Sunday, 27 April 2008

Unfair Deluxe






Unfair Deluxe edition by Wolfgang Berkowski

The 'Unfair Deluxe' is a signed edition of 10 (+ 2 artist's proofs) by Wolfgang Berkowski. Each number of the edition consists of a slide projector with a set of 60 slides, a specially printed catalogue with additional printed matter and material samples of the exhibition display, all housed in a custom-made wooden box. Each number of the edition is unique.

Monday, 3 March 2008

More installation views


Work by Wolfgang Berkowski (detail). All temporary walls and supports in the installation are part of this work.






Background: Works by Pietro Sanguineti, Magnus Thierfelder and Manuela Ribadeneira (anti-clockwise)
Foreground: Works by Alessandro Sarra, Domenico Mangano and others


Work by Domenico Mangano


Work by Carl Trahan


Work suspended on string is by Jacob Dahl Jürgensen


Foreground on right: Work by Lili Reynaud Dewar




Work by Carla Zaccagnini






Foreground left: Work by Charlotte Moth
Foreground right (from front): Works by Kostis Velonis and Ursula Mayer
Background: work by Johan Tiren


Work by Johan Tiren (detail)


Production coordinator Athena Panni sits on work by Stanislao di Giugno. Artist Federico Pietrella stands behind. Work by Italo Zuffi and Sandrine Nicoletta can be (barely) seen in the background.


Work by Cindy Smith



Jacopo Miliani (balloon anchored by ice-cream outside Loto Arte during exhibition opening)


A Constructed World (box prior to being burned)


Work by Caroline Achaintre (on monitor)


Work by Francesco Arena


Maria Karantzi (flag outside Loto Arte)


'Untitled and Unsigned Piece'

Whose work is this? We don't know...

Still life with catalogue


The Catalogue; shrink-wrapped (on table at front)


Web version of the catalogue available here


Giorne & Notte (Athena Panni, Vincent Honore, Ines Musemeci Greco, Stefano Simeoni, Cecilia Canziani and Louise Garrett)

Saturday, 1 March 2008

Getting there




Men at work


Under control


Nearly there (Artemis Potamianou working on floor piece - 30 minutes to go before the opening).

...et voila!


Marco Raparelli


Installation view showing works by Manuela Ribadeneira, Luca Vitone, Nicolas Chardon, Runo Lagomarsino and Isola and Norzi (anti-clockwise)


Work by Manuela Ribadeneira


Work by Isola and Norzi


Installation view showing works by Carola Bonfini, Ra di Martino and Charlotte Moth (anti-clockwise)


Installation view showing works by Vedovamazzei, Guillaume Pinard (projection) and a collaborative work by Etienne Chambaud and Benoit Maire (anti-clockwise). Floor-work by Artemis Potamianou.




Works by Carla Zaccagnini, Pernille Kapper Williams and Claire Fontaine (anti-clockwise)

The temporary walls/supports for the installation are a work by Wolfgang Berkowski.


Bik van der Pol (detail)

First impressions - 29.02.08

New York: Erase una vez un lobito bueno al que maltrataban todos los corderos. Y había también un príncipe malo, una bruja hermosa y un pirata honrado. Todas estas cosas había una vez cuando yo soñaba un mundo al revés.

Frankfurt am Main: It's early. The sun is shining. I remove the dust from a record and play »When love breaks down« by Prefab Sprout, perhaps slightly too loud. An espresso, toast and juice of three oranges, which I seem to have squeezed into a too big glass, is waiting for me. For a minute, the sky seems to get cloudy.

Recife: woke up in a bed i had never woken up before. alone. the room was a bit too cold. a good feeling, being conscious of how hot it will be outside, as proved by the strong sunlight coming in from a thin line where the curtain is lifted by the air conditioner. i asked her to call back in one hour and spent one third of that time feeling cold. as if i could save it for later.

Montréal: Woke up early and feeling tired because of a bad night sleep due to Jet Lag. Minus twenty degrees outside, but lots of fresh snow and a crisp blue sky. I tried to make a fire, but the wood do not cooperate. After a half our of work, I succeeded. I need a coffee.

Rome: no more drunk.

Berlin: woke up at about 8 am. looked out of the window. a cloudy greyish sky. it seems much colder than yesterday. at 9.30 am talked to my healer. could not go out for a walk this morning, because i had to finish the layout of an exhibition catalogue and send the PDF to the printer. Just finished with that. Looking out of the window there are still clouds, but a warm and bright sunlight is coming into my room and warms. that feels good. Maybe i will go for a walk later. Now i want to continue to work on a new series of lightbox motif. the word is "nature".

Quito: tanto sueño aun que lloro y no puedo escribir estas palabras, necesito un bate pero primero escribo instrucciones, frio pero promete ser un día con sol hay reflejos en mi computadora tengo una espinilla debajo de mi nariz

London, 10:41am: It's quite cold outside but the air is very fresh. I feel tired after staying up most of the night.....now I am going to eat couple of crumpets with cheese, which will make me feel alive again!

Hoorn: I think about in which order to do what before i leave. Then I wonder why i decided to do this performance all improvisation and almost no language. And if it is really because i think 'it's necessary in my practice' or if it is just because my concentration is so bad these days that i can only actually work when something is expected of me. I come to the conclusion that its probably a combination and then i think about it some more, fitting it, with some ideas about operations and the instance, in the more general ideas i have about my life. It fits quite nice. I get up. I feel good and light. Then i feel a bit ridiculous. I am still coughing all the time and it's a mess here.

Rome: I’ve been wake up at 5 by an asthma attack. It’s remind me to a line Cortázar let say to his Che Guevara in Reunión: “… el asma es mi amante y me ha enseñado a aprovechar la noche…” (… asthma is my lover and teaches me to enjoy the night…). I was totally disagree. But, after a while, when my breath had calm down, I herd, in the silent, the bird’s sing: was the time Rohmer call L’heure bleue. The incredible, magic passage between night and the new day. And I did enjoy it.

London at 6.30 in the morning: Got woken up from my daughter cry for milk, still braindead, then hung out with her on sofa hoping she would fall asleep again. She didn't. Slowly getting dressed and remembering this task I promised to do.

