Viene e va is an installation by Liliana Moro that won the 7th edition of “Premio ArteGiovane – Torino incontra l'arte. Una porta per Torino” – conceived for the Iveco roundabout in Corso Giulio Cesare, Turin. The roundabout - that already presented two commas made of stone chippings on the grass – would host two groups of street lamps with a fixed light, one yellow and one white, with two street lamps with intermittent light at the centre, representing two lighthouses, whose function is to serve as a navigational aid for the sailors. Read more.
DSpace: http://hdl.handle.net/1889/3446
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 Electronica” festival in Linz, Austria. The first two projects of the same title, TRITON, deal, on a different level of detail, with the same event that, mainly involving sound, designed for a duration of seven days, would have involved the entire city of Bonn, starting from the river, on which he passed on a barge that housed the orchestra. It would have been a form of homage to the great composer Beethoven not only in terms of sound/ environment, but also from a visual point of view, considering that in the project this aspect is lagerly considered. LA LUCE DEL SUONO, a project for “a concert of lights and sounds” that would have involved a vast area of the Danube river and nearby land, conceived by Mosconi in 1984 and presented for the 1986 edition of the festival “Ars Electronica” in Linz, is the result of the further development of a core part of the same imaginative unit that shaped TRITON. Read more.
DSpace: http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1999
Untitled (svjetlosni štafelaj, light easel)
Attempting to find the “way out” of painting, and depict “the oscillation of matter”, Antun Motika tried to get closer to “the culture of light”. For Antun Motika one of the important and consistent fascinations was the obsession with “pure light” which in various manifestations stretches through his artistic production. Antun Motika’s experiments with light and the optical fascination shape his idea of liquid painting. Motika formed his most important breakthrough outside the field of painting in his various experiments with projections, light and movement, his various lumino-kinetic experiments. Proposals and sketches for different light devices, like light easel, and different apparatuses of projection are found in Motika’s notebooks, gathering many notes on his utopian, imaginative propositions that remain that, designs of unrealized projects. Motika’s notebooks and experiments direct us outside the known artistic canon towards the the changes of artistic cartography of in 1960s. Pages from Motika’s notebook bring into light sketches for lumino-kinetic works, his experiments with light and projections, as plans for various dispositifs and possibilities of their display. Motika produced his projections with various customised projectors (slide projectors, diascopes, episcopes, overhead projectors), transparent backgrounds onto which he applied materials of different sources, organic and inorganic, insects, plants such as herbarium, then pigments, resin, liquids, in order to achieve surprising results upon their enlargement, projected to surfaces as screens. Read more.
The project was born upon request and on the initiative of Michy Marxuach, curator that in the summer 2000 invites Oreste to participate at PR ' 00 [intervenciones múltiples - múltiples intervenciones] in San Juan (Porto Rico). The one-week event provided a program of shows and activities dedicated to the affirmation of an alternative art scene, where local artists were joined by international artists, curators, critics and institutions. Oreste proposed an installation made of objects, texts, photocopies and images displayed on a wall, that would have interacted with the public like an analogical hypertext: after the selection of an element a member of Oreste would have told its story to the visitor. The curator never answered to this proposal and the project remained unrealised for reasons that have not been clarified. Read more.
The project, which can only be reconstructed today through a series of e-mails preserved inside the archive of Giancarlo Norese, consists of a proposal for an event at the Tate Modern in London andstarted from an invitation sent by the curator of the events section of the museum, which opened the previous year. The project should have initially taken place in June 2001 and initiaaly consisted in two days dedicated to the creation of relationships between spaces, artist-run and independent ventures, at an international level, through a convivial moment that should also have included the sharing of food, as well as content, publications and projects. Subsequently reduced to a single day, it is not finally realized because the responsible curator finds a lack of focus in the project. Read more.
The unrealized project of Giovanni Ozzola, titled Un solo orizzonte, consists in a video installation of five projectors that simultaneously show on the same wall different videos of horizons, filmed in five different places with the same degree of latitude, thus following the parallel. It wasn’t realized for logistical reasons, due to the venue. Read more.
The project by Giulio Paolini entitled Quadro generale (Overview) was developed by the artist between 2010 and 2012, and intended to be placed near the south steps within the Sully Wing of the Louvre Museum in Paris, which commissioned the piece. Although the artist's proposal had been approved in its final version in the summer of 2012, the initiative was not followed through for various reasons, including the appointment of a new director at the museum. The installation that Paolini had designed included a geometric structure in stainless steel, built around a square hanging from the ceiling in the center of the space. It contained fragments of plexiglass engraved with the same geometric designs which would have been placed on the surrounding walls, as if they had been scattered by an explosion of the nucleus. This complex structure, by its nature variable and cryptic although clearly structured, represents – as Paolini himself stated - the very idea of the museum: "some sort of 'big bang' of continued proliferation destined to an inexorable, vertiginous fragmentation until it almost exhausts much like a 'black hole' that prevents us to decipher it." Read more.
