Alfredo Pirri. RWD – FWD
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Alfredo Pirri, RWD - FWD. Installation view, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni.
Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome. Ph. Giorgio Benni
Alfredo Pirri, Sketchbook for the exhibition RWD - FWD, Studio/Archive Pirri, Rome, 2016. ph. Giorgio Benni
Multimedia Group Krypton, Eneide, 1983
Multimedia Group Krypton, Angeli di luce, 1985
Curated by Ilaria Gianni
November 16th, 2016 - January 25th, 2017
Opening: Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 from 7.00pm
Studio/Archive Pirri, viale dei Consoli 73, Rome
The exhibition RWD – FWD, taking place inside Alfredo Pirri’s studio/archive and promoted by Nomas Foundation, opens its doors on Tuesday, November 15, at 7 pm.
Curated by Ilaria Gianni, RWD – FWD is the first appointment of the project I pesci non portano fucili (Fish cannot carry guns), whose title is a quote devoted to Philip K. Dick’s work The Divine Invasion (1981), in which the author imagines an unarmed and fluid society, comparable to the open sea.
RWD – FWD is an investigation within Alfredo Pirri’s practice, going back to its origins, and starting from his personal archive. The choice to use the artist’s studio as an exhibition space comes out of the desire to give the audience the possibility to discover the venue in which he usually meditates, collects his source materials, his documents and creates his works.
For this occasion a selection of material produced and preserved by the artist, physical and conceptual witnesses of his thinking process, traces of his research, from the Eighties to now, will be revealed for the first time. Sketches, notes, pictures, letters, videos, unpublished documents, projects of works and plans for conferences, related to Alfredo Pirri’s artistic and intellectual activity will be shown side by side with some recent and past works of art.
The multiplicity and variety of materials shown, highlight the wide range of Pirri’s research, relevant not only in the context of visual arts, but also in the fields of theatre, architecture and graphic design, all disciplines involved in a mutual dialogue and strictly bonded in his practice.
During the whole duration of the exhibition, Nomas Foundation’s premises will be converted in an actual workshop, in which the artist will create a large new piece. Until January 2017 visitors will have the opportunity to observe the work in its progress and to be involved in the process of the creative research through a series of events. The artwork will be officially presented during the closing of the exhibition – at Nomas Foundation, on January 25th, 2017, on the occasion of Pirri’s 60th birthday – and will then be displayed during the artist’s Solo Show, curated by Benedetta Carpi de Resmini and Ludovico Pratesi, opening in 2017 at MACRO Testaccio, with the support of Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Crescita culturale – Sovrintendenza capitolina ai Beni Culturali.
In between the two exhibitions, MAXXI will host a conference devoted to the relationship between art and architecture, topic at the core of the creative path of the artist.
This “passage of the baton” is emblematic of the collaborative approach at the basis of the whole project I pesci non portano fucili (Fish cannot carry guns), which proposes itself as an efficient model of cultural networking, strongly supported by the artist himself.
Each step of this extensive shared project – conceived as a journey inside Alfredo Pirri’s work, thought process and research – will be independent, yet, at the same time, in dialogue with the others.
Every Sunday, the magazine online Alfabeta2 will publish texts, videos or audio documentation belonging to Alfredo Pirri’s archive. This weekly appointment will be curated by Chiara Pirri.
RWD – FWD is part of Fuori Quadriennale 2016.
The exhibition is in collaboration with: MAXXI
With the generous support of: sistemalab, BetonWood, Menabrea, Untitled Association
Media Partners: domus, alfabeta2, exibart
Assistant curator: Elisa Genovesi
Press office: Flaminia Casucci & Allegra Seganti