Portrait of the Artist in a Building
description: This project consists of a series of portraits of the artist, made exclusively from photographs of buildings taken while Jonathan Monk was inside them. The artist was not meant to be the only person in the building, but the only one involved in the project. The selected buildings were the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the TV Tower in Berlin, the BT Tower in London, the CN Tower in Toronto, and the Empire State Building in New York. The result would have been a series of photographs of these buildings, with the artist invisible in the image yet actually portrayed at the top of each structure, looking directly into the camera lens. The project was ultimately abandoned by the artist. Read more.
creator: Monk, Jonathan
date: 2002
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: audio/mpeg
language: English
type: Oral History

CLAYING A long-term relationship
description: The unrealized work by Marta Pierobon, born in Brescia in 1979, unfolds as a ten-day artistic performance where clay plays a central role in delving into the concept of space through "performative sculpture." Utilizing clay as her primary medium, Pierobon sculpts not just the space but also a series of metamorphosed characters and objects that enliven an environment teeming with symbolism and evocation. Through deliberate gestures and adept handling of the clay, the artist weaves a narrative that prompts viewers to engage actively, reshaping segments of the performative space by employing clay to craft fleeting figures, images, and sculptures that both materialize and disintegrate, thus molding and reshaping the space. The performance appears to evolve into a ritual, enhanced by a collection of costumes conceived by the artist herself, actively engaging the audience. This transformation turns the setting into a dynamic tableau vivant, a continually shifting scene where artist and audience coalesce as co-authors of the artistic endeavor. Within this context, space unveils its dynamic and active essence, assuming a pivotal role in the transformative journey of the artwork. The piece encourages a multifaceted reflection on space as a physical, mental, and emotional realm, spotlighting the intricate interplay between the individual, art, and spatial environment. Moreover, it seeks to exalt clay as a natural element intimately connected to the artist's sculptural practice and to the earth itself. Read more.
creator: Pierobon, Marta
date: 2020
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: application/pdf
language: English
type: Text
type: Still Image

Ciel illuminé / Cielo non illuminato
description: Ciel illuminé / Cielo non illuminato consists of the faithful reproduction of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure’s cyanometer on the internal walls of the Mont Blanc Tunnel. Brognon Rollin’s project originates from the idea of making the mountain disappear, while at the same time offering a visual reference to drivers passing through the tunnel by indicating the approaching end of it. The work stems from an actual fact: Stéphanie Rollin suffers from claustrophobia, and every crossing of the tunnel is a painful experience for her—made a little more bearable thanks to long conversations with David Brognon. Ciel illuminé / Cielo non illuminato is an exact translation of a historical fact, filtered through a personal experience that transforms it into a poetic gesture. Read more.
creator: Brognon Rollin
date: 2021
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: image/tiff
format: application/pdf
language: English
language: French
type: Text
type: Still Image

La vera rivoluzione è non cambiare il mondo(?)
description: The project involved the creation of a huge sign – La vera rivoluzione è non cambiare il mondo(?) – in every way equal to a claim launched by ENEL, but lacking the question mark and immediately withdrawn due to Greenpeace's denunciation. At least fifteen meters long and composed of green-painted aluminium box letters about eighty centimeters high and six hundred incandescent light bulbs, the lighted work would have involved an energy consumption of three kilowatt-hours, equal to that supplied for the utility of any Italian home. Designed by the artist to denounce the company's false ecological message, the work would remain off until ENEL produced more than 60% clean energy from renewable sources. In 2007, Favini proposed its creation for the Greenwashing exhibition, which was to be held at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo the following year. It was not realized for budget reasons. Read more.
creator: Favini, Ettore
date: 2007
contributor: Modena, Elisabetta
format: image/jpeg
format: application/pdf
language: Italian
type: Text
type: Still Image

Narvik Superstars
description: This project, commissioned by the Narvik City Council and Artscape Nordland, proposed to realise a star in the pavement for every child born in during the next 5-7 years in Narvik. This Norwegian city threatened to become vacated, with this work the harborfront would have been covered in stars, made by the same company that provides those for Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and every year a ceremony would have been held to reveal the new ones. The goal of the project is to turn the exclusive into the popular through a local recycling of the "star culture", where every newborn baby will become a star in its own life. Simultaneously the project represented a local mobilization to increase the population of Narvik. Due to budget cuts, the project was cancelled in 2006. <o:p></o:p>Read more.
creator: Mir, Aleksandra
date: 2004
contributor: Mir, Aleksandra
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: image/jpeg
type: Still Image

