SAVE THE DATE | "Simone Forti. Senza Fretta" al Centro Pecci dal 19 giugno 2021

An internationally renowned artist, a key figure in the development of performance from the late 1950s to the present, Simone Forti moved to Los Angeles in 1938 with her family, originally from Prato. Her seminal work is the focus, from 19 June to 29 August 2021 at the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, of her first major exhibition in an Italian museum: Senza fretta curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Elena Magini. Senza fretta has been envisioned as a large landscape with a special display approach designed in close collaboration with the artist, reflecting the natural evolution of her work through a simultaneously political and personal perspective. 

Since the 1960s, Simone Forti has moved forward with a pioneering and experimental approach based on the experience of the body as a means of obtaining knowledge. Her work takes form in a vast range of different media, from painting to drawing, video to sound. Nevertheless, physical expression practiced through dance, and particularly the body's ability to improvise, represents the fundamental key of her oeuvre.

On a weekly basis, the exhibition also presents several historic performances by the artist, including Scramble, Sleepwalkers/Zoo Mantras - performed by Sarah Swenson, Forti's collaborator for many years - Song of the Vowels, Cloths and – for the first time – the piece titled Rollers, a primary movement and part of the artist's vocabulary, seen here as a complete work. The itinerary concludes with the Bag Drawings, a body of original drawings, created during the lockdown in the spring of 2020: a series in which the artist has worked on grocery bags as a direct expression of an emotional condition linked to familiar everyday things.