The Yugoslav Pavilion designed for the Paris Exposition in 1950 reflected the social and cultural climate following the Second World War, when the country was distancing itself from Stalinism and embracing the ideology of real socialism. There was a strong cultural revival, and the abstract and concrete historical avant-gardes were being reclaimed and analysed, especially Constructivism and the Bauhaus method. The search for a synthesis in the visual arts and architecture characterised the EXAT 51 programme and related 1951 Manifesto, signed by the Pavilion’s authors. Read more.
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, Pierobon sculpts not just the space but also a series of metamorphosed characters and objects that enliven an environment teeming with symbolism and evocation. Through deliberate gestures and adept handling of the clay, the artist weaves a narrative that prompts viewers to engage actively, reshaping segments of the performative space by employing clay to craft fleeting figures, images, and sculptures that both materialize and disintegrate, thus molding and reshaping the space. The performance appears to evolve into a ritual, enhanced by a collection of costumes conceived by the artist herself, actively engaging the audience. This transformation turns the setting into a dynamic tableau vivant, a continually shifting scene where artist and audience coalesce as co-authors of the artistic endeavor. Within this context, space unveils its dynamic and active essence, assuming a pivotal role in the transformative journey of the artwork. The piece encourages a multifaceted reflection on space as a physical, mental, and emotional realm, spotlighting the intricate interplay between the individual, art, and spatial environment. Moreover, it seeks to exalt clay as a natural element intimately connected to the artist's sculptural practice and to the earth itself. Read more.
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 exhibition well communicated and promoted. The goal was to cause a short circuit in the art system to stress the subtle borderline between reality and fiction, but also between what is arbitrary and what belongs to the specific art system in order to prove its predictability. The projects dates back to 1987-88 and has been described also in the publication How to become an artist in 1992. A partial realisation of the project has been the creation, together with a team of curators, of an invented artist who realised some works and took part to some experimental exhibitions. Read more.
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 contiguous spaces is conceived initially as a real demolition of the walls of the building hosting one of the seats of Vivita 2 Gallery of Ciotti and Camillo D'Afflitto in Florence (adjacent to an old abandoned cinema). This idea was abandoned for technical and practical difficulties, and in January 1990 the artist realized a different version of the project (inside Vivita 1 gallery in Florence) by exhibiting on the walls of the gallery pictures of the adjoining rooms that were recessed inside the walls that should have been tore down to produce a kind of trompe l’oeil effect (as can be seen in an undated sketch found among the artist's papers that probably dates back to 1989). Read more.
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 requirements such as the relation form-function or that has a specific aesthetical or emotional value for its owner. The objects should then have been exhibited with a very precise setting (e.g. according to the alphabetical order of the owner's names) regardless of the value of each object, responding to a principle of seriality. The theme of this research, that is the “definitions” and the involvement of a generic audience on the most important topics of contemporary art, can be found also in the “Enquiry about art works”, an unrealised project in which the author supposes to ask to common people to create in their mind an art work in details. Thus, among the author's unrealised projects we can see also several projects of unrealised exhibitions, an element that confirms once more his interest for the exhibition practices of the art system. This project was not commissioned. Read more.
The project, part of the author's critique of the system, addresses the issue of how contemporary art is experienced and of the so-called art system in general. An initial version of the project was developed starting in 1991. In one of the artist’s notebooks, we can find notes about a solo exhibition that was supposed to take place in a private gallery in Rome at the beginning of 1992 but was never realized, probably because the art dealer feared a possible misunderstanding of the performance. The project, in fact, was based on the participation of a group of prostitutes, invited and paid to attend as guests. Their presence was meant to provoke a sense of alienation in the spectators, who would perceive something unusual compared to a typical vernissage. The performance was to be documented through photographs and audio recordings, but it was canceled by the commissioner a few days before the opening. An alternative version of the project appeared in a book published by the Jartrakor Study Center in 1992. It was based on the idea of inviting people with distinctive, easily recognizable features (such as clergymen), but dressed “normally,” in order to evoke in the viewers a subtle sense of unease or strangeness. The same project was later described in the catalogue of the exhibition Exhibit A at the Serpentine Gallery in London, which focused on the question of the role and meaning of the “exhibition. Read more.
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 decades. This project was never realized, but it is possible to find similarities with some other projects realized by the artist. Coherently with his research on the art system, Pietroiusti has indeed imagined an exhibition of artists who gave up working. This idea too is linked to the enquiry on the social role of the artist and his function; for this reason, the idea described in a notebook comes together with a later note that refers to an exhibition of artists that are not recognized by the system, but by a limited and non influential number of people or even just one single person, simply because they produced some art works. Through this project Pietroiusti underlines the importance of one element of the system, that is the necessity to be recognized as an artist, an event that in most cases requires a first acknowledgement by the members of the system itself, a theme on which the artists returns with the institution of a Museum of exiled Italian contemporary art, an itinerant museum without a place that collects marginal and ignored artistic experiences. The project of an exhibition of artists who gave up working was then partially realized thanks to the collaboration with two curators, M. Clark and M. Dickenson, on the occasion of the exhibition democracy! Socially Engaged Art at London's Royal College of Arts in May 2000. Read more.
