For the past few years, Mathis Collins has worked with cork harvesters, local populations of Mediterranean forests and villages and artists, and conceived works that focus on ecology, culture and economy of cork regions. Quercus Suber Utopia is a project for the making of a collective artwork, in the regions of South Europe and North Africa where grows Cork trees.
The sculptures produced for Quercus Suber Utopia, based on a discussion on community buildings, would to be exhibited in each of the other participating communities in a continuous process of exchange and activity. Produced with cork, the sculptures or scale models of the communities utopian collective space, was to set a pan-regional discussion and understanding of the contemporary ecological and economical crisis of cork trees.
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Stelle e lucciole was conceived between 1969 and the early Seventies, and it is one of the first episodes of the prolific collaboration between Franco Guerzoni and Luigi Ghirri, which produced interesting and relevant results. These photographs revolve around the intention of the two artists and friends to capture in a single frame the starry sky and the bright trails of light left behind by fireflies. Indeed, Ghirri shot many takes of that picture, but he was not able to achieve the results he was aiming for due to technical issues. Guerzoni donated these photographs to MORE. To define this project as unrealized would not be fully correct; therefore, as Guerzoni himself agreed, it should be rather described as an unresolved, interrupted project, unable to achieve its expected outcome.
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The two figures “I remember I have seen a mosque inside the Amun Temple in Luxur” and “Development of the decoration of an Etruscan vase according to a nineteenth-century portrayal” were to be part of a broader and more structured project, centred on the theme of the potential image, a topic very dear to the author. The original project envisaged the presence of a third figure representing a mental image, merely potential, hence rendered in a writing. The conceptual nature of such an image would have not allowed any visual depiction. The presence of a fourth figure, devoted to the utopian possibility of exposing films with the only power of thoughts, was merely a working hypothesis. This work, of a cleary conceptual nature, was therefore to be centered on the theme of the “potential image”. Such topic takes on great importance for both the artist's production and the cultural context in which this project was conceived.
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Since the beginning, the research of Franco Guerzoni was up-to-date and full of original ideas, even if in line with the most interesting experiences developing in Italy and abroad. Indeed, considering visual arts, that period was particularly rich and full of innovative solutions on both the conceptual and expressive level.

This project, the fourth donated by the author to MoRE, dates back to a period between 1968 and 1969, when Guerzoni, then in his early twenties and at the end of his education, abandoned the traditional painting technique and started doing researches in the avant-garde, especially around Duchamp.

He was spontaneously attracted by the most important international researches, such as the American Land Art and the Italian Arte Povera. These interests reflect in some of his works, not always realised, such as this project donated to MoRE. The concept behind the project was quite simple: Guerzoni wanted to bring inside the closed space of an art gallery a natural occurrence, the rainbow. The project included, as shown in the sketch, a field sprayer machine in the center of the room. It would have sprayed water, playing with the artificial light effects.

The author, thinking about that installation – also with the collaboration of Luigi Ghirri, friend and companion of many art adventures – took some photographs in the countryside. These study series of water splashes investigated the nature of the rainbow and its visual perception. These conceptual photographs are the only evidence of the project. It remained unrealized due technical difficulties but also because it was more theoretical than realizable. The theme to bring the nature inside the culture was particularly strong in that period; Guerzoni itself thought to produce a black rose, as symbolic synthesis of the two elements.
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The Yugoslav Pavilion designed for the Paris Exposition in 1950 reflected the social and cultural climate following the Second World War, when the country was distancing itself from Stalinism and embracing the ideology of real socialism. There was a strong cultural revival, and the abstract and concrete historical avant-gardes were being reclaimed and analysed, especially Constructivism and the Bauhaus method. The search for a synthesis in the visual arts and architecture characterised the EXAT 51 programme and related 1951 Manifesto, signed by the Pavilion’s authors.
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Read more.]]> Five projects of environmental intervention in a interior space, formed by two walls ending in a corner and a floor, named from A to E. 
The first one, A, is dated 1978 and accompanied by the autograph and handwritten note of the artist: “Ambiguità dell’angolo contrapposta alla sua indicazione” [Ambiguity of the corner opposite to its indication] is a graphic reproduction of a parietal corner on which is drawn, joining the two walls, a straight line of dots. On the floor is drawn straight line of dots converging in the corner itself.
The second, named B, consists of a graphic reproduction of a parietal corner, the two walls joined by a dotted passage of rectangular shape, open and not dotted on the base that ideally stays on the floor.
The third, named C, consists of a graphic reproduction of a parietal corner, the two walls joined by a dotted rectangular shape whose base rests on the floor.
The fourth, named D, consists in a graphical representation of a parietal corner, the two walls joined by a dotted triangle, with the base that joins horizontally the walls, and vertex which coincides with the corner in the meeting point between the two walls and the floor.
The fifth, named E, consists of a graphic duplication of a double dotted parallel line that crosses the two walls and perpendicularly the corner of the environment.
Through the use of a projector, the artist would have reproduced the pattern formed from points in succession using likely graphite. The dotted drawings deny the environmental depth and build illusively another perceptual space, a new environmental perspective.
The project Ambiguità dell’angolo [Ambiguity of the Corner] critically analyses the real space and its theoretical conceiving through the perceptive operation, thus witnessing the enviromental vocation of the entire research by Scaccabarozzi. 
In 1986 was held a partial realization of the project for the exhibition “Die Ecke=the corner=le coin”, at Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, and in 1988 at Wallis Kantonsmuseum, Sitten, Switzerland. There, Scaccabarozzi tries to represent the direct intervention in the space, using pictorial dots on a corner of the room, and publishing on the catalog six different projects of enviromental intervention, called Ambiguità dell’angolo [Ambiguity of the Corner], and dated 1978.Only the first one of those published, has been realized by the artist in the gallery and consisted in a simple horizontal line of dots, that crossed the corner and reached the two walls, proceeding in parallel with the floor. 
The other projects, united in the book of unrealised projects by the artist, had more tecnical difficult for their realization, and they have never been realized. 
Recently, for the recent two-men show at Galerie Hoffmann in Friedberg, and dedicated to Scaccabarozzi and Gary Woodley in july-september 2016, Anastasia Rouchota, heir of the artist and founder and director of the Scaccabarozzi archive, reproduced in a room only the project already made in 1986.
Coming back to this historical exhibition, and coherently with the exhibition program of the gallery, among the invited artists were the protagonist of the North and East European neo-concretist and conceptual: Getulio Alviani, Gianni Colombo, Maurizio Nannucci and Antonio Scaccabarozzi from Italy, François Morellet from France, Klaus Staudt and Ludwig Wilding from Germany, Julije Knifer from Yugoslavia, and Herman De Vries from Netherland.
The catalog plays, also graphically, wuith the exhibition topics, containing handwritten texts, sketches and conceptual drawings. In her text, Verena Auffermann starts quoting the Philosophische Bemerkungen by Ludwig Wittgensteinand, and through the philosophical lens of the XIX century, from Artur C. Danto, Richard Serra to Gertrude Stein, she reflects on the relation between space and thought of space, retracing the function and the projectual and metaphoric meaning of the corner in the painting of the last century, starting from Cézanne and Malevich for introducing the 109 artists of the exhibition in 1986.

“The corner 
Separates outside from inside
The corner 
is dimensional
The corner 
defines limits
The corner 
Is a man-made design
The corner 
Is a closure
The corner 
Separates itself from the ‘out-there’
The corner 
Is essential to a triangle
The corner
Is the corset for spatial thinking
The corner 
Is an ideal playground for optical illusion”. 
(Die Ecke = the corner = le coin 1986, s.p.)

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