CAPTCHA is the project for a sculpture that reproduces a sports car - a Mercedes SL600 - through layers of transparent polycarbonate, and should have been installed inside the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The project, which focuses on the “striking formal aspects” of such a sculpture in a specific historical context, can be considered alongside Matthew Darbyshire works and researches on the optical potential of different materials and manufacturing processes, many of which looks at the printing technologies and the three-dimensional modeling of the prototypes used in the automotive industry. The polycarbonate in particular has different reactions to the light, and would allow the sculpture to "oscillate between the transparent and the opaque, or the solid and the empty". Even the choice of the subject can be included in the poetic and the iconography of Darbyshire, as it remains suspended between an intrinsic and ironic social commentary and a formal reflection on the object, the luxury, and its symbolic and subjective values.
The FIAC Committee rejected the project, which should have been also supported by the Swarovski company, within the off program of the fair. However the artist was asked if he would make and install it anyway with his commercial galleries resources.
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]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2655]]> Knick Knacks is Matthew Darbyshire proposal for the Fourth Plinth public art program in Trafalgar Square, London. The concept builds on an image designed by the artist himself as a christmas card for "The Guardian" newspaper and wants to transform the monumental sculptural base in a shelf that refers to a domestic space. Here Darbyshire presents eight sculptures in coloured polyurethane foam, reproductions of household objects in a different scale. The eight opaque elements would be 3D scanned and modeled from the original objects, CNC routed in polyurethane foam and then laminated in fibre-glass before being chromed, sprayed and flocked. The single clear element would be modeled in much the same way but then cast in clear tinted resin.
This installation is a reflection on two feelings which are deeply contemporary, "emptiness" and "nostalgia", and in particular a nostalgia that is expressed through reproductions of objects than - in respect to the original ones - try to mask some of the values that were in present and that remain somewhat hidden below the reproductions’ surface: “From the pop to the patriotic and the colonial to the kitsch”. A composition which could be read on different levels and which presents different layers, which could appear simply ironic but actually refers to some unsettling aspects of the British national identity through "a sort of ‘seduction and repulsion’ mechanism with its critique buried safely beneath the surface
The project was not selected for the commission.
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]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2656]]> Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2659]]> Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2664]]> Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2660]]> Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti - MSU Zagreb, invited a few artists who had been part of Gorgona, the Croatian avant-garde group active between 1959 and 1966, to an artistic residency at the castle of Brunnenburg in Merano, Italy. This residency should have resulted in a publication linked to the monumental project Conz dedicated to Ezra Pound - La Livre, which was never completed.
During their residency, the five artists created thirteen works of art as well as fifteen hand-made copies of each work. All of which were created on the same size of paper. These works should have been part of a box, an art edition that initially should have included large-scale reproductions of seven of the group's old works, printed on canvas in Como, in addition to en eight obtained by merging the former in a continuous strip to create sort of a "collective work" - together with photographs documenting the residency, historical photographs and video interviews filmed in Brunnenburg. Conz died in 2010 but the box was never finished, although all of its components had been created, except for the folder that was supposed to contain them. The works of the artists have since remained in F. Conz's Archive.
At Brunnenburg, Knifer proposed his classic "meander" theme, a geometric structure characterized by the contrasts between black and white, which he introduced at the end of 1959 as a form of "anti-painting". Nena Dimitrijević identified it as a synonym of his "artistic identity" and claimed that he, inspired by Primary Painting and Hard Edge aesthetics, adopted a form of conceptualization of the artistic practice which identifies with a single pictorial solution, a symbol that is the sublimation of radical will.
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During their residency, the five artists created thirteen works of art as well as fifteen hand-made copies of each work. All of which were created on the same size of paper. These works should have been part of a box, an art edition that initially should have included large-scale reproductions of seven of the group's old works, printed on canvas in Como, in addition to en eight obtained by merging the former in a continuous strip to create sort of a "collective work" - together with photographs documenting the residency, historical photographs and video interviews filmed in Brunnenburg. Conz died in 2010 but the box was never finished, although all of its components had been created, except for the folder that was supposed to contain them. The works of the artists have since remained in F. Conz's Archive.
