A travelling

Ark: ( 05 ) 24 ribs, 24 artists. The “Arca Collective” project aims to knock down individual The objective barriers using tales of the power of sharing and inclusion.

The metaphoric concept is The objective not bound to be connected to well-known current events (migration issues), but to discover the value The objective of co-habitation, first at an ontological and then at an existential, social or political level. Thanks to this awareness The objective (ontological co-habitation), that nowadays is missing or only partially felt, conflicts can instead become opportunities of The objective contact. It is for this reason we have chosen the ark and archetype, or the crew to ( 06 ) The objective which we all, substantially and ( 07 ) fundamentally, belong and thanks to which we can find The objective salvation. From here comes the choice of a travelling installation to cities The objective and their sea and river ports. The organization of the project is based on the great challenge The objective of identifying and involving a number of cultural partners, at a European level, who can accommodate in museums The objective or other large exhibition areas, this large sculptural architectonical body. The objective An active participation is requested, also in economical and logistic terms, to face the realities of the initiative along The objective its epic journey. The Mediterranean and its history.

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The sea is the base of value of the “Arca Collective” project. The sea the moving element, the sea bed the unifying one. The sea bed tells us and reminds us that every country is joined together even if divided by sea.

The bathymetric lines tell the tale of the life, history and movement of the Mediterranean, of its sea bed and its coasts.

Unique and unrepeatable it’s the digital footprint of us all and of the land where we live. The project

“Arca Collective” is a travelling The project installation made up of 12 pairs of ribs giving a total of 24 elements. The project The artwork will be shaped like the keel of a boat that allegorically leads to an The project enormous chest cavity. The bone structure, conceived as an organic interpretation, will be carried out by Davide The project Dormino, promotion artist of the project, as the holding area of all 24 artworks. The project Each artist will be asked to ( 10 ) interpret, through his or her ( 11 ) work, an organ of the human The project body. The concave shape of the ribs and its size give an ideal internal volume in which artists The project can develop their works. It is therefore, a Collective Artists Organism where as The project one (artist/organ/rib) live and generate, together and thanks to others (co artists/organs/ark), without which it would not be The project possible for one to exist, only die. The project The project ( 12 ) ( 13 ) The artwork The artwork

The artwork The artwork as a whole recalls the shape of a hull, with its ribs grating along the perimeter of The artwork the floating shape. Wood has been chosen to create the structure on which will be assembled the single ribs of The artwork a height varying between 2.3 and 3.5 metres each one with a width of 0.5 metres and being placed 0.7 metres apart.

( 14 ) The artwork The artwork will thus be about ( 15 ) 15metres long and 6.5 metres The artwork wide. The intention is to make the wooden elements with tree trunks uprooted by The artwork the catastrophic flood of the autumn of 2018 to raise awareness in sustainability and The artwork safeguard of the environment. All elements will be self The artwork supporting. The artwork The artwork 500.00 350.00 ( 16 ) ( 17 ) 230.00

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( rib ) ( rib ) ( 22 ) ( 23 ) ( 24 ) ( 25 ) ( 26 ) ( 27 ) The artists and their works.

The Ark as a container and Each artist has been assigned as a home will be allegory of an organ of the human body to a human skeleton. Volume, interpret within a given rib. structure and geometry will recall a chest cavity. Thus is composed the “Arca Collective”. Both “ to contain” and “to protect”.

This same similarity establishes the number 24. 24 ribs for 24 artists. He has created works of Public Art in Italy and abroad, in 2011 “Breath” the Monument to Haiti created one year after the earthquake disaster, commissioned by the United Nations.

“Something to say?” An itinerant dedicated to the courage and freedom of information that began its journey from Berlin (Alexanderplatz) on 1 May 2015 and later the work moved to Dresden (Theatrerplatz, Ostrale) Geneva (Place des Nations), Paris (Place Georges Pompidou), Strasbourg (Place Klèber), Tours (Gare de Tours), Perugia (Piazza IV Novembre), Belgrade (Dev9t Festival), Ptuj-Slovenia (Art Stay Festival), Rome (p.le Aldo Moro) .

For this work he received the 2016 Davide Dormino “Sculpture is my His work is expressed in scuplture Prix éthique from the French Udine, Italy 1973 and design. organization AntiCor. ( 28 ) practice. I have ( 29 ) ( bone structure ) He seeks new forms by favouring He participated in the Stone always worked on old-fashioned systems for working Biennial in Portugal (2003, 2005) on materials such as marble, at the 5th edition of La Escultura the idea of creating bronze and iron. en Norte in Spain (2009) at the XIV Biennale of Sacred Art (2010) Un’Ita- support structures, The entirety of his artistic research Italian Artists in New York (2011) at is entrusted to the grandeur Ostrale 012 in Dresden, Germany ideal, physical or of a creative process rooted in (2012) He has exhibited at the C.I.A.C imaginary for the fundamental human issues. of Genazzano, Rome (2008), at the Scompiglio Academy, Lucca (2010), intimate need to He dialogue with size, working in at the Venaria of Turin (2013), at the every physical scale, in order to Rivara Castle (2013) at MAXXI (2016). give a material represent an idea and insert it in the most suitable vessel. He has held solo exhibitions in representation to Rome, Turin, . Every artistic expression becomes the resistance, to a fertile terrain with which to He works in Rome and teaches the load, trying in estabish exclusive and incisive Sculpture and Drawing at R.U.F.A. relations with an external Rome University of Fine Arts. all my work to give environment. Flux, vectors, bridges, and works both great lightness to the fight and small: materials transformed without artifice but shaped by a will against all forms of to become the timeless interpretor weight.” of the Spirit of Art. 1. Donatella Spaziani 2. Rocco Dubbini Ceprano, Italy 1970 Ancona, Italy 1969

( right hemisphere ) ( left hemisphere )

Rocco Dubbini attends the School of Art and then the Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino and has lived in Rome since 2000. He works using different media: videos, , digital mutant triptychs that combines installations of conceptual and minimal flavor in which prevails a refined reasoning on the concepts of alterity, normality, temporality, fragility.