CityForest
description: In 1997, Aleksandra Mir proposed to the Public Art Fund to collect trees thrown away from the streets of New York City after the Christmas holidays and replant them in a common area until they had dried out completely. The project, while welcomed, was blocked by the city's fire department. Read more.
creator: Mir, Aleksandra
date: 1997
contributor: Mir, Aleksandra
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: image/jpeg
type: Still Image

Wildflower Meadow
description: This project consists in a proposal for the redevelopment of the Gorbals Partnership, Glasgow. Inspired by the lyrical settings in which Ingmar Bergman often placed his romancing youth, isolated in nature, protected from judgement and convention, the artist aimed at creating a site that could encompass all stages of a lifetime and maintain the same soft touch and beauty throughout. The artist statement was: “I would like to propose the creation of a wildflower meadow. For children to play, for teens to have sex, for adults to take walks and for seniors to remind them of their youth”. Aleksandra Mir should have worked with a botanist to develop a meadow in five years, planting local species and restoring the traditional cycles of mowing and grazing. Read more.
creator: Mir, Aleksandra
date: 2001
contributor: Mir, Aleksandra
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: image/jpeg
format: application/pdf
language: English
type: Still Image
type: Text

The Great Ears
description: Proposed as part of the Monuments for the USA exhibition in 2005, the project involved the construction of two monumental ears, respectively placed on the East and West coasts of the United States. Read more.
creator: Mir, Aleksandra
date: 2005
contributor: Mir, Aleksandra
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: image/jpeg
language: English
type: Still Image
type: Text

Stonehenge II
description: Stonehenge II is a proposal for a work in a public space by Aleksandra Mir. Originally presented to the Artangel/Times open commission in 1998 (and subsequently rejected), the proposal was to build a Stonehenge replica close to the original, to reduce the volume of pedestrian traffic and save this piece of cultural heritage from further destruction. To compensate for the necessary limited access to Stonehenge I, Stonehenge II would allow full access and promote a wide range of activities on its grounds. The project was proposed a second time to students on the Royal College of Art curating course, who were asked to join the artist in the production of the project over the summer of 2001 (also rejected). The scale model was constructed in 2002–03. Aleksandra Mir continues to further her ambition to realize this work and hopes to make contact with interested parties who wish to assist. Read more.
creator: Mir, Alexandra
date: 1998-2001
contributor: Mir, Alexandra
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: image/jpeg
type: Still Image

Looking for a Rembrandt
description: This work by Echaurren also reflects some Duchampian elements and echoes. The unrealized project depicts a bronze sculpture of a monkey holding an iron with its right hand: if the animal is adherent to all the artist's work declined to the universe of primitives (such as the last film Pablo di Neanderthal, released in 2022 and directed by Antonello Matarazzo), the iron recalls in a veiled way Marcel Duchamp's famous phrase "Using a Rembrandt as an ironing board". As with the other works donated to MoRE, this project has no specific commission. The reasons for its not being realized are logistical and appear as theoretical exercises on which the artist continues to question himself. Read more.
creator: Echaurren, Pablo
date: 2018
contributor: Casero, Cristina
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: image/jpeg

Mon Alice
description: Mon Alice is a small plastic sculpture measuring a few centimeters (8 x 4 x 3 cm); it is a maquette for a larger sculpture designed by Echaurren in 2018. The sculpture represents Alice in Wonderland in the Disney version, the one now ingrained in the collective imagination of adults and children alike. To this small sculpture, the artist has painted in ink on the face two mustaches and a slight stubble. Right from the start the work recalls the famous L.H.O.O.Q. the rectified ready-made made in 1919 by Duchamp that depicts Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with a fine mustache and a goatee drawn on her face by the French artist. A game of ambiguity is hidden in both works. Indeed, both Mona Lisa and Alice change identities by adopting elements typical of the male sphere, Echaurren as Duchamp adopts a well-known figure, an icon of contemporaneity to make changes dictated by a simple and essential gesture. If Duchamp works on language through the play on words in the title (L.H.O.O.Q. pronounced in French sounds like Elle a chaud au cul - She is hot in the ass), Echaurren always works through a written part but only mentioning Leonardo's work in the title of the work, Mon Alice instead of Mona Lisa. The medium clearly changes from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, but Echaurren's intentions would seem to be the same as those that moved the French artist. Read more.
creator: Echaurren, Pablo
date: 2018
contributor: Casero, Cristina
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: image/jpeg
type: Still Image