Stockholm: My first impression of this day when my son woke me up at 5.50 in the morning, was that it was to early to get up, and that I wanted to stay in bed. Anyway it's a nice day in Stockholm, it almost feels like spring has arrived, although the winter never came this year.

London: over hang over

Rome: 8.51 The floor is brown and smooth. Outside too many noises. I have to choose my clothes.

Tirana: I wake up at seven. Neo is trying to say something, but he is mostly spitting. I understand that he wants to get up. My body is tired and I don’t want to leave bed. I see from the window and I see that the next house has a new roof which I hadn’t seen before. I make a coffee and drink it slowly. Neo is sitting in front of me and laughs. I eat a toast and give a spoon to Neo because he needs to keep something in his hands. He throws it away. I give him a plastic cup. He throws it away too. I see from the window; it will be a sunny day.

London: I wake feeling somewhat destroyed. Having slept little. Its not yet light outside. Earl Grey tea. I wait for the taxi.

Playa de Alojera on La Gomera (Canary Islands): The waves were loud in our apartment. I woke up slowly. After having had a peppermint tea the world looked different. The first question was whether the weather was sufficient to spend the day on the beach with my Ransmayr novel on the discovery of unknown lands around the north pole or whether we had to go hiking in the mountains which doesn't need as much sun. We decided to stay.

want to wear my sunglasses, have to go to the hospital, I will sleep again there, on the shoulder of G. if he's coming, want to take a book because want to stay outside all day, my shoes are broken, have to put the tape

Rome, 8:00a.m : It's so nice here.Oh my God, I have to hurry to go to install my work!!!! I hope the exhibition to be installed.......

Thursday, 28 February 2008

Work-in-progress





The division of labour


Now that's what I call a box!

Change the facts


ARTIST: Robert Orchardson

TITLE: Chapel
DATE: 2008
MEDIA: Inkjet prints on found magazine photographs




This work is from a series of inkjet prints of geometric linear patterns printed directly onto pages from national geographic magazines.

My work seeks to explore a kind of fragile potential as it draws upon elements of modernist architecture and design, utopian texts, or details from science fiction films. Appropriated fragments are dislocated from their original cultural contexts, and any sense of previous functionality becomes skewed as these are reconfigured to collectively become something new. I play with this shift, creating work that exists in a limbo between where it has come from what it might become.

These prints function in a similar way. There exists a subtle shift in how we read them as part of the magazine. Out of context they begin to develop an increased complexity and sense of ambiguity.
-Robert Orchardson


ARTIST: Susanne Bürner
TITLE: WITH YOU #6



(detail)

WITH YOU #6 belongs to a series of posters which show spaces underneath people's beds. Inverted and enlarged, what was lying in the dark before, turns into a big, glowing and impenetrable spot, a screen of projection.

WITH YOU #6 circles around the notion of space at various levels of reality such as imaginative worlds. The space underneath the bed is not only defined by its physical limits but also by the concentration of the emotional input of the viewer or the bed owner it unifies.
-Susanne Bürner


ARTIST:
Jacob Dahl Jürgensen
TITLE: 'Mixtape (poème électronique)'
DATE: 2008



The work consists of a Compact Cassette audio tape hung along twine suspended between the walls in the exhibition space, to create a both festive and abject-looking garland. The sound on the tape, which can thus not be heard, is a personal and eclectic compilation of music, sounds, voices and silences, all of which forms a pool of inspiration and research for my current work.

The title of the work obviously refers to personal compilation tapes, but also to a piece of music composed by Edgard Varèse. The composition was an integral part of the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels word fair in 1958, designed by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis. The pavilion was an environment that combined architecture, moving images, sound and colour to create a total work of art.

-Jacob Dahl Jürgensen



ARTISTS: Goldiechiari
TITLE: The Sweetest Thing
DATE: 2006
MEDIA: Vagina mould, resin





http://www.goldiechiari.com/


ARTIST: Benedetta Jacovoni
TITLE: Active Sculpture
DATE: 2008
DESCRIPTION: A piece of plastic 54 x 52.5 x 53 x 53 and oil color




The Active Sculpture is a rubber surface painted with oil that was originally meant to be the ground for a painting. In my work I experiment with surfaces and plastic materials on which to make oil paintings. Sometimes the result is not satisfactory for technical reasons, mainly because of the way the paint dries. Sometimes these experiments fail. In this case I wanted to recycle a failure, a piece of rubber destined for the tip.

My work has always been connected with the transformation of objects and their own re-transformation, and the re-transformation of their leftovers. Often I transform an object into a sculpture that is then photographed, and finally used as a starting point for a painting. There is a starting point, but no end. In this case I inverted the process — the painting becomes sculpture with the help of photography.

Active Sculpture is a mobile sculpture, completed by four nails at the corners, with which you can fix the pieces in different positions, resulting in an endless array of possible forms.

Infinite sculptures in one.
-Benedetta Jacovoni

http://www.benedetta-jacovoni.com/


ARTIST: Francesco Arena

TITLE: Fontana con agenda (Fountain with diary)



Decisions, decisions


ARTIST: Falke Pisano

TITLE: 29 Decisions for a Time Capsule Radio Piece
DATE: 2006
CD, 6 min. + digital print 29,7 x 21 cm, ed. 12








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29 Decisions for a Time Capsule Radio Piece, 2006 formulates in 29 decisions a text for a sound piece that is at the same time a plan for a future work that could be read as a subjective de-chronologized history of modern and contemporary (abstract) sculpture: the text that is formulated by the decisions is a description of a sequence of events based on writing about sculpture from the last 50 years.
-Falko Pisano

That is (im)material


ARTIST: Jacopo Miliani
TITLE: WHEN THE SNOW MELTS
DATE: 2006
MEDIA: Lambda print mounted on plexiglass
Courtesy of Via Nuova Arte Contemporanea



To disappear, to dissolve, to dissemble, to obscure are acts evoking a nostalgia for past or future events, whose reality is constantly called into question. In my artistic research, I use different objects as traces of a ghostly presence, in order to exhale atmospheres in between the haste of communication and a sentimental stasis. My work aims to express the impossibility and failure of translating the notion of absence. The category of ‘non-presence’ always refers to a lack of an effective presence and marks the performativity of a space in absence of a subject. The double function of my interventions – installations vs ephemeral situations is not an opposition, but it expresses the way to channel different elements, apparently conflicting each other, in a multi-playing logic. Here dual aspects reinforce their value and lead the viewer into different levels of narration.
-Jacopo Miliani


ARTIST: Cesare Pietroiusti

TITLE: Evolution de l'Art


www.evolutiondelart.org
www.evolutiondelart.net

The gallery Evolution de l’Art arises from a collaboration between SPACE (Juraj Carny, Diana Majdakova and Lydia Pribisova) and Cesare Pietroiusti.

