24 September 2018
XXVII International Exhibition "Art Meetings"
La Barbagianna, a house for Contemporary Art
Pontassieve (Florence), via di Grignano 25
Performance by Ryosuke Cohen
BODY - ACTION - MEMORY
edited by Sandro Bongiani and Alessandra Borsetti Venier
Presentation by Sandro Bongiani
3 October 2018, from 15:00 to 20:00
Wednesday 3 October 2018 from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm the Japanese artist Ryosuke Cohen will present to the audience the performance Body - Action - Memory, on the occasion of his 70 years (1948-2018) and the Meeting Fractal Portrait Project at the XXVII International Exhibition "Art Meetings" curated by Alessandra Borsetti Venier "La Barbagianna - a house for contemporary art" of Pontassieve, Florence.
Ryosuke Cohen, one of the longest and most interesting contemporary Japanese artists born in the forties, in 1985 started the international project "Brain Cell" and in 2001 the "Fractal Portrait" Project. Ryosuke Cohen is not new to performance, since 2001 he has performed performances during the numerous meetings held all over the world (the first time was held in Italy), with face and body, involving thousands of artists in the field of collaboration and performance. A global project of participatory art carried out by Cohen in the field of global art.
Cohen is today the contemporary artist who no longer represents the one who produces a work of art according to the old classicist ideas of tradition, but plays the role of mediator and intermediary between the realization of a project idea (his) and those who participate in it. Practically, he promotes a "doing" by becoming director of a temporary intervention that materializes in collective collaboration in which everyone can participate and be positively involved. In this performance by Pontassieve 5 works will be carried out (body) Fractal Portrait Project of large dimensions of cm 209x89 each. We want to highlight a still little known side of the projects "Fractal Portrait", especially to the knowledge of the "Body" works and the series of slhouette of the body created by the artist in particular collective moments by joining together several Brain Cell sheets in which the subjects, the friends met in the various tours are invited to spread on the ground above these sheets Brain Cell, with the artist engaged for the occasion to draw and detect the immediate contour of the body. A sort of "collective performance" that, albeit with the due differences of work, indissolubly links it to his dear friend Shozo Shimamoto, becoming, in fact, the natural active continuer and interpreter of the art of research today in Japan.
For this International event on 3 October 2018 will be present in the exhibition 36 works of the series "Brain Cell" (Brain Cell) from the number 966 of 8 January 2017 to 999 of 8 November 2017 of which a special work created specifically for the number 1000 , and three unpublished works of Fractal Portrait Project body of large dimensions presented previously in June 2018 in Pontassieve.
Biography / Ryosuke Cohen, born in 1948, Osaka, Japan. The family name is Kouen but on the advice of Byron Black, he adopted the English name 'Cohen' as in Hebrew. Cohen discovered the mail art in Canada. Ryosuke is the son of a well-known haiku writer in Japan, Jyunichi Koen. Cohen's early works are the result of a mixture of Japanese tradition and imagery, contemporary numbers and icons as is his signature, the letter "C". For a long time the Japanese artist has been interested in the Dada and Fluxus movement, in contact with Shozo Shimamoto and the members of the Gutai group, sharing a new way of doing contemporary art in a spontaneous and natural way. Ryosuke is not the first Japanese postal and marginal artist, but he is surely the most interesting Japanese author in the international network. After Ray Johnson and Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, also Ryosuke Cohen once again puts into play the cards of experimentation in an antiquated cultural system that prefers the work created specifically to be commercialized. He does so by proposing a particular project "Brain Cell" (Cellula celebale), started in June 1985 with thousands of members spread in over 80 countries. A work that collects every 7-10 days about the images of many artists on a single page attaching a list of addresses of collaborators, 55 on average per work, which saw him involved for over 30 long years, rejecting the unique work and customary concepts such as originality and therefore, preferring more the game, the research and the concrete freedom of the artist deliberately placed at the margins of the current cultural system. For this way of doing, he is perhaps the most interesting and active artist in the network of anyone else for the organizational capacity of the project and for the widespread diffusion of marginal art.
In August 2001 he began in Italy the project "Fractal Portrait", making portraits and body silhouettes to his friends artists on the occasion of the various meetings held in different parts of the world; United States, Canada, England, Northern Ireland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Germany, Holland, Korea, Italy and France. Cohen is the contemporary artist who no longer represents the one who produces a work of art according to the old classicist ideas of tradition, but plays the role of mediator and intermediary between the realization of a project idea (his) and those participating in the project. Practically, he promoted a "doing" by becoming director of a temporary intervention, which arises from the contribution of others and materializes together in collective collaboration in which everyone can participate and be positively and passionately involved in the creation of the work. In over thirty years of work he has exhibited with exhibitions and performed performances and meetings in many different geographical areas of the world. He currently lives in Ashiya-City Hyogo in Japan.
