Alex Cecchetti
Alex Cecchetti, SENTIERO, 2022. Ph Tiberio Sorvillo
Alex Cecchetti pays attention to the small yet significant shifts of meanings, sensations and perceptions which open up audiences to imaginative experiences of inner transformation. His artworks, which he refers to as incantations, turn play, poetry and collaborations with more-than-human beings into catalysts for near-mystical experiences of the everyday.
SENTIERO, Alex Cecchetti’s most recent walk based project, takes audiences on one-on-one experiences along a mountain path that brings together spirituality, ecological sensitivity and more-than-human poetry. Moving between poem, love story, incantation and myth, SENTIERO accompanies audiences and their guides through encounters with non-human persons (plants, animals, minerals), their stories, their different forms of worldmaking and experiencing sensations. Part place-based intervention, part-community project, SENTIERO creates new paths among the mountains as an archetype for a journey towards the unknown, guided by human and non-human knowledge forms and accompanied by collaborators including plants, seasons and stars.
For SENTIERO, a cohort of guides harking from different disciplines and harbouring different passions – from dance to music, speaking to birds, studying dreams – has been trained to accompany audience members along their journeys to a place of shelter at the end of the path, a specially-constructed architecture echoing that of a yurt, created through eco-printing techniques, where the sensory experiences of food, smell, sound and colour are all derived from the artist’s deep engagement with local communities and ecologies.
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Project supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Alex Cecchetti, SENTIERO, 2022. Ph. Luca Meneghel
Alex Cecchetti, SENTIERO, 2022. Ph Tiberio Sorvillo
Alex Cecchetti, SENTIERO, 2022. Ph Tiberio Sorvillo
Alex Cecchetti
Alex Cecchetti, SENTIERO, 2022. Ph Tiberio Sorvillo
Alex Cecchetti pays attention to the small yet significant shifts of meanings, sensations and perceptions which open up audiences to imaginative experiences of inner transformation. His artworks, which he refers to as incantations, turn play, poetry and collaborations with more-than-human beings into catalysts for near-mystical experiences of the everyday.
SENTIERO, Alex Cecchetti’s most recent walk based project, takes audiences on one-on-one experiences along a mountain path that brings together spirituality, ecological sensitivity and more-than-human poetry. Moving between poem, love story, incantation and myth, SENTIERO accompanies audiences and their guides through encounters with non-human persons (plants, animals, minerals), their stories, their different forms of worldmaking and experiencing sensations. Part place-based intervention, part-community project, SENTIERO creates new paths among the mountains as an archetype for a journey towards the unknown, guided by human and non-human knowledge forms and accompanied by collaborators including plants, seasons and stars.
For SENTIERO, a cohort of guides harking from different disciplines and harbouring different passions – from dance to music, speaking to birds, studying dreams – has been trained to accompany audience members along their journeys to a place of shelter at the end of the path, a specially-constructed architecture echoing that of a yurt, created through eco-printing techniques, where the sensory experiences of food, smell, sound and colour are all derived from the artist’s deep engagement with local communities and ecologies.
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Project supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021), program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
Alex Cecchetti, SENTIERO, 2022. Ph. Luca Meneghel
Alex Cecchetti, SENTIERO, 2022. Ph Tiberio Sorvillo
Alex Cecchetti, SENTIERO, 2022. Ph Tiberio Sorvillo