Performance Artist | Italian
Nicola Fornoni (1990 Brescia, IT) has been dedicating to performance art from 2013. This year has been performed in his first solo exhibition called Fuckdermia curated by Alberto Ceresoli at the Vaku Project Space, Bergamo (IT) it has been characterized by eight video performances, three video frames and one performance with the same title of the exhibition.
Recently, he has been selected for the LADA screen contest 2018 (UK), Starptelpa, Riga Performance Art Festival, Riga (LV) and PAS 2018 festival de performance art de Bogotà.
During last year, which he performed in Italy and abroad, with his participation to the 4th International performance art week-end of Berlin curated by Luisa Catucci and Dagmar L.Glaunitzer-Smith at Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin (DE).
His talk performances about body themes related to the artist’s life and social issues. He is a natural reminder and a source of freedom. Nicola uses performance art as well as video art His intent is to change society with his mind and body.
His works were exposed and performed to Humain Body, Angst, curated by Francesca Sand at la Capela, Paris (FR), to Harvest Mind curated by Dagmar L. Glausnitzer-Smith at Braunschweig (DE), to Tactile Bodies, curated by Nicolina Stylianou at the Sensorium Space of Nicosia (CY), to the 3rd Venice International Performance Art Week curated by VestAndPage at Venice (IT), EJECT, V international festival of video performance curated by Pancho Lopez, Alameda Art Workshop, Ciudad de Mexico (MX) , to the Festival Muscopio-video traveling art of Mexico (CDMX), to PAS Festival of performance art de Bogotá curated by Fernando Pertuz (CO), and in many cities as Rome, Milan, Ferrara, Pescara, Jakarta, Belo Horizonte, Ciudad de Mexico and others. He won Adrenaline Award in Silver, performance art, body art category. He worked with Kyrahm,