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CRASH! (Scott King & Matthew Worley)
A Better Britain
Scott King developed this project as CRASH!, with historian and writer Matthew Worley, for the the Serpentine Map Marathon event.A Better Britainis a series of 12 projects, published inside what appeared to be the programme for the Map Marathon and…
Hassan Khan
Sketches for an unrealised magazine
This project consists of an A4 paper with handwritten notes in both Arabic and English and sketches in black ink. It is the only existing document of a planned magazine to be produced by Hassan Khan with some friends at the time but was never…
Marijan Jevsovar
Untitled
In March 1991 the collector and publisher Francesco Conz, in collaboration with the Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti - MSU Zagreb, invited a few artists who had been part of Gorgona, the Croatian avant-garde group active between 1959 and 1966, to an…
Emily Jacir
stazione
stazione is the title of a public intervention conceived by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir for a collateral project of the 53rd Venice Biennale titled Palestine c/o Venice in 2009 but never realised. Jacir’s initial idea was to translate the names of…
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 Horvitz
Untitled
This project, which has been presented directly by the artist with an e-mail, consists of just an idea: to pull one of the old trolly car of Los Angeles out of the ocean where they had been dumped, after the closure of this transport system.…
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…
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…
Franco Guerzoni
Fontana in galleria
Since the beginning, the research of Franco Guerzoni was up-to-date and full of original ideas, even if in line with the most interesting experiences developing in Italy and abroad. Indeed, considering visual arts, that period was particularly rich…
Franco Guerzoni
Tappeti volanti
In this drawing Franco Guerzoni speculates - with a theoretical exercise nearer to utopia than to a real project - about the possibility of realising flying carpets. On this drawing we can find, together with shapes and images by Guerzoni himself, a…
Franco Guerzoni
Sovrapposizioni culturali
The two figures “I remember I have seen a mosque inside the Amun Temple in Luxur” and “Development of the decoration of an Etruscan vase according to a nineteenth-century portrayal” were to be part of a broader and more structured project, centred on…
Franco Guerzoni & Luigi Ghirri
Stelle e lucciole
Stelle e lucciole was conceived between 1969 and the early Seventies, and it is one of the first episodes of the prolific collaboration between Franco Guerzoni and Luigi Ghirri, which produced interesting and relevant results. These photographs…
Tomislav Gotovac
Totalni portret grada Zagreba
Total Portrait of the City of Zagreb was a project for a documentary film on the city of Zagreb. The only document which has survived is a sheet of paper typed and signed by Tomislav Gotovac himself. He states his intention to observe the city as…
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…
Regina José Galindo
Coraza
Invited to take part to the second edition of the performance festival curated by Adriana Rispoli and Eugenio Viola, Corpus. Art in action, 7-26 June 2010 at MADRE Museum in Naples, Galindo focused on the social problems that affects the city. As a…
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…
Flavio Favelli
Giallo-Dromo
Flavio Favelli conceives this project, together with the architect Flavio Gardini and the engineer Matteo Grilli, for a competition curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.The artist envisiones the creation of an outline of the old nuclear power plant in…
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…
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…
Ericailcane
Senza titolo
The idea of the wall painting by Ericailcane was born in 2014 and meant to fit into the second edition of FRONTIER - The Line of Style, an open and evolving platform, based on two complementary operational phases: one dedicated to the artistic…
Maria Eichhorn
Aussichtsturm (Observation Tower)
The project involves the construction of a 33-meter observation tower as an open construction (the construction method should have included a steel skeleton frame) at the highest point of a landscape. The tower should have been open to the public at…
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…
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…
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…
Pablo Echaurren
En attendant la mariée
The project consists of a combined installation of two spinning wheels that move a system of threads, the threads descend from a chrysalis attached to the ceiling. The quote is clear and obvious. In fact, Echaurren mentions the famous ready-made of…
Pablo Echaurren
Rouge Selavy
Rouge Selavy is the title of a work that Echaurren designed in 1977, a fundamental year because on that very date the artist decided to (temporarily) abandon art to devote himself to politics. The artist writes with a blue pen over a lined notebook…
Pablo Echaurren
Artisti coraggiosi. Natura morta - 2
The unrealised project Artisti coraggiosi proposed by Pablo Echaurren in 1974 to Galleria La Margherita in Rome, involved the participation of the artist who, seating at a table inside the bare spaces of the gallery, equipped with papers, scissors…
Mark Dion
Proposal for Balboa Park Centennial, San Diego
The project proposed to mark the Centennial of the building of Balboa Park with a construction which bring aspects of the various cultural institutions under a single roof. Read more.