Monumento Fortuito
description: Pablo Echaurren's project, like many others, is elaborated through notes written in blue pen on a page of a squared notebook. The artist's intent is already clear from the title "Monumento Fortuito". In fact, in 2015 the artist plans to create a monument dedicated to Marcel Duchamp, an artistic operation that is rooted in the intentions and artistic methods typical of the French artist. For this work Echaurren thinks of the concept of “chance”, wanting to create the monument through the action of "picking up a leftover, a human waste from the street and electing it as an urban monument. The words "rectify it" and "place it on a pedestal" also emerges from the short text, all definitions come to Duchamp's work. With this operation, Echaurren works in the conceptual framework of the French artist, dedicating a work to him with his own design methods. Read more.
creator: Echaurren, Pablo
date: 2015
contributor: Casero, Cristina
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: image/tiff
language: Italian
type: Text

En attendant la mariée
description: The project consists of a combined installation of two spinning wheels that move a system of threads, the threads descend from a chrysalis attached to the ceiling. The quote is clear and obvious. In fact, Echaurren mentions the famous ready-made of 1912 but also the International Surrealist Exhibition held in 1942 at the Whitelaw Reid mansion in New York, organized by André Breton with the collaboration of Marcel Duchamp. This exhibition, in addition to being considered a "landmark exhibition" (Tate Papers, 2009; Stedelijk Studies Issue, 2015), presents an installation curated by Marcel Duchamp and created through a complex system of ropes woven throughout the exhibition space. This system allowed the visitor a partial and complicated view of the pictorial works set up on the wall. The French artist's operation was entitled “Sixteen Miles of String”. Echaurren's work combines the two Duchampian operations through the creation of an installation that, like the original design, wanted to occupy the entire exhibition space. In addition to the combination of these two famous works by Duchamp, Echaurren also mentions “The Large Glass”, not directly but by elaborating an installation in which the string came out of the chrysalis that define the sex of the insects. In fact, the threads would have started from the chrysalis to be subsequently taken from the two spinning wheels placed in the center of the room. Echaurren writes a handwritten note: “The insect bride Þ the male molds Þ females with wings”. This reference to the chrysalis also brings out the artist's attention to entomology. In fact, Echaurren has stated several times that as a young man he wanted to be an entomologist. Read more.
creator: Echaurren, Pablo
date: 2012
contributor: Casero, Cristina
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: image/tiff
language: Italian
type: Text
type: Still Image

Rouge Selavy
description: Rouge Selavy is the title of a work that Echaurren designed in 1977, a fundamental year because on that very date the artist decided to (temporarily) abandon art to devote himself to politics. The artist writes with a blue pen over a lined notebook one of the first projects where the figure of Marcel Duchamp emerges. In fact, the unrealized work consisted of a performative action: to be exact, a parade. In the Eucharren notebook he writes: "making Duchamp banners", then creating "silent" banners (conceptual, we could say), which had to show only verbal elements such as the question mark and question mark made with a red marker. This because? Echaurren explains the reasons in the points below. The artist speaks of the concept of imagination and develops it under various aspects, affirming that the imagination does not stop at a banner, that the imagination must be brought onto the banner itself and finally the same banner is defined as "doubtful" and "without certainties". The title of the work is a distortion, one of the first distortions made by Echaurren on the titles of Duchamp's works (see Mon Alice, a project on display inside MoRE). Indeed, the famous portrait as a woman by the French artist Rrose Selavy is transformed into Rouge Selavy. There is a desire to highlight red as the color of life, in fact the marker strokes on the page that draw the exclamation and question marks on the banners are red. Furthermore, this continuous use of the word imagination can only bring to the mind the famous slogan of the seventies "the imagination to power". Read more.
creator: Echaurren, Pablo
date: 1977
contributor: Casero, Cristina
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: image/tiff
language: Italian
type: Text
type: Still Image

