Flavio Arcangeli Open Studio

The painting is an organism in all respects, it is a fragment inserted into a larger system and in continuous dialogue with it. The sign and the gesture both are generated by movement They are connected to the creative principle of nature.

Flavio Arcangeli (1965 Rome), graduated in Architecture from the La Sapienza University of Rome, painter, performer and yoga teacher.rnAlways interested in the relationship between the visual arts and the performative act.rnFrom 1998 to 2002 he conducted workshops  on painting in the sector of physical-mental distress. He began practicing Yoga in 1995 and since then he has studied and deepened various methods, including Iyengar Yoga, Vinyasa, Hatha Yoga and Bikram. He is a certified RYT500 Yoga Alliance Teacher. He studied Qi Gong and Tai Chi, postural and respiratory education, contemporary dance and practiced Greco-Roman wrestling and boxing at a competitive level. In 1997 he met the dancer Masaki Iwana and followed his teachings for over ten years at "La Maison du butoh Blanc” in Revellon in France. He co-founded the dance company “LIOS” in 2000 and presented performances in Italy and abroad. From 2000 to 2011 he co-directed the International Butoh Dance Festival “Trasform’azioni”, at the Furio Camillo Theater in Rome. He collaborates with companies and various research theater entities; including Marcello Sambati and Silvia Rampelli. In 2006 one of his works was exhibited at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, in collaboration with the Roma 3 University.

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