Exhibitions, Italy, Trento, 02 June 2010
Upload Art Project - via del suffragio, 24 - Trento
For the exhibition Figure ipotetiche (Hypothetical Figures), the artists were invited to work within a series of stores in the historic city centre, and create an itinerary which, while centred in the headquarters of the UpLoad Art Project (a platform for contemporary art), branches out in the city with interventions of various kinds. The works presented, from photographs to video to site-specifi c projects, have been conceived as “fi gures”, “hypotheses”,
“openings” that are situated, ambiguous and
unexpected, in the spaces of daily life, in
places normally used for work, exchange and
commerce. The works mainly develop along
two thematic/design lines. The fi rst deals
with sound and audio-visual experimentation
(Michele Spanghero, Valentina Miorandi, Jacopo Mazzonelli), intended to create a relationship with the public on a physical and emotional level, as though “distracting/abstracting” passers-by from the place where they are.
The second (Collettivo Raudì, Uleia Lolta,
Veronica Bellei, Andrea Pregl) takes as a
central element an indirect analysis of or an
ironic or metaphorical look at some aspects
of the economic dynamics that are created
in real time in the stores where the artists
have been invited to work. While the sound
works are integrated in the public spaces as
“islands”, small portions of the space aimed
at created a “place within a place” in which
the spectator/user has an experience that
is as ephemeral, brief and transitory as it is
effective and profound from the point of view
of poetry and imagination, the other works are
characterised by their procedural nature.
The work becomes part of the “body” of
the city not only and not so much as an
object but rather as an image, sign, project
which, interacting with the daily dynamics
of the spaces chosen, comes to redefi ne it,
opening new “hypotheses” for our cognitive
or behavioural approach with respect to the
socioeconomic context in which we live.
For the exhibition Figure ipotetiche (Hypothetical Figures), the artists were invited to work within a series of stores in the historic city centre, and create an itinerary which, while centred in the headquarters of the UpLoad Art Project (a platform for contemporary art), branches out in the city with interventions of various kinds. The works presented, from photographs to video to site-specifi c projects, have been conceived as “fi gures”, “hypotheses”,
“openings” that are situated, ambiguous and
unexpected, in the spaces of daily life, in
places normally used for work, exchange and
commerce. The works mainly develop along
two thematic/design lines. The fi rst deals
with sound and audio-visual experimentation
(Michele Spanghero, Valentina Miorandi, Jacopo Mazzonelli), intended to create a relationship with the public on a physical and emotional level, as though “distracting/abstracting” passers-by from the place where they are.
The second (Collettivo Raudì, Uleia Lolta,
Veronica Bellei, Andrea Pregl) takes as a
central element an indirect analysis of or an
ironic or metaphorical look at some aspects
of the economic dynamics that are created
in real time in the stores where the artists
have been invited to work. While the sound
works are integrated in the public spaces as
“islands”, small portions of the space aimed
at created a “place within a place” in which
the spectator/user has an experience that
is as ephemeral, brief and transitory as it is
effective and profound from the point of view
of poetry and imagination, the other works are
characterised by their procedural nature.
The work becomes part of the “body” of
the city not only and not so much as an
object but rather as an image, sign, project
which, interacting with the daily dynamics
of the spaces chosen, comes to redefi ne it,
opening new “hypotheses” for our cognitive
or behavioural approach with respect to the
socioeconomic context in which we live.
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