Untitled (svjetlosni štafelaj, light easel)
description: Attempting to find the “way out” of painting, and depict “the oscillation of matter”, Antun Motika tried to get closer to “the culture of light”. For Antun Motika one of the important and consistent fascinations was the obsession with “pure light” which in various manifestations stretches through his artistic production. Antun Motika’s experiments with light and the optical fascination shape his idea of liquid painting. Motika formed his most important breakthrough outside the field of painting in his various experiments with projections, light and movement, his various lumino-kinetic experiments. Proposals and sketches for different light devices, like light easel, and different apparatuses of projection are found in Motika’s notebooks, gathering many notes on his utopian, imaginative propositions that remain that, designs of unrealized projects. Motika’s notebooks and experiments direct us outside the known artistic canon towards the the changes of artistic cartography of in 1960s. Pages from Motika’s notebook bring into light sketches for lumino-kinetic works, his experiments with light and projections, as plans for various dispositifs and possibilities of their display. Motika produced his projections with various customised projectors (slide projectors, diascopes, episcopes, overhead projectors), transparent backgrounds onto which he applied materials of different sources, organic and inorganic, insects, plants such as herbarium, then pigments, resin, liquids, in order to achieve surprising results upon their enlargement, projected to surfaces as screens. Read more.
creator: Motika, Antun
date: s.d.
contributor: Benčić, Branka
format: image/jpeg
language: English
type: Still Image

Untitled
description: Presented directly by David Horvitz via email, this unrealized project consists of a simple yet evocative proposal: retrieving one of the historic Los Angeles streetcars that were dumped into the Pacific Ocean after the dismantling of the city’s streetcar network. Starting from a little-known episode in the urban history of Los Angeles, Horvitz reflects on memory, loss, and the processes through which cities erase traces of their past. Read more.
creator: Horvitz, David
date: 2009-2019
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: text/html
language: English
type: Email

Die Kristallader
description: Die Kristallader (The Crystal Vein) is a project in public space that Helen Mirra developed in 2014 as part of a competition for the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The assignment of the competition was that the artistic intervention should connect the newly built Natural History Museum, which is located in the periphery, with the city center. Helen Mirra's project proposal was an irregular "line", a crack in the asphalt filled with a shiny metal that leads from the city center to the Natural History Museum on a path carefully defined by the artist. The shiny crystal vein guides the visitors on a 3 km long walk through St. Gallen, allowing them to perceive the surroundings, time and movement in a different way. The jury ultimately chose another submitted project, so that the Crystal Vein was never realised. Read more.
creator: Mirra, Helen
date: 2014
contributor: Rekade, Christiane
format: application/pdf
language: English
type: Text
type: Still Image

stazione
description: stazione is the title of a public intervention conceived by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir for a collateral project of the 53rd Venice Biennale titled Palestine c/o Venice in 2009 but never realised. Jacir’s initial idea was to translate the names of each of the 24 vaporetti stops along route #1 of the water bus route into Arabic and to place the Arabic translations on all the stops next to their Italian counterparts. Read more.
creator: Jacir, Emily
date: 2009-2010
contributor: Lo Pinto, Luca
format: image/tiff
format: text/richtext
language: English
type: Text
type: Still Image

Rolls Royce
description: The Rolls Royce project, proposed and never realized by the artist, comes from the need to create an exhibition for the Rolls Royce Art Programme, an initiative related to the famous brand of automobiles, which was created to support bold and innovative ideas related to contemporary art. Read more.
creator: White, Wendy
date: 2019
contributor: Valacchi, Maria Chiara
language: English
type: Still Image

Untitled
description: Bosetto worked for a whole year to design an exhibition presented through living sculptures in a few apartments in Via Eustachi, Milan. The exhibition should have been visited with a map that would have shown to the visitors a series of places, where they could have enjoyed a series of performances. Read more.
creator: Bosetto, Benni
date: 2014
contributor: Grulli, Antonio
format: image/jpeg
type: Still Image