He has exhibited in numerous Italian galleries and in museums and public spaces in Italy and abroad, including: 2012: “PierPaolo Pasolini. For a reverse controversy”, edited by 2002: “Italijanski autoportreti”, Flavio Alivernini, Palazzo Incontri, Piran Coastal Gallery, Civic Gallery, Rome. Slovenia, curated by Antonio 2013: “Step09”, edited by Valerio Arevalo. Dehò, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan; 2003: “Indelible Ink”, MACRO “Ostral ‘013”, Dresden, Germany; Contemporary Art Museum, “PierPaolo Pasolini. For a reverse Donatella Spaziani lives and works Valentini, Rome. Rome; “Celebrate”, Il Ponte controversy “, edited by Flavio in Rome. She graduated in painting In 2009 “Fuga”, curated by Contemporanea Gallery, Rome, Alivernini, Italian Cultural Center in at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome Achille Bonito Oliva, Impronte ( 30 ) catalog curated by Achille Bonito Belgium, Brussels. ( 31 ) and was researcher of the Paris Contemporary Art, Milan Oliva. 2014: “Marche Center of Art”, Academy of Fine Arts (E.N.S.B.A.) 2004: ARMORY SHOW New York, curated by Cristina Petrelli, from 2003 to 2006. Group exhibitions: FUTURA Gallery in Prague, New Palariviera, San Benedetto del In 2018 “No Man’s Library / The York. 2006: INTERNATIONAL ART Tronto (Ascoli Piceno); The work Personal exhibitions: Library of All”, edited by R.A.M. FAIR, Art Basel, Miami (USA); “Gloria” was selected to be exhibited In 2016 “Donatella Spaziani”, radioartemobile, former university “VIDEO DIA LOGHI”, Center Culturel at the Milan Expo 2015. curated by Costantino D’Orazio, library, Sassari; “Tommaso Binga Francais, Turin; MMC-Luka Gallery, 2015: “New codes”, curated Macro Museum, Rome; “Donatella / Donatella Spaziani”, by Laura Pula; Faculty of Fine Arts, Valencia. by Stefano Verri, Palazzo Spaziani”, curated by Martina Cherubini, Fiorentini Gallery, Rome. 2007: “They live”, curated by StangaTrecco, Cremona; “Italian Corgnati, Italian Cultural Institute, In 2017 “In-Giro”, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Galleria Guidi & Artists in Shanghai”, curated Strasbourg; “Donatella Spaziani, Zerynthia, Foundation of Sardinia Schoen, Genoa; “Falso Movimento”, by IGAV, SPSI, Shanghai Oil elegancija odsutnosti”, 24th and Decamaster / Master, Alghero. edited by Claudio Libero Pisano, Painting and Sculpture Institut Slavonian Biennial, Museum of In 2014 “Seminaria sogninterra”, C.I.A.C. International Center Art Museum; “Useless Army”, Fine Arts, Osjek (Croatia). In 2014, Environmental art festival, 3rd for Contemporary Art, Colonna curated by Francesca Canfora “You can’t go home again”, curated edition, Maranola (LT). Genazzano Castle, (RM). and Cristina Marinelli, Torino by Helia Hamedani, La nube di In 2011 “Italian art to listening”, 2008: “Terna Award”, winner of the Esposizione, Paratissima 2015, Oort, Rome; “10 January”, Il Ponte curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, Megawatt category, Palazzo delle Turin; “Indipendents5”, curated by Contemporanea, Rome. In 2013, “15 R.A.M. radioartemobile, NCCA, Esposizioni, Rome. CasaSponge-Stefano Verri, PRIZE OF May”, curated by Maria Savarese, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow. 2009: “Terna Award”, Chelsea THE JURY FOR THE “MANTRA” OPERA D.A.F.N.A. HomeGallery, . In 2010 “Squares of Rome”, curated Museum, New York. 2017: “Martyrs and Martyrs”, In 2011 “Fleeting Beauty”, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, MOCA 2010: “Ente Comunale di Consumo”, curated by Dario Ciferri, Crypt by Marinella Paderni, Galleria Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano, Museum, Monsanpolo del Tronto Rusconi, Milan. In 2010 “Domestic Universal Expo, Shanghai. CIAC, Colonna Castle in Genazzano, (AP). Environment”, Upside Down, by In 2008 “14th Art Quadriennale”, Rome. Claudio Libero Pisano, Palazzo Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. 3. Mariagrazia Pontorno 4. Antonio Tropiano Catania, Italy 1978 Calabria, Italy 1976

( eyes ) ( ears )

