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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…
Jonathan Monk
Small Proposals Book
This project is primarily a reflection on the feasibility of art projects of and the artist’s relationship with the client inside the contemporary art system, coming up with the irony and poetic projects that will characterize the artist more recent…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Erwin Wurm
Venus
The Venus project was studied for the Patscherkofel mountain, which is part of the Tux Alps – near Innsbruck, Austria, and consists in a proposal for positioning a classic wooden table of dimensions of 100x120x76 cm, but actually made in bronze,…
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
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
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,…
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…
Erwin Wurm
St. Pancras Truck
This sculpture was thought for St. Pancras station, located in northern London; the building dates back to 1861 and its victorian character contributes to frame this work as unreal, even if the artist through his works wants to communicate much more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Eva Marisaldi
18.20 (Progetto per il Piazzale Caio Mario)
The project, originally conceived for the public contest «Premio Artegiovane/Torino Incontra. Una porta per Torino», proposed to realize a kind of silent room in the middle of the traffic congestion, with walls made of streams of air that rise toward…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Eva Marisaldi
Ritz
Ritz is a project conceived for the installation of an outdoor movie theatre inside a park in Trento, commissioned by the cultural association Numero Civico. The project, that was not realised, is proposed by the artist the following year with some…
Valerio Berruti
Rotonda di Verduno
Project to create a sculpture for the traffic circle, commissioned by the town of Verduno, a town in the heart of the Langhe where Valerio Berruti has chosen to live and establish his own studio in a deconsecrated church. The sculpture should have…
Valerio Berruti
Scala
Site-specific project: fresco on the walls of a large scale of a nineteenth century building, recently renovated to become the site of a well-known italian bank. Initially, Berruti was contacted directly by the Director of the Bank in order to…
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…
Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
Senza Titolo
This unrealized work donated to MoRE museum consists in a performance staged simultaneously in two different galleries in Berlin, in one venue there are many young mothers with babies, while in the other there are elderly people. The overlaying of…
Davide Mosconi
Triton / La Luce del Suono
TRITON, a 7 days-long event designed and proposed by the artist for the 1977 edition of the Bonn Beethoven Festival, was then restructured and partially reduced in 1984 to be presented under the title LA LUCE DEL SUONO at the 1986 edition of the “Ars…
Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
Scala mobile con deserto
The project involves the construction of an escalator in the desert. In this project, as in the other one donated to MoRE, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio works on the opposites, inserting in a totally neutral setting – a distinctive trait of the Eastern…
Ivo Bonacorsi
A conceptual noise...
The idea is to put a small gadget on a very famous Duchamp’s work, Roue de bicyclette, a ready-made exhibited in several museums all around the world (Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Gallery in London, Moma in NY...). Considering that his work is a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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
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…
Cesare Pietroiusti
[Progetti per una mostra retrospettiva]
Since 2000 in the artist’s notebooks we can find several information and notes about the project of a retrospective exhibition that has never been realized.One note dated 2001 sketches out the idea of an exhibition of artists who developed ideas…
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…
Liliana Moro
Tiramolla 92
Tiramolla 1992 is a project presented by Liliana at the documenta 9 of Kassel, directed by Jan Hoet with a team constituted by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Denys Zacharopoulos e Bart de Baere. The place chosen for the work was the Neue Galerie and the project…
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…
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…
Sabrina Torelli
Simpatia Cosmica; De mi amor mi canto
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…
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…
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…
Sabrina Mezzaqui
Abat-jour
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…