Evolution de l’Art is a gallery for contemporary art which only sells artworks that are immaterial, with no physical residue, and it does not release certificates of authenticity, nor statements or receipts. EdlA will represent, on a non-exclusive basis, artists whose artwork is, at least in the case of some specific projects, alien from any physical-material component. Beyond this condition, there will not be any other limitation or requisite for represented artists in terms of medium or technique.

EdlA offers the possibility of becoming contemporary art collectors to the widest possible audience. Therefore the gallery will offer artworks at a range of very different prices, including some that can be purchased for a few Euros. Purchases can be made at the headquarters of the gallery (Stefanikova 21, Bratislava) or through the website www.evolutiondelart.net.


ARTIST: Kostis Velonis
TITLE: Bound to the Brotherhood
DESCRIPTION: Sculptural Object




The ‘sculptures for the defense of anarchism’ gather some of the symptoms of the anarchism along the history of the movement. It seems to suggest a collective memory, a strike, an alert,
but at the same time they represent a kind of privacy and individuality which lies, I suppose, at the basis of the precise ideology.
-Kostis Velonis

www.kostisvelonis.blogspot.com
www.velonisworks.blogspot.com
www.velonis.org


ARTISTS: Vedovamazzei
TITLE: 640 Carezze
DATE: 2005


(detail)

www.vedovamazzei.it

Bonne chance


ARTIST: Bethan Huws

TITLE: Un coup de dés n'abolira jamais le hasard
(Ready Made 1919 Marcel Duchamp)

DATE: 2008





ARTIST: Georgia Kotretsos
TITLE: Fanfair
DATE: 2008















FANFAIR is a board game based on the ARTEcontemporaneamodernaROMA floor plan. It is designed to be projected on the floor, and artists who are members of the audience are invited to use the 5 round cards to play the game until they finally make it to the VIP room of "an" Art Fair by creating their own rules. One may also print the board and cards, paste it directly on a table top and enjoy the game. It can be played online, over the phone or any other way one can possibly think of.
-Georgia Kotretsos

Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Blue


ARTIST: Andrea Salvino

TITLE: Una Ragazza Piuttosto Complicata





Una Ragazza Piuttosto Complicata is the title of a film. The work is a series of visual notes relating to the feminine universe. Looked at, observed and collected according to the poetic thread of my work.
-Andrea Salvino


ARTISTS: Claire Fontaine
TITLE: TEMPLATE STENCIL FOR: POLICE PARTOUT/JUSTICE NULLE PART
DATE: 2007
MEDIA: Stencil, 300gr. cardboard, 800 x 372mm. Stencil wall-text, spray paint
DIMENSIONS: 750 x 170mm








clairefontaine.ws


ARTIST: Massimo Grimaldi
TITLE: Finally
DATE: 2008
DESCRIPTION: Two texts (English and Italian versions) printed on two A3 sheets



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Finally is a statement with an intimate character, but its vacuity makes it possible to be considered abstractly.
-Massimo Grimaldi


I see


ARTIST: Federico Pietrella
TITLE: Untitled
DATE: 2006
MEDIA: Wood, paint and glass
DIMENSIONS: 63 x 82cm




ARTIST: Alessandro Sarra

TITLE: SARRAVISOR
…….For the modern collector……

SARRAVISOR
SET DA PASSEGGIO PER COLLEZIONISTI




Sarravisor “Collector’s walking set”

Sarravisor will be launched at ‘The Unfair Fair ‘. The work is a ‘Collector’s walking set’ produced specifically for this fair.

Sarravisor is not a ‘Site Specific’ work, it is a dynamic object for dynamic people, ready . . . to be used everywhere.

An original work by the best Italian talent

Sarravisor’s innovative design can be used at home or while travelling, when you are normally away from the pleasure of your own art collection. Sarravisor is a must.

Sarravisor..... is made of elegant white painted wood .
It comes with 5 classical wooden sticks, each of those supports two oil on canvas, that will be enjoyed in 3D

Sarravisor. . . early birds' price . . . unmissible


Sarravisor………..ad un prezzo lancio IRRESISTIBILE


Sarravisor…………for the modern collector


ARTIST: Artemis Potamianou
TITLE: Art Seen






The work Art Seen is the imaginary journey of three viewers (a random viewer, a curator and an artist) through lines and points that punctuate the entire exhibition area. The time markings in front of each work refer to the time which each viewer spent looking at each work and to his/her dialectical relationship with the work of art. At the same time, this also constitutes a sharp comment on the manner in which the viewer will be led before the items displayed.
-Artemis Potamianou

www.artemiswebsite.com

Sheet of paper


ARTIST: Guillaime Pinard

TITLE: Stop motion
DATE: 2005
MEDIA: Video, loop of 20'32









ARTIST: Marco Raparelli
TITLE: The flow of time
DATE: 2008



Proposed Schedule for the Unfair Fair



www.mauricioguillen.com

Stop the press!


