Il fiore e la pietra
<em>Il fiore e la pietra</em> is 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 Guido Curto, 6th Edition, 2002. <br />The theme draws its first inspiration from B.C. comics by Johnny Hart: a frail flower dialogues with a stone. The ambiguity between solidity and frailty is symbolically set aside the then very adverse situation of FIAT, the most important manufacturing company of Turin, and the problem of the blue collar sleeping area. <br />The environment in which the project was developed is typical of a still common situation in contemporary art: conceived to apply to a contest, it was never realized, as well as all the other projects presented, due to lack of funds. <br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/1996/1/hirsch_il%20fiore%20e%20la%20pietra.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>.
Hirsch, Debora
2002
Bignotti, Ilaria
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Containers
<p>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 other works and moreover he saw at Venice Biennale 2013 a similar project, <em>Still the Same Place</em> by Petra Feriancová and Zbyněk Baladrán inside the Czech pavilion.<br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/2900/1/Kensuke%20Koike_Containers.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more.</a></p>
Koike, Kensuke
2012
Romano, Gianni
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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 Pinturicchio-Del Piero to paint a fresco on a wall of a gallery in Turin by kicking a ball stained with graphite against a wall on which was hanging a reproduction of an artwork by Pinturicchio. The project was conceived for the second solo exhibition of the artist at Franco Soffiantino Gallery in Turin and it was never realised since Del Piero did not answer to the invitation. <br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/2902/1/Umbaca_Del%20Piero.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>.
Umbaca, Enzo
2007
Romano, Gianni
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Progetto senza titolo
<p>This project derives from the artists’ research around the <em>Turing Test</em>. 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 verbally communicated it to the second computer, in fact the first computer spoke to the second describing the image. The second computer, on the basis of information stored in its memory, activated a process of representation of the description, which it then actually represented through a projector next to the image that had been shown to the first computer. The two images were finally exposed side by side, showing the translation process image> word> image.<br />The project needed a great number of technical and scientific partnerships to make the data transmission possible. However, the concept behind the project came to life with two performances the artists realized in 2011 and 2014.<br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/2899/1/Bianco-Valente_Progetto%20senza%20titolo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>.</p>
Bianco-Valente (Bianco, Giovanna & Valente, Pino)
1999-2001
Romano, Gianni
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