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 similar to Pietroiusti's ones or who even accused him of stealing their ideas. With this project Pietroiusti continues his reflection on the concept of authenticity, uniqueness, physical and intellectual property of the art work. One more hypothesis, dating back to 2002, rather refers to an exhibition in which the artist planned to exhibit all his art works and to exchange them with new projects realized in collaborations with the visitors or inspired by them. Read more.
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 papyrus for objects of little value (e.g. A one cent coin). The unrealized project is coherent with the author's research that often investigates ironically the economic system and the attribution of a commercial value to objects. Read more.
In October 2004, Marko Pogačnik created a series of urban sculptures in Zagreb as part of the "Urban Intervention" project. They were part of a cycle that the Slovenian artist had been developing since the 1980s, entitled Lithopuncture. He saw this as a kind of acupuncture applied directly to the Earth's surface at certain "energy points", rather like acupuncture practised on the human body in relation to the chakras. Four years later the works were partially removed. Read more.
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 of Italy, to reproduce themselves, and according to the artist to make a journey of love. On this occasion the fish goes through a maze made up of fishing nets to end up inexorably in the death chamber, where they are harpooned and killed. The action has been designed by the artist as a game of reversing roles, in which the men take the place of the tuna and unaware they are ready to participate to the last moment of their life, just waiting to be slaughtered by other men. It is a transposition of the man from hunter to prey, from victim to victimizer, an inversion that creates alienation and a violent trauma. All these elements lead the viewer to a possible kind of visionary hallucination, where the role of Presicce is no longer that of the protagonist of his own performance but of an expert Director of expert careful towards the construction of a new appearance. This performance also draws inspiration from a short aphorism by Carmelo Bene in which the actor claims that the public should pay the cost of the show with his own life. Because of its utopian nature, it has never been possible to realize the performance. Read more.
Richter developed the idea of Synthurbanism in the early sixties as a result of his in-depth analysis of the legacy of the historical avant-gardes and the synthesis of arts, through the principles of Modernism, along with the experience he acquired working on several pavilion and urban planning projects . As the neologism suggests, it was a visionary, but not utopian project, synthesizing urbanism to provide for the lives of ten thousand people in a single, poly-functional, urban structure consisting of multiple units in the form of a ziggurat. This gave rise to the idea of the Heliopolis, a four-dimensional, constantly revolving residential structure which would provide its inhabitants with an constantly changing view. Read more.
UNTITLED aims at creating a photo archive of places and monuments which are significant for foreign citizens based in Italy. Geography, iconography and memory are pivotal for this project, created to give a visual identity to the rich cultural diversification characterising Italian contemporary society. At the same time UNTITLED focuses on landscape and monument identity in this era. This installation had two chances to be shown and presented: in Milan, Quartiere Giambellino, in 2011, and in 2015 in Trieste. Read more.
The project consists of an environmental intervention proposed by the artist for the facade of the Merate School of Maternity at the “Concorso Legge del 2% Scuola Materna (ente morale) di Merate” [Competition of the 2% Law for Merate nursery School], as indicated by Scaccabarozzi in a photograph reproducing the maquette he made, and probably entitled “Da un’idea del 69” [From an Idea of the 69], shown in the Collection by Mr. Antonio Spini of Robbiate. This project starts from the research held by Scaccabarozzi from the end of sixties and first half of seventies, and belongs to the series of Fustellati. These works come from the analysis of the movement in the relation between surface, depth, light and perception, in a space conceived as field of possible and potential variations. These paths, both conceptual both processual, bring the artist to realize works formed by a series of cylindrical elements obtained working with a hollow cutter and making on the neutral support modular elements, both emerging both hollow, of different and gradual dimension and extension. Partially raised, inclined, orientated and colored, positioned in a rhythmic and sequential movement on the support itself, the Fustellati are an invitation to the eye and an incitement to the potentiality of perception. From that derives also the title of the project given by Scaccabarozzi for the nursery School of Merate in 1975: Rotazione continua orizzontale [Continous horizontal rotation]. From the analysis of the collage realized for the participation to the competition, the yellow completes and stresses the perceptive path of the cylindrical elements on the pictorial-environmental surface, thus intensifying the visual and cinetic-virtual potentialities of the project itself, if it would be realized. Writing about this phase of the artistic research by Scaccabarozzi, in the monograph dedicated to the artist, in collaboration with the Archive and published in 2016 by Corraini, Flaminio Gualdoni stressed the double presence of “[…] the physical objectivity of the work and the physiology of perception, un-aestheticity compared to current expectations, the spectator’s active participation and complicity in the work as a facilitator of aesthetic expectation, a not decisively random situation: most of all, the strong and complete involvement of the temporal dimension in a process which, until that moment, one’s own evaluation system was based on the space and the psychological duration of the experience, rather than the physical […]”. (Gualdoni 2016, p. 43). The fact that this specific project was devoted to pre-school children emphasized the educational, ethical and aesthetic value given by Scaccabarozzi to his artistic works, and needs further reflection on his artistic intention about the principles and value of the game. Two years before his participation to this competition, questioned by Ernesto L. Francalanci and Paolo Cardazzo about the ludus component in his work, Scaccabarozzi responded succinctly: “I play with people who want to play for real/I play very seriously”. (Francalanci 1973, s.p.). Read more.
