2005
RE/PROCESS
The exhibition “RE / PROCESS” was specially conceived for BELEF – Belgrade Summer Festival 2005 and presents some of the most interesting young Italian creators currently working in the fields of art, fashion, design, and architecture, redefining the boundaries between these disciplines.
As the title of the exhibition, “RE / PROCESS” (an English term for the processes of reworking, re-elaboration, recycling or reuse of materials or data), indicates, the authors: Deborah Ligorio, Pietra Pistoletto and Antonio Scarponi base their creative approaches on the principle of recycling and finding innovative and unexpected solutions in the use of existing objects and materials.
They operate from a position of ecological awareness in an era of ever-accelerating industrial hyper-production, and through their work and attitudes, they shape new ethical positions that are essential to affirm, both in the field of art and in other productive disciplines.
Through their work, these young authors express an increasingly necessary engagement with the domains that the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze defines as “Three Ecologies”: namely, engagement with the natural environment, with social relations, and with human subjectivity.
In addition to a working principle that involves process-based practices and recycling, characteristic of all three proposed artists: Deborah Ligorio, Pietra Pistoletto, and Antonio Scarponi, another interesting thread emerges that connects these artists, who otherwise have very different formal approaches, namely an interest in “personalised” design and an openness to different forms of interaction with the public.
Deborah Ligorio is an artist of Italian origin who lives in Berlin and works in various media: she creates digital animations, web projects, video works, and spatial installations that incorporate design components, creating personalised spaces and inventively reformulating new forms of "habitus" that often have a mobile character.
She is participating in this exhibition with two works: the digital animation "Size Scape" and the newly realised video work "Doughnut To Spiral." In the digital animation "Size Scape," Deborah Ligorio explores life in distant urban contexts through personal commentary in the form of a diary. The artist created the new video work "Doughnut To Spiral" last year as an "on the road" film shot on the route between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. This work presents a gradual transformation of the environment/landscape from one that refers to Hollywood as the mythical American "dream factory" to one that reminds us of one of the giants of Land Art and American new art and ecological consciousness, Robert Smithson, who in the 1970s realised one of the most impressive environmental interventions, "Spiral Jetty," at the site of the great Salt Lake.
Pietra Pistoletto works in the field of fashion and, for this occasion, is realising for the first time a project that connects two different, yet ultimately closely related, domains of creative expression: fashion and design. Her project involves creating an object that draws on the definitions of anti-fashion and anti-design, presenting a large-scale “dress/lamp/sculpture”. On the other hand, it presents fashion creations that recuperate the experiences of 'Arte Povera' (the “Poor Art” movement of the late 1960s) and are based on the use of pre-existing garments as “constructive elements” for new creations – for example, she creates innovative and witty female skirt or dress designs from another type of garment: men's or children's socks.
The young Italian architect and designer Antonio Scarponi also bases his creative approach on the premises and experiences of trends in Italian art and architecture dating from the late 1960s and, based on them, creates entirely innovative works: engaged computer animations, commentaries on the political map of the world, and recycled utilitarian objects. In this exhibition, he presents two types of works: digital prints of maps which, in their formal character, refer to one of the most significant artists of the Italian “Arte Povera”: Alighiero Boetti, but which Scarponi creates through a long process of re-elaborating various statistical data, as well as digital animations created on the same principle. On the other hand, he presents everyday objects made from recycled materials by Italian industries working to new ecological standards.
2005
RE/PROCESS
The exhibition “RE / PROCESS” was specially conceived for BELEF – Belgrade Summer Festival 2005 and presents some of the most interesting young Italian creators currently working in the fields of art, fashion, design, and architecture, redefining the boundaries between these disciplines.
As the title of the exhibition, “RE / PROCESS” (an English term for the processes of reworking, re-elaboration, recycling or reuse of materials or data), indicates, the authors: Deborah Ligorio, Pietra Pistoletto and Antonio Scarponi base their creative approaches on the principle of recycling and finding innovative and unexpected solutions in the use of existing objects and materials.
They operate from a position of ecological awareness in an era of ever-accelerating industrial hyper-production, and through their work and attitudes, they shape new ethical positions that are essential to affirm, both in the field of art and in other productive disciplines.
Through their work, these young authors express an increasingly necessary engagement with the domains that the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze defines as “Three Ecologies”: namely, engagement with the natural environment, with social relations, and with human subjectivity.
In addition to a working principle that involves process-based practices and recycling, characteristic of all three proposed artists: Deborah Ligorio, Pietra Pistoletto, and Antonio Scarponi, another interesting thread emerges that connects these artists, who otherwise have very different formal approaches, namely an interest in “personalised” design and an openness to different forms of interaction with the public.
Deborah Ligorio is an artist of Italian origin who lives in Berlin and works in various media: she creates digital animations, web projects, video works, and spatial installations that incorporate design components, creating personalised spaces and inventively reformulating new forms of "habitus" that often have a mobile character.
She is participating in this exhibition with two works: the digital animation "Size Scape" and the newly realised video work "Doughnut To Spiral." In the digital animation "Size Scape," Deborah Ligorio explores life in distant urban contexts through personal commentary in the form of a diary. The artist created the new video work "Doughnut To Spiral" last year as an "on the road" film shot on the route between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. This work presents a gradual transformation of the environment/landscape from one that refers to Hollywood as the mythical American "dream factory" to one that reminds us of one of the giants of Land Art and American new art and ecological consciousness, Robert Smithson, who in the 1970s realised one of the most impressive environmental interventions, "Spiral Jetty," at the site of the great Salt Lake.
Pietra Pistoletto works in the field of fashion and, for this occasion, is realising for the first time a project that connects two different, yet ultimately closely related, domains of creative expression: fashion and design. Her project involves creating an object that draws on the definitions of anti-fashion and anti-design, presenting a large-scale “dress/lamp/sculpture”. On the other hand, it presents fashion creations that recuperate the experiences of 'Arte Povera' (the “Poor Art” movement of the late 1960s) and are based on the use of pre-existing garments as “constructive elements” for new creations – for example, she creates innovative and witty female skirt or dress designs from another type of garment: men's or children's socks.
The young Italian architect and designer Antonio Scarponi also bases his creative approach on the premises and experiences of trends in Italian art and architecture dating from the late 1960s and, based on them, creates entirely innovative works: engaged computer animations, commentaries on the political map of the world, and recycled utilitarian objects. In this exhibition, he presents two types of works: digital prints of maps which, in their formal character, refer to one of the most significant artists of the Italian “Arte Povera”: Alighiero Boetti, but which Scarponi creates through a long process of re-elaborating various statistical data, as well as digital animations created on the same principle. On the other hand, he presents everyday objects made from recycled materials by Italian industries working to new ecological standards.
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