To celebrate the exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: El glaciar ido (The vanished glacier / Il ghiacciaio scomparso), curated by Marcella Beccaria at the Manica Lunga of Castello di Rivoli from  April 29^th  to September 20^th , and as part of the Interferences programme, which brings works by contemporary artists to the Cerruti Collection, the Cerruti Fondation presents a poetry reading by Cecilia Vicuña. 

The poems Manera en que descubrí las dos clases de muerte and Sea lo que fuere (both written in 1967) will be recited in two languages, Italian and Spanish, throughout the opening night and during self-guided tours of the Cerruti Collection on Saturday July 4^th, August 1^st and September, 5^th  by the artist Federico Pozuelo. 

The poetic output of Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago de Chile, 1948) spans visual poetry, orality, performance and artist’s books, with a consistent focus on language, the precarious and transformative nature of the word, and a feminist and decolonial perspective. The two poems presented at Villa Cerruti are taken from the volume Giovani poeti sudamericani (1972), edited by Hugo García Robles and Umberto Bonetti and published by Giulio Einaudi Editore in the historic series “Collezione di poesia”.