Artist designer Canedicoda built a a temporary
tailor's atelier, where
clothes were build directly onto the visitors' bodies. Conceived halfway between a journal and an inventory, this publication documents each phase of the project, collects pictures of the 100 actual garments, as well as participants' feedbacks.
Canedicoda is an artist, designer, performer, garment and furniture maker, silk-screen printer, and independent organizer. The project Adagio con buccia unfolds from an intuition on the performative potential residing in the act of making an object, in particular tailoring clothings on mindful bodies. Canedicoda sets up his nomad studio-atelier, and opens its doors only by appointment: he meets his guests, talks with them, (co)designs, and executes. A one-to-one performance for a spectator at a time. Conceived as halfway between a journal recording a long-lasting performance and an inventory, this book documents each phase of the project, collects pictures of the 100 actual garments, as well as feedbacks sent by the participants. Adagio con buccia reveals the slow pace of a practice beyond categorization and the unique, “quasi-alchemical” methodology of one of the most eclectic artists of his generation.
Canedicoda (Giovanni Donadini, born 1979 in Treviso, Italy) is a Milan-based multi-disciplinary artist active in music, performance, design and fashion fields. He developed a rich, personally distinctive universe that is constantly changing but always immediately recognisable. A pivotal figure bringing and spreading to Italy several innovative and liminal currents of artistic, stylistic and musical pursuit, his experience includes a vast number of projects in cooperation with record labels, non-profit spaces, groups and artists both in Italy and beyond. Since 2003 Canedicoda has developed his own personal research on language, style and method, creating his own label. Canedicoda is also active in the field of music under the pseudonym of Ottaven and carries out research on the sound, and the body as a medium of expression of actions and situations created by the music through repetitive gestures of performative matrix.
Among consolidated artistic collaborations: Matteo Castro, Roberta Mosca, Valentina Lucchetti,
Luigi Presicce,
Kinkaleri,
Alessandro Bosetti, Anna Maria Ajmone, Cristina Rizzo,
Carlos Casas, Jungen Tagen, Dennys Tyfus,
Renato Grieco/kNN. He teaches Textile design at NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano and Science and technologies of materials at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.