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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 dell’angolo contrapposta alla sua indicazione” [Ambiguity of the corner opposite to its indication] is a graphic reproduction of a parietal corner on which is drawn, joining the two walls, a straight line of dots. On the floor is drawn straight line of dots converging in the corner itself. The second, named B, consists of a graphic reproduction of a parietal corner, the two walls joined by a dotted passage of rectangular shape, open and not dotted on the base that ideally stays on the floor. The third, named C, consists of a graphic reproduction of a parietal corner, the two walls joined by a dotted rectangular shape whose base rests on the floor. The fourth, named D, consists in a graphical representation of a parietal corner, the two walls joined by a dotted triangle, with the base that joins horizontally the walls, and vertex which coincides with the corner in the meeting point between the two walls and the floor. The fifth, named E, consists of a graphic duplication of a double dotted parallel line that crosses the two walls and perpendicularly the corner of the environment. Through the use of a projector, the artist would have reproduced the pattern formed from points in succession using likely graphite. The dotted drawings deny the environmental depth and build illusively another perceptual space, a new environmental perspective. The project Ambiguità dell’angolo [Ambiguity of the Corner] critically analyses the real space and its theoretical conceiving through the perceptive operation, thus witnessing the enviromental vocation of the entire research by Scaccabarozzi. In 1986 was held a partial realization of the project for the exhibition “Die Ecke=the corner=le coin”, at Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, and in 1988 at Wallis Kantonsmuseum, Sitten, Switzerland. There, Scaccabarozzi tries to represent the direct intervention in the space, using pictorial dots on a corner of the room, and publishing on the catalog six different projects of enviromental intervention, called Ambiguità dell’angolo [Ambiguity of the Corner], and dated 1978.Only the first one of those published, has been realized by the artist in the gallery and consisted in a simple horizontal line of dots, that crossed the corner and reached the two walls, proceeding in parallel with the floor. The other projects, united in the book of unrealised projects by the artist, had more tecnical difficult for their realization, and they have never been realized. Recently, for the recent two-men show at Galerie Hoffmann in Friedberg, and dedicated to Scaccabarozzi and Gary Woodley in july-september 2016, Anastasia Rouchota, heir of the artist and founder and director of the Scaccabarozzi archive, reproduced in a room only the project already made in 1986. Coming back to this historical exhibition, and coherently with the exhibition program of the gallery, among the invited artists were the protagonist of the North and East European neo-concretist and conceptual: Getulio Alviani, Gianni Colombo, Maurizio Nannucci and Antonio Scaccabarozzi from Italy, François Morellet from France, Klaus Staudt and Ludwig Wilding from Germany, Julije Knifer from Yugoslavia, and Herman De Vries from Netherland. The catalog plays, also graphically, wuith the exhibition topics, containing handwritten texts, sketches and conceptual drawings. In her text, Verena Auffermann starts quoting the Philosophische Bemerkungen by Ludwig Wittgensteinand, and through the philosophical lens of the XIX century, from Artur C. Danto, Richard Serra to Gertrude Stein, she reflects on the relation between space and thought of space, retracing the function and the projectual and metaphoric meaning of the corner in the painting of the last century, starting from Cézanne and Malevich for introducing the 109 artists of the exhibition in 1986. “The corner Separates outside from inside The corner is dimensional The corner defines limits The corner Is a man-made design The corner Is a closure The corner Separates itself from the ‘out-there’ The corner Is essential to a triangle The corner Is the corset for spatial thinking The corner Is an ideal playground for optical illusion”. (Die Ecke = the corner = le coin 1986, s.p.) Read more.