Mariagrazia Pontorno lives and digital reproducibility of images.” Antonio Tropiano lives and works a discerning participation in works in Rome. She teaches She currently works on Everything in Rome and in S. Caterina dello exhibitions, taking part in many ( 32 ) Multimedia Design at the Fine Arts I Know, a performative and choral Ionio, Catanzaro province. collective exhibitions and holding ( 33 ) Academy of and writes project that connects art and personal shows with site-specific about cinema for the magazine science, tradition and modernity, He studied in Bologna and installations in various venues in Artribune. Europe and Brazil through the Florence, where he continued his Italy, such as the Castello Estense travel and its powerful symbolism. research in the field of medieval in Ferrara, the Spazio Mondadori Mariagrazia builds life-like settings and Renaissance philology. He in Venice, the Milan Art Gallery inspired by a poetic vision, spaces Her work has been exhibited in collaborates with a well-known Pavilion also in Venice, and the where the borders between fiction Italian and international museums, publisher as essayist and expert in Palazzo San Bernardino in Rossano and reality are lyrically blurred. including MAXXI, Rome; MACRO, the history of art and literature. (CS), as well as in Borgo Ferri and at Her research focuses on the use of Rome; Biedermann Museum, the Torre S. Antonio of S. Caterina 3D animation, in order to create Donaueschingen; Stadtgalerie, He has always shown a natural, dello Ionio. In 2015 he took part images that recall everyday life and Kiel; MLAC, Rome; Museo di Castel versatile inclination for sculpture in the Pro Biennale of Venice at the passage of time. The 3D medium S.Elmo, Naples; Art Center of and wooden material in particular. the invitation of Vittorio Sgarbi. is ideal to evoke visual paradox: Thessaloniki; Museo RISO; Palermo. In Antonio Tropiano’s work, both Furthermore, he collaborates with all that seems to be familiar seem to come together in harmony. a number of contemporary art and suddenly becomes distant, In galleries and non-profit venues In his on-going linguistic research, galleries. extraneous, and uncanny. In her such as Monitor, Rome; Lithium he has achieved a personal style, most recent works, the intersection Project, Naples; Murat 122, Bari; reaching a synthesis between between reality and fiction, ISCP, New York; HSF, New York; literature-based metaphoric archival material and digitally Fondazione Noesi Studio Carrieri, inspiration and the figurative reconstructed images has become Martina Franca; Passaggi Arte depiction of human action more complex. In her own Contemporanea, Pisa; Casa phenomenology. words: “I am happy to live in Musumeci Greco, Rome. For some time he has begun this historical moment, which is so unpredictable and has been endlessly duplicated thanks to the 5. Luigi Presicce 6. Davide Monaldi Porto Cesareo, Italy 1976 San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy 1983

( teeth ) ( nose )

which he was invited by AND AND Davide Monaldi lives and works in AND to dOCUMENTA13, Kassel. Rome. Since 2016 he is a founding member He specialized in Art during high of the Lac o le Mon Foundation, San school at the end of which he Cesario di Lecce. With Francesco attended a summer internship in Lauretta since 2017 he is part of the Salzburg with Ilya Kabakov. The School of Santa Rosa, a free school concrete experience of working of an plain air drawing based in side by side with the artist Florence and New York. strengthened in Davide Monaldi the willingness to become an artist He is currently engaged in the himself and at the same time, he creation of a performance cycle reached a clearer awareness of the started in 2012 with the theme The main trends in contemporary art. Stories of the True Cross and in a traveling training project for young In 2007 he graduated at R.U.F.A. artists called The Academy of Art Academy in Rome and in Immobility. 2008 he attended an Illustration course at Central Saint Martins, He was selected for the 2018 Study London. During these years Davide Program at Artists Allianc inc, Monaldi worked on the definition New York and TAD Residency of a personal language in drawing at the Monastero del Carmine, and illustration, with highly Bergamo. In 2018 he also designed autobiographical works who Luigi Presicce lives and works in and curated a painting symposium earned him the attention by critics. MACRO, Rome, 2017; VAF Foundation Florence. He attended the Academy at the Lac o le Mon Foundation, a art Prize (finalist), MACRO ( 34 ) of Fine Arts of Lecce. residence / platform centered on A self-taught clay sculptor, in Testaccio, Rome, Stadtgalerie Kiel, ( 35 ) Italian painting in the last 30 years. 2010 Davide Monaldi started the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, 2016- In Milan, in 2008 he founded (with production of ceramic works, 2017; La conquista dello Luca Francesconi and Valentina He curated Extemporanea- fascinated by the underrated spazio, curated by Riccardo Tondi Suma) Brownmagazine and later play, at Trebisonda Spazio for potential of this technique in Bandini, Spazio K sotterranei del Brown Project Space, for which he Contemporary Art, Perugia and contemporary art and by the Palazzo Ducale di Urbino 2016; is responsible for programming. Unique forms in the continuity of possibility that clay gives to the Cairo Art Prize , Palazzo Reale, space, at Rizzuto Gallery, Palermo. artist in modellation and figuration. Milan, 2016; In pratica, Collezione In 2011 with Giusy Checola and While the early ceramic works were Giuseppe Iannaccone, Milan 2015; Salvatore Baldi he founded He won the Epson Art Prize, all tridimensional transposition of Still Life Remix, curated by Ilaria “Archiviazioni” in Lecce Antonio Ratti Foundation, Como his drawings and brought out on Bonacossa, group show for Antinori (investigation exercises and (2007), Emerging Talents Award, a plastic level the specific graphic Art Project, San Casciano in Val di discussion on the contemporary CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, trait he developed in the first years, Pesa, 2015; ARTISSIMA, two person south). Florence (2011), Long Play, MAGA, more recently Davide Monaldi exibition with Stefano Arienti, Gallarate (2012), Icona, ArtVerona, evolved toward installation works, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, In 2012 he took part in Artists Verona (2014) , Level 0, Art Verona, bringing on a new aesthetic level 2015; 59° Faenza Prize, Museo in Residence at MACRO, Rome, Verona (2015). He was a finalist his research. Internazionale delle ceramiche extending his invitation to nine in the Moroso Prize, second and in Faenza, Faenza; Biennale of other artists (Laboratorio). sixth edition with special mention Major exhibitions: Contemporary Ceramic, Scuderie (2011, 2017), at the Premio Maretti, La collezione di San Patrignano Aldobrandini, Rome, 2014; solo Since 2010, with Luigi Negro, Emilio second edition with special work in progress, Triennale di show at Center for Contemporary Fantin, Giancarlo Norese and Cesare mention, Havana (2014), at the VAF Milano, Milan, 2018; PROSPECTUM, Art – Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Pietroiusti he has been involved Foundation Award, seventh edition, CONI Casa Italia, PyeongChang, 2012. in the Lu Cafausu project which Germany (2016) and at the Anna South Korea, 2018; Format à promotes The Feast of the Living Morettini Award, first edition, Paris l’italienne, Espace le Carrè, Lille (which reflects on death) and with (2017). France, 2018; Talent Prize (winner), 7. Laure Boulay 8. Iginio De Luca Rabat, Morocco 1951 Formia, Italy 1966

