Tiffany Trenda's first short film, "Body Study 1" will be premiering at LACMA's Young Directors Night's reception.
 
Young Directors Night 03/05/11 Young Directors Night |Saturday, March 5, 2011 | 8 pm - 12am |LACMA | LACMA Muse Members tickets on sale now | General Admission: $30| $20 Muse members | Must show Muse membership card to pick up discounted tickets. $2 convenience fee added to all online and phone orders. The Tenth Annual Young Directors Night highlights the emerging talent of Los Angeles' film community. A celebration of film and the art of cinema, the showcase features 6 to 8 short films screened in the unique setting of an art museum followed by a conversation between the featured directors and the host panel. Reception follows the screenings. Admission includes screenings, reception, and parking.
 

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Trenda will perform in Luigi Ontani's "AmenHammerAmeno" at the Hammer Museum April 20, 2011 from 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Luigi Ontani

Italian artist Luigi Ontani has been producing tableaux vivants, literally ‘living pictures’, since the late 1960’s. They are drawn from a combination of Western and Eastern iconographical traditions, with references to mythical and historical figures from past to present. Ontani’s idiosyncratic, satirical, and colorful scenes distinguish themselves from the more restrained work of his contemporaries in Italy and are significant precursors for younger generations of performance artists in Europe and the United States. AmenHammerAmeno, his new site-specific piece for the Hammer will take the form of a procession, with the performers clad in Balinese masks, lead by Ontani himself and accompanied by musicians.

In conjunction with the exhibition When in Rome organized by the Depart Foundation at the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles

Luigi Ontani (b. 1943) is one of the most influential and remarkable Italian artists working today. Ontani’s idiosyncratic work represents a radical counter-position to that adopted by Arte Povera in the years he came to prominence. His photographs, drawings, installations, performances and tableaux vivants relate to an extremely rich western and eastern iconographical tradition. He is often the subject of his own work, wearing the clothing of mythical figures from history, religion or literature, drawing from very diverse sources, both near and distant in time.

He has exhibited his works in some of the most important museums and galleries around the world, from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to the Centre Pompidou, the Museo Reina Sofía to the Frankfurter Kunstverein. He has also participated in several editions of the Venice, Sydney, Lyon and Manifesta biennials. In the past few years, he was the subject of solo shows at MoMA PS1, S.M.A.K. in Ghent and MAMbo in Bologna. He recently presented a parade/tableau vivant at the Serpentine Gallery in London.