In GlocalNews the juggler of words

“The brain of each of us is like a park without benches: it is uncomfortable for relaxing, and it is easy that someone pisses on our dreams.” Alessandro Bergonzoni reflects on his words, he makes us smile and think about the meaning that words acquire in a different context. And Bergonzoni himself will be the special guest of the second day of GlocalNews, the three-day-meeting of journalism organized by VareseNews in cooperation with the communication agency Hagam. Hagam celebrates 10 years of activity and the meeting with the artist, expected for Friday 16^th November in Ville Ponte at 21, is the event organized to celebrate this goal.

It is a free meeting to have fun together.

In order to be sure of having the opportunity to take part in this meeting, it is possible to reserve your free entrance by filling this form online; you will receive a prompt confirmation via e-mail that you will have to show at the entrance.

Who is Alessandro Bergonzoni?

Alessandro Bergonzoni was born in 1958 in Bologna. When he was 24 years old, after having attended the Antonine Accademy and having graduated in Law, he started his artistic collaboration with Claudio Calabrò. Right from his first theatrical performances, Bergonzoni developed the comic genre, which would become essential in his following performances: the refusal of the reality as an artistic reference, the linguistic “exploration” and the absurd as a comic world which had to be explored thoroughly.

In the autumn of 1989, his  first book was published by A. Mondadori: its title is “Le balene restino sedute”, and, in 1990, it  was the winner of the Golden Palm in Bordighera as the best comic book of the year. In 2000, he increased the number of his participations in Radio Rai and he started a very close collaboration with the “Casa dei Risvegli – Luca De Nigris”, which would lead him to be increasingly more involved in disease and treatment, holding tens of meetings in hospitals and universities the following years. In 2001, he played the role of the “Ringmaster” of the play “Pinocchio” by Roberto Benigni. In 2003, he continued his series of meetings in universities, libraries, schools. This meetings would also lead him to the Philosophy Festival in Modena, where he would give an explosive lecture, which carried the title “Per tutta la durata della parola vita”. In February 2008, he inaugurated his first personal exhibition at the Mimmo Scognamiglio Gallery in Naples.