March 9, 2012

mooon.

mooon. is the first publication of our occasional small press series "a certain number of books."
Edited by Luca Scarabelli and Giancarlo Norese, it has been released on Feb. 29, 2012

Including contributions by Aldo Mozzini, Alessandra Spranzi, Alessandro Rolandi, Alice Cattaneo, Andrea Nacciarriti, Bohdan Stehlik & Una Szeemann, Elio Grazioli, Goran Petercol, Irina Gheorge & Alina Popa, Jenny Perlin, Jiří Kovanda, Joseph Del Pesco, Linda Fregni Nagler, Luca Francesconi, Marco Neri, Michele Robecchi, Oppy De Bernardo, Petra Feriancova, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Umberto Cavenago, Vincenzo Cabiati, Vincenzo Latronico.




March 2, 2012

E il topo, Milano

E IL TOPO, in collaborazione con Careof DOCVA, Milano e Supportico Lopez, Berlino è lieto di annunciare l'imminente uscita di Re-Birth, il dodicesimo numero della rivista. La presentazione al pubblico è prevista il 27 marzo al termine di Un mese con E IL TOPO: un programma di appuntamenti ideati dalla redazione, operativa dal 29 febbraio al 27 marzo all'interno dello spazio espositivo di Careof.

Il progetto editoriale d'artista E IL TOPO (Edizioni Nuovi Strumenti, Brescia) – nato da un'idea di Gabriele di Matteo, Piero Gatto, Franco Silvestro e Vedovamazzei – in soli quattro anni (dal 1992 al 1996) e 11 numeri, ha profeticamente registrato attraverso i contributi di Stefano Arienti, Art Club 2000, Massimo Bartolini, Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Mark Dion, Dominique Gonzales Foerster e Grazia Toderi tra gli altri, lo spirito e l'attitudine di una generazione che ha segnato il proprio tempo e la scena artistica internazionale contemporanea.
Stampato offset bianco/nero in circa 1000 copie su carta riciclata, ogni numero de E IL TOPO ha accolto progetti inediti, proposti secondo un'insolita strategia editoriale fondata principalmente sul potere insito nella discontinuità di senso, nonchè sul gioco, l'ironia e sul détournement.

Ma perché parlare de E IL TOPO oggi? Cosa o chi ha risvegliato il Topo dal letargo? È stata la riappropriazione della rivista nel 2010 – all'insaputa della storica redazione – da parte dell'artista Francesco Fossati (1985) ad aver innescato un confronto intergenerazionale, e ad aver alimentato nuovi propositi intorno a un rinnovato gruppo di lavoro, i cui risultati sono oggi rappresentati dalla 'rinascita' della rivista stessa. A sedici anni di distanza dall'ultima uscita, il nuovo primo numero è frutto di una open call indetta dalla redazione e finalizzata al reperimento di materiale fotografico inedito, relativo a personalità del mondo dell'arte scomparse nel periodo in cui E IL TOPO ha fatto perdere le sue tracce. Una significativa selezione del materiale raccolto confluirà all'interno del progetto, divenendo a pieno titolo contenuto di Re-Birth, dodicesimo numero della rivista.
Questo progetto, che si confronta col tema della Ri-nascita e della Morte, vuole a suo modo rendere omaggio a tutti coloro che hanno dedicato la loro vita all'arte e che sono scomparsi abbandonando il 'campo di battaglia' tra il 1996 e il 2012.

La nuova redazione de E IL TOPO in dialogo con Gabriele Di Matteo, Piero Gatto, Franco Silvestro, è oggi composta da Mattia Barbieri, Francesco Fossati, Giovanna Francesconi, Gabriela Galati, Francesco Locatelli, Monica Mazzone e Luca Pozzi. Direttore Armando della Vittoria.

