Descripción de la Exposición
Independent interdisciplinary artist and performer Tony Orrico is a former member of Trisha Brown Dance Company and Shen Wei Dance Arts. As a performer he has graced such stages as the Sydney Opera House, Teatro La Fenice, New York State Theater, and Théâtre du Palais-Royal. Orrico was also one of a select group of artists to re-perform the work of Marina Abramovic during her retrospective at MoMA. In 2014 he presented Penwald 2: 8 circles, 8 gestures at Centre Pompidou - Metz.
Penwald Drawings (ambidextrous drawings) is a series of drawings in which Orrico explores the body as a tool of measurement, creating geometric shapes with the movement of his body. Each drawing is a unique reflection of the artist's action, intervened upon by certain variables with specific duration and objectives. Orrico developed his own physical symmetry practice as a point of entry into his creative work. He explores the limitations of his extended body, while taking into account notions of repetition, locomotion, refraction and exhaustion. In his termed "state of readiness" he is interested in the application of a present body to a surface, object, or course. The result is a record of his mental projections manifested in his timed movements that, upon completion of the work, generates unexpected themes for the artist.
Orrico is fascinated with how physical impulses manifest into visible forms. His artifacts and performances often enter territories of infinite reflective and rotational symmetry. Centrered on themes of cyclic motion and the generation and regeneration of material, his work draws on the tension between what is momentary and fleeting and what can be recorded and captured.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
