRICE 2020
May 18 - 27 Jun 2021, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
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Work songs from the Tillburg archive, 2021, Piet Zwart Radio, Rotterdam, NL
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Kate Price, Kira Nielsen, Shertise Solano, Pascale de Graaf, Linus Bonduelle
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The Ballad of the Hunchbacked, 2021, Worm Radio, Rotterdam, NL
Performed by Andrea Celeste La Forgia, Xiaofeini Liu and Kate Price
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Spin- en Werkh (from the Spinhuis), 2023, oil on canvas, 45 x 45 cm
Spin- en Werkh, 2023, oil on canvas, 152 x 112 cm
Spin- en Werkh, 2023, oil on canvas, 152 x 112 cm