UNTITLED
description: UNTITLED aims at creating a photo archive of places and monuments which are significant for foreign citizens based in Italy. Geography, iconography and memory are pivotal for this project, created to give a visual identity to the rich cultural diversification characterising Italian contemporary society. At the same time UNTITLED focuses on landscape and monument identity in this era. This installation had two chances to be shown and presented: in Milan, Quartiere Giambellino, in 2011, and in 2015 in Trieste. Read more.
creator: Sambini, Alessandro
date: 2011 & 2015
contributor: Forin, Elena
format: image/jpeg
type: Still Image

Senza titolo
description: The idea of the wall painting by Ericailcane was born in 2014 and meant to fit into the second edition of FRONTIER - The Line of Style, an open and evolving platform, based on two complementary operational phases: one dedicated to the artistic development of urban art and one dedicated to a deeper theoretical background. The artist, invited to conceive a pictorial work for the city's historic Gasometer, imagines a continuous narrative centred on the figures of two enormous dogs biting their tails and carrying on their shoulders the allegory of two cities or two sides of itself (Bologna?): one that lives in joyful harmony and one that, as a character shows, walks in a balance on a wire. Read more.
creator: Ericailcane
date: 2004
contributor: Musso, Claudio
contributor: Naldi, Fabiola
format: image/jpeg
format: application/pdf
language: Italian
type: Text
type: Still Image

Artisti coraggiosi. Natura morta - 2
description: The unrealised project Artisti coraggiosi proposed by Pablo Echaurren in 1974 to Galleria La Margherita in Rome, involved the participation of the artist who, seating at a table inside the bare spaces of the gallery, equipped with papers, scissors and glue, would have asked the audience to join him in a performance: the visitors were asked to buy one of his work, deciding the price in advance, without knowing what they were going to buy. The hypothetical buyer was supposed to pay the artist in cash, with one or more notes, depending on his choice. The banknotes would become the artwork: cut, torn or intact, they would have been glued to sheets of paper and signed, as if they were traditional still lifes. Read more.
creator: Echaurren, Pablo
date: 1971-1974
contributor: Perna, Raffaella
format: image/jpeg
language: Italian
type: Still Image

Do it yourself confession
description: Do it yourself confession is the idea of a confessional in which it is possible to self-administer the sacrament of confession. Conceived by Gianfranco Baruchello in 1967, the project is unrealised, like many others of the author, and it can be considered a theoretical exercise. In this proposal Baruchello borrowed the philosophy of DIY (Do it yourself), which at the end of the 1960s was growing in popularity, preaching self-sufficiency and opposition to consumerism: a complex of positions of libertarian and anti-capitalist orientation extended to various fields - from housework to cultural production - canonized after a few years by the punk movement. With a paradoxical approach, the artist extends this ethics to the spiritual sphere, implicitly moving a critique to the ecclesiastical institution to which he opposes the values of self-determination of the individual ("CHOOSE YOURSELF TO WHOM OR TO WHAT YOU CONFESS!" as stated in the text of the project). Do it yourself confession is a project created during the period of political militancy of the artist, close to the revolutionary left and to groups like Potere Operaio and Lotta Continua, which brings together the protesting forces that will culminate the following year in the 1968 season. The proposal is made of two drawings, which present different elaborations of the same project. Read more.
creator: Baruchello, Gianfranco
date: 1967
contributor: Ciglia, Simone
format: image/tiff
language: Italian
type: Still Image
type: Text

A Lighting system
description: The project A Lighting System attempts to bring together the discourse on security and the machinery for producing good conscience — and control — into a single structure, as the ecological discourse is often used for that purpose. Read more.
creator: Stratmann, Veit
date: 2012
contributor: Stratmann, Veit
format: application/pdf
format: video/quicktime
language: French
type: Text
type: Still Image
type: Moving Image

Tutto ciò che accade
description: Two sentences, “Everything that happens” and “Always all around”, are printed on both sides of two banners, carried by two planes while performing some basic aerobatics manoeuvres. The two sentences are perceived as emotional quotes, auspicious signs, appearances in the sky of mind. An air show and an environmental, ephemeral art installation at the same time. Read more.
creator: Viel, Cesare
date: 2011
contributor: Viel, Cesare
format: image/jpeg
language: Italian
type: Still Image

