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"The exhibition's visual excitement -writes Winka Dubbeldam, who curated the event together with Helene Furjan- is analogous to the development of a dynamic organism; it should be viewed as a four-dimensional section through the network's material productions".
The exhibit, which will be in New York until December 2nd, will then travel to Berlin, Florence and Ljubljana. A conference, which will see the participation of the protagonists of the exhibit, will be held at the Wood Auditorium (Avery Hall) of Columbia University www.arch.columbia.edu on Monday October 23rd at 6.30 pm. A catalogue, produced with the editorial support of iMage www.image-web.org and published by Mandragora www.mandragora.it, comes with the exhibit.
iMage provided editorial support.
[October 20th 2006] On Wednesday the 18th and Thursday the 19th of October 2006 iMage www.image-web.org brought a new event to New York City. The event was the ideal continuation of the eighth edition of BEYOND MEDIA www.beyondmedia.it, international festival of architecture and media, which took place in Florence in December 2005 on the topic of SCRIPT.
The starting point for the event, held at Pratt Institute, was the program of videos, that proposed the screening of some of the best works selected within those presented at the last BEYOND MEDIA festival of Florence and preserved in iMage's MEDIA ARCHIVE. This event as well as the forthcoming ones, which will be announced on our website, are the occasion to enhance and stimulate a discussion on contemporary architecture by means of a moment of encounter, dialogue and in-depth investigation.
iMage is production partner of the event, together with The Architect's Newspaper and Pratt Institute, to which it contributes by offering a selection of video artworks.
[September 30th, 2006] The city of VEMA, proposed by the new Italian Pavilion at the 10th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, also presented itself through the Web, starting on September 8th. On the www.padiglioneitaliano.org website, an international audience was able to virtually attend the opening event, listen to the presentations offered by the curator Franco Purini and by the 20 Italian architecture studios that participated in the project. Also, the entire 3d model of the city was placed in Google Earth, where it can be explored in the precise geographic location for which the city of VEMA was thought. A series of cultural institutions and architecture centers in various countries were invited to follow the event and to offer their opinions on the project, which was already at the center of an intense debate.
Through the web platform www.padiglioneitaliano.org, devised by iMage www.image-web.org and collaboratorio www.collaboratorio.com, it is possible to understand the contents of the VEMA project, to listen to all the comments recorded during the Biennale opening, to leave one's own personal observation through a simple phone call.
"The proposal of the Italian Pavilion -point out Marco Brizzi and Furio Barzon, curators of the Web event- can find, within the relations established through the Web, an important ambit for cultural exchange and can count on interactions that are capable of promoting a reflection on Italian contemporary architecture and of enhancing its growth on an international scale."
iMage, together with collaboratorio, conceived and produced the Web event.
[September 23rd, 2006] On Thursday October 5th at 7 pm, at the SESV gallery www.sesv.net of the University in Florence, the traveling exhibition FRIGERIO DESIGN GROUP. A Journey in Slow Architecture will open. The exhibit is a voyage through the research and production of the studio, which is based in Genoa and led by Enrico Frigerio. The definition of the idea, the interaction with the client, the relationship with the context are at the core of the activity of FRIGERIO DESIGN GROUP www.frigeriodesign.it; an activity that is charged with a sense of balance, of poise, of sustainability. After its opening in Florence, the exhibition, made in cooperation with iMage www.image-web.org, will travel to other cities in Italy and abroad.
"Enrico Frigerio's research work -writes Marco Brizzi, in his text in the exhibit catalogue (published by Mandragora www.mandragora.it)- is characterized by the tendency to develop an integrated programme, which, to use an expression dear to Walter Gropius, might be described as 'total'. This research does not involve any muscular posturing, and is not driven by the need to stand out by resorting to minimalist or virtuoso solutions. The buildings draw attention and are appreciated for their sense of reasonableness and balance, which envelops them with discreet elegance, making them impalpable protagonists of the space in which they are sited. The architectural works of the Frigerio Design Group are part of the environment, into which they dissolve to create a very personal and extremely precise poetics of disappearance."
iMage produced the exhibition together with Frigerio Design Group. It also curated the catalogue and is in charge of the communication and itinerary of the exhibit.
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[July 14th, 2006] On Monday July 17, as part of its Master's Course in digital architecture, in/arch www.inarch.it offers a conversation with squint/opera www.squintopera.com, a film production company that was founded in London in 2002 and that is devoted to the realization of especially effective videos on architectural topics.
iMage www.image-web.org had already drawn attention to the group's field of investigation in 2003, on the occasion of the BEYOND MEDIA festival www.beyondmedia.it. There, a specific installation was dedicated to some of squint/opera's works on the presentation of urban design projects through the medium of the video, and the film Post Barnsley, with its quite energetic interpretative ability, was especially appreciated. The group's talent offers the viewer a series of stimuli which are useful for his comprehension of architectural projects and their area of intervention. And their videos are often an occasion for assigning to architectural culture at large a significant aptitude in fascinating people and in producing engaging visions.
Within the contemporary scenario, squint/opera's activity is especially significant, as it offers to architecture some important occasions for confronting itself with communication to the public while renovating possible interpretations of the role and of the functions of the architectural project.
Ollie Alsop and Julius Cocke, members of the young London-based group, will be the guests of the conversation that will take place at the Bibli Bookshop www.bibli.it in Roma (via dei Fienaroli 28) at 7.30 pm. The other participants are Maria Luisa Palumbo, Serafino Murri and Marco Brizzi.
iMage participates in the event.
[July 7th, 2006] Le isole del tesoro (Treasure Islands), a workshop on contemporary culture in Tuscany promoted by the Region of Tuscany (TRA ART and Porto Franco) www.cultura.toscana.it, is a network of design workshops curated by Paola Bortolotti and Marco Brizzi, coordinated by Franco Filippini, produced by iMage together with the Municipalities of Capoliveri (LI), Lastra a Signa (FI), Peccioli (PI), Poggio a Caiano (PO), Prato, Rio nell'Elba (LI), San Gimignano (SI), San Giovanni Valdarno (AR). The objective of these design workshops is to encourage a sensitivity towards contemporary architecture, while respecting the local cultures, peculiarities and traditions.
8 Municipalities in Tuscany, strong of their historical and territorial patrimony, challenge themselves, decide to explore contemporary architecture, welcome students and architects, open up to new occasions of dialogue. Le isole del tesoro is based upon an integrated series of design workshops. Its objective is to promote in Tuscany a heterogeneous team of designers, with different sensitivities, approaches and backgrounds. All these are the different qualities upon which the workshops count in order to capture the varieties of the topics and of the cultures proposed by the territory. The treasure is stored in the history of the places and in the traditions of their inhabitants; the treasure is in the beauty and in the peculiarities of the landscapes; the treasure is held by the ideas and visions that the young participants in the workshop, guided by their tutors, will develop and put forth.
The 7 workshops, each lasting one week and directed by one architectural office, will take place between the last week in September and mid-November 2006. The call for participation is open to students in their last year of school and young graduates in architecture from Italian universities. The deadline is August 31st. The workshops are free of charge and will be conducted by these architectural offices: 5+1AA, Carlini e Valle, gruppo A12, IaN+, Id-lab, ma0, Marco Navarra (NOWA).
On the official website of Le isole del tesoro www.leisoledeltesoro.it, which will be implemeted with the designs developed in the workshop,s it is possible to read additional information on the call for participation.
iMage is in charge of the production and on the communication of the event.
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