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 have been exposed in town and city centers to offer an artistic vision of the world in scale with the physical environment. In the oral reconstruction provided by his wife Franca Scheggi Dall’Acqua, in support of the two photographs of the project, the optical telescope should have been made in chromed steel and in collaboration with Italsider. Scheggi of this project produced a maquette, also in chromed steel. The Cannocchiale ottico percorribile was to be shown in Florence, between the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistery, in line with Via de ‘Calzaiuoli and Via dei Martelli. The dimensions hypothesized by the artist had to be such as to accommodate about a man of medium height in it, who could have been following the inside path in all its lenght. The work unravels itself in a zigzag and irregular shape, such as to produce an effect of disorientation on the viewer, increased by a very dramatic interior lighting; in addition responding to the theme of the exhibition inside the Triennale it was also a reflection on the Florentine Renaissance perspective, made explicit with its placing in the square in Florence (Scheggi was a native of the city and soaked in humanities); but we can also place it among the top experiences of Paolo Scheggi related to the concept of tunnel and path in the dark that would then be developed in the following years, bringing us the environment ONDOSA (as reported in the bibliographies and biographies of the artist) or ONDOSA NERA (as shown on the projects of the artist himself) otherwise made for the show Eurodomus in Milan, 1970, and then destroyed. Read more.
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 the two actions creates a kind of disorientation in the viewer who is facing the two venues to enjoy the same work of art, the visitor entrance is potentially submerged by these presences that are on an ambiguous track between irony, sarcasm and an uncanny feeling of “homologation” of the protagonists. This work can be considered a modern allegorical composition of the three ages of man, on the one hand young women with their children – maturity and youth – while in the other gallery there is the last stages of life. Even if the work has an “aulic” meaning and evokes an iconography of the past, it developed through a ludic dimension which characterizes a great part of the work of the artist. Therefore there’s not only a Marcel Duchamp vein in Scotto di Luzio’s poetic, as we can see in the other project donated to MoRE, but also a performative research that approaches both the avant-garde of the Seventies that the more recent trends of the Nineties, and that is penetrated by a Neapolitan sense humor with ancient roots (remembering Totò and Eduardo de Filippo) that conceals melancholy and irony. The project was created in collaboration wirh the Krome Gallery (Berlin), but a second gallery has never been found. Read more.
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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 world – an element with a strong “western” connotation, that represent the commerce and that clashes with the unspoiled landscape of the desert. In the idea of Scotto di Luzio, the staircase is defunctionalized and will not need any maintenance, it should deteriorate and become a relic, an abandoned monument, almost “commemorative” of a past world. Even here the artist hides a paradox, perhaps a joke: the celebration of the western cult just inside the eastern world, two concepts and two cultures that come together to create a sort of epiphany of the vision, just like a “mirage” in the desert. The artist, in the review of the project, calls it a “bachelor machine”, a sterile and unproductive device, a sort of ready-made on a large-scale, defunctionalized and completely out of context, designed not to be placed in the hall of a museum but in the desert, an aseptic and neutral space. The project was born withouth clients, and with the willingness to propose it to some commissioners in the Emirates, but has never been proposed to any possible commissioner. Read more.
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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 artistic residency at the castle of Brunnenburg in Merano, Italy. During their residency, the five artists created thirteen works of art as well as fifteen hand-made copies of each work. All of which were created on the same size of paper. These works should have been part of a box, an art edition that initially should have included large-scale reproductions of seven of the group's old works, printed on canvas in Como, in addition to en eight obtained by merging the former in a continuous strip to create sort of a "collective work" - together with photographs documenting the residency, historical photographs and video interviews filmed in Brunnenburg. Conz died in 2010 but the box was never finished, although all of its components had been created, except for the folder that was supposed to contain them. The works of the artists have since remained in F. Conz's Archive. The two works created by Đuro Seder do not seem to resemble the production of his Gorgona years, as stated by the artist himself in an interview published in the monographic dossier of the magazine Ricerche di S/Confine. In fact, he proposes a drawing with his characteristic use of irregular shapes and semicircular lines, to which he adds a graphic element with the repetition of the word "peace". The second drawing is derived from a previous painting in which two profiles are merging into a single face. Seder himself remembers how during his residency, which immediately preceeded the war in Croatia, there was "a hint of intolerance in the air" and how the work was meant to hilight "the importance of unity among people". Read more.
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 transformation of a space inside the exhibition complex. Her project intended to transform the cloakroom of the museum into a sewing and fashion atelier, open during the whole event. In this atelier the artist would have reproduced and reinterpreted the coats and clothes left by the visitors while they were visiting the exhibition, to create some original pieces of art. The project was not selected. Read more.
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 the structures of power, from a critical point of view and trying to give a clear form to the discourse while questioning the role of the artist himself, reflecting on impossibility and inefficiency as elements for the production of a project. The Rhine Swing is a project for a giant swing to be placed over the Rhine River, between the locations of Daubensand (Alsace, France) and Schwanau (Baden, Germany), a site identified by the artist for the relatively low amplitude of the river as well as the beauty of the landscape. A representation - not without irony - of the Franco-German cooperation, this project contains a first feasibility analysis through a study of the modalities of access, operation and use together with the security requirements, a study which reveal himself as a functional tool for the artist to criticise the design method and, more generally, the economic and political dynamics between the European countries. Read more.
