Preludio Piano City

Preludio is the musical marathon, part of the initiative “Don Giovanni in Città”, that has involved 30 pianists among internationally renowned ones and young talents in a symbolic place in the city: the military barrack Magenta, future home of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.

Preludio brings he music where art will settle in and anticipates an event of great cultural significance for the city of Milan: Piano City Milano.

During the spring 2012, for a whole week-end, Milano will host a number of professional and amateur pianists, who will perform in dozens of concerts offering a unique experience as it has been for Piano City Berlin.

For further information visit www.pianocitymilano.it

Enel Contemporanea 2011 – Carsten Höller

The fifth edition of Enel Contemporanea returns with the invitational prize addressed to international artists, selected by the Artistic Director of the project Francesco Bonami.

The second edition of Enel Contemporanea Award involved three outstanding figures on the art scene: Carsten Höller, Bruce Mau and Paola Pivi, invited to create an original artwork inspired by the theme of energy.

 The winner: Carsten Höller

Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes

The winning project presented by Carsten Höller consist in two moving carousels that move very slowly, in opposite directions, allowing people to freely get on and off, as if they were enormous windmills or millwheels on which seated persons approach and are separated by the constant rotating motion.

Around them, visual lines in an apparently intersecting pattern create an overall destabilizing effect, in an experience that distorts spatial perceptions.

The German artist, winner of Enel Contemporanea Award 2011, called 30 pairs of twins to participate to his video art project Alone shot on the carousels.

Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes shown at MACRO – the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome – in the large Enel hall of the museum.

images courtesy of Davide Monteleone

Gala Dinner and Opening Enel Contemporanea 2011

images courtesy of Davide Monteleone

Carsten Höller in Search for Twins

The German artist, winner of Enel Contemporanea Award 2011, calls 50 pairs of twins to participate to the video art project that he will run on Sunday, November 27th, at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome.

Becoming part of a work of art and seeing its realization with one of the most important artists of the moment is the unique experience that 50 pairs of twins, over 18 years, will have participating to this artistic performance.

The twins will be shooted, following the direction of the artist, while seated on two big carousels in motion at reduced speed. The aim of the performance is to accentuate the perception of visual disorientation that Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes causes to the viewer playing with the double image of the twins.

For more information visit  http://enelcontemporanea.enel.com/.

How to apply to be part of the video of Carsten Höller: if you’re twins and you have more than 18 years you can send a mail at twins@enelaward.com or contact the 02 62005313.

Images on the top from lef: we think twin, vintage photo by Sareace;Identical twins, 1967, photo by Diane Arbus; The shining twins, photo by Sophia Walker

Images below from lef: Iron Jaw Kimball Twins, 1920s, photo by Frederick W. Glasier; Big art twins © Paintings Alley & Oil Paintings Alley; The Dolly Sisters C, 1920s.

Jury Meeting and Dinner EC AWARD 2011

On the top from left: Nichi Vendola and Roberto D’Agostino, Stefano Casertano and partner, Marco Carminati

Below from left: Luca Di Nardo, Carlo Noseda, Daniela Cattaneo with two guests

On the top from left: Luca Massimo Barbero with a guest, Federico Ortuno Victory and Manuel Obregon Lopez with the Costa Rica’s delegation

Below from left: Tommy and Maria Stella Wirz, Nichi Vendola and Francesco Micheli, Fabio Bassan and partner

Images courtesy of Francesco Pizzo

Chicco I-Move Tour

An amazing trip around the world, 30.000 miles travelled, tens of people met: so Chicco, together with h+ and McCann Erickson, reinvents its communication and breaks into the web.

In the most representative places of Barcelona, Lisbon, Marrakech, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Moscow, Agra, Beijing, New York, Milan and Buenos Aires, moms and dads with their children danced and had fun with the new  stroller Chicco  “I- Move”

Art Work Production

+ production

(h) + is a company which deals with conceiving and producing cultural marketing projects for companies or institutions.

(h)+ studies cultural strategies and developes different solutions in accordance with the aims and demands of the client. (h)+  takes care of every detail: the concept, the organization, the communication and the technical execution.

That’s why we’ve created + production, a department exclusively dedicated to the planning, production and setting up of artworks and installations.

+ production is ment for artists, museums, galleries, institutions and for everyone interested in constructing artworks.

+ production produces works with every material and in every size, adapting them to the most different contexts: public areas, museums or urban architectures.

Technical drawing for Bik Van der Pol’s poject “Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”, 2010, Rome, MACRO

Technical drawing for Doug Aitken’s project “Frontier”, 2009, Rome, Isola Tiberina

Technical drawing for A12′s project “Deep Garden”, 2008, Venice, Laguna

Technical drawing for Jeffrey Inaba’s project “Waiting Room”, 2008, Rome, Policlinico Umberto I

Technical drawing for Angela Bulloch’s project “Repeat Refrain”, 2007, Rome, Ara Pacis

Technical drawing for Patrick Tuttofuoco’s project “Future City”, 2007, Rome, Piazza del Popolo

A CASA

Amid the creative ferment of the Milan Salone del Mobile between 11th and 17th April, FBR and Utòpia Design, with the collaboration of Tittacucinaitinerante and h+, invited artists, designers, thinkers, lovers of beauty, musicians, collectors and conoisseurs of fine food for a meal, an afternoon break, to sip a coffee, talk about what makes us all different or just read a book, looking around a private setting designed to welcome guests.

Food becomes a context for sharing, experiencing the seasons and the taste of the ingredients we know well.

An event that allowed us to discover with a thrill of recognition that tastes and flavours are often connected to images, situations, emotions we’ve felt and people we’ve met. A context where there is no difference between experimenting, conversing, drinking and eating.

Food to sample, objects to rediscover, people to meet.

A 1920s-style apartment in the heart of Milan. Intimate, informal interiors. The intention was to bring design back to its preferred setting, the home, the place where we welcome friends and share our favourite food, where objects aren’t just looked at but also experienced, touched and used.

Images courtesy of Francesco Pizzo

Enel Contemporanea 2010 – Bik Van der Pol

The fourth edition of Enel Contemporanea returns with a renewed formula: an invitational prize for seven international artists invited by prominent representatives of international contemporary art, a prestigious jury in charge of selecting the winning project.

The winner: Bik Van der Pol

Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?

The project presented by the duo Bik Van der Pol: Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol consist in an architectural model loosely based on the design of the icon of modernism, the Farnsworth House (1951) realised by the architect Mies van der Rohe. The artwork is a temporary home for butterflies, as the ultimate agents for idealist ideas of transformation, change and recycling.

With radical change incorporated in their life-cycle, capable of transforming from one state to another, they never are what they appear to be. The different stages of these animals of total metamorphosis can be observed and experienced in the model. Nature becomes spectacle, a spectacle inside the confinements of the museum wall. Visitors are invited to enter the house. The glass walls of the model function both ways: giving a full view on the man-made greenhouse and its visitors wandering inside, as well as creating a link between the interior space and the museum space.

Opening Enel Contemporanea 2010