The “Neodimension” as a Participatory Space
Behind the Work of Giuseppe Stampone
Giuseppe Stampone is best-known for his figurative works with a ballpoint pen, in which he mixes and reworks images from art and not from art, from the distant and recent past. He uses them to create atmospheres of conceptual magical realism, while never failing to address the socio-political issues of the present day, such as […]
Human Architectures
The Civil Context in Andrea Mastrovito
Collaboration, authorship, mediation, collective imaginary, context and monumentality: these are all terms we often use when we talk about art in public space. More than mere words, they are values that over the years have identified languages, practices, and horizons of method and research. Some have made experiments with participation, to give voice to lost […]
Out There
The Street and Public Space in the Poetics of Lara Favaretto
The poetics of Lara Favaretto (born in Treviso in 1973) have built an extensive relationship with the theme of the street, through various forms of relations between artwork and public space. This relationship can itself be observed from multiple angles. One first, purely object-oriented approach can start from an analysis of some of the works […]
The Monumentality of a Critical Era
The Italian Landscape by Alterazioni Video
“Unfinished” can mean many things. It can refer to a project that has been abandoned, which will never see its completion because the possibility or the will to continue is no longer there. But it can also mean opposite: that a programmatic decision has been made not to fix any end point, and instead to […]
Journeying in the Present
The Urban Ambition in the Work of Gian Maria Tosatti
Public space is a constant in Gian Maria Tosatti’s work. Cities, neighbourhoods, sometimes entire towns, are horizons for the incubation and development of his visual works, but also constitute the conceptual scenario for some of his theoretical texts. These writings organise a whole generation of artists around the archetype of the street, understood as a […]
Places on the Brink of Oblivion
The Poetics and the Lenses of Rosa Barba
Minhocão — the “big worm” — is an elevated highway that penetrates and crosses the entire central area of São Paulo. It is the starting point for one of the most intense works by artist Rosa Barba. Born in 1972, she is Sicilian by origin but was raised and educated in Germany, where she currently […]
By Informal Routes
A possible Streetmap of Eugenio Tibaldi
Le strade sono quelle dell’hinterland napoletano: nel 2000 Eugenio Tibaldi ne fa una scelta di vita, in quanto «luogo più plastico e mobile d’Italia»[1]. Le strade sono vissute dall’autore, che ne raffigura il sistema di segni apparentemente impazziti: cartelloni pubblicitari, cartelli stradali, scheletri di palazzi incompiuti (isolati in fotografia tramite campiture bianche o liricizzati con […]
Walking Everywhere
The Search for Images in Giorgio Andreotta Calò
Giorgio Andreotta Calò’s work is characterised by certain recurrent themes which are recomposed in different ways, in accordance with complex projects that bear the mark of a long and continuous reflection at the technical, imaginative and semantic level. One is architecture, rethought in Gordon Matta-Clark’s deconstruction: opening up walls, creating crossings between fullness and emptiness, […]
The City Is the People
Margherita Moscardini’s Spaces of Immunity
La critica dei processi urbani della città neoliberale contemporanea è al centro della ricerca artistica di Margherita Moscardini. Se lo spazio pubblico, la strada in senso lato, è il risultato più evidente di processi economici e sociali globali che tendono a irrigidirne la disciplina e la regolamentazione emarginando i più fragili, l’artista cerca nelle manifestazioni […]
Making a construction site
Inertia and entropy in the contemporary monument
Gigantic, neoclassical statues loom over London’s cityscape in 2099. Archaic angels, fractured ruins, historical and mythical gods, and heroes comprise the anachronistic imagery we encounter in the TV series The Peripheral, a recent adaptation of William Gibson’s sci-fi novel of the same title. The story is set in two different time periods, one in a […]