Braco Dimitrijević
Lion 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…
Jeremy Deller
Rejected Tube Map Cover Illustration
This was the first idea proposed by Jeremy Deller, after he received the appointment from TFL to design the cover of an edition of the map of the London Underground, distributed free in all the stations. The proposed design was initially a bicycle,…
Jeremy Deller
Proposal for the Olympic Park Gateways
Deller proposed here a structure similar to Stonehenge, or simply menhir-like, to highlight the entrances and exits of the Olympic Park that would have hosted stadiums and structures in London, 2012. The deliberate ambiguity consisted in building a…
Jeremy Deller
Mission Accomplished
Jeremy Deller was invited for the Carnegie International in 2004, and this one was the first idea he presented – which could be referred to a more complex series of research and reflections about the contemporary war in Iraq – with the intention to…
Jeremy Deller
Iggy Pop Life Drawing Class
The project consisted in inviting an icon of popular culture – such as Iggy Pop – to pose, without revealing his identity to the students, as a model for a drawing class: the results of these sessions would then have been donated and preserved at the…
Jeremy Deller
Fourth Plinth Proposals
Two proposals presented as part of the great public art project connected to the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London and never realized. The "Fourth Plinth" was in fact originally built in the second half of the nineteenth century, as a base to…
Maria Adele Del Vecchio
Subtext
The project consists of an Artist’s book structured on several levels of interpretation which, through images and texts, outlines the moments in which the combination of signs reveal the "forms of the content."The artist's book designed by Maria…
Matthew Darbyshire
Useless: A Space Without a Function
This project is - in the artist’s intention - a “quasi-scientific experiment”, and consists of a permanent public sculpture, made of a prefabricated glass architectural structure (approx 5x5m wide and 3m high) produced by a company that usually…
Matthew Darbyshire
ukfun-ky
Matthew Darbyshire project for Kettle’s Yard - which today is a department of the University of Cambridge and a gallery - was designed for the left side of the building, overlooking Castle Street: during the renovation works for the new education…
Matthew Darbyshire
Proposed plan for Hepworth Gallery entrance, Wakefield
This project proposes an intervention in the area in front of the entrance of the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield. Darbyshire here articulates the space through three elements: an unfinished Arts and Crafts half-hipped gable structure in developers…
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…
Matthew Darbyshire
Drawings for a soft play commission for Barking Leisure Centre, London
This project was submitted as a proposal for the soft play commission at the AbbeyLeisure Centrein Barking,London. The elements present in the area, dedicated to the children, are a series of games and spaces reinterpreted following the forms of…
Matthew Darbyshire
CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA is the project for a sculpture that reproduces a sports car - a Mercedes SL600 - through layers of transparent polycarbonate, and should have been installed inside the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The project, which focuses on the “striking…
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…
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…
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…
Mathis Collins
Quercus Suber Utopia
For the past few years, Mathis Collins has worked with cork harvesters, local populations of Mediterranean forests and villages and artists, and conceived works that focus on ecology, culture and economy of cork regions. Quercus Suber Utopia is a…
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…
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…
Brognon Rollin
Ciel illuminé / Cielo non illuminato
Ciel illuminé / Cielo non illuminato consists of the faithful reproduction of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure's cyanometer on the internal walls of the Mont Blanc tunnel. Brognon Rollin project originates from the idea of making the mountain disappear,…
Thomas Braida
Studi per quadri non realizzati. Quaderno 18
Thomas Braida donated some pages from his notebooks to the MoRE Museum. This type of donation sobering to what we might call the pictorial projects in our imaginary, where the notebook (rich in literary references and artistic influences) in the…
Thomas Braida
Studi per quadri non realizzati. Quaderno 17
Thomas Braida donated some pages from his notebooks to the MoRE Museum. This type of donation sobering to what we might call the pictorial projects in our imaginary, where the notebook (rich in literary references and artistic influences) in the…