( tongue ) ( vocal cords )

Laure Boulay, born in Morocco “Brave New World” at the Piece Iginio De Luca lives between Rome Mixing ethics and aesthetics, chose Tuscany after a carrier in Unique Gallery in Paris in 2017, at and Turin and teaches Decoration technology and behaviorism, Iginio ( 36 ) journalism, to start working as a the Gallerie A’Montaigne in 2014 and and Multimedia Installations at the claims interaction with natural ( 37 ) sculptress. Galleria Vangelli, also in Paris. School of Fine Arts in Frosinone. and social environment and with the public, using both irony and Her work expresses itself through Among the group exhibitions, He is a multifaceted artist: he’s a engagement to denounce the crisis bronze, steel and aluminium. in 2015 she exhibited a series musician and a visual artist. In the of values of our times. of impressive sculptures at the last years, he has The guiding thread of her work Dresden’s Ex Slaughterhouse on mainly focused on videos and The use of different codes has is her obsession of the human the occasion of Ostrale 015. In 2013 pictures and on what he calls blitz. always defined his projects and being prisoner of himself. She she exhibited three large bronze consequently his methods and is currently working on a large sculptures at the Musée de Meaux in Standing somewhere between actions, thus implying that the sculptural project to express France, Among the fairs, the Salon urban art and performance, the common denominator lies in the solidarity with Indian women, D’automne de Paris in 2011. Many of artist sometimes overflies public need of dismantling certainties, imprisonned in tradition, religion, her works have integrated private spaces on a plane, sometimes breaking the rules of expressive machismo. collections in Europe. projects images or words on formalization, so as to set a trap to significant political or religious reality and take it by surprise. Among the personal exhibitions: buildings in Rome and then runs away, sometimes introduces Although playing on different disturbing objects with a strong fields, Iginio De Luca’s poetics visual impact in public spaces. shows a very strong unity. 9. Elvio Chiricozzi 10. Pietro Ruffo Viterbo, Italy 1965 Rome, Italy 1978

( right lung ) ( left lung )

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Pietro Ruffo after studying interpretations investigating the architecture, he moved to New great issues of universal history, York for a research scholarship at especially individual freedom and Columbia University. dignity, which are constantly Elvio Chiricozzi he started (2010); Casa delle letterature, threatened by the ongoing exhibiting in 1989. Rome (2010); Castello di Rivara Since 2004, he has been working in contemporary society (2011); Muséè d’Art Moderne et his studio at Pastificio Cerere. homogenization. He participated in many exhibitions Contemporain,Saint Etienne (2015). in both public and private spaces, Ruffo’s art is essentially connected His main solo shows include: among which: His work is part of the permanent to the basic elements of his “Constelacoes Migracoes”, Centro collection of the United Nations in architecture education: project, cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Museo Laboratorio dell’Università Geneva. paper and drawing. Brazil; “L’illusion parfaite", La Sapienza, Rome (1994); XII Galerie Italienne, Paris; “Terra Quadriennale d’Arte, Rome (1996); In 2013 he realized a permanent Every work originates from a Incognita”, Delhi; “Breve storia Museo Risorgimento, Rome (1999); site-specific installation for the meticulous planning and is shaped del resto del mondo”, Fondazione Fori Imperiali, Rome (1999); Castello di Rivara, curated by Franz on the sheet through his delicate Puglisi Cosentino, Catania, Italy; Museum of Modern Art, Ostend Paludetto. but sharp mark. “SPAD SVII”, Galleria Nazionale (2001); Vasby Konsthall, Stockholm d’Arte Moderna, Rome; “The (2001); European Parlament, The most recent works are inspired Though, he doesn’t retain a table Political Gymnasium”, Blain Brussels (2003); Ministero degli by natural phenomena to deal with bi-dimensionality, since cut paper Southern London; “A complex Affari Esteri italiano, Rome (2004); existential issues. acquires the third dimension. Istant”, Moscow, special project for X Biennale di Architettura, Venice The result is a stratified work, the Fourth Moscow Biennale; “Irhal (2006); Fondazione Volume!, Rome with multiple visual and semantic Irhal”, Lorcan O’Neill gallery, Rome. 11. Carlo De Meo 12. Daniele Puppi Formia, Italy 1966 Pordenone, Italy 1970

( veins-arteries ) ( heart )

