Since 2018, Francesco Cavaliere and Leonardo Pivi have been collaborating on the creation of fantasy stories and contemporary fairy tales, which take the form of mosaic installations, sculptures, and objects animated by performances, where words and sounds invite us to explore our and their imagination. It is a collective, but the two artists also work independently. This volume gives account to the outcomes of their shared research and tells about their personal activities, investigating a wide range of materials, techniques, languages, and themes, as well as highlighting affinities and divergences between the two artists. The result is a visionary collaboration in which past and present, real and unreal, abstract and concrete mingle freely and powerfully.

Contents

Foreword
Daniele Torcellini

Francesco Cavaliere and Leonardo Pivi,
or about sharing the imagination
Daniele Torcellini

Ciclo del Solimandante

Anubis vs Baboon

Prodigy Kid

The Grotesque Body
Method and Map in Leonardo Pivi's Works
Marco Senaldi

Leonardo Pivi

“Quiet, or we will be discovered…”
Hermetic Circle or Phenomenology of Sound-Space Behaviours
Daniele Gasparinetti/Xing

Francesco Cavaliere

Performance Stories
Teresa Macrì

Biographical notes and exhibitions