Andante con Moto

Liliana Moro’s (b. Milan, 1961; lives and works in Milan) creative practice explores a range of media including sound, spoken and written word, sculpture, performance, drawing, collage, and video. Her works strike a delicate balance between deceptively simple materials and objects. Moro’s oeuvre has long been informed by her passion for the theater; the painter initially wanted to study scenography. Her ongoing engagement with the oeuvre of Samuel Beckett, which underlies several of her works—Beckett radically uncluttered the stage and activated the theatrical space as a sculptural element—goes hand in hand with an encompassing inquiry into the setting of art and the bodies in it. Often inspired by mundane objects and situations, Moro’s work prompt us to listen and become both physically and intellectually involved.

The monograph Andante con moto. Liliana Moro traces an arc from Moro’s works of the late 1980s to her most recent output and new works created for the exhibition of the same title at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. With essays by Milovan Farronato and Fabio Cherstich, transcripts and notes on sound works, and a conversation between the artist and the curator Letizia Ragaglia, who also wrote the foreword.