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Marco Vaglieri
...una volta
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…
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…
Vlado Martek
[Project for a book]
Project for a book (2017) consists of three A4 sheets of paper, the draft for a book which was never published, donated as source of inspiration and research. Read more.
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…
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…
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…
Veit Stratmann
A Lighting system
The project A lighting system tries to tie together the discourse on security and the machine for the production of good conscience – and of control - as which the ecological discourse is often used into one structure.Read more.
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…
Antonio Scaccabarozzi
Ambiguità dell’angolo
Five projects of environmental intervention in a interior space, formed by two walls ending in a corner and a floor, named from A to E.The first one, A, is dated 1978 and accompanied by the autograph and handwritten note of the artist: “Ambiguità…
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…
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
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…