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The project A Lighting System attempts to bring together the discourse on security and the machinery for producing good conscience — and control — into a single structure, as the ecological discourse is often used for that purpose. Read more.
Lonely Dads / The Medieval Hall in UK with disco lights
Invited to submit a project for a medieval hall in the UK, that should have been a collaboration with either local people or an organization, Annika Ström decided to present a performance based upon the idea of lonely men in their cars, supposed to be lonely dads. Fathers who were divorced and estranged from their children. Starting, as the artist states, from a reflection upon the car as a place of solitude and from her direct experience - a common trait to several of her artworks, here derived from her travels and from her recent experience of moving to England - this project was designed as a collaboration with local Father’s Rights organizations. The artist report and the preparatory collage archived here contains all the details of the performance, of the accompanying music - a popular culture quotation, playing a crucial role as it frequently happens in Annika Ström works - and of the way everything should have been filmed and documented: “I planned to get at least 50 Dads. They would drive in to the square outside the medieval hall. One car for each dad. They would stop and remain in their car. They would all simultaneously pull down their car windows and play the same song; The very romantic Pietro Mascagni, as used as the sound track in Raging Bull by Scorsese. When the song was finished, they were to slowly pull away, head to the motorway in a line towards Southampton, where I also had commission as part of the same project. We were to hire helicopters to film the motorway, like a “News Copter” where the Lonely Dads would parade with their cars, missing their children.” Reflecting upon roles and structures inside the families and in the society, here Annika Ström investigate in particular relationships, self-doubts and failures, designing the staging of a dramatic scene where cars would have invaded the historical setting. The artist also wanted to install enormous disco balls inside the hall, but this project too remained unrealised. Read more.
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Proposal for a performance work at Sergels Torg, Stockholm
This project was proposed by Annika Ström in 2016 as a public art commission, and was supposed to take place at night in Sergels Torg Square in Stockholm. It consisted of a night concert lasting approximately 15 minutes, during which the Jönköping Chamber Choir would have sung the lyrics and music by Annika Ström. In particular, as the artist reports in the file donated to MoRE Museum, it can be considered a larger-scale version of a performance the artist the artist did in 2015 at the Jönköping city café, with the Jönköping Chamber Choir and conductor Ove Gotting, where they sang the “phrases that appeared on billboards around Jönköping and on digital road signs on highway E4 nearby.” In Stockholm, the choir would have been introduced by “fifty loud skateboards with lanterns on their wheels and hoods.” The same conductor would have parachuted down, and when the skateboarders had moved a short distance away and fallen silent, the choir would have sung the phrases projected onto nearby building façades. The performance would have been closed by the skateboarders, who would turn their lights on once more. A sound recording and a vinyl record were to be produced after the show. Read more.
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The Travel Agency is the title of a film Annika Ström started working at in 2006. As the artist recalls in the report donated to the MoRE museum, it went through several phases and two productors, without never being realised: the script ”was about two women, one of which, wants to die, and one who wants to live. They contact an agency, which assists suicide. It is a Special Agency”. After a first financial failure, the project was sent to a new producer, who met the artist in 2014 and showed interest: unfortunately, as the artist recalls, nine months after the meeting, a director in the producer’s company announced in a radio interview her next film, with “thesame pitch as in Ström’s script”. The producer produce the new film. Annika Ström also states that “the producer and the director deny any plagiarism”. The themes of fragility, uncertainty, sadness, the interest in the act of travelling and in the condition of the traveller, the focus on female protagonists, these are just a few hints we can grasp from the brief description of the artist showed here, that can also easily be found inside Annika Ström film production. Read more.
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The Room is a film created by Marko Tadić using stop motion animation technique, but it was abandoned by the artist during the editing phase. The video represents a seance, or rather what happens in the room after everyone has left. The animation reveals furniture and objects moving, candles burning down, light effects and flashes similar to explosions, and the appearance of figures - toys and knick-knacks. In the closing scene, a small pottery cat looks into the fixed camera and in the background we can see the almost destroyed room. Read more.
The Moons is a video that should have been part of a larger, realised project We used to call it: Moon. It consists of five short films which are almost drafts. The same scene is shot from the same standpoint, but with different lights and background music. In this scene, a strange landscape is composed of small sculptures that look like monuments. Two wooden spheres move and change position, representing the two moons of the title. Read more.
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 artists are Silvia Cini, Emilio Fantin, Claudia Losi, Eva Marisaldi, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Sabrina Torelli and Marco Vaglieri. Torelli proposed two projects: Simpatia Cosmica (Cosmic sympathy), conceived for the communication room diagnosis (BCM), and De mi amor mi canto, for the area where the remains rest. The project was not realized due to a series of economical, technical and logistic reasons. Read more.
