Settembre 2020

Carlo Birrozzi, architect, MiBACT

In Alto-arte sui ponteggi, public art installation at Milan 2003-2005 In Alto-arte sui ponteggi, was born in Milan (2003) within the framework of the then Superintendence for Architecture for the authorization of advertising on public buildings.  At the very start of XXI century advertising was still a prosperous business and all the construction sites presented advertisings, sometimes even those that were not under restauration, so that commercials were extremely present. In Alto

Settembre 2020

Clare Strand, artist

10 Least Most Wanted, 2011 10 Least Most Wanted is comprised of ten vernacular images displayed in a custom-built, free-standing museum cabinet.  Now held in the Centre Pompidou collection, it was last exhibited in A History of Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980s to Today. Curated by Christine Macel. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2014 Since being a teenager, and with an amount of ambivalence, I have cut and paste images into sc

Settembre 2020

Francesca Crisafulli, artist

G come gioco, exhibition 2011 G as ‘Gioco’ is an exhibition shown at the Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari in Rome and curated by Claudia Sonego in 2011. The Abecedary is the structure on which the exhibition of graphic works and sculptures is build. Twenty-six letters for twenty-six interventions based on recycling and rescuing old objects and their memory within a contemporary, and slightly ironic perspective. The site specific

Settembre 2020

Andrea Botto, artist

19.06_26.08.1945, book, published by Danilo Montanari Editore, Ravenna 2014 At the end of the Second World War, the artist’s grandfather, Primo Benedetti, comes home after two years of imprisonment as an Italian Military Internee in the German labor camps. He carries a small journal upon which he takes note of all the cities passed along his journey. About seventy years later, Andrea Botto retraces this itinerary within an artist’s book, published in

Settembre 2020

Sveva Taverna, photographer

Arraicas (Roots), photographic work, in progress Nowadays a kind of 'normality' is disappearing. The normality of a peasant, archaic, ancestral world, for which our twentieth-century 'poet of meat' Pier Paolo Pasolini fought. The photographic project Arraicas aims to tell human abilities shown within this context. Chosen land: Sardinia’s rugged and wild backcountry, depicted through women faces and bodies, whilst they engage in daily routine; these women seem to have passed through centuries before

Settembre 2020

Erik Göngrich, artist

Warburgs AUTO CINEMA, project proposal During his residency in the German Academy Villa Massimo, Erik Göngrich wandered around the city taking picures and drawings now collected in the publication Atlas of Sculptural Situations, published by eeclectic, and worked on the Pigneto area, where urban planning coexist and sometimes blends in with spontaneous architecture, seamlessly from the 50s on, focussing on a small two-storeys concrete structure in via del Pigneto. The house frame