Performance: Adelaide Cioni

Adelaide Cioni, Five geometric songs

The collaboration between Arte Fiera and Fondazione Furla for the performance is renewed; thus, Bruna Roccasalva, Artistic Director of the Foundation, will once again curate the live program of Arte Fiera 2025.
The partnership, which began in 2023, confirms the desire of Fondazione Furla and Arte Fiera to work together on the subject of performance, which has been present at Arte Fiera since its early editions and has become a distinctive element of the Bologna event.
For Fondazione Furla, the collaborartion marks a return to performance after the Time After Time, Space After Space series presented at the Museo del 900 in Milan (2017-18); for Arte Fiera, it is a confirmation of a bond to an artistic language that began with the 1976 edition, in which the galleries themselves presented a performance program that now belongs to art history. 

Adelaide Cioni (Bologna, 1976) is the artist invited by Bruna Roccasalva, Artistic Director of the Foundation, to present a performance during Arte Fiera.
Cioni's research moves within a field of investigation that is centered on drawing but includes different forms of expression, such as painting, music, dance and theatre. Starting from a reflection on the origins of sign, the artist explores the recurrence of abstract decorative motifs - patterns - both in nature and in artistic artefacts from all epochs, reworking them within a practice that, moving from actual drawing, becomes an investigation into colour and form, body and language, space and movement.