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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…
Cesare Pietroiusti
Inviti
The project, part of the author's criticism towards the system, concerns the issue of the fruition of contemporary art and of the so called art system in general. A first version of the project was developed since 1991. We can see on one of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Silvio Wolf
I Nomi del tempo
Installation in 2 parts, 2009. Venice, Basin of the Arsenale, Gaggiandre, and Tese delle Vergini, Italian Pavilion.
Environmental dimensions. Light, water, photography, sound.
A) Outside: A semi-submerged photographic image of 60x20m. occupies the…
Eugenia Vanni
Giovane che guarda Eugenia Vanni dipingere Giovane che guarda Lorenzo Lotto
Giovane che guarda Eugenia Vanni dipingere Giovane che guarda Lorenzo Lotto is an unrealized pictorial work that returns to a “live" pictorial modality, in fact the project consists in painting Giovane che guarda Lorenzo Lotto by Giulio Paolini from…
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…
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…
Erwin Wurm & Coop Himmelb(l)au
Forum Vogelsang Banana
This project started as a cooperation with Coop Himmelb(l)au: the idea was to fill up the consisting building of the so called Adlerhof with reinforced concrete and build new rooms within the huge banana, that should be arranged above that…
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…
Luca Vitone
Foglie al vento
Foglie al vento is a project realised for the contest Arte per piazza Matteotti, organized by the city of Imola in 2010, that aimed at the creation of a monument to replace the memorial to the fallen of the First World War in the renovated…
Cesare Pietroiusti
Finestre
The project, entitled Finestre since its first conception, has undergone several revisions and can be considered only partially realised. The idea of opening windows on adjoining rooms to offer the spectators an unusual continuity of vision between…
Massimo Uberti
Esser Spazio
The project was submitted to the commission for the International Competition SPAZIO/MAXXI due percento, published in October 2008, for the creation of two works of art for the MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome: one had to be…
Josip Vaništa
Erased Line
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…
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…
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…
Gianfranco Baruchello
Do it yourself confession
Do it yourself confessionis the idea of a confessional in which it is possible to self-administer the sacrament of confession. Conceived by Gianfranco Baruchello in 1967, the project is unrealised, like many others of the author, and it can be…
Helen Mirra
Die Kristallader
Die Kristallader (The Crystal Vein) is a project in public space that Helen Mirra developed in 2014 as part of a competition for the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland.The assignment of the competition was that the artistic intervention should connect…
Enzo Umbaca
Del Piero
Taking inspiration from “Pinturicchio”, the epithet invented by Gianni Agnelli to describe Alessandro Del Piero as “an artist of football”, Enzo Umbaca invited the famous football player to take part in a performance; the idea was to ask…
MASBEDO
Degna di Goebbels
This project for an unrealised film was based on a Reiner Werner Fassbinder 1975 piece, Der Muell, die Stadt und der Tod (Garbage, the City and Death), an adaptation of Gerhard Zwerenz's novel Erde ist unbewohnbar wie der Mond (1973). The film's…
Runo Lagomarsino
Dear Tattooist
This project moves from the interest of the artist in the map - a recurring theme inside his research - and wants to explore this form of historical representation with tattoos, a declared fascination of Runo Lagomarsino: in fact his idea was to…
Riccardo Baruzzi
D.X XY
D.X XY is a dialogue on painting between two subjects X and Y, which is reported in the file number one, while in the second file donated by the artist the dialogue becomes a performance thanks to two actors who recite the text written by the artist…
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…
Kensuke Koike
Containers
A series of frames of big size are overlapped in order to create a new shape, that goes beyond the content of the frames itself. The project was part of a series of works focusing on representation, but the artist abandoned it because he was busy on…
Luca Vitone
Concorso per la progettazione di un monumento dedicato ai disertori del nazismo
Vitone in 2009 designed a memorial to the deserters from the Nazist army in the center of the city of Cologne,taking part in a competition, which he will not win.The artist, who has lived and worked in Germany, meditates from a political point of…
Luca Vitone & Frank Boehm
Concorso di progettazione Piazza Verdi - La Spezia
The project, realized with architect and curator Frank Boehm, was presented in 2009 on the occasion of the design competition for the architectural and artistic requalification of Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, announced by the city of La Spezia…
Sissi
Cloakroom workshop, Frieze
The project donated to MoRE was initially conceived for London Frieze Art Fair. The artist submitted an application for Frieze Projects, curated by Nicola Lees of the Frieze Foundation, and she was among the finalists with a proposal of…
Marta Pierobon
CLAYING A long-term relationship
The unrealized work by Marta Pierobon, born in Brescia in 1979, unfolds as a ten-day artistic performance where clay plays a central role in delving into the concept of space through "performative sculpture." Utilizing clay as her primary medium,…
Aleksandra Mir
CityForest
In 1997, Aleksandra Mir proposed to the Public Art Fund to collect trees thrown away from the streets of New York City after the Christmas holidays and replant them in a common area until they had dried out completely. The project, while welcomed,…
Eva Marisaldi
Cinema Italia
This unrealised project has to be considered in relation with Ritz, a project for the realization of an outdoor movie theatre inside a park in Trento proposed the year before (2004), and it consist in the proposal to place of a permanent movie…
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,…
Cesare Pietroiusti
Certificati di Autenticità
The artist developed a never-realized project for the production of different typologies of certificates of authenticity, like for instance one attesting a person's own identity, or unrealized art works or sophisticated certificates printed on…
Ugo La Pietra
Casa per uno Scultore (Casa per lo scultore Carmelo Cappello)
The project of the house for the sculptor Carmelo Cappello (Casa per lo scultore Carmelo Cappello) has for its own nature of academic exercise to be inevitably assigned to the sphere of 'unrealised'. However, if we leave out an analysis limited to…
Sandro Mele
Cartoneros - Buenos Aires
The idea behind Cartoneros, which came to him whilst travelling to Argentina in 2006 to implement the project on the Fasinpat ceramic factory (Fabrica sin patrones), an example of corporate self-management among the most significant of the country.…
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…
Paolo Scheggi
Cannocchiale Ottico Percorribile
The Cannocchiale ottico percorribile was designed by the artist for the 1968 Milan Triennale, dedicated to the theme of the Grande Numero, in the never-realised exhibition Interventi nel paesaggio. Inside this project artworks by young artists should…
Claudia Losi
Caleidoscopi; Allora la luna
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
Big Suit Departing
Big Suit Departing was conceived for the Berlin Schönefeld airport; the project consisted in the realization of a giant figure – 10 x 3,5 mt – hanging inside the airport hall with a 50% slope. The “dummy” has neither head nor limbs, it is totally…
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…
G. Küng
as yet untitled (Stairs)
The idea was to reflect on the art fair context which is a recurring impulse in the artist's work. Context is not neutral, and can sometimes be oppressive as in the case of an art fair.The proposal for Frieze London made reference to ambition and the…
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…
Vlado Martek
arte arte arte
arte arte arte(art art 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.
Grazia Varisco
Arciteatro
Arciteatro is a simple and clear project – although very well articulated - that Varisco prepared when she was invited to participate in the competition organized by the Municipality of Milan for the construction of a sculpture intended to be located…
Vlado Martek
Ambivalentna tautologija
Ambivalentna tautologija is dated 2013. The idea was to display a picture of Martek’s studio in the studio of Goran Trbuljak (Varaždin, Croatia, 1948). Although it was never carried out, thanks to documents describing it, we can say that the work was…