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Under Deconstruction



Installation in progress at Loto Arte

From one to the other


ARTIST: Walead Beshty
TITLE: Untitled (Museum Museum)



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ARTIST: Carla Zaccagnini
TITLE: Museu das Vistas
DATE: 2002-04 ongoing
DESCRIPTION: A collection of drawings mediated by discourse










Collaborators until December 2007: Roberto EcheverrÌa (Rincón, Puerto Rico), Tamara EspÌrito Santo (São Paulo, Brasil), Larinca Lobos (ValparaÌso, Chile), Cassius Clay (Florianópolis, Brasil), Mario Arieta (Mexico City, Mexico), Juan Carlos Hernández Sierra (Medellin, Colombia), Jorge William Gallo MejÌa (Medellin Colombia), Juan Galvis (Medellin, Colombia), Nevio Alonso Salinas MejÌa (Medellin, Colombia), Ida Bjöns (Stockholm, Sweden), Anna Giertz (Stockholm, Sweden), Lotta Jarlsdotter (Stockholm, Sweden), Kerstin Ahlgren (Stockholm, Sweden)

This project, initiated in 2004, consists of a mechanism for constituting a collection of drawings of views mediated by discourse. These drawings are made by police artists, according to descriptions of views provided by any person willing to take part in the project. Each of these drawings in made on auto-copying paper, the original graphite drawings are given to describers while the MdVcollects the copies. The idea is that the resulting archive testifies to the ways in which landscape becomes a mental image and how this mental image can become discourse and be translated to drawing. By means of the dialogue established during this process and of what is possible to communicate in this way, these images can be shared and made visible.
-Carla Zaccagnini

ARTIST: Carl Trahan
TITLE: Untitled (erased drawings)
DATE: Work-in-progress. 2007-2008



Friends of different origins were asked to do a drawing on a given piece of paper with different words—often used to describe translation—as a starting point (trust, treason, incorporation, annexation, fidelity, otherness, transparency, mediation, double). A description of each drawing was written and then the drawings were erased. Their description were finally inscribed on a similar surface, using blue carbon paper.
-Carl Trahan

Participants:
Anne-Claire Budin (France)
Sylvie Cotton (Canada)
Anke Dessin (Germany)
Kasper Muttonen (Finland)
Carla Zaccagnini (Brazil)


ARTISTS: It’s Our Pleasure To Serve You
TITLE: WHEN YOU SEE ME AGAIN IT WON’T BE ME / WOULD YOU LIKE SOME COFFEE? DATE: 2008















When You See Me Again it Won’t Be Me is a series of interrelated events and collective demands. It purposefully includes all fields of creative production and seeks to invite an infinitely growing number of participating artists and collectives. A magazine under the name When You see Me Again It Won’t Be Me was produced by Kerstin Braetsch and Adele Roeder for The Announcement and for Would you Like some Coffee?

It’s Our Pleasure To Serve You
Is not a dance group
Is a constant demand for meetings and associations
Extension of music, movement, painting and voice
Signs of constant territorial creations
In search of optics and fantasies
Desiring obstacles, undoing the chains, asking how to screw vibrations
Looking for codes of arms and legs
It’s our pleasure to come closer and break apart
-It's Our Pleasure To Serve You

Tuesday, 26 February 2008

Unfair Deluxe




The 'Unfair Deluxe' is a signed edition of 10 by Wolfgang Berkowski. Each number of the edition consists of a slide projector with a set of 60 slides, a specially printed catalogue with additional printed matter and material samples of the exhibition display, all housed in a custom-made wooden box. Each number of the edition is unique.

To order your exclusive copy please contact Athena Panni: athenapanni@gmail.com

Sunday, 24 February 2008

Haven't I seen you somewhere before?


ARTIST: Pernille Kapper Williams

TITLE: An homage to Marcel Broodthaers
DATE: 2006
MEDIA: Grey vinyl foil
DIMENSIONS: approx. 40.0 x 80.0 cm
Courtesy of Balice Hertling, Paris




In the catalogue Marcel Broodthaers, Walker Art Center, Rizzoli International Publications Inc., N.Y. 1989 one finds a reproduction of Broodthaers’ work Flower Ball/Décor (1975) which consists of dried flowers, ribbon and a printed card saying 'Décor'. On the cover of the later publication Décor: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers, XIXth and XXth Century, London 1975 Galerie Michael Werner, N.Y. 2007 the typeface of word 'Décor' might at first sight look very much the same, but if you compare it to the original work, it is obvious that the two typefaces differ slightly. It remains uncertain, if the particular typeface which Broodthaers used might have been a unique design, at least it seems to be no longer available. This was confirmed by a graphic designer, who I have asked to create a vinyl foil similar in appearance to Broodthaers’ printed card.
- Pernille Kapper Williams

ARTISTS: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
TITLE: Far Gone and Out
DATE: 2007
MEDIA: Audio




Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard's 'Far gone and out' tentatively purses the psychological experiments they initiated in their 2005 work Silent Sound. It is a sonic limbo, bringing together recordings of each of the artists undergoing a personal session of Past Life Regression with clinical hypnotist Barry Cooper. Split across the left and right channels of the stereo mix, these fragments of subconscious narrative are entwined with a musical composition by The Late Cord, a collaboration between musicians John Mark Lapham and Micah P Hinson. The result is a compelling state of otherness.

www.iainandjane.com

Expanding World


ARTISTS: Ozlem Altin and Olivier Maarschalk
TITLE: Freunde and Futter
DESCRIPTION: Booklet by Ozlem Altin, published by Orient Press, Berlin 2008 plus music-collage animals by Olivier Maarschalk







Freunde and Futter is a collaborative work by Ozlem Altin and Olivier Maarschalk. The booklet playfully explores topics such as relationships, friendship and love. For the music-collage, Olivier selected titles from his record collection which are associated with animals in one way or another.


ARTISTS: Haris Epaminonda and Daniel Gustav Cramer
TITLE: Infinite Library
DATE: 2008




A proposal which outlines the amalgamation of two books by reassembling and merging them together, which results in two new unique entities. This proposition will in effect, once hypothetically executed on all existing books to date, shift the authorship from the maker to the book itself.
-
Haris Epaminonda and Daniel Gustav Cramer

www.harisepaminonda.com
www.danielgustavcramer.com


ARTIST: Pietro Sanguineti
TITLE: www_serie a_2007 (sketches for sculptures)
MEDIA/DESCRIPTION: Digital images found on the web while looking for ideas for new sculptures











The images are intended as a conceptual ensemble of sculptures. I understand them as sketches of ready-made sculptures to be re-realized, at a given time.

