Ondertussen: Daniele Formica

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30 October - 12 December 2021
Tuesday 2 november: An evening with Daniele Formica

This Ondertussen presentation reconstructs the results of Daniele Formica's artistic exploration and reflection that started in September 2020.  The artist combines a selection of notes, byproducts, memorabilia, relevant images, works in progress and finished pieces.

Daniele Formica is inspired by Umberto Eco's essays on ‘mnemotechnics', a term that refers to possibility to organize memory in similar ways like language. Goal of mnemotechnics is to investigate into the capacity and potential of memory. Formica considers his own artistic practice as a process-based and open-ended mnemotechnic. He came to this realization after studying depictions of the resurrection of Christ and Etruscan necropolis sites. Burial sites and sepulchers are much more than places to remember the dead. They also are attempts to formulate an understanding of the forces and dimensions that lie just one step beyond our comprehension.
Daniele Formica (1996) was born in Perugia, Italy and currently lives and works in The Hague. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Art The Hague in 2019. His work consists of installations and performances conceived as a developing repertoire of poetic claims and fragmented discourse theories on the universe and its people. Switching from one medium to another and brimming with sharp lyricism, his work denotes a passionate quest for meaning and representation.
Daniele Formica a received an Invest grant in 2020 and therefore participated in this year's Stroom Invest Week (27 September - 1 October 2021).

Tuesday 2 November 2021, 20:00-22:00
An evening with Daniele Formica
Daniele Formica invites the audience to the Ondertussen space to share the thought process that resulted in his current presentation.

Links
See profile on: thehagueartists.nl
www.danieleformica.com