Conz decided to include the works of Mangelos, who died in 1987, asking the remaining members of the group to place their signature on the back as sort of an homage. The three works signed by the members of Gorgona and presented for the exhibition are respectively attributed to the manifesto for energy, the series of landscapes dedicated to Pythagoras and the series dedicated to the dialogues.
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During their residency, the five artists created thirteen works of art as well as fifteen hand-made copies of each work. All of which were created on the same size of paper. These works should have been part of a box, an art edition that initially should have included large-scale reproductions of seven of the group's old works, printed on canvas in Como, in addition to en eight obtained by merging the former in a continuous strip to create sort of a "collective work" - together with photographs documenting the residency, historical photographs and video interviews filmed in Brunnenburg. Conz died in 2010 but the box was never finished, although all of its components had been created, except for the folder that was supposed to contain them. The works of the artists have since remained in F. Conz's Archive.
During his stay, Jevšovar created three different works of art. In two of them, both dated March 5th, he placed a quadrangular figure on the center of a white background, while in his third work, dated March 6th, he proposed a rectangular strip of color on a brown background. The works are therefore linked to the central theme of the artist's research, which is an attack on tradition - not ironically as it was in Dadaism, but rather looking at the surface as a central problem of pictorial structure.
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For the department Cini thinks the project PlasticOplalà 1, 2, 3, a series of site-specific interventions whose idea is to create a small botanical garden outside of the pavilion, in the semi-abandoned garden of the pediatrics department. The project was not realized as a result of a number of economical, technical and logistic reasons.
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For the hospital department, Losi conceived two projects: Caleidoscopi — colored prisms to play with, enclosed in balsa wood cases — and Allora la luna, a sort of luminous sign about two meters in diameter, designed for outdoor installation on one of the buildings facing the department windows. Both projects were meant to stimulate the imagination of young patients and help them forget their condition, even if only for a moment.
The project was never realized due to various economic, technical, and logistical reasons.
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The project donated to the museum has not been realized due to the lack of a commisioner and of a suitable location for the development of the work.
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One more hypothesis, dating back to 2002, rather refers to an exhibition in which the artist planned to exhibit all his art works and to exchange them with new projects realized in collaborations with the visitors or inspired by them.
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]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1777]]> The project, part of the author's critique of the system, addresses the issue of how contemporary art is experienced and of the so-called art system in general.
An initial version of the project was developed starting in 1991. In one of the artist’s notebooks, we can find notes about a solo exhibition that was supposed to take place in a private gallery in Rome at the beginning of 1992 but was never realized, probably because the art dealer feared a possible misunderstanding of the performance.
The project, in fact, was based on the participation of a group of prostitutes, invited and paid to attend as guests. Their presence was meant to provoke a sense of alienation in the spectators, who would perceive something unusual compared to a typical vernissage.
The performance was to be documented through photographs and audio recordings, but it was canceled by the commissioner a few days before the opening.
An alternative version of the project appeared in a book published by the Jartrakor Study Center in 1992. It was based on the idea of inviting people with distinctive, easily recognizable features (such as clergymen), but dressed “normally,” in order to evoke in the viewers a subtle sense of unease or strangeness.
The same project was later described in the catalogue of the exhibition Exhibit A at the Serpentine Gallery in London, which focused on the question of the role and meaning of the “exhibition.

]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1775]]> Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1774]]> Finestre since its first conception, has undergone several revisions and can be considered only partially realised. The idea of opening windows on adjoining rooms to offer the spectators an unusual continuity of vision between contiguous spaces is conceived initially as a real demolition of the walls of the building hosting one of the seats of Vivita 2 Gallery of Ciotti and Camillo D'Afflitto in Florence (adjacent to an old abandoned cinema). This idea was abandoned for technical and practical difficulties, and in January 1990 the artist realized a different version of the project (inside Vivita 1 gallery in Florence) by exhibiting on the walls of the gallery pictures of the adjoining rooms that were recessed inside the walls that should have been tore down to produce a kind of trompe l’oeil effect (as can be seen in an undated sketch found among the artist's papers that probably dates back to 1989).