Language is the main subject of my digital films, images, sculptures and installations. Language appears as image. My basic tool is the computer. One of the focal points of my work is the relation between language and image on the one hand, and real space and (its) digital simulation on the other. I understand real space as layers of surfaces. As my concept of real space is "flat", my concept of the image is sculptural. I am fascinated by the glamorous seduction and artificial beauty created by our contemporary society of high definition spectacle. I am not interested in the analysis of forms of the real, but the real forms of the media. For the continuous production of surfaces, necessary to mediate and regenerate capitalist ideology, a huge repertoire of materialization is used and invented to give those concepts a meaningful visual form. Pure language and the immateriality of meaning was an (ideological) presumption of the protagonists of historical Concept Art. They obscured the disturbing differences produced by "dirty" materiality, unavoidable to give language an appearance. In contrast to Concept Art I am interested in that "dirt" and happy to make use of the return ticket: from language back to the image. Visual complexity creates differences vis-à-vis the 'original' meaning of the words themselves, that can only be sublated by additonal linguistic operations. With the shifting of the referential frame(s), image, language and object start to lack their established stability. What you see is what you see. Not.
- Pietro Sanguineti


ARTIST: The Metropolitan Complex (Sarah Pierce)


Click on image to enlarge

www.themetropolitancomplex.com

Out There


ARTISTS: Etienne Chambaud and Benoît Maire
TITLE: Position Actuelle de l'Idéalisme
DATE: 2007




Position Actuelle de l'Idéalisme is a work-in-progress, which was started at the end of 2007. It consists of various elements: a world map and a pin, a raft equipped with an argos marker and a postcard with a studio picture of the raft. The raft has recently been abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean and is currently drifting.

Position on 29/3/08:



ARTIST: Alessandro Piangiamore

TITLE: The Rainbow's Gravity Solution #2
MEDIA/DESCRIPTION: Digital adhesive print on vinyl, variable dimensions, unique edition. A sort of catalogue of rainbows.
DATE: 2007



My work is mainly based on the misunderstanding generated in that gap, or space, that exists between ‘the appearance of things and their own potentiality’. The main goal of my work is the creation of a sort of short-circuit between reality and an imaginary dimension. My work does not deal with certainties, but rather instigates doubt; irony, tension and uneasiness are the components that can generate such circumstances.
- Alessandro Piangiamore


ARTIST: Gea Casolaro
TITLE: Change the image
MEDIA/DESCRIPTION: Photo 17x17 and text on paper 21x29.7 plus paper sheet with the same text translated in 5 languages ad libitum




It would be wonderful if those on the left won against those on the right.
(Change this image for one of your own choice).


ARTIST: Magnus Thierfelder
TITLE: Outlook
DESCRIPTION: Wall drawing
DATE: 2005





ARTIST: Luca Vitone
DATE:2008
Edition 2/3


Progetto per Fair Unfair


Guarda! La luna.


Il progetto prevede che l’acquirente dell’opera debba munirsi del seguente materiale:


- tenda a due posti, modello canadese o igloo
- eventuale sacco a pelo a secondo della stagione
- fornelletto a gas
- spartano set da cucina per preparare un pasto e servirlo per due persone
- cibo a propria scelta per una cena e una prima colazione per un paio di persone

Una volta raccolto il materiale l’acquirente deve recarsi con un mezzo di locomozione a sua scelta (automobile, motocicletta, bicicletta, a piedi o altro) in un campo rom a suo piacimento e chiedere ospitalità per una notte all’interno del campo o se gli abitanti del campo preferiscono nell’immediata vicinanza. Se richiesto, l’aquirente può spiegare che si sente insicuro di dormire all’aperto lontano da un centro abitato e che la presenza di persone che vivono in abitazioni di fortuna e che sono abituate a dover cambiare sovente il luogo dove dormire, lo rassicurano .
Di quello che succederà in quella notte: scambio di visite, informazioni, esperienze, dormire e mangiare in compagnia o solitudine - sarà bagaglio strettamaente personale dell’aquirente che potrà divulgare solo oralmente.

Edizione 2/3
Prezzo dell’opera: € 3.000.

Berlino 11 febbraio 2008

Luca Vitone

In Here


ARTIST: Meris Angioletti

TITLE: Work in progress (wake), 2008
DESCRIPTION: Drawings on a copy of Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce, Faber & Faber, London 1975





I came back to this book through research I am conducting on transcription/measurement of brain activity during sleep. Finnegan’s Wake recounts someone’s sleep - the process of pinpointing sleeping consciousness, following its cycles and where possible its language. Finnegan’s Wake is a Chinese box, a work-in-progress (in terms of (un)readability, interpretation and incompletion) within a work-in-progress. Each time the copy of the book is taken apart, modified and reassembled.
-Meris Angioletti


ARTISTS: A Constructed World
TITLE: Burning Room
DATE: March 2008



The Hotel Louisiane in Paris has been known as a cultural site since the 60s, where people isolated themselves and congregated to look at the world in diverging ways. Rather like the Chelsea Hotel in New York its decrepit antithesis represents what inner city gentrification erases. In January 2008 before its renovation, a number of artists were invited to the hotel to make celebrations and interventions. ACW inhabited a room, re-made here in this model, and presented the following text:

Don’t Imagine All The People
When bands like The Who smashed up hotel rooms they were prescient about what a generation would become: destructive consumers, trashing our shared environment in favour of individualistic impulses.
A Constructed World’s work laments the failure of the hippies. There is no way of going back to go forward. No way 'to get up to get down’. We need un-thought-of futures, we need ‘to dissolve the people and elect another’.

This is the fifth hotel room ACW have made a work in. Rather than the audience travelling to the room, ACW bring the room to you in two places, Melbourne and Rome, to consider the-moment-that-never-was that is now lost.

…trying to integrate all aspects of psychic material may not always be possible. Aiming to do so may lead to self-destructive behaviour and real risks to the individual. Rather than trying to undo fragmentation, we should aim at a detailed exploration of its context and history. This will allow us to give a voice to fragmentation rather than to reverse it.
Darian Leader, unpublished paper 2006

"I wish I could say that wind turbines and solar panels will save us," Lovelock responds. "But I can't. There isn't any kind of solution possible. There are nearly 7 billion people on the planet now, not to mention livestock and pets. If you just take the CO2 of everything breathing, it's twenty-five percent of the total — four times as much CO2 as all the airlines in the world. So if you want to improve your carbon footprint, just hold your breath”.
The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock, Rolling Stone Online, January 2008

Burning this work makes it unfinished.