Carlo De Meo, italian artist. He Turin - Fondazione IDIS, Naples Defined by some critics as an artist assessing its limits and its potential. made his debut in the mid-1990s - CIAC, Genazzano - Triennale outside the canon, and most of all ( 40 ) by reworking common plastic and Design Museum, Milan - MACRO, outside the language and formula The technologies used – video ( 41 ) rubber objects into visionary works Rome - Cittadella della cultura, of contemporary art, since his projectors, synchronizers, of art. Bari - Palazzo della Permanente, debut in 1996 with Fatica no.1, a site- amplifiers, sub woofers, speakers Milan - Museo Carandente, Spoleto specific audiovisual installation, he and microphones – serve to Since 1999 his interest has been - Gall. Nazionale di palazzo Spinola, has been working to unhinge the activate and amplify our powers focused on his own body. He Genoa - Fondazione Pistoletto, idea of space that is still perceived of perception, especially our visual started by being directly involved Biella - Bad Museum, Casandrino - and revolves around Euclidean and auditory ones. An integral in his performances, in which he Museo Laboratorio, Città di Castello parameters. part of the work, the viewer is has worn prostheses made up of - Fondazione Blickle, Kraichtal, called upon to enter a new and de- light tubes, followed by ironic and Germany - Kunstverein, Augsburg, With an emphasis on video familiarized spatial and sensory merciless self-portraits in small Germany - Kunsthalle, Goppingen, installation, he has manifested dimension. scale sculptures, from a man- Germany - Die Galerie, Frankfurt, a new attitude towards this animal to upsetting portrails of Germany - Museo Benaki, Athens, medium, emphasizing and His most important solo exhibitions serious physical handicaps. Greece - Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria radically subverting the use of include: Respira (Galleria Borghese, Encyclopedia of Art Zanichelli - Dune Studios, New York, USA – EU sound and visual-architectonic Rome 2017); Gotham Prize (Italian (Bologna, 2004). Parliament,, Bruxelles, Belgium – reconfigurations that always Cultural Institute, New York, 2015); Italian Embassy, Jerevan, Armenia reinvents itself. A totally new, alien 432 Hertz (Australian Experimental He has hosted his work in in – He was also an active promoter perspective. Art Foundation, Adelaide, 2013); exhibitions in Italy and abroad, by founding contemporary art Happy Moms (MAXXI, Rome, 2013); among which we find: magazines such as APPARECCHIO Puppi conceives of his work as Bast (MAGAZZINO, Rome, 2013); Fondazione Volume, Rome - Mart, (1994-96) and ARIA (2011-14). authentic “works in regress”, Fatica n. 23 (Galleria Nazionale, Rovereto - Fondazione Sandretto, which come into being after a long Rome, 2010); Fatica n. 16 period of gestation spent inside the (HangarBicocca, Milan, 2008). spaces. The artist experiences the environment and establishes an almost carnal relationship with it, 13. Paolo Grassino 14. Loris Cecchini Turin, Italy 1967 Milan, Italy 1969

( lymph ) ( nerves )

Cecchini’s latest work focuses principally on diagrammatic models, searching in the alterity of artifice a key of ambivalence of Western systems of representation.

Physical phenomena become an optical and emotive inventory of the environment, natural systems turn into algorithms of a non- homogeneous system, both complex and individual, in order to reveal the invisible processes of our present.

Searching for an analogy between grammar and anatomy, the works recall formulas capable of generating auto-poietic systems in which the bursting out of the structures regenerates itself, contaminates and transforms itself, just as happens in an organism. Cecchini has also participated in various international art events, ( 42 ) Cecchini’s sculptural works including the Venice Biennale (2001, ( 43 ) explore open structures based on 2005, 2015), the Shanghai Biennale generative modules designed by the (2006, 2012), the 13th and the 15th artist and industrially produced in Rome Quadriennale, the first Biennial of Taipei, Taiwan, Paolo Grassino, lives and works year, he took part in exhibitions stainless steel. the Valencia Biennial and the in Turin, with his works offers a in international public museums Every single element contributes to International Sculpture Biennale of reflection on the drifts of today’s such as the Frost Art Museum in the creation of a visual methaphor Carrara (2001), Ludwig Museum in society, suspended on the ridge Miami and the ETAGI Loft Project related to the dynamics of space Koln, Palazzo Fortuny in Venezia, between natural and artificial, in St. Petersburg. The anthological and matter. the MART of Rovereto, Hayward between precariousness and exhibition at Castello di Rivalta Gallery of London, The Garage mutation. His work is above all a (TO) takes place in 2010, while the His work has been shown Centre for Contemporary research that fully recovers the previous year participates in the internationally, with solo Culture in Moscow, Palazzo delle sense of manual skill: working Essential Experience exhibition exhibitions in prestigious Esposizioni of Rome, the Musée with synthetic rubber, wood, at the RISO museum in Palermo museums including Palais de Tokio d’Art Contemporain of Lion, the polystyrene and wax but also with (2009). in Paris (2001, 2005, 2007), Musée MOCA di Shanghai, the Deutsche more advanced techniques such d’Art Moderne of Saint- Etienne Bank Kunsthalle as aluminum castings or cement In 2008 the personal exhibition in Métropole (2010), MoMA PS1 in New in Berlin. casts, brings his sculptural works France at the Saint-Etienne Museum York (2006), Shanghai Duolun to a high degree of spectacularity. was fundamental and in the MoMA of Shanghai (2006), Centro References: same year the invitation to the XV Galego de Arte Contemporánea Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Among the most prestigious Quadrennial of Art in Rome. in Santiago de Compostela, Boissy le Chatel / Beijing / Havana exhibitions, the very recent In 2005, the large installation on the Kunstverein of Heidelberg, Centro Diana Lowenstein Fine arts, Miami presentation of the work Madre, facade of the Palazzo Bricherasio per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi at the MACRO in Rome and Foundation in Turin, while in 2000 Pecci in Prato (2009), Fondazione participation in the Fourth Moscow the GAM of Turin dedicated a solo in Milan (2014) Biennial (both of 2011). In the same exhibition to him. and others. 15. Silvia Giambrone 16. Eugenio Tibaldi Agrigento, Italy 1981 Alba, Italy 1977