Un mese con E IL TOPO. Conferenze, incontri e performance: 
8 marzo, ore 18.30: Nota. Ho scritto: Pensare alla performance con Lazar Lazar E IL TOPO, performance di Y Liver;
dal 12 al 16 marzo: Re-Birth: appunti sul concetto di Rinascita, un progetto a cura di Valerio Borgonuovo, Antonio Grulli, E IL TOPO;
dal 19 al 23 marzo: L'errore, di Giancarlo Norese E IL TOPO;
21 marzo, ore 18.30: Fare è difficile, sostenere è la morte, progetto a cura di Gabriela Galati E IL TOPO;
27 marzo, ore 18.30: Re-Birth, presentazione del numero 12 de E IL TOPO


In collaboration with Careof DOCVA and SUPPORTICO LOPEZ

eleven issues published between 1992 and 1996
an idea by Gabriele Di Matteo, Franco Silvestro and Vedova Mazzei
directed by Armando della Vittoria
published by Edizioni Nuovi Strumenti

Based on the involvement and inclusiveness [hence the “E” as the initial conjunction in the title], as well as on the power of a discontinuity in meaning inherent to the image, in only four years (1992-1996) E IL TOPO has prophetically recorded, through the contribution of artists such as Art Club 2000, Massimo Bartolini, Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Mark Dion, Dominique Gonzales Foerster, among others, the spirit and attitude of a generation of artists which, at that time, was about to achieve definitive international recognition both by the critique and the public.

E IL TOPO was a synergy catalyst, the feeling of a ferment of a shared practice, anticipating in this sense the experience of relational art; experiences which in recent times we have learned to recognize in very different and complex ways. This magazine was printed in approximately 1000 copies for each issue and it was the result of a series of collaborations that had lead to the encounter among diverse artists. These artists had proposed inedited projects conceived to be fruited through the pages of the magazine, printed in black and white offset on recycled paper. The projects were mixed, overlapped, sometimes hidden, but always showing a completely innovative practice for the moment in which they were being developed. The skilful dosing, the choices, which we would define as curatorial today, and the attitude with which the founding artists have conceived and built the diverse issues composing the magazine give us the possibility of contrasting its actuality and innovative gaze.

But why talk about E IL TOPO today? Because E IL TOPO, after sixteen long years, has decided to leave its lethargy and to get going again to create new issues. Everything started when at the beginning of 2010 Francesco Fossati, a young artist working in Milan, had laid out a new issue of E IL TOPO as an artistic project which was part of his BA thesis at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
This project has mobilized a series of activities, which today, almost two years after, allow us to assert that E IL TOPO will be reborn. To reanimate a magazine after sixteen years is not a simple task, each single member of the editorial staff have taken diverse paths, the publishing house, which from the issue number 4 had accompanied the then-young artists in their project, doesn’t exist anymore, and in the meantime the art world, as the world, has inevitably mutated.
From here on, a number of questions and problematics have involved the historic editorial staff of the magazine, which with support of a new team of young artists and curators, has decided to restart the machine.

The first issue of this new edition of E IL TOPO will be realized in a collaborative fashion by the old and the new editorial teams; two generations of artists coordinated by Armando della Vittoria, will result in a sort of handover; because, from the successive issue, it will be only the new team to take over the magazine, under the supervision of the historic director.

A month with E IL TOPO. Panel discussions, meetings and performances: 
March 8th, 6.30pm: Nota. Ho scritto: Pensare alla performance con Lazar Lazar E IL TOPO, performance by Y Liver; 
March 12–16: Re-Birth: appunti sul concetto di Rinascita, a project by Valerio Borgonuovo, Antonio Grulli, E IL TOPO; 
March 19–23: L'errore, by Giancarlo Norese E IL TOPO; 
March 21st, 6.30pm: Fare è difficile, sostenere è la morte, by Gabriela Galati E IL TOPO; 
March 27th, 6.30pm: Re-Birth, presentation issue 12 E IL TOPO 

January 12, 2012

The Land Seen from the Sea, Genova

Little Constellation is a project and an international network for contemporary art, which focuses its research on the symbolic sensitivity of the geographic dimension. Highlighting the different possible relationship between the geo-cultural centres and peripheries, through a plan of knowledge taken to the extreme of opposition and resistance between the concepts of proximity and distance, from January 2012, at the Museo di Villa Croce in Genoa, it will present the exhibition The Land Seen from the Sea.