- A Constructed World for the Unfair Fair in Rome with 1:1 Projects and the group group show with DAMP in Melbourne in March 2008.


ARTIST: Charlotte Moth
TITLE: Untitled (detail)
MEDIA/DESCRIPTION: 36 prints of images, 7 x 5"
DATE: 2008



The series of images presented for the Unfair Fair depict a fragmented view that builds into a form cartographic understanding of a space. They were taken looking through a shop front window which became both a threshold of exclusion and inclusion. This work was made for a live event, where two people read a text written by myself, one asking the questions the other answering. During this time of reading the slides where presented. Both text and image find a way to reveal an experience of a place, looking at the possibility of how thoughts and images co-exist.
- Charlotte Moth


ARTIST: Alban Hajdinaj
TITLE: Uomo Vogue
MEDIA: Video




The video ‘Uomo Vogue’ documents the shooting process of a portrait of the artist by the photographer of Vogue magazine and his assistants at the artist’s studio.

This video attempts to distinguish the tension between the artist as a human being and the ‘artist’ as a magazine image. The unstaged recording of this happening is a document of a physical transformation, of an ethical compromise and of hidden power play acting.
- Alban Hajdinaj


ARTIST: Etienne Chambaud
TITLE: The Blind Spot
MEDIA/DESCRIPTION: Found photograph framed with a hand-cut matte exposing only a portion of the image
DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 29.5cm
DATE: 2008




The photo was taken by the architect who designed the functional monkey cage of which we can see a detail. I shot a film in 2004 in this monkey cage called Le Troupeau du Dehors / The Outside Herd (http://www.letroupeaududehorstheoutsideherd.org).
- Etienne Chambaud

ARTISTS: Isola and Norzi
TITLE: temp. (arabesque)
DATE: 2007




www.isolanorzi.com


ARTIST: Sandrine Nicoletta
TITLE: PRIVATE SELF-PERFORMANCE#1
DATE: 2008



Saturday, 23 February 2008

Do it


ARTISTS: Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund

TITLE: The imprint
MEDIA: Printed matter
DATE: 2008




www.ninajanbeier-mariejanlund.com


ARTISTS: Allsop & Weir

TITLE: It is not yet over (for curators)
MEDIA: Printed matter
DATE: 2008




Click on text to enlarge

http://www.allsopandweir.com/


ARTIST: Jason Dodge
TITLE: Untitled
MEDIA: Printed matter
DATE: 2008



"In Rome each day of the Unfair find a canned product in the market that has printed on it an expiration date - the date should be that day - this text is my work for you and the only description of the project."
Jason Dodge



This is not a can


ARTIST: Valentino Diego
TITLE: Practice Art Work
DATE: 2008



Friday, 22 February 2008

Life Live


ARTIST: Christian Proaño
TITLE: Oral
DESCRIPTION: A broadcast sound environment made in real time into which listeners can enter or leave at will.
12:00 Friday 29 February - 12:oo Monday 3 March 2008
http://giss.tv:8000/chrispunksonico.mp3



Inspired by the slowly changing flow of sound of LaMonte Young and Eliane Radigue, Oral is a sound installation broadcast in real time from Quito to the world. Anyone can tune into it anytime, anywhere.
- Christian Proaño

ARTISTS: Diastolic Murmers (Richard Crow and Adam Bohman)
DESCRIPTION: Live performance. A physical re-presentation of objects and materials (relics) from the action/performance “Live Electronic Dissections” by the audio group Diastolic Murmurs (The ‘original’ live performances will also be available as limited edition CDs.)
Courtesy: Richard Crow/Institution of Rot Archive
(Presentation by Richard Crow with assistant - Time and date to be confirmed).



From an undated early photo session for Diastolic Murmurs (Adam Bohman and Richard Crow) at Institution of Rot, London (circa 1986)
Photo: Ania Dobrowska/Institution of Rot Archive
Courtesy of the artist



Diastolic Murmurs (Adam Bohman and Richard Crow) performing Live Electronic Dissections #3 (28/5/89, ICA, London)
Photo: Nick Barker/Institution of Rot Archive
Courtesy of the artist



Richard Crow performing Live Electronic Dissections #3 by Diastolic Murmurs (28/5/89 ICA, London)
Photo: Unknown/Institution of Rot Archive
Courtesy of the artist

Deeply inspired by Artaud’s writings and the Theatre of Cruelty, the group Diastolic Murmurs (1985 -1994) operated within a physical, visceral sound world given full rein in audio-visual spectacles that employed ‘directly injected’ contact microphones to amplify an array of sound sources and sound objects, including prepared and specially modified ‘instruments’, (pseudo) medical items and hospital paraphernalia.
- Richard Crow


The play's the thing

ARTIST: Lili Reynaud Dewar
TITLE: Costume for performance - with child
DATE: 2008





Navy blue two piece suit, size age 3. Props attached to the suit with safety pins: 2 prints, shiny leather patches, various types of thread and cardboard.
Costume for a performance with a very young child (3 years old), a very small person or a pygmy. The performance will not happen. The props give very vague indications on what performance it could be if it was to be.
-Lili Reynaud Dewar


ARTIST: Christodoulos Panayiotou

TITLE: Wonder Land
DESCRIPTION: 80 color slides
DATE: 2008






Wonder Land is the result of an extensive research in the historical archives of the city of Limassol exploring the mania of Limassolians to dress up as Disney's characters during the carnival parade (the most important social event of the island). The work covers the period from the end of 70s up to today.