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Museum, Ravenna (2014); Ciò che non siamo, ciò che non vogliamo, MAG Museum, Riva del Garda (2014); A terrible love of war, Kaunas Bienale, Lituania (2015); “Suite Rivolta”, Museu de Electricidade, Doclisboa’s Passages, Lisboa (2015); Every passion borders on the chaotic, Villa Croce Museum, Genova (2016); W Women in Italian Design, Triennale Design Museum, Milano (2016); Archeologia domestica Vol. I, IIC, Colonia (2016); Time is out of Joint, La Galleria Nazionale, Roma (2017); Corpo a corpo, La Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2017); Terra mediterranea: in action, NiMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus (2017); Il corpo è un indumento fragile, Museo del 900, Florence (2018); Young Italians 1968 – 2018, Italian Institute of Culture, New York City (2018); SHE DEVIL Remix, Silvia Giambrone studied at the Pecci Museum, Prato (2018); Academy of Fine Arts in Rome Vaf Prize, Museo d’Arte Moderna ( 44 ) (2002- 2006). She has held e Contemporanea di Trento e ( 45 ) residencies throughout Europe Rovereto, Vaf Foundation (2019); and USA and been awarded several Wall-eyes. Looking at Italy prizes over the past five years. and Africa, Keynes Art Mile, Johannesburg (2019); Donne. She has recently been awarded Corpo e immagine tra simbolo An artist who has always been Among the exhibitions: Fondazione the VAF prize, the most important e rivoluzione, Galleria d’Arte attracted by the dynamics of Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, prize for young Italian artists. Moderna, Rome (2019). marginal areas. Born in Alba CN, (2007), Manifesta 7, Bolzano (2008), Giambrone, who both lives and in 2000 he moved to the Naples International Center of works between Rome and London, She works with Richard Saltoun hinterland where he began a Contemporary Art, Bucharest works about both the physical and Gallery in London, Stefania Miscetti job that investigates informal (2009), Museo Madre, Naples invisible evidences of the strong Studio in Rome and with Galleria aesthetics and traces a sort of map (2010) Thessaloniki Biennale of connection between violence ad the Marcolini in Forlì. of informality. Contemporary Art (2013), XII Havana “subjectification” process. Biennale (2015), Museo Ettore Fico, The margin understood as a Turin (2016), Palazzo del Quirinale Some of her exhibitions include: condition often more mental (2017), Museum MCDA Manila, (2017), than geographical, a condition IIC new York (2017), MAXXI Museum, Pandora’s Boxes, CCCB Museum, that represents the only truly Rome (2018). Madrid (2009); Eurasia, Mart capable of generating alternative Museum, Rovereto (2009); Moscow possibilities other levels of reading His works are exhibited in public Biennale: Qui vive? (2010); Flyers, that represent the majority of the and private institutions in Italy and Oncena Biennal de la Havana (2012); human population. During these abroad. He currently lives in Turin. Re-Generation, Macro Museum, years he has worked on Istanbul, Roma (2012); Mediterranea 16 (2013); Cairo, Rome, Thessaloniki, Berlin, Let it go, American Academy in Verona, Bucharest, Turin, Caracas, Rome (2013); Critica in arte, MAR Brussels, Tirana. 17. Laura Cionci 18. Angelo Bellobono Rome, Italy 1980 Nettuno, Italy 1964

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Angelo Bellobono is an artist and a ski coach.

His work transmute the real, the landscape and the face in a rigorous distillate of atmospheres and suspended tales, which investigate the relationship between anthropology, geology, border and territory. He constantly experiences a sense of bodily belonging to the places, an experience necessary to read sedimentations and memories of the landscape.

Ice and mountains, are important elements of his work, ice representing the planet’s archival memory, and mountains depicted as hinges and not barriers, connecting different cultures rather than dividing them, to build bridges and continuity of borders. Bellobono has made spaces such as the American several interdisciplinary activities University’s Katzen Art Center in ( 46 ) and projects in which art, sport Washington, the Mars space in ( 47 ) and biosustainability become Milan, the Volume Foundation in instruments of social connectivity Rome, the Museum of Modern Art and microeconomic development, in Cairo and New Delhi, the Macro as in the case of Atla(s)now with Museum in Rome, the Museum Ciac the Amazigh communities of the di Genazzano, Palazzo Moroccan High Atlas, or Before Re Enzo in Bologna, the Laura Cionci was born in Rome. ancient dynamics binding such me and after my time involving Othersize gallery in Milan, the She currently lives and works both human energetic potential to the Ramapough Lenape, the Native Wunderkammern Gallery in in Rome and in Milan. universal truths. American natives of New York Rome, the Changing Role Gallery and Io sono Futuro in the in Naples and Envoy Gallery in New She studied at Rome’s Accademia From 2012 until now various Appennine areas affected by the York, Frank Pages in Geneva, Biasa delle Belle Arti under Professor residencies both in Italy and earthquake. In the summer of 2018, ArtSpace in Bali. Gino Marotta and in 2009 she began throughout South America have as part of the new project Linea her artistic practice. helped Cionci to focus more deeply Appennino 1201, he crossed all He won the Celeste Prize for on this particular research. the italian Apennine peaks from Painting in 2005 and the Drawing Her research began to develop Since the beginning of 2015 the south, Calabria, to the north Artslant in 2009. He was a finalist in around the observance of social she has worked with Leonardo Liguria. the Lissone Prize, the Combat Prize, movements, especially focusing on Caffo and Azzurra Muzzonigro and the Portali dello Scompiglio those anthropological dynamics on the collaborative project He participated in the XV Prize. In 2010 he was invited to that give meaning to various titled ‘Waiting Posthuman’. She Quadriennale of Rome and in the Tuesday critical and in 2015 to cultural, social and political codex. currently collaborates through her IV and V Biennial of Marrakech Tedx-Rome. Over the years he has This research then led to a deeper photography practice with Stefano and at the museum exhibition been invited to various residences study of how specific bio-diverse Boeri Architects. De prospectiva Pingendi in Todi such as Bocs Cosenza, Landina Cars conditions, territories and spaces and Selvatico in Cotignola. He has Omegna, La o le Mon San Ceasario impact on human sensibility and exhibited in public and private Foundation of Lecce. how they consequently reveal 19. Arianna Bonamore 20. Giuseppe Stampone Rome, Italy 1977 Cluses, France 1974