La Barbagianna, a house for Contemporary Art
Pontassieve (Florence), via di Grignano 25
Performance by Ryosuke Cohen
BODY - ACTION - MEMORY
edited by Sandro Bongiani and Alessandra Borsetti Venier
Presentation by Sandro Bongiani
3 October 2018, from 15:00 to 20:00
Wednesday 3 October 2018 from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm the Japanese artist Ryosuke Cohen will present to the audience the performance Body - Action - Memory, on the occasion of his 70 years (1948-2018) and the Meeting Fractal Portrait Project at the XXVII International Exhibition "Art Meetings" curated by Alessandra Borsetti Venier "La Barbagianna - a house for contemporary art" of Pontassieve, Florence.
Ryosuke Cohen, one of the longest and most interesting contemporary Japanese artists born in the forties, in 1985 started the international project "Brain Cell" and in 2001 the "Fractal Portrait" Project. Ryosuke Cohen is not new to performance, since 2001 he has performed performances during the numerous meetings held all over the world (the first time was held in Italy), with face and body, involving thousands of artists in the field of collaboration and performance. A global project of participatory art carried out by Cohen in the field of global art.
Cohen is today the contemporary artist who no longer represents the one who produces a work of art according to the old classicist ideas of tradition, but plays the role of mediator and intermediary between the realization of a project idea (his) and those who participate in it. Practically, he promotes a "doing" by becoming director of a temporary intervention that materializes in collective collaboration in which everyone can participate and be positively involved. In this performance by Pontassieve 5 works will be carried out (body) Fractal Portrait Project of large dimensions of cm 209x89 each. We want to highlight a still little known side of the projects "Fractal Portrait", especially to the knowledge of the "Body" works and the series of slhouette of the body created by the artist in particular collective moments by joining together several Brain Cell sheets in which the subjects, the friends met in the various tours are invited to spread on the ground above these sheets Brain Cell, with the artist engaged for the occasion to draw and detect the immediate contour of the body. A sort of "collective performance" that, albeit with the due differences of work, indissolubly links it to his dear friend Shozo Shimamoto, becoming, in fact, the natural active continuer and interpreter of the art of research today in Japan.
For this International event on 3 October 2018 will be present in the exhibition 36 works of the series "Brain Cell" (Brain Cell) from the number 966 of 8 January 2017 to 999 of 8 November 2017 of which a special work created specifically for the number 1000 , and three unpublished works of Fractal Portrait Project body of large dimensions presented previously in June 2018 in Pontassieve.
Biography / Ryosuke Cohen, born in 1948, Osaka, Japan. The family name is Kouen but on the advice of Byron Black, he adopted the English name 'Cohen' as in Hebrew. Cohen discovered the mail art in Canada. Ryosuke is the son of a well-known haiku writer in Japan, Jyunichi Koen. Cohen's early works are the result of a mixture of Japanese tradition and imagery, contemporary numbers and icons as is his signature, the letter "C". For a long time the Japanese artist has been interested in the Dada and Fluxus movement, in contact with Shozo Shimamoto and the members of the Gutai group, sharing a new way of doing contemporary art in a spontaneous and natural way. Ryosuke is not the first Japanese postal and marginal artist, but he is surely the most interesting Japanese author in the international network. After Ray Johnson and Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, also Ryosuke Cohen once again puts into play the cards of experimentation in an antiquated cultural system that prefers the work created specifically to be commercialized. He does so by proposing a particular project "Brain Cell" (Cellula celebale), started in June 1985 with thousands of members spread in over 80 countries. A work that collects every 7-10 days about the images of many artists on a single page attaching a list of addresses of collaborators, 55 on average per work, which saw him involved for over 30 long years, rejecting the unique work and customary concepts such as originality and therefore, preferring more the game, the research and the concrete freedom of the artist deliberately placed at the margins of the current cultural system. For this way of doing, he is perhaps the most interesting and active artist in the network of anyone else for the organizational capacity of the project and for the widespread diffusion of marginal art.
In August 2001 he began in Italy the project "Fractal Portrait", making portraits and body silhouettes to his friends artists on the occasion of the various meetings held in different parts of the world; United States, Canada, England, Northern Ireland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Germany, Holland, Korea, Italy and France. Cohen is the contemporary artist who no longer represents the one who produces a work of art according to the old classicist ideas of tradition, but plays the role of mediator and intermediary between the realization of a project idea (his) and those participating in the project. Practically, he promoted a "doing" by becoming director of a temporary intervention, which arises from the contribution of others and materializes together in collective collaboration in which everyone can participate and be positively and passionately involved in the creation of the work. In over thirty years of work he has exhibited with exhibitions and performed performances and meetings in many different geographical areas of the world. He currently lives in Ashiya-City Hyogo in Japan.
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