Francesco Cavaliere is visual artist, musician and performer from Tuscany. After studying theatre and music at DAMS in Bologna, he moved to Berlin. Among his numerous collaborative projects, he presented a work with Elisabeth Kirche at the Draftsmen’s Congress for the 7th Berlin Biennale; he gave a performance of the multi-media work Mirror Trance Theatre with Marcel Türkowsky at the Gymnastic Sounds Festival in Amsterdam; he performed John Cage's Branches, Child of Tree with Ignaz Schick at the Ausland in Berlin; and he created Sea Urchin, light and sound actions with Leila Hassan for Camping#1/Hundebiss. His solo works, both in visual art and in music, include: The Glowing Glove at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Roskilde (2014), Lancio Meta Meteo at the Grimmuseum in Berlin (2014), Set Mosaic with Ghédalia Tazartès at the CTM Festival in Berlin (2013), the audio performance Gancio Cielo, alla ricerca del terzo occhio di tartaruga (2013) on display at Art Bruxelles, Musica Galvanica at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Warsaw (2013), the lecture Volta di Lame di Lune, and Mercy at the 2012 Liverpool Biennial. He has recorded with Hundebiss Records. Francesco Cavaliere is known for the sensitivity with which he combines sounds, materials and space, showing a highly particular taste for the most diverse forms of exoticism. His works are capable of enlivening his listeners' inner states in an imaginative journey populated by ephemeral presences, phenomena generated by glass, minerals and voices recorded using analogue technologies.
friday 24 april > 12 am > Ex Ospedale dei Bastardini (sala a gradi)
Francesco Cavaliere (I/D)
Gancio Cielo, alla ricerca del terzo occhio di tartaruga
sound performance, italian première
Gancio Cielo, alla ricerca del terzo occhio di tartaruga is the first live session held at midnight in Squame Mosaico: a magical space where a wonderful, night-time story is told, unfolding from an imaginary universe in which alchemy and science fiction come together. Francesco Cavaliere leads listeners into extra-terrestrial territory, enchanted non-places created by atmospheric sounds, developing a fantastical literature combined with exotic electronic music: an audio story in two episodes in which five characters are played by a single voice that tends to swap roles and scenarios. Cavaliere has developed a veritable dictionary to catalogue the strange beings that inhabit this universe, undefined by reference points: hybrids of objects, minerals, animals, plants, planets, trails, cosmic objects and physical and perceptual phenomena. Cavaliere gives a voice to these dynasties and oddities in the form of sound or simple visual suggestion.