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Since 2017 Giuseppe Stampone is Milan, Italy; Cabaret Voltaire, an associated member of Civitella Zurich, Switzerland; GAMeC – Ranieri Foundation in New York, Modern and Contemporary Museum since 2013 he is associated member of Art, Berga- mo, Italy; The Arianna Bonamore lives and works ARTISTI IN RESILIENZA (Former of The American Academy of Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn – in the capital and attended the Prison of Montefiascone curated Roma, and in the same year he was NYC, U.S.A.. International School of Comics. by G. De Finis), COMPLEMENTARI invited to a residency in the Young From 2011 to 2013 she was part of (TRAleVOLTE Rome curated by Eun Museum of Contemporary Art Some of his art works are kept in the editorial staff of ARIA magazine M. Becchis) 2015: TRY (Centro (YMCA) of Gwangju in South Korea. different foundations and public of artists, and in 2014 she became Arte Contemporanea Trebisonda collections including: ( 48 ) co-founder of Spazio Y with P. Perugia), MUSHUP meet architects His works are exibited in MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy; ( 49 ) Assenza, N. Rotiroti and G. Serafini, in Selinunte (Castelvetrano curated international art shows, museums Foundation of Biennial of Kochi- participating in its programming by AIAC), GRADUS (Internal 14 and foundations including: Muziris, Kerala, India; Foundation until 2017. curated by P. Aita) 2014: INSIEME Biennial of Architecture in Seoul, of Biennial of Sidney, Australia; Among her exhibitions: (Città dell’Arte Fondazione Pistoletto South Korea (2017); Trieannal Foundation of Quadriennial of 2019: MACRO Atelier # 1 (MACRO curated by G. De Finis), HOME of Ostenda, Belgium (2017); 56th Rome, Italy; MACRO Museum of ASILO Rome) 2018: DOPPIO SOGNO SWEET HOME (Maam, curated by G. International Art Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy; (Centro Arte Contemporanea De Finis), IN VIAGGIO CON CALVINO Venice, Italy (2015); Biennial of Phelan Foundation, New York, Trebisonda curated by Helia (Casa dell’Architettura curated by Kochi-Muziris, Kerala, India (2012); U.S.A.; GAMeC Museum of Bergamo, Hamedani), INTERNO 14 NEXT A L. Mazzullo and A. Melpignano), 11th Biennial of L’Avana, Cuba Italy; Wilfredo LAM Contemporary SHANGH (ART-72ROOMS Shanghai GINKGO (70th anniversary of the (2012); Biennial of Liverpool, UK Art Museum, L’Avana, Cuba; curated by R.Melasecca), UNA Resistance curated by V. Fiore), (2010); 14th and 15th Quadriennial of Birbragher Foundation, Bogotà, STANZA TUTTA PER SE (Museo INTERSTIZI (Department of Rome, Italy (2004 – 2008); Museum Colombia; La Farnesina Collection, Scuderie Aldobrandini curated by Education, Roma Tre University of Massachusetts Institute of Rome, Italy; La Gaia Foun- dation, Eloisa Saldari) 2017: NATURA BIANCA curated by P. Aita and M. Technology in Boston, U.S.A (2016); Busca, Italy; Pecci Contemporary (Interno 14 Rome curated by D. Gammaitoni), VENTINOVEGIORNI The American Academy of Roma, Art Museum, Prato, Italy. Perego), PONTE DI CONVERSAZIONE (Spazio Menexa curated by P. Aita) Italy (2008 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015); Art CON PAOLO AITA (Complesso 2013: TUFFO - C’era una volta una Kunsthalle of Gwangju, South Giuseppe Stampone is represented Monumentale del San Giovanni volta sola (Torre AngioinaFormia Korea; Wilfredo Lam Contempo- from Prometeo Gallry of Milan- Catanzaro curated by G. Covelli curated by ARIA magazine of rary Art Center of L’Avana, Cuba; Lucca, Italy, MLF Gallery of and G. Mayaud ) ESSENZIALE, artists) 2012: OSB Ossessione Signica MAXXI – National Art Museum of Bruxelles and Eduardo Secci of CERTE VOLTE SOGNO (Espacio B Bidimensionale (Gallery Minima XXI Century of Rome, Italy; MACRO Florence, Italy. Madrid curated by R. Melasecca) Arte Contemporanea curated by M. – Comtemporary Art Museum in 2016: TAPPEZZERIA (Fondazione Tosto) ISABELLA MORRA (American Rome, Italy; Founda- tion Sandretto Exclusiva Foundation curated by L. Embassy of Rome curated by M. Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Palazzo Prestinenza Puglisi), MEZZA GALERA Terry). Reale, Milan, Italy; Triennial Bovisa, 21. Alice Schivardi 22. Delphine Valli Erba, Italy 1976 Champigny, France 1972

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Naples (2018); La Galleria Nazionale in Rome (2017), Richard Saltoun gallery in London, at Auditorium Parco della musica, Rome (2015), at Palazzo Trinci, Foligno (2014), at a side event at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia (2009) and at the American Academy in Rome (2008).