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]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1771]]> Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1770]]> Roue de bicyclette, a ready-made exhibited in several museums all around the world (Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Gallery in London, Moma in NY...). Considering that his work is a reproduction itself, a copy of the lost original, the idea of a “posthumous homage-enrichment” is really close to Duchamp spirit. The introduction of a credit card establishes a link with other artist who changed the art world, investigating the role of money and material goods, such as Dali (Avida Dollars) but above all Wharol. There is a recreational element in this gadget: the artist took inspiration from the playing cards that children put on their bikes to simulate the sound of an engine. The kit, made of a copy of the artist’s credit card and a clothes peg to decorate Duchamp’s work according to Bonacorsi’s instructions, is sold apart in the museum shop.
This work was planned by the artist on the occasion of the re-opening of Centre Pompidou collections in 2000, but he never proposed it to the museum: a typical development of Bonacorsi’s work, really influenced by the concept of dépense.
Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2000]]> the other one donated to MoRE, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio works on the opposites, inserting in a totally neutral setting – a distinctive trait of the Eastern world – an element with a strong “western” connotation, that represent the commerce and that clashes with the unspoiled landscape of the desert. In the idea of Scotto di Luzio, the staircase is defunctionalized and will not need any maintenance, it should deteriorate and become a relic, an abandoned monument, almost “commemorative” of a past world. Even here the artist hides a paradox, perhaps a joke: the celebration of the western cult just inside the eastern world, two concepts and two cultures that come together to create a sort of epiphany of the vision, just like a “mirage” in the desert. The artist, in the review of the project, calls it a “bachelor machine”, a sterile and unproductive device, a sort of ready-made on a large-scale, defunctionalized and completely out of context, designed not to be placed in the hall of a museum but in the desert, an aseptic and neutral space.
The project was born withouth clients, and with the willingness to propose it to some commissioners in the Emirates, but has never been proposed to any possible commissioner.
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The first two projects of the same title, TRITON, deal, on a different level of detail, with the same event that, mainly involving sound, designed for a duration of seven days, would have involved the entire city of Bonn, starting from the river, on which he passed on a barge that housed the orchestra. It would have been a form of homage to the great composer Beethoven not only in terms of sound/ environment, but also from a visual point of view, considering that in the project this aspect is lagerly considered.

LA LUCE DEL SUONO, a project for “a concert of lights and sounds” that would have involved a vast area of the Danube river and nearby land, conceived by Mosconi in 1984 and presented for the 1986 edition of the festival “Ars Electronica” in Linz, is the result of the further development of a core part of the same imaginative unit that shaped TRITON.
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LA LUCE DEL SUONO: 1984-1986]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1999]]> the other project donated to MoRE, but also a performative research that approaches both the avant-garde of the Seventies that the more recent trends of the Nineties, and that is penetrated by a Neapolitan sense humor with ancient roots (remembering Totò and Eduardo de Filippo) that conceals melancholy and irony.
The project was created in collaboration wirh the Krome Gallery (Berlin), but a second gallery has never been found.
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Once again, childhood is the central subject of the preparatory sketch, featuring a nearly stylized figure of a young girl whose minimal drawing achieves a striking expressive power. It is an image of poetic lightness, evoking in each viewer memories of past years, family ties, and, more broadly, the notion of memory.
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]]> http://dspace-unipr.cilea.it/handle/1889/2106]]> Project for the realization of a sculpture for the roundabout located at the entrance of the village of Verduno, in the heart of the Langhe region, where Valerio Berruti chose to live and establish his studio inside a deconsecrated church.
It is a tribute to his homeland, the Langhe, observed through the innocent and carefree gaze of childhood, a subject and metaphor for an ideal world, symbol of a purity inevitably lost with maturity.
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]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2105]]> is proposed by the artist the following year with some changes for the P.A.V. (Parco d’Arte Vivente) of Turin. The project, originally thought to be placed inside a wood, consists in the facade of a movie theatre outlined in black on a white background, on a 4 x 3 meters wing made of painted bricks (as the artist explains, “a big A4 paper sheet”). The facade recalls a liberty-decò style building, with the introduction of eclectic elements, and it refers to a movie theatre the artist saw in Antananarivo, Madagascar. To enter the theatre the audience needs to move around the wall, beyond which are placed four seats in concrete destined to be covered with moss. The seats address the landscape instead of the wall, that therefore becomes a wing and hides the watchers. Even though the project won the competition, it was not realised in the end because it was not possible to find an agreement with the neighbour that lived nearby the place that was identified as the most suitable for the realization and for other logistic and organizational reasons.
