Massimo Bartolini's book 'Hagoromo' will be presented on Sunday 12 March 2023. The artist will be in conversation with curator and art critic Luca Cerizza.
Hagoromo outlines the artistic life of Massimo Bartolini from 1989 to 2022 and is the largest publication ever dedicated to the famous Italian artist.
In the Japanese Nō theatre, Hagoromo is the title of a play about the fisherman Hakuryo and Tennin, a dancing ghost with magical cloak of phoenix feathers. Massimo used this title for the name of the artwork he considers his first mature work and is now used as the title of this new publication. The book contains the various stages of his more than 30-year artistic career which is presented in chronological order.
The publication is intended as a guide to orientate oneself in his multifaceted research, consisting of an incredible variety of languages and materials: from performative works to drawings; from large public installations to small sketch works composed in the studio; from sound sculptures to photographs and videos.
Commissioned and coordinated by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, edited by Luca Cerizza and Cristiana Perrella, and published by NERO, Hagoromo. Massimo Bartolini
is supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2021), a program to promote Italian contemporary art in the world by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
The lecture is for free, also as a Friend of S.M.A.K.
