Vittorino Curci lives in Noci where he was born in 1952. He is a poet, musician and painter. His artistic training developed in the Seventies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he exhibited his first works of conceptual art at the Galleria Jartrokor directed by Sergio Lombardo. In '79 he was included in the 8th Geology Hyper-Experimental Anthology, edited by Adriano Spatola, and subsequently began to collaborate with the magazine TamTam and participated in various initiatives promoted by Spatola himself in Italy and abroad.
Beginning in the second half of the eighties, he undertook a long series of collaborations with avant-garde jazz musicians. In this period he made several performances with a strong theatrical impact in which he used stage objects, actors, original music and stage sets (with strong reminiscences of Futurist evenings). In '94 he was one of the founders of the Baobab sound poetry group in Reggio Emilia.
Currently, while devoting much to a research writing with strong surrealist ancestry, on a performative level he likes to perform in more discreet poetic readings - in which he also performs sound scores - together with small musical formations or, in complete solitude, accompanied by a saxophone.
In 1999 he won the Montale Award for the "Unpublished" section. His poems appeared on Nuovi Argomenti.
In the field of music he is present in about 50 albums, he founded and directed the Europa Jazz Festival of Noci (1989- 2000), promoted the meetings and the improvisation sessions of the collective A Bao A Qu (1996-1999),
collaborated with numerous Italian and foreign musicians including Carlo Actis Dato, Conny Bauer, Peter Brotzmann, Eugenio Colombo, Charles Gayle, Peter Kowald, Sergei Kuryokhin, Steve Lacy, Joelle Leandre, Gianni Lenoci, Marcello Magliocchi, Sabir Mateen, Pino Minafra, Louis Moholo, Maggie Nicols, Maresuke Okamoto, Roberto Ottaviano, Sakis Papadimitriou, Evan Parker, William Parker, Ernst Petrowsky, Ernst Reijseger, Antonello Salis, Mario Schiano, Gunther Sommer, Keith Tippett and Bruno Tommaso.
Stylized characters that populate brightly colored squares on monochrome backgrounds that integrate with things, animals that fix ordinary situations with a farcical, sometimes dreamlike lapel. To complete the paintings there are insertions of writings that, following the same dialectic of the images, pass from the slang of English to the dialectal idiom, crossing bridges of licentious words to arrive at chronicle references and deeper annotations of existential character. Drawing badly, "drawing badly" and indicating the right way to act "in the right way", as the title of the exhibition indicates, underlines the author's vision of wanting to subvert preconceived rules and patterns of art and message that every artist he wants to leave.
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