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The project, unrealized due lack of sponsorship, consisted in the facade of a movie theatre in deco style outlined in black on a white background, that recalls a movie theatre seen by the artist in the small city of Anzola Emilia (Bo), on a 4 x 3 meters wing made of painted bricks (as “a big A4 paper sheet”), as can be seen in the sketch that documents this work. On the facade are two entrance doors with their tents and lamps placed on each side, while on the top of it can be seen a decoration with three figures that ironically represent three reindeers as they usually appear on Christmas illuminations and decorations and that frame the sign “Cinema Italia”.
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The light work Esser Spazio had to be placed outside the MAXXI Museum, integrating the architectural environment with discretion and inhabiting the final steps of the square above the entrance to the museum. Uberti, coherent with its artistic research which often aims at drawing symbolic shapes and signs on the architectural and urban public space – sometimes with effects of displacement, sometimes to emphasize the characteristics and peculiarities of the place - in this case suggested a sentence, a motto and at the same time a call, asking the public to actively participate in the construction of the museum: then reflecting on the meaning of this new space for contemporary art, on its role in respect to the culture, but also on the shape of the city itself. The project was submitted to the commission for the International Competition SPAZIO/MAXXI due percento, published in October 2008 by the Provveditorato interregionale per le opere pubbliche per il Lazio, l’Abruzzo e la Sardegna, in agreement with the PARC Direzione generale per la qualità e la tutela del paesaggio, l’architettura e l’arte contemporanee.
The work didn't win the competition.
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The artists projects is based right on this contrast between natural and artificial, landscape and industry; through the video they want to document the journey of these plastic particles that paradoxically become feed for fishes, and therefore food for human beings. Challenging the common perception of this place, that is often considered improperly as a real island, this video wanted to place a videocamera waving slowly inside the water, extending and shortening the length of the take from time to time through these fragments of memory. The artists realised specifically for MoRE a series of watercolors that represent the Garbage Patch; moreover, they donated two charts, part of the project, that analyze the ocean and its currents. All the five sketches present a circular design that reminds, indeed, the island or cloud of garbage, while the lines in subtle colors seem to remind a rarefied and immaterial universe The artists were invited to realise this project by Fondazione Hermes in 2007, but it wasn’t selected in the end. It's still unrealized due lack of funds.
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The theme draws its first inspiration from B.C. comics by Johnny Hart: a frail flower dialogues with a stone. The ambiguity between solidity and frailty is symbolically set aside the then very adverse situation of FIAT, the most important manufacturing company of Turin, and the problem of the blue collar sleeping area.
The environment in which the project was developed is typical of a still common situation in contemporary art: conceived to apply to a contest, it was never realized, as well as all the other projects presented, due to lack of funds.
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Environmental dimensions. Light, water, photography, sound.

A) Outside: A semi-submerged photographic image of 60x20m. occupies the stretch of water of one of two ancient covered basins of the Arsenale. The image represents simultaneously two circles of water and the symbol of Infinity. A stone thrown in water has created the splitting of the first cell, giving rise to a multiplicative process. The photographic act freezes the action and renders eternal the instant and the becoming of time, Past and present, stasis and change, finite and infinite are simultaneously present: the place is real and virtual at the same time.

B) Inside: 12 light-boxes placed in the niches of the left wall of the Theater of the Virgin transform the wall in a great self-illuminating façade. Light and architecture are welded into a single radiating structure that transmits light within the building. On the floor in front, a water tank of about 16×16 m. reflects the architecture of light, generating the virtual image space. The still surface of the water is perturbed by the undulatory motion of concentric waves that propagate rhythmically from the center of the tank. The vibration of this liquid surface corresponds with the intangible sounds diffused into the great emptiness of the room: visual and sound waves interact, creating the vibrating movement of the water.
