ROMANCE, A PERFORMANCE/SCREENING AND
PUBLICATION LAUNCH
PRESS RELEASE
Tuesday Oct. 23rd, 2012 - 6:30pm
in presence of cura.books for the
launch of the artistsʼ book ROMANCE by Andrea Bianconi
Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (green door), Brooklyn, NY 11231 directions here
Join us for this very special evening where Andrea Bianconi will present his latest project ROMANCE defined by the unicity of 3 overlapping components: the artistʼs book ROMANCE (cura.books), a performance by Bianconi and an animation film.
ROMANCE is a blend of construction and deconstruction, closing and opening, intimacy and extroversion — an endless chain of associations.
ROMANCE is an artistʼs book published by cura.books, that illustrates a segment of Bianconiʼs stream of consciousness in which each page incorporates several images that reveal a representation of the artistʼs thoughts as they appear in the
Location: Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street (green door), Brooklyn, NY 11231 directions here
Join us for this very special evening where Andrea Bianconi will present his latest project ROMANCE defined by the unicity of 3 overlapping components: the artistʼs book ROMANCE (cura.books), a performance by Bianconi and an animation film.
ROMANCE is a blend of construction and deconstruction, closing and opening, intimacy and extroversion — an endless chain of associations.
ROMANCE is an artistʼs book published by cura.books, that illustrates a segment of Bianconiʼs stream of consciousness in which each page incorporates several images that reveal a representation of the artistʼs thoughts as they appear in the
mind. The text is traversed by an unreachable flow of meaning.There is a
continuous relationship between e ach word, thus each image is connected to the
next. There is no beginning nor end, but rather a circular narrative indicating a
discourse-course that is crossed by an endless chain of associations, void,
surplus, lapsus. In the first page Bianconi writes ” I would run away but there is
the reality”.
ROMANCE is an animation film alluding to Italo Calvinoʼs ʻmental cinemaʼ and a
quest for ” traces of something that may not ever exist”. This video was produced
with the support of RU.
ROMANCE is a performance.The artist is still and motionless. The video is
projected onto his face. “The Brainʼs Mental Cinema” writes Calvino in “Lezioni
Americane” is always at work in each one of us, and it always has been, even
before the invention of the cinema. Nor does it ever stop projecting images
before our mindʼs eyes”
About the publication ROMANCE by Andrea Bianconi
Dimension (Width x
Height): 120 x 170 mm
Black and White
Pages: 96
Published in September 2012
during Bianconiʼs residency with RU.
Andrea Bianconiʼs residency is made possible with the support of Furini Arte
Contemporanea, Rome and Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX and SEA. We
are also grateful to cura.books that has agreed to produce Andrea Bianconiʼs
publication as part of his residency project.
This event is also made possible in part by the New York State Council on the
Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State
Legislature.