Aussichtsturm (Observation Tower)
description: The project involves the construction of a 33-meter observation tower as an open construction (the construction method should have included a steel skeleton frame) at the highest point of a landscape. The tower should have been open to the public at all times. Read more.
creator: Eichhorn, Maria
date: 1992-1994
contributor: Modena, Elisabetta
format: application/pdf
language: Deutsch
language: English
type: Text
type: Still Image

Journey from the Yellow Sea to the Sea of Japan
description: Daniel Maier-Reimer's art is travel. Most journeys are summarized in a single photo, some in a small group of pictures. There is no picture of some journeys. Since 2013, Daniel Maier-Reimer leaves it to others to determine how his travels appear in exhibitions and publications. Read more.
creator: Maier-Reimer, Daniel
date: 2015
contributor: Krause, Till

Proposal for Balboa Park Centennial, San Diego
description: The project proposed to mark the Centennial of the building of Balboa Park with a construction which bring aspects of the various cultural institutions under a single roof. Read more.
creator: Dion, Mark
date: 2013
contributor: Dion, Mark
contributor: Sherwood, Dana
format: image/jpeg
format: application/pdf
language: English
type: Text
type: Still Image

The Square Opposite the Townhouse
description: City centre of Hamburg, Germany. Until the early 1990's there were still "empty places", brownfields, remains of World War II. One of these wastelands I loved very much. A square in the middle of the business centre. It was raw and unkempt, hardly used. Significantly, it had (unlike today) no name. It was so beautiful, because it was a rare place of the unresolved and unclear in the chic, rich inner city. On it the hidden traces of its past paired with the still unthinking possibilities of a future. I began to observe and document it closely. I went into archives and searched for everything that had ever been on this square in past years and centuries. Around 1990, new buildings began to be erected in the immediate vicinity and on the larger part of the square. Office, commercial and hotel buildings. Thus the inner city centre lost its last (aesthetically) open, disorganized area. I made two suggestions for the remaining part of the square. A) The remaining wasteland was to be surrounded by an extremely high fence. I should have the only key to the piece of land. B) A panorama building was to be erected on the square for my extensive archive on the fallow land and on "everything that had ever been there". Read more.
creator: Krause, Till
date: 1987-1995
contributor: Krause, Till
format: image/jpeg
language: Deutsch
type: Still Image

Tate Event
description: The project, which can only be reconstructed today through a series of e-mails preserved inside the archive of Giancarlo Norese, consists of a proposal for an event at the Tate Modern in London andstarted from an invitation sent by the curator of the events section of the museum, which opened the previous year. The project should have initially taken place in June 2001 and initiaaly consisted in two days dedicated to the creation of relationships between spaces, artist-run and independent ventures, at an international level, through a convivial moment that should also have included the sharing of food, as well as content, publications and projects. Subsequently reduced to a single day, it is not finally realized because the responsible curator finds a lack of focus in the project. Read more.
creator: Oreste
date: 2001
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: text/html
format: text/plain
language: Italian
language: English
type: Text
type: Email

Porto Rico
description: The project was born upon request and on the initiative of Michy Marxuach, curator that in the summer 2000 invites Oreste to participate at PR ' 00 [intervenciones múltiples - múltiples intervenciones] in San Juan (Porto Rico). The one-week event provided a program of shows and activities dedicated to the affirmation of an alternative art scene, where local artists were joined by international artists, curators, critics and institutions. Oreste proposed an installation made of objects, texts, photocopies and images displayed on a wall, that would have interacted with the public like an analogical hypertext: after the selection of an element a member of Oreste would have told its story to the visitor. The curator never answered to this proposal and the project remained unrealised for reasons that have not been clarified. Read more.
creator: Oreste
date: 2000
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: image/jpeg
format: text/html
language: English
language: Italian
type: Text
type: Still Image
type: Website

Lost Pavillion
description: David Maljković's unrealized work was a reconstruction of the American Pavilion designed and built by John Johansen for the 1956 Zagreb Fair. The pavilion was meant to represent American presence at the fair, which had for many years, symbolized a bridge of exchange between Yugoslavia, Europe, the USA, USSR, Eastern and Western Bloc and non-alligned countries. David Maljković decontextualized the pavilion and proