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Debora Hirsch
Il fiore e la pietra
Il fiore e la pietrais a project of a urban sculpture for square in Turin, Italy. It was presented by the artist, on invitation by Gianni Romano, at the contest for young artists «Premio Artegiovane/Torino Incontra. Una porta per Torino» curated by…
Gian Maria Tosatti
Il palazzo di Atlante
Il palazzo di Atlante is a project for an environmental scale intervention, designed for the Ufficio Geologico building located at largo Santa Susanna, Rome. The place is currently abandoned, and was designed between 1873 and 1879 by the engineer…
Luca Trevisani
Il pop up che non si apre
Il pop up che non si apre (The pop up that will not open) is an artist's book designed by Luca Trevisani in 2011. The artist starts from his series of works, printed on copper and cardboard, named Fly fishing (2010), to elaborate the structure of a…
Luca Trevisani
Il Respiro di uno spazio / Livella il cielo
Il Respiro di uno spazio / Livella il cielois a project created by Luca Trevisani in 2011 and donated to the museum MoRE in 2014. The artist through his working methodology, that starts here from a scientific data, designs a system of pipes that pass…
Liliana Moro
In bocca al lupo
In bocca al lupo – (ed. “in the mouth of wolf” that is a way to wish good luck in Italian) isan artwork proposed by Liliana Moro for the 3rd International Sculpture Award of the Piemonte Region in Italy, promoted by the Piemonte Region and organized…
Cesare Pietroiusti
Inchieste Oggetti
This unrealised project dates back to 1990 and has been published by Jartrakor in 1992. The idea was to test the relativity of individual definitions by asking to a certain number of people to identify an object in their home that satisfies certain…
Cesare Pietroiusti
Inviti
The project, part of the author's critique of the system, addresses the issue of how contemporary art is experienced and of the so-called art system in general.An initial version of the project was developed starting in 1991. In one of the artist’s…
Erwin Wurm
Karlsruhe Boat
Karlsruhe Boat is a project for the main venue in the German city of EnBW, a society dealing with and trading energy, and consists of a real size boat – situated in a small fountain-like pool of water indoor – that paradoxically deforms itself…
Matthew Darbyshire
Knick Knacks - A Proposal for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth
Knick Knacks is Matthew Darbyshire proposal for the Fourth Plinth public art program in Trafalgar Square, London. The concept builds on an image designed by the artist himself as a christmas card for "The Guardian" newspaper and wants to transform…
Luigi Presicce
La camera della morte
The project donated by Luigi Presicce (Porto Cesareo, 1976) consists in an unrealized performance. The action, with an utopian and theatrical nature, is inspired by the annual event in which the tuna migrate to the island of Favignana, in the south…
Flavio Favelli
La Porta di Milano
The project was created for an international competition promoted in 2009 by SEA, the company which manages Milan airport system. As stated in the announcement, the competition concerns the creation of “a new architectural project for the realization…
Ettore Favini
La vera rivoluzione è non cambiare il mondo(?)
The project involved the creation of a huge sign – La vera rivoluzione è non cambiare il mondo(?) – in every way equal to a claim launched by ENEL, but lacking the question mark and immediately withdrawn due to Greenpeace's denunciation. At least…
Emilio Fantin
Laboratori
The project was commissioned by Roberto Daolio as part of a series of art works to be placed on the top floor of the Department of Pediatric Oncology of the Sant’Orsola Hospital in Bologna, in collaboration with the Association AGEOP. The invited…
Ibro Hasanović
Lilium Bosniacum
Lilium Bosniacum is a project that was thought to be realized in collaboration with scientists (e.g. botanist). It would include experiments in order to see if the Bosnian constitution - based upon the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995 - could be…
Braco Dimitrijević
Lions walking freely in the Louvre
In 1996 Braco Dimitrijević, interviewed by Jean-Hubert Martin for "Flash Art", said: If you look at the earth from the moon there is virtually no distance between the Louvre and the zoo. There are cages at the zoo just as there are in the Louvre. My…
Marko Pogačnik
Lithopuncture Zagreb
In October 2004, Marko Pogačnik created a series of urban sculptures in Zagreb as part of the "Urban Intervention" project. They were part of a cycle that the Slovenian artist had been developing since the 1980s, entitled Lithopuncture. He saw this…
Annika Ström
Lonely Dads / The Medieval Hall in UK with disco lights
Invited to submit a project for a medieval hall in the UK, that should have been a collaboration with either local people or an organization, Annika Ström decided to present a performance based upon the idea of lonely men in their cars, supposed to…
Pablo Echaurren
Looking for a Rembrandt
This work by Echaurren also reflects some Duchampian elements and echoes. The unrealized project depicts a bronze sculpture of a monkey holding an iron with its right hand: if the animal is adherent to all the artist's work declined to the universe…
goldiechiari
Looking for the Island
Looking for the island is a video project dedicated to the Garbage Patch, an ‘island “dump” located in the Pacific Ocean that began to form around 1950. This particular island, composed of polymers in the form of bottles, packaging, networks and…
David Maljković
Lost Pavillion
David Maljković's unrealized work was a reconstruction of the American Pavilion designed and built by John Johansen for the 1956 Zagreb Fair.The pavilion was meant to represent American presence at the fair, which had for many years, symbolized a…
Davide Bertocchi
Meteorite al contrario
David Bertocchi’s project, Meteorite al contrario (2010) is the launch into space of a normal stone of medium size, which would constitute a kind of meteorite, according to a trajectory opposite the one that usually leads an asteroid to accidentally…
Eva Marisaldi
Metto in moto il prato e partiamo
The project was commissioned by Roberto Daolio as part of a series of art works to be placed on the top floor of the Department of Pediatric Oncology of the Sant’Orsola Hospital in Bologna, in collaboration with the Association AGEOP. The invited…
Erwin Wurm
Mind Bubbles
Mind Bubblesis a project designed as an installation for the entrance hall of the head office of the Volksbank Wien, a building by the german architect Carsten Roth.The sculptures seem to be suspended in the air, as if a device had frozen them: a…
Cesare Pietroiusti
Mine Vaganti
The projects, partially realised, aimed at creating arbitrarily identities of not existing artists and critics who actively took part to the art system with their pretended and artificial professionalism through fake works and statements or even…
Vlado Martek
Mislim na umjetnost
Mislim na umjetnost(I think of art) should be considered as an element of the artistic process, and the project documentation for some of a group of works not (yet) realized. Read more.
Jeremy Deller
Mission Accomplished
Jeremy Deller, invited to the Carnegie International in 2004, presented this project—which can be linked to a broader series of research and reflections on the contemporary war in Iraq—with the intention of displaying one of his large banners on the…
Mario Cresci
Misurazioni
Mario Cresci started between 1977 and 1979 a meaningful and interesting experience that was interrupted because of the lack of support from the institutions and can therefore be conceived as an unrealised or at least unfinished project. In…
Matthew Darbyshire
Mojo
Mojo is a project for the Fosters & PartnersdesignedBloombergheadquarters at 50 Finsbury Square, London, and consists of banners and an interactive space.A first intervention would "reproduce" inside the atrium of the commissioner’s London…
Pablo Echaurren
Mon Alice
Mon Alice is a small plastic sculpture measuring a few centimeters (8 x 4 x 3 cm); it is a maquette for a larger sculpture designed by Echaurren in 2018.The sculpture represents Alice in Wonderland in the Disney version, the one now ingrained in the…
Elio Marchegiani
Monolite in bilico
Monolite in bilico consists of a block of slate or lava stone resting on its edge on top of an egg made of travertine from Trapani, and placed on a pedestal of white cement destined for an open space in the city of Gibellina. The exact placement and…
Kostis Velonis
Monument for a Forgotten Education (based on Goeritz's and Barragan's “Torres de Satélite”,1958)
Monument for a Forgotten Education is a model version of the public monument of Mathias Goeritz and Luis Baraggan Torres de satellite (satellite towers) which is located in Mexico City and is assumed to be one of the most characteristic public…
Pablo Echaurren
Monumento Fortuito
Pablo Echaurren's project, like many others, is elaborated through notes written in blue pen on a page of a squared notebook. The artist's intent is already clear from the title "Monumento Fortuito". In fact, in 2015 the artist plans to create a…
Cesare Pietroiusti
Museo degli artisti dimenticati
In 2000 Pietroiusti prepares the draft of a project for a "Museum of forgotten artists”; the idea was to look for artists which were very valuable but forgotten, in order to write an alternative history of italian contemporary art for the last three…
Petar Dabac
Museum of Photography
Petar Dabac began by tackling the issue of conserving photographic heritage to protect the legacy of Tošo Dabac, his uncle. He proposed the establishment of a Museum of Photography in Zagreb to collect, store and copy photographic documents. The…
Aleksandra Mir
Narvik Superstars
This project, commissioned by the Narvik City Council and Artscape Nordland, proposed to realise a star in the pavement for every child born in during the next 5-7 years in Narvik. This Norwegian city threatened to become vacated, with this work the…
Vlado Martek
Ništa
Ništa[Nothing] should be considered as an element of the artistic process, and the project documentation for some of a group of works not (yet) realized. Read more.
Ugo La Pietra
Nodi Urbani
The documents donated by Ugo La Pietra and named Nodi Urbani constitutes, compared to the Progetto per la Casa dello Scultore Cappello, a further variation of the 'unrealised'. If the casa per uno scultore is a ‘theoretical’ academic exercise that…
Invernomuto
Noises from above
This project started from the interest of the artists around the village of San Damiano, near Piacenza, the birthplace of Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi. This area hosts both a NATO military base and a sanctuary dedicated to an apparition…
David Casini
Non Piango Mai
Drawing realized to design a children's playground. The elements of the game park are inspired by drawings of biologist, zoologist, philosopher and also German artist Ernst Haeckel, who designed more than 100 polychromatic illustrations of animals…
H.H. Lim
Omaggio a Wojtyla
This project was born in the aftermath of HH Lim's car accident which occurred on the highway on March 26th in 2005, while he was on his way from Rome to Naples for the opening of the inaugural exhibition of the PAN - Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli,…
Massimo Uberti
Orbite
Orbite is a site-specific project designed for the Palazzo della Regione Lombardia in Milan: on two of its façades (the south-east and north-west one) Uberti wanted to install the light drawing of a portion of the orbits of the solar system. The…
Vlado Martek
Pjesma se ne vraća u abecedu
Pjesma se ne vraća u abecedu(Poem is not coming back into the Alphabet) should be considered as an element of the artistic process, and the project documentation for some of a group of works not (yet) realized.Read more.
Silvia Cini
Plastic Oplalà
The project was commissioned by Roberto Daolio as part of a series of art works to be placed on the top floor of the Department of Pediatric Oncology of the Sant’Orsola Hospital in Bologna, in collaboration with the Association AGEOP. Cini was…
Oreste
Porto Rico
The project was born upon request and on the initiative of Michy Marxuach, curator that in the summer 2000 invites Oreste to participate atPR ' 00 [intervenciones múltiples - múltiples intervenciones]in San Juan (Porto Rico).The one-week event…
Jonathan Monk
Portrait of the Artist in a Building
This project consists of a series of portraits of the artist, made exclusively from photographs of buildings taken while Jonathan Monk was inside them.The artist was not meant to be the only person in the building, but the only one involved in the…
Vlado Martek
Prazno miesto
Prazno miesto[Empty mind] should be considered as an element of the artistic process, and the project documentation for some of a group of works not (yet) realized.Read more.
Liliana Moro
Preferisco il rumore del mare. Concorso di progettazione Piazza Verdi - La Spezia
The project, realised in collaboration withStudio 5 + 1 AA, was presented in 2009 on the occasion of the design contest to renovate Piazza Giuseppe Verdi from an architectural and artistic point of view. The contest was promoted by city of di La…
Bianco-Valente
Progetto senza titolo
This project derives from the artists’ research around the Turing Test. Two computers set up with basic complementary knowledge responded to the visual inputs that the visitor showed to one of them: the first computer processed the image and then…
Eva Marisaldi
Promise. Progetto per la recinzione del cantiere del Museion di Bolzano
The project was proposed for the enclosure of the construction site of the museum contemporary art in Bolzano in 2008, on the occasion of the inauguration of its new location realised by the Berlin studio KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike in the city…