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 Raffaele Canevari: this space is the starting point for a research that Tosatti documents in the attached file donated to MoRE, through a project and several diary entries corresponding to the different stages of the design process. It is possible to consider this artwork within a path that includes several works the artist dedicated to abandoned spaces - in particular we can mention Tetralogia della polvere (Novara, Casa Bossi, 2012) and also the recent cycle realized in Naples, Sette Stagioni dello Spirito (2013 - 2016) -: this ambitious work is considered by Gian Maria Tosatti as an arrival point he can face only after a series of experience, where he "started building rooms, larger or smaller, then dedicating myself to buildings and then finally building larger and larger artworks, sometimes even bigger than myself, and therefore requiring every time an evolution, a development of myself as an artist. " The title refers to the Atlas Palace, a myth that appears in the Boiardo and Ariosto Orlando, and that here acquires a personal value for Tosatti as a place to deal with, but also in a relationship with the visitors, though the symbols of the labyrinth and the mirror, a central theme in the artist's research between 2011 and 2012. Through a practice divided between art and architecture, often described by Tosatti himself with an analogy with the room in the middle of the "zone" in the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker, a model of superimposition of identity and desire, here the artist tries to make the apparition of “castles and monuments” true, introducing in the project the themes of electricity and illusion: “The culmination of the work will consist precisely in a large switch that visitors could turn off, letting darkness and silence fall over the entire building. It will therefore be necessary - also from the visual point of view – to rely on certain image of technology, related to electricity. Obviously the kind of technology that should be used is not be the most modern one, but the one that is present in a shared imaginary, consequently machines and tools form several decades ago, which aren’t used anymore”. Studying the construction diary and the preparatory drawings we can also highlight the particular attention dedicated to the façade, upon which two “mirror flags” should have been installed to make "the invisible building" recognizable, and the structuring of a path through the different floors. A room should have contained, upon one of the tables that are already present inside the building, a glass of water and a bottle of Novalgina, a painkiller, together with an hidden mechanism that would have created a light and steady vibration to shake the water surface when placed upon the table. Another room was designed to provide the optical illusion of a rhino freely moving inside the space, so to anticipate the top floor switch, where the machinery would have been placed. Classical statues - originals or copies - should also have been present alongside the path, as an archetype of man and as a mirror for the visitor, while at the ground floor, currently occupied by an archaeological excavation, an artist intervention would have been necessary to turn it into a sculptural space. Read more.
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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 pop up book. In this editorial project many of the attitudes and characteristics of the artist's work are visible, such as the sculptural gesture, the condition of equilibrium, manual skills and the chosen material: the paper. The project was initially designed as a self-production by the artist himself, and then proposed to the publishe cura.books, but it has never been realized for the high costs and because of the many difficulties in finding the necessary financial coverage. Read more.
Il Respiro di uno spazio / Livella il cielo
Il Respiro di uno spazio / Livella il cielo is 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 through a house, the network of tubes is sectioned and receives the rain and other weather elements, the water level therefore changes according to atmospheric events. The water, among other things, is also the subject of an artist book, Water Ikebana Stories about solid & liquid things (Humboldt Books, 2014), published by Luca Trevisani. The project donated to the museum has not been realized due to the lack of a commisioner and of a suitable location for the development of the work. Read more.
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 orbital map was taken from the NASA site and redesigned, scaled. The request was made to Massimo Uberti, along with four other international artists, by a manager of the Lombardy Region in 2009. The goal was the development of the new headquarters of the Lombardy Region with large, site-specific contemporary art works. The project Orbite was developed by Uberti in collaboration with N.O. Gallery, directed by Ilaria Barbieri Marchi. The cost of the project was € 200,000 and covered all expenses, from concept design to the set up and the communication plan. Until the delivery of the executive projects, the work was feasible. Once delivered, the reasons for non-completion have never been made public. Read more.
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 designed for the atrium of the museum and another one for the outdoor areas. The light work Esser Spazio had to be placed outside the MAXXI Museum, integrating the architectural environment with discretion and inhabiting the final steps of the square above the entrance to the museum. Uberti, coherent with its artistic research which often aims at drawing symbolic shapes and signs on the architectural and urban public space – sometimes with effects of displacement, sometimes to emphasize the characteristics and peculiarities of the place - in this case suggested a sentence, a motto and at the same time a call, asking the public to actively participate in the construction of the museum: then reflecting on the meaning of this new space for contemporary art, on its role in respect to the culture, but also on the shape of the city itself. The project was submitted to the commission for the International Competition SPAZIO/MAXXI due percento, published in October 2008 by the Provveditorato interregionale per le opere pubbliche per il Lazio, l’Abruzzo e la Sardegna, in agreement with the PARC Direzione generale per la qualità e la tutela del paesaggio, l’architettura e l’arte contemporanee. The work didn't win the competition. Read more.
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. Read more.
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 artists are Silvia Cini, Emilio Fantin, Claudia Losi, Eva Marisaldi, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Sabrina Torelli and Marco Vaglieri. Vaglieri with the project ...una volta (...once upon a time) planned to create a model representing the map of the world to be installed on the ceiling of the entertainment room of the new department. Read more.