Little Constellation conducts research devoted to the complex theme of isolation, which finds its definition in the dimension of the island (both geographically, but naturally also linguistically). Isolation and the network of relationships are thus intertwined as fields of a single front. We live around a sea like frogs around a pond, declared Socrates. This brings out the fact that the peoples of antiquity owed their prosperity and relations to the great sea (almost enclosed like a pond) that is the Mediterranean. It is this duality between distance and vicinity that the research project seeks to focus on.

This research therefore focuses on the Mediterranean by starting from particularly sensitive areas, such as Montenegro, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Ceuta, and also other areas with which it is possible to make cultural and geographical comparisons, such as Iceland, Luxembourg, Andorra and Liechtenstein. Specifically, the multiple identities of the Mediterranean will be examined through three nuclear and seminal case studies, compared with the different cultures encountered in this small basin.

With Yuula Benivolski (CA); Justine Blau (LU); Canarezza & Coro (SM); Martina Conti (SM-FR); Nina Danino (UK); Oppy De Bernardo (CH); Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir (IS); Doris Drescher (LU); Haris Epaminonda (CY); Barbara Geyer (FL); Anna Hilti (FL); Irena Lagator (ME); Jose Ramón Lozano (ES); Ingibjörg Magnadóttir (IS); Mark Mangion (MT); Mussoni & Albani (SM-FR); Giancarlo Norese and Umberto Cavenago (IT); Christodoulos Panayiotou (CY); Paradise Consumer Group (AD); Marco Poloni (CH); Pierre Portelli (MT); Luigi Presicce (IT); Agnès Roux (MC); Sigurður Atli Sigurðsson (IS); Miki Tallone (CH); Xenia Uranova (RU); Martin Walch (FL); Trixie Weis (LU).

Curated by Alessandro Castiglioni, Rita Canarezza, Pier Paolo Coro, Roberto Daolio in collaboration with Kevin Muhlen, Halldór Björn Runólfsson, Swetlana Racanović, Louli Michaelidou

February 4 - May 4, 2012
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova
www.littleconstellation.org

Size-specific, Bologna

In occasione di Arte Fiera a Bologna, il Musée de l'OHM vuole dare un proprio contributo alla discussione offrendo allo sguardo del visitatore tutto ciò che è in suo possesso secondo una modalità espositiva che pone la questione del legame tra quantità e qualità: l'intera collezione, raccolta nel corso di tre anni, sarà allestita tra pergula e secreta, mentre nello spazio OFF del museo una Lettera al Direttore rilegata su misura chiarisce il significato di una prospettiva size-specific.

In mostra: Riccardo Beretta, Luca Bertolo, Claudio Cappi, Daniela Comani, Dragoni-Russo, Francesco Fuzz-Brasini, Matej Kren, Lorenzo Mazzi, Giancarlo Norese, Chiara Pergola, Cesare Pietroiusti, Luigi Presicce, Mili Romano, Anna Rossi;
con tracce di: Alessandra Andrini, Riccardo Camoni, Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Falasco, Emilio Fantin, Prufesur, Valentina Vetturi.

27 gennaio > 26 febbraio 2012
Art White Night Sabato 28 gennaio 2012 apertura straordinaria fino alle h 24

Musée de l’OHM, c/o Museo Civico Medievale, via Manzoni 4, Bologna
Info: 3383751951, openingheremuseum(at)gmail(dot)com
download press release

December 16, 2011

Announcing lab-Yit, Beijing

lab-Yit, the Italian Contemporary Art Platform in China.