ARTIST: Tereza Buskova
TITLE: Beauty For One Day
MEDIA/DESCRIPTION: Video documentation of a live performance in The Window Gallery, London





ARTIST: Ursula Mayer
TITLE: The Crystal Gaze
MEDIA: Digital print
DATE: 2008

You are here


ARTIST: Nicolas Chardon
TITLE: Points Cardinaux
DATES: 2004-2008





What sort of radicalism are we talking about? That of modern avant-gardes?
Here, when I speak of radicalism, it's more an image of radicalism in painting. The moment I start painting is when my position on this question is the most evident. I start painting on an object, a painting, that by its very form has already resolved many of the formal issues of modernism: the fabric is a support for colors, a pattern — a grid what's more —, and even performs a movement by deforming the grid. The action of painting is a second phase. And this phase is truly an after thought in terms of avant-garde ambitions. We can say that my painting is detached from them, even if it still manifests the symptoms. If we consider that distancing strategies are characteristic of modernism, we also need to see that the distancing in my work — the deformation of the grid — comes from a traditional act shared by all painters : stretching a canvas. In my case, radicalism is not heroic but rather everyday, archetypal.

-Nicolas Chardon/Judicael Lavrador
Index, in catalogue. Nicolas Chardon, 2004, published by Revolver, Archiv Fur Aktuelle Kunst



ARTIST: Gregor Passens
TITLE: Wake up
DATE: 2005
MEDIUM: Video
TIME: 5:25 mins.
DESCRIPTION: Firework at dawn in the crater of a volcano
(in Catamarca, Argentina, 4000 m. altitude)





ARTIST: Runo Lagomarsino
TITLE: Untitled (Geometry of Hope)
DATE: 2007
MEDIA: Print
SIZE: 27 x 21 cm




If you don't know what the south is
It's simply because you are from the north


ARTIST: Stanislao Di Giugno
TITLE:
How to make a full trip around the world without moving from your f**king city” or “The Explorer”
MEDIA: Honda SH 50cc



The artist's Honda SH 50cc shows 40,075km on the clock. The distance corresponds to the length of the equatorial line.


ARTISTS: schleuser.net - the Federal Trade Association for Undocumented Travelling (Farida Heuck, Ralf Homann, Manuela Unverdorben)

TITLE: Sticky Tape - Give Away







The Sticky Tape by schleuser.net is an auxiliary tool. Please stick the tape on the ground anywhere a borderline is hindering undocumented travelling or the freedom of movement, make a snapshot and send it accompanied by a short description to the public collection of the Imaginary Border Academy (http://borderacademy.org/) or to info(at)schleuser.net. Thank you.
- schleuser.net


ARTIST: Rossella Biscotti
TITLE: We will be here forever
MEDIA/DESCRIPTION: A tape cassette with a recorded voice of a man saying: "We will be here forever, forever and ever and ever and ever…" He is talking for an hour.



We will be here forever is a re-enactment of a statement by American rapper KRS-ONE. I asked a man to repeat it for the entire length of the tape cassette. Besides its specific political meaning for the Afro community in America, I’m interested in this phrase in relation to his idealism based on a conscious “passive resistance”. It’s a fight based on a physical presence existing over time.
- Rossella Biscotti

www.rossellabiscotti.com


ARTIST: Bettina Buck
TITLE: Hanging Mountains
MEDIA: Clay, metal fixing
SIZE: 23 x 16 x 12cm



…. during the play the king’s crown kept slipping revealing it to be made of cardboard and tinsel. Despite this the play continued.
... I’m interested in the King, his ill-fitting crown and the play.
- Bettina Buck

Wer ist der Schoenste?


ARTIST: Caroline Achaintre

TITLE: Transgender
MEDIA: Slide show of digital images
DATE: 2008





ARTIST: Benoît Maire
TITLE: Feuille Blanche #5
MEDIA: Gouache tempera on wood
DATE: 2008



Studio view - Feuille Blanche #5 is on the left. It comprises, says the artist, "several horizontal lines and one vertical, made with a pencil and ruler during a day of boredom".

ARTIST: Carla Zaccagnini
TITLE: Estampa (celeste)
DATE: 2007
MEDIA: Silk screen on silk
Printed by Anderson Rubbo
Unlimited edition




Estampa (Celeste) is a silk-screen on light-blue natural silk, printed in white with seven different photographs of clouds. The images are printed randomly so that there is no pattern that repeats itself, making each segment of it into a unique piece. The print is sold by the metre at 250 monetary units, in the currency of the country where it is shown and sold.


ARTIST: Carola Bonfili
TITLE: Tarli
DATE: 2008

MEDIA: Wood, found photocopied photograph



It's the economy, stupid


ARTIST: Italo Zuffi

TITLE: Elenco (Flash Art 2006), printed version
DATE: 2006
DESCRIPTION: Two inkjet prints on paper (diptych), 20 x 20cm each, edition of 3




Elenco (Flash Art 2006)was a performance during which the singer of the band the Madcapsread, with growing emphasis, the ranking published in the magazineFlash Art in April 2006. Flash Art asked a group of critics and gallerists to vote the best artists operating in Italy after Maurizio Cattelan. The singer started to declaim the artists from the first position (occupied by Roberto Cuoghi, with 285 points), and stopped as soon as he reached Italo Zuffi (25th, with 76 points).
-Italo Zuffi

italozuffi.com


ARTIST: Elena Nemkova
TITLE: 'In 30 years' time the middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat,- the British military experts affirmed.'
Unique edition
DIMENSIONS: 20x27 cm
DATE: 2008



www.brrrrr.blog.com


ARTIST: Domenico Mangano

TITLE: Spray 'n Buy

MEDIA: Treated aerosol spray can




Spray on potential collectors during art fairs to maximize sales. Use advisedly.


ARTIST: Johan Tirén
TITLE: Do you believe in change?
MEDIA: Lambda prints













An opportunity for you to be instrumental to art.

www.johantiren.se

The ones that got away


ARTISTS: Bik van der Pol

TITLE: Dedicated
MEDIA: Paper, felt pen



We are devoting this page to all the people who missed our last show

www.bikvanderpol.net


ARTIST: Dane Mitchell
TITLE: Trap #1
MEDIA: Adhesive fly-paper



Device for trapping unwanted gallery visitors.

Click here for more info on Dane Mitchell's work

Make Do


ARTIST: Cindy Smith

TITLE: New Left

MEDIA: Found teddy bear, magazine, crochet




Materials needed:
worsted yarn (wool, no synthetics!)
1 crochet needle (3.5 mm-5 mm depending upon thickness of yarn)
1 safety pin
1 teddy bear

1 October, issue 123, Winter, 2008

1 pair scissors

Directions:
1) crochet a chain of 12 stitches.