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 artistic residency at the castle of Brunnenburg in Merano, Italy. During their residency, the five artists created thirteen works of art as well as fifteen hand-made copies of each work. All of which were created on the same size of paper. These works should have been part of a box, an art edition that initially should have included large-scale reproductions of seven of the group's old works, printed on canvas in Como, in addition to en eight obtained by merging the former in a continuous strip to create sort of a "collective work" - together with photographs documenting the residency, historical photographs and video interviews filmed in Brunnenburg. Conz died in 2010 but the box was never finished, although all of its components had been created, except for the folder that was supposed to contain them. The works of the artists have since remained in F. Conz's Archive. For this work Vaništa combines two cardboards, dividing the first one longitudinally with a line, which is a pattern that he had begun to use in 1961 and had become a symbol of his painting tecnique, devoted to simplicity, searching for essentiality and at the same time marked by a detached and often ironic attitude. Unlike his earlier technique, which he often re-adopted since the 60s and involved a soft pencil and a ruler, at Brunnenburg Vaništa created his work using a collage technique. Read more.
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 1967. The project Giovane che guarda Eugenia Vanni dipingere Giovane che guarda Lorenzo Lotto is therefore a short-circuit of meaning because Paolini’s work reproduces the Ritratto di giovane by Lorenzo Lotto. Read more.
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 in the square near the Arcimboldi Theatre. The artist then thought of "inhabit" the public space with geometric - but open - shapes, of the kind that it’s often possible to find in his work, forms that, in their mutual dialectical relationship and tension with the surrounding environment, create a new and different spatial dimension, in which the perception habits of the public are challenged, as it always happens in her work, which are often declined in the concrete dimension of the surrounding space. The project never won the competition. Read more.
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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 projects of Mexican modernity. Monument for a Forgotten Education is conceived with the aim to replace the walls of the Monument “Torres de satellite" made from reinforced concrete with chalkboard paint on wood, giving an emphasis to the educational awareness, rewriting the history of a certain modernity that deals with abstraction and collective amnesia. The aesthetic values of public monuments have thus been reverted as by the substitution of the original material as well as the different scale of the model. Monument for a Forgotten Education is included to a production of works under the general title of Part Company. These works combine antithetical approaches to community living and social participation by two distinct figures of Mexican Modernism, Greek-Mexican activist Plotino Rhodakanaty (1828-1892) and Mexican artist of German origin Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990). The artist adapts models of public sculptures by Goeritz informed by research on Rhodakanatys’ political concepts. The constructions explore a broader context around social class, politics of sculpture, architecture and design, encompassing rather than isolating these two separate ideologies. Understanding modernity's discourse through Goeritz's approach is an intriguing way to justify the rejection of memory (from collective to interpersonal relationships) and complements Rhodakanaty's ethics through which Goeritz cannot be restricted exclusively to the field of aesthetics, just as socialist narratives may not be solely perceived through a passive reception of a political message. Read more.
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Two sentences, “Everything that happens” and “Always all around”, are printed on both sides of two banners, carried by two planes while performing some basic aerobatics manoeuvres. The two sentences are perceived as emotional quotes, auspicious signs, appearances in the sky of mind. An air show and an environmental, ephemeral art installation at the same time. Read more.
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 Renaissance square. The project, that did not win the contest, consisted of the realization of a light installation in the arcade of one of the square sides. The idea of the artist was to place in the middle of each of the fourteen vaults of the arcade of Palazzo Sersanti a special lighting element that, through a dedicated optical system, would have projected on the ground the image of the same number of green Ginko Biloba leaves, replacing the preexisting lighting system. Read more.
The project is presented at the contest Premio ArteGiovane in 2002, Torino incontra l’arte. Una porta per Torino. Vitone proposes the realisation of an installation in the square, placed in front of Mirafiori, dedicated to Emilio Salgari, the writer who spent most of his life in the city of Turin. The artist conceives to recreate a desert landscape washed by the sea, inspired by the stories of the series of novels “The Pirates of Malaysia”, a space that would have been crossed by the tram lines, stimulating in the passengers fantasies of adventures and mythical places. Read more.
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 and P.A.A.L.M.A. (Premio Artista Architetto La Marrana Arte Ambientale) in partnership with Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio della Spezia. The idea of the artist and the architect was to convert the square into a pedestrian area, a kind of “urban living room”, a place of meeting. The square is divided into three equal parts: in the lateral parts they wanted to recreate an ideal Italian Garden, with orange trees, accessible on the west side to the customers of the coffee shop and on the opposite side to the students of the high school and junior high school. While in the central area, where the 1930’s building of the postal service is located, they planned to realise a rectangular fountain to be placed in front of the irregular staircase of the postal service building, and the protruding pavement, similar to piers inside the water. Read more.
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