The launching party will be on december 17th 2011 at Zajia Lab, with a screening selection of works produced by Italian artist in Beijing. Participating artists: Girolamo Marri, Chiara Mu, Sabrina Muzi, Giancarlo Norese, Giusy Pirrotta, Alessandro Rolandi, Nadir Valente.
Curator: Cecilia Freschini
Organizer: lab-Yit & ZA.project
Opening: December 17th, Saturday, 2011, from 6:30pm Italian dinner at 7:30, organized by ISA & CRIS (45 rmb)
Duration: December 18th to 28th, 2011
Screening time: December 17th at 6:30pm and 22nd at 8pm (Free admission)
Venue: 杂家 zajia lab // beijing project space Tel: 15601122252 / +10.84049141/ zajialab@126.com
Hong En Daoist Temple (beside Bell Tower food market) Doufuchi Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing

开幕式将于 2011年12月17日在杂家lab召开 届时我们将放映七个意大利艺术家在中国拍的录像作品. 参展艺术家:Girolamo Marri, Chiara Mu, Sabrina Muzi, Giancarlo Norese, Giusy Pirrotta, Alessandro Rolandi, Nadir Valente 策 展: Cecilia Freschini 主办: lab-Yit & ZA.project 开幕式时间:2011年12月17日下午18:00点开始 —录像作品特别放映下午18:30 意大利美食晚上19:30开始,主办 ISA&CRIS (收费) 展览日期:2011年12月18日——12月28日 录像作品特别放映:2011年12月17日下午18:30,12月22日20:00开始 (免费入场) 展览地点:杂家 zajia lab // beijing project space 电话: 15601122252 / +10.84049141/ zajialab@126.com 地址:北京市东城区旧鼓楼大街豆腐池胡同(钟楼菜市场旁边)地铁鼓楼站B口出

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November 30, 2011

Urban Play, Beijing

Eyewitness, 2011.
Video loop, advertising, hole.
Installation at the Landgent Center, Beijing

Eyewitness, 2011 (detail)
The Landgent Center is pleased to announce the opening of Urban Play- Site-specific Public Art Exhibition on Nov. 17, 2011.

Featuring installations, videos, performances, dance, as well as sound art by fourteen artists from China and abroad, “Urban Play” attempts to challenge the stereotypes of public art and to reflect on the diversity and dynamics of contemporary art beyond the institutional framework.

“I would like to think of the exhibition as a small-scale, alternative approach designed to investigate and discuss the urban reality in which we live.” says the curator Tang Zehui. Over the past three months, artists have been working on-site in the Landgent Center—a complex including office buildings, a shopping mall, subway station and plaza—investigating its cultural and social, as well as physical, conditions from each of their own perspectives.

“In this exhibition art does not come down to the street, but rather is growing from there. The works are initiated by the artists but they interact, interweave and grow together with existing lifestyles and social textures in the area, rather than imposing upon them.”

“Urban Play” is of free admission, on view through Dec. 25.


Participating artists 参展艺术家名单:
Tiffany Hambley (澳大利亚)
连国栋+雷琰+刘正+Amy Grubb-Han (英国)
刘勃麟
Giancarlo Norese(意大利)
唐克扬
Andrew Toland (澳大利亚)
王功新
王轶琼
辛云鹏
颜峻
Gerlind Zeilner (奥地利)


Strong Electricity Room, 2011.
Modified door
“都市戏剧——情境特定公共艺术展” 11月17日在乐成中心拉开序幕。这是当代艺术在城市 公共空间的一次创新实践,也是以艺术的方式对我们生活其中的都市现实所作的一次有针 对性探讨。

据策展人唐泽慧介绍,本次展览参展的十一个艺术家和艺术团体来自中国、英国、奥地 利、意大利和澳大利亚五个国家,在长达三个月的时间里,他们对乐成中心这个包括写字楼、 商业中心、广场和地铁站在内的都市综合体深入考察,并在此基础上为它量身定制十一件艺 术品,如同社会学家做田野调查一样,十一个艺术家和艺术团体从各自的背景和视角出发, 对作为都市典型环境的乐成中心的空间特征、社会情境和文化形态进行考察,考察的结果以 艺术的方式呈现出来,涵盖建筑装置、雕塑、影像、舞蹈、行为、声音艺术等各种艺术形态。 “这些艺术作品不是以一种居高临下的姿态降临这里,而是从这里生长出来,与这里固有 的生活形态和社会肌理相互交织、缠绕,共同生长,而不是单方面的介入。”