2) connect chain to form a circle.
3) mark with a safety pin where ends of chain connect.

4) single stitch two consecutive rows around circle beginning and ending with safety pin marker.
5) keep moving safety pin to end of newest row.
6) row 3: increase by crocheting two stitches in every stitch.
7) rows 4 and 5: single stitch.
8) row 6: increase by crocheting two stitches in every other stitch. 9) rows 7 through 15: single stitch.
10) row 16: increase by crocheting two stitches into every other stitch.
11) rows 17 through 21: single stitch.
12) row 22: increase by crocheting two stitches into every other stitch.
13) At end of row 22 continue crocheting 8 more stitches along edge. 14) Work backward left to right along 8 stitches.
15) Work forward again along 8 stitches.
16) Work backward left to right along 8 stitches.
17) Work forward again along 8 stitches.
18) Continue forward stitches along edge of newly created tab and then along side of round edge until you reach a point directly across from tab.
19) Mark this point with a safety pin.
20) Continue forward with 8 stitches.
21) Work backward left to right along 8 stitches.
22) Work forward again along 8 stitches.
23) Work backward left to right along 8 stitches.
24) Work forward again along 8 stitches.
25) Finish by crocheting a chain to a length of 16 inches on the corners of each tab.


ARTIST: Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
DESCRIPTION: Drawing; pencil on paper
DATE: 2008




ARTIST: Maria Karantzi
TITLE: It Doesn't Have To Be Perfect
MEDIA: Embroidery on silk



Indefinite Index 001

The piece is its own description

Fly-paper to catch unwanted guests


Dust collected in the room

Ideally it’s a work that creates itself

A drawing. It’s a drawing

Paper, felt pen, hand tracing


One magical spray

Spaces underneath people’s beds

The mania of Limossolians

My scooter, clocking the length of the equatorial line

Economy of means. Precision of action.

Between the haste of communication and a sentimental stasis

We need un-thought-of futures

Ideas which up until now have remained unrealised.
Possibly will never be realised.

The amalgamation of two books
hypothetically executed on all existing books to date.

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

The Unfair Fair

This blog catalogues the inaugural UNFAIR FAIR, which took place in Rome from Friday 29 February to Monday 3 March 2008. The first UNFAIR FAIR project was a sort of event, situation, exhibition, intervention, action and infiltration timed to coincide with two new contemporary art fairs in Rome - ARTEcontemporaneamodernaROMA and ROMA (The ROAD TO CONTEMPORARY ART). The UNFAIR FAIR is in no way formally associated with these art fairs, though it does have a strategic relation to the mainstream economy they represent. Whereas the raison d'être of the contemporary art fair may be characterised by maximization and accumulation, the conditions of the UNFAIR FAIR relate more comfortably to the states of minimization and disintegration.

Three propositions inform the makeup of the UNFAIR FAIR - Marcel Duchamp's Unhappy Readymade (1919), Robert Filliou's Principle of Equivalence - Well Done, Badly Done, Not Done, and the state of the contemporary art-market economy. Rather than reflect the overweening economic formula common to most art fairs, in which the art on display becomes little more than window dressing for current market forces, the UNFAIR FAIR adopts an economy of form and means where experimentation and the poetics of play are emphasised over commodified products and the imperatives of the market.

More then 80 international artists have been invited to contribute to the UNFAIR FAIR. A special exhibition set and display will be created by German artist Wolfgang Berkowski.

Details

Dates: 29 February – 3 March 2008

Preview: Friday 29 February , 18:00 to 24:00

Venue: Loto Arte, Via Civinini, 41 - 00197 Rome

Opening hours:
Friday 29 February 18:00 - 24:00
Saturday 1 February 9:30-14:00 and 15:00 - 24:00
Saturday 2 March 9:30–14:00 and 15:00 - 19:30
Monday 3 March 9:30–14:00 and 15:00 - 19:30

List of participating artists

Caroline Achaintre
Nina Jan Beier & Marie Jan Lund
Walead Beshty
It's our pleasure to serve you (Kerstin Brätsch, Allison Katz, Georgia Sagri, Adele Röder)
Susanne Bürner
Tereza Buskova
Etienne Chambaud
Nicolas Chardon
Jason Dodge
Clairefontaine
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Mauricio Guillén
Alban Hajdinaj
Bethan Huws
Bettina Buck
Benoît Maire
Charlotte Moth
Guillaume Pinard
Falke Pisano
Navin Rawanchaikul
Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Manuela Ribadaneira
Jacopo Miliani
Italo Zuffi
Eléna Nemkova
Ra di Martino
Massimo Grimaldi
Carla Zaccagnini
Georgia Kostretsos
Christodoulos Panayotou
Stanislao di Giugno
Alessandro Piangiamore
Sandrine Nicoletta
Stefania Galegati
Magnus Thierfelder
Artemis Potamianou
Francesco Arena
Goldiechiari
Maria Brigita Karantzi
Allsop&Weir
Alessandro Sarra
Federico Pietrella
Rossella Biscotti
Giuseppe Pietroniro
Kostis Velonis
Isola e Norzi
Dane Mitchell
Nico Dockx
Christian Proaño
Gregor Passens
Richard Crow
A Constructed World
Andrea Salvino
Bik van der Pol
Carl Trahan
Cesare Pietroiusti
Cindy Smith
Valentino Diego
Domenico Mangano
Gea Casolaro
Pernille Kapper Williams
René Gabri
Richard Aldrich
Ursula Mayer
The Metropolitan Complex
Jacob Dahl Jürgensen
Johan Tirén
Pietro Sanguineti
Benedetta Jacovoni
Marco Raparelli
Haris Epaminonda and Daniel Gustav Cramer
Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio
Luca Vitone
Meris Angioletti
Özlem Altin and Olivier Maarschalk
schleuser.net
Robert Orchardson
Vedovamazzei
Carola Bonfili
Runo Lagomarsino
Wolfgang Berkowski



Produced by 1:1projects
in collaboration with Ines Musumeci Greco, Loto Arte

Curators: Cecilia Canziani and Vincent Honoré

Communication and Production: Athéna Panni

Editor: Louise Garrett

Catalogue Designer: Wolfgang Berkowski