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 contact. The objective 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 and their sea and river ports. The objective 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. ( 08 ) ( 09 ) 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 enormous chest cavity. The project 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 ) 230.00 640.00 300.00 Planimetry Front elevation Arca Collective Arca Collective ( structure ) ( structure ) ( 18 ) ( 19 ) 70.00 50.00 1470.00 Side elevation Arca Collective ( structure ) support beams: wood rib structure: wood ( 20 ) ( 21 ) basis: wood anchor plates Perspective view Technical details Arca Collective Arca Collective ( 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 sculpture 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, Milan. 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, sculptures, 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.