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Aleksandra Mir
The Great Ears
Proposed as part of the Monuments for the USA exhibition in 2005, the project involved the construction of two monumental ears, respectively placed on the East and West coasts of the United States.Read more.
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
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…
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…
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.
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.
Vlado Martek
Prazno miesto
Prazno miesto[Empty mind] 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.
Vlado Martek
Pjesma se ne vraća u abecedu
Pjesma se ne vraća u abecedu(Poem is not coming back into the Alphabet) 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.
Vlado Martek
Ništa
Ništa[Nothing] 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.
Vlado Martek
Mislim na umjetnost
Mislim na umjetnost(I think of 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.
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.
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…
Veit Stratmann
The Rhine Swing
Veit Stratmann research makes use of the unrealised and the concept of unrealisability as a tool to deal with - in line with a conceptual tradition - political or economic-political discourses, often connected with the concept of security and with…
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…
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…
Kostis Velonis
Monument for a Forgotten Education (based on Goeritz's and Barragan's “Torres de Satélite”,1958)
Monument for a Forgotten Education is a model version of the public monument of Mathias Goeritz and Luis Baraggan Torres de satellite (satellite towers) which is located in Mexico City and is assumed to be one of the most characteristic public…
H.H. Lim
Omaggio a Wojtyla
This project was born in the aftermath of HH Lim's car accident which occurred on the highway on March 26th in 2005, while he was on his way from Rome to Naples for the opening of the inaugural exhibition of the PAN - Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli,…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…