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february 15, 2024 - Fondazione Ica Milano

Daily Dense Dance Desiderio (DDDD) by Riccardo Benassi

Book launch
March 1st, 2024  | 6 pm
Fondazione ICA Milano
Via Orobia 26, Milano

With
Riccardo Benassi, artist
Andrea Bellini, director of Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève
Alberto Salvadori, director of Fondazione ICA Milano


 
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Fondazione ICA Milano presents, on Friday, March 1, 2024 at 6 pm, the first Italian launch of Daily Dense Dance Desire (DDDD), a new editorial project by Riccardo Benassi produced by Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève with the support of Italian Council XI Edition (2022), Fonds Cantonal d'Art Contemporain, Galleria ZERO... and published by DISTANZ Verlag.

This volume extends Riccardo Benassi's creative experience to a concrete material such as paper by focusing on the 365-day film and audio-visual work Daily Dense Dance Desiderio (DDDD), originally commissioned by the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement (BIM) in 2021 curated by Andrea Bellini and DIS, co-produced with Fonds Cantonal d'Art Contemporain Genève as part of the MIRE project. The work, strongly connected with Daily Desiderio Domestico (DDD), the permanent installation in the spaces of Fondazione ICA Milano, is realized in the transmission of a daily message by the artist, which is shared to the public through a digital screen.


Playing on the labile boundaries between the organic and inorganic, man and machine, predictive computing and mental landscape, Daily Dense Dance Desiderio (DDDD) creates an uninterrupted, constant, and techno-poetic flow, which is rendered in the volume through the collection of the 365 messages spread by the artist, for the first time stopped on paper in the form of fleeting thoughts.

In the book, the artist's messages - written in English, French, German and Italian - and the photographic documentation of the work are also accompanied by a conversation between Riccardo Benassi and Andrea Bellini, "Co-presence of the living and the dead: writing, making art, finding a place in the world in the age of artificial intelligence," and a text by Noa Merlini and Beatrice Sartori dedicated to the genealogy of the Daily Desiderio body of work.


On the occasion of the launch, the volume Daily Dense Dance Desiderio (DDDD) by Riccardo Benassi will be available and purchasable at Fondazione ICA Milano.