Francesca Fini brings her intermediary art to Forli with "BODY (S)CUL(P)TURE"

In the spaces of the Dino Zoli Foundation in Forlì, BODY (S)CUL(P)TURE, the first solo exhibition of Francesca Fini (Rome, 1970) in the city, proposed as a prologue to Ibrida - International Festival of Intermediate Arts, scheduled in Forlì from September 19 to 22, is underway.

"After last year’s exhibition dedicated to pre-cinema machines and Virgilio Villoresi’s animations, we move on to the interaction between human and technology with a total artist like Francesca Fini, who ranges from performance art to artificial intelligence," explain Francesca Leoni and Davide Mastrangelo, Artistic Directors of Ibrida Festival. “Fini has participated several times in Ibrida with works and performances. He also created the image of the 2024 edition of the Festival.”

“The relationship between the human and technology are at the center of this exhibition,” they add, "which consolidates the collaboration between Ibrida Festival and the Dino Zoli Foundation and introduces the theme of this year’s Festival: Artificial Reality. Creating synergies with other institutions allows us to grow together and give the territory cultural activities of another level. The one with the Foundation has allowed us to broaden our horizons and bring to Forlì leading artists from the digital and technological art scene."

“The proposal of BODY (S)CUL(P)TURE by Ibrida was immediately accepted by the Dino Zoli Foundation for that ability of the artist to mix the human and the artificial, the organic and the synthetic in his creative making,” says Nadia Stefanel, director of the Dino Zoli Foundation. "A path that affects the entire Dino Zoli Group, of which the Foundation is the cultural soul. In fact, Artificial Intelligence, the word of the year, which is characterizing every field of analysis in both scientific and creative fields, has been chosen as the topic for 2024."

Francesca Fini is an intermediary artist who has always moved into the territory of the contemporary where the arts hybridize, between performance art, interaction technology, sound design, video experimentation, digital animation and painting. Her projects often address issues related to the relationship between public and private space, performance and spectator, representation and interaction, but also reflect on societal influences on gender issues and the distortion in the perception of beauty produced by the market and mainstream media. Over the years, she has presented her work at MACRO Asilo and MAXXI in Rome, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Schusev State Museum of Architecture in Moscow, the Tese dell’Arsenale in Venice, the Georgia Institute of Technology, theAcademy of Fine Arts in Bologna, theUniversity of Coimbra, the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Calcutta, ESAD University in Caldas da Rainha, and many other international museums and institutions.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog containing a critical introduction by the curator, moving image historian Bruno Di Marino, a conversation with the artist and information about his multifaceted production.

The exhibition is produced by Vertov Project and PubliOne Società Benefit in collaboration with the Dino Zoli Foundation and is curated by moving image historian Bruno Di Marino.

For all information, you can visit the official website of Ibrida - International Festival of Intermedia Arts.

Pictured: Francesca Fini, Binary Blues, video art (2023)

Francesca Fini brings her intermediary art to Forli with "BODY (S)CUL(P)TURE"

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