Loris Cecchini

Loris Cecchini, born in 1969, currently lives and works in Milan. His work is displayed in various museums throughout the world, including Palais de Tokyo, in Paris; MoMA PS1, in New York; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea, in Santiago de Compostela; Kunstverein, in Heidelberg; Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, in Prato; Ludwig Museum, in Cologne; PAC, in Milan; Palazzo Fortuny, in Venice; MART, in Rovereto; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, in Rome; Musée d’Art Contemporain, in Lyon; MOCA, in Shanghai. Loris Cecchini’s work has also featured in numerous solo international exhibitions, such as the 56th, 51st, and 49th Venice Biennales, the 6th and 9th Shanghai Biennales, the 15th and 13th Rome Quadriennales, the Taipei Biennale, the Valencia Biennale, and the 12th Carrara Biennale Internazionale di Scultura. He has also created several permanent and in situ installations in prestigious venues around the world. Ilaria Bernardi holds a Ph.D. in art history and is a curator. She has worked with leading figures in the art world, including Germano Celant and, at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. She has organised exhibitions for major exhibition spaces in Italy and abroad. Ilaria Bernardi has also worked with public institutions and devised exhibitions for Italian cultural institutes in several cities around the world. She has published monographs, essays in exhibition catalogues and articles in art magazines, in which she focuses on Arte Povera artists and Italian art from the 1960s to the present, in general. She currently teaches at Milan’s IULM University and has run “Progetto Genesi. Art and Human Rights”, a travelling exhibition and educational project developed by Associazione Genesi, since 2021.

• 6 INTRODUCTION11 DANCING SCULPTURES | SCULPTURES DANSANTESILARIA BERNARDI21 ART TALK | DISCUSSION SUR L’ARTGERMANO CELANT, ANTONY GORMLEY, LORIS CECCHINIIN CONVERSATION | EN CONVERSATIONWORK TYPES | TYPES D’OEUVRES28 SENTIMENTAL SEISMOGRAPHIES56 ARRANGEMENTS AND SITE -SPECIFIC WORKS88 SOUNDS, LIQUIDS, AND OTHER PARTICLES98 EXTRUDING BODIES110 MODULE-BASED SCULPTURES126 DANCING RHIZOMES138 SPLINTERS OF ARCHITECTURE158 CASES AND MODULES F OR LIVING176 OPEN DIAGRAMS194 UNDECIDED MATTER206 PHOTO ASSEMBLAGES218 CHRONOLOGY | CHRONOLOGIE