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]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2001]]> island of Favignana, in the south of Italy, to reproduce themselves, and according to the artist to make a journey of love. On this occasion the fish goes through a maze made up of fishing nets to end up inexorably in the death chamber, where they are harpooned and killed. The action has been designed by the artist as a game of reversing roles, in which the men take the place of the tuna and unaware they are ready to participate to the last moment of their life, just waiting to be slaughtered by other men. It is a transposition of the man from hunter to prey, from victim to victimizer, an inversion that creates alienation and a violent trauma. All these elements lead the viewer to a possible kind of visionary hallucination, where the role of Presicce is no longer that of the protagonist of his own performance but of an expert Director of expert careful towards the construction of a new appearance. This performance also draws inspiration from a short aphorism by Carmelo Bene in which the actor claims that the public should pay the cost of the show with his own life.
Because of its utopian nature, it has never been possible to realize the performance.
Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2054]]> Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2089]]> Meteorite al contrario (2010) is the launch into space of a normal stone of medium size, which would constitute a kind of meteorite, according to a trajectory opposite the one that usually leads an asteroid to accidentally stumble on our planet. With this project, in addition a to normal challenging of the scientific premises that describes the trajectory and the ablation with the atmosphere of an extraterrestrial impact directly on the ground, the artist is trying to subvert the classic paradigm of contemporary technology: the maximum technology in minimum space, which in this case would be the minimum technology in maximum “space”. The project is closely related to the poetic of the artist, since long time resident in Paris, and it is referable to a system of signs and meanings, an interest in the universe that started with a work in progres born in 1999 entitled precisely Space, which in more than ten years has involved Bertocchi in the creation of a parallel universe: around 3000 images of galaxies and planets invented by the artist. The project has not been realized yet because of its high costs.
Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1997]]> Mind Bubbles is a project designed as an installation for the entrance hall of the head office of the Volksbank Wien, a building by the german architect Carsten Roth.The sculptures seem to be suspended in the air, as if a device had frozen them: a process that inflates, distorts, makes things bigger and smaller, creates unexpected shapes and new realities that become an inspiration for our everyday life. The reasons why the project remained unrealized haven’t been specified by the artist.
Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2363]]> Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2361]]> Cannocchiale ottico percorribile was designed by the artist for the 1968 Milan Triennale, dedicated to the theme of the Grande Numero, in the never-realised exhibition Interventi nel paesaggio. Inside this project artworks by young artists should have been exposed in town and city centers to offer an artistic vision of the world in scale with the physical environment.
In the oral reconstruction provided by his wife Franca Scheggi Dall’Acqua, in support of the two photographs of the project, the optical telescope should have been made in chromed steel and in collaboration with Italsider. Scheggi of this project produced a maquette, also in chromed steel. The Cannocchiale ottico percorribile was to be shown in Florence, between the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistery, in line with Via de ‘Calzaiuoli and Via dei Martelli. The dimensions hypothesized by the artist had to be such as to accommodate about a man of medium height in it, who could have been following the inside path in all its lenght. The work unravels itself in a zigzag and irregular shape, such as to produce an effect of disorientation on the viewer, increased by a very dramatic interior lighting; in addition responding to the theme of the exhibition inside the Triennale it was also a reflection on the Florentine Renaissance perspective, made explicit with its placing in the square in Florence (Scheggi was a native of the city and soaked in humanities); but we can also place it among the top experiences of Paolo Scheggi related to the concept of tunnel and path in the dark that would then be developed in the following years, bringing us the environment ONDOSA (as reported in the bibliographies and biographies of the artist) or ONDOSA NERA (as shown on the projects of the artist himself) otherwise made for the show Eurodomus in Milan, 1970, and then destroyed.
Read more.]]> http://hdl.handle.net/1889/1998]]> This was the first idea proposed by Jeremy Deller after he was commissioned by TfL to design the cover of an edition of the London Underground map, distributed free of charge in all stations. The proposed design initially featured a bicycle, composed of the colors representing the different lines on the Tube map.
It was rejected, as it conveyed a message that could – according to the commissioner – confuse some users of the London Underground service, since bicycle access was not permitted on all lines.

The commissioner was TfL – Transport for London, the authority responsible for transportation in the London area – within the framework of the Art on the Underground project, which invites contemporary artists to create both temporary and permanent works for the London Underground environment. Jeremy Deller then designed the cover of the Tube map together with artist Paul Ryan. The work, presented on July 1, 2007, is still visible at http://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/detail/1119/.
It consists of a portrait of John Hough, who was then the longest-serving member of TfL staff.