“Through my work I establish human bonds, emotional bridges that I turn into the pure matter of my art works. I explore macro- social phenomena and their rationales through a methodology that treasures the intimate exchange of micro-experiences. I use embroidery drawing to generate a tie between the stories and me, between the stories and the work, between the artistic process and the finished artwork. My interest is in collecting stories. Alice Schivardi after graduating Later I return the narratives in Fine Arts at Brera Academy in received as a present from the Milan, people I meet from time to time, ( 50 ) Delphine Valli lives and works which, French Institute Centre ( 51 ) Alice she moves to Rome. through my personal working between France and Italy, in Rome, Saint-Louis, Rome, Italy; Digital practice: embroidery drawing, where she graduated in Sculpture District, Paris, France; Suzhou Currently she lives and works in photography, video-making, live at Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. Jade Carving Art Museum, Suzhou, Rome and New York. She took part performances and installations. China; Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, in several awards such as Premio The vitality of my work stems Her research is the result of the Italy, XXVI th Biennale of Sculpture; Cairo at Palazzo Reale in Milan; from the human bonds I establish fascination she felt in observing Maranola, Italy, Environmental HDRA’ Prize at Palazzo Fiano in by delving into the intimate life of the surrounding space and of the Art Festival; CIAC, Genazzano, Italy; Rome; Premio Maretti at Museo PAN people. This process allows me to desire to question the apparent National Gallery of Umbria, Perugia, in Naples. She was awarded first investigate the reality in depth so as immutability of things. Italy; Tese di San Cristoforo, prize for Videominuto at Museo to gather signals and messages by It explores the tensions between Arsenal, Venice, 54 th Venice Pecci in Prato. strong ethical political and social artistic intervention and space, Biennale; Ex Elettrofonica, Rome, bearings. The encounters I make involving the latter as a plastic Italy; MuseoLaboratorio, Città Amongst her most recent thus are the “raw material” from element. With the term sculpture Sant’Angelo, Italy; Ninni Esposito exhibitions “J’étais fille unique”, which my work originates. As in a she identifies an interest that arte contemporanea, Bari, Italy; Natoli Mascarenhas, Principality of visual chronicle my artistic process revolves around space, its intrinsic Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Monaco (FR); “Ero figlia unica” goes along my encounters together qualities, visible and not; to the Rome, Italy. (I was an only child) at Fondazione with the experimentations of my form that doesn’t bring into play Pescheria Centro Arti visive life. Likewise, lays the concept of symbolic values but a connection She teaches Performative in Pesaro (2015), Wormholes embroidery, which allows me to with the very nature of our Techniques for the Visual Arts in presso il Museo del Los Sures symbolically stitch together the experience. Rome Academy of Fine Arts and in collaboration with I.S.C.P di entire world in a unique and whole Graphic Design, for joint M.A. New York (2014). She took part in picture.” group shows at: Centro per l’Arte Her works have been exhibited program, Academy of Fine Arts | Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in in galleries and private, public University of Tor Vergata : ArtLab Prato; at Lia Rumma gallery in and institutional spaces, between Languages of Graphic Art, Rome. 23. Angelo Cricchi 24. Mustafa Sabbagh Rome, Italy 1961 Amman, Jordan 1961

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Mustafa Sabbagh lives and works After his first retrospective ‘XI in Italy. Commandment: You shall not ( 52 ) forget’ (2016), he received the ( 53 ) His artworks have been featured honorary citizenship from the City in several publications and of Palermo. monographs as well as several permanent contemporary art Art historian Peter Weiermair collections. has acknowledged him as one of the one hundred most influential In 2013, Sky Arte HD’s series photographers in the world. After a long career as a professional as a fashion photographer to Photographers nominated him as athlete, his passions turned to realise his passion and talents in one of the eight most signifcant photography. fine art photography. His works artists of the contemporary have been exhibited in public and Italian scene, while in 2017, Rai5’s As a successful fashion private institutions in Italy, Austria, international documentary The photographer of prominent Germany and Holland. Angelo sense of Beauty indicated him as international clients, celebrities Cricchi lives and works in Rome. the privileged proponent of the and for magazines, Cricchi created dark side of beauty. his own company: Lost and found Angelo Cricchi is Creative Director Studio. at FLEWID Magzine Project Manager at POLIMODA Firenze. His artistic photographic work paralleled his commercial photography career, from 2001 he started to make short movies and fashion films. After the “Gloomy Sunday” exhibition at MAK in Vienna (2009) he left his position 1. 2.

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1. (right hemisphere) 1. Donatella Spaziani 2. (left hemisphere) 2. Rocco Dubbini 7. 8. 3. (eyes) 3. Mariagrazia Pontorno 4. (ears) 4. Antonio Tropiano 5. (teeth) 5. Luigi Presicce 6. (nose) 6. Davide Monaldi 9. 10. 7. (tongue) 7. Laure Boulay 8. (vocal cords) 8. Iginio De Luca 9. (right lung) 9. Elvio Chiricozzi 10. (left lung) 10. Pietro Ruffo 11. 12. 11. (veins-arteries) 11. Carlo De Meo 12. (heart) 12. Daniele Puppi ( 54 ) 13. (lymph) 13. Paolo Grassino ( 55 ) 13. 14. 14. (nerves) 14. Loris Cecchini 15. (liver) 15. Silvia Giambrone 16. (stomach) 16. Eugenio Tibaldi 17. (pancreas) 17. Laura Cionci 15. 16. 18. (spleen) 18. Angelo Bellobono 19. (small intestine) 19. Arianna Bonamore 20. (large intestine) 20. Giuseppe Stampone 21. (right kidney) 21. Alice Schivardi 17. 18. 22. (left kidney) 22. Delphine Valli 23. (vagina) 23. Angelo Cricchi 24. (penis) 24. Mustafa Sabbagh

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23. 24. The Ark will travel to the main cities along the Mediterranean coast and the most important international metropolis.

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- Barcellona, Spain ( 56 ) Ark ports ( 57 ) - Lisbon, Portugal of call. - Palermo, Italy - Tallin, Estonia

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