In the projects I curate I like to put my love for pop culture, ecology and the big and small issues of life and death. Another focus word in my work is “network”: I believe that contamination and collaboration between people with different backgrounds and roles is a basic plus value.
Some since September 2007:
Do you Nomi? is a travelling art/music/performance project in memory of the late Klaus Nomi. A tribute to a unique artist able to join the world of fashion, the opera, the disco music and a futuristic rock imagery together. An alien angel lost somewhere between the German expressionist cabaret and a time travel toward apocalypse. A free soul, childish and melancholic, that hoped in a better world. Klaus disappeared because of AIDS in 1983.
With Res Pira Lab
She’s lost control
An all female group exhibition. Artists dealt with losing control, with the english band Joy Division and with the book they took their name from: House of Dolls by Ka-Tzetnik 135633, about living in a lager and holocaust.
With Res Pira Lab
An International Group Show dedicated to the Whales
The project “Whaleless” was born on the pages of the Italian Pig magazine and on whaleless.com; after receiving artworks from all over the world (from the USA to Hong Kong, from Russia to Venezuela) and hundreds of thousands of clicks on the website, “Whaleless” is now on the road, started with Strychnin Galleryin London on July 11th. The exhibition (every time with different artists) will then head to major European cities over the next few years, trying to raise awareness for this global environmental problem.
With Res Pira
De Rerum Digitalis
Festival della Creatività, Florence
De Rerum Digitalis is a network of artists, designers and creative people who, through technology, artistic talent and creativity spread digital “seeds and spores”, informative and practical inputs on contemporary enviromental issues.
At the Festival della Creatività 2008, De Rerum Digitalis (Fortezza da Basso, Spadolini Pavilion) wants to be a “digital aquarium/greenhouse”, a bridge between past and future, between innovation and environmental sensitivity, to find new ways to conjugate technology, communication and responsible sustainability.
With Res Pira
An ongoing photographic self-portraits project based on the parallelism between lunar phases, woman’s ages, menstrual cycle and the 4 seasons.
With Res Pira.
The Enchanted Forest
Every single minute a surface equal to 36 football fields disappear from our planet Earth. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat, biodiversity loss and aridity. Deforested regions typically incur significant adverse soil erosion and frequently degrade into wasteland. Deforestation accounts for up to 20 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming, with the effects on climate changing that we’re watching almost every day in the news. The idea is to recreate a whole world, The Enchanted Forest, where it will be possible to see both the desolation of what we’re destroing and the hope of what we can save.
We cannot survive in a habitat made of our own waste.
2048
In 1948, George Orwell wrote his masterpiece, 1984, a novel of great imagination about a utopian future.
2048 is an artistic project inspired by the evocative strength of Orwell’s pages: the involved artists are asked to imagine themselves living 38 years forward and to tell and represent, through videos/site-specifics, their existence in the heart of the century.
Between past and future, artists crash with the many alternatives and forking paths life puts before us everyday, our today’s choices shape the huge tomorrow’s mosaic.
The astrophysic Martin Rees theorized that the twenty-first century humanity has the 50% of possibility to destroy itself and the biosphere. Where are we going?
Selva Obscura > coming on February 23rd 2012 in Milan..
Here today, Mars tomorrow > Philip K. Dick art tribute > somewhere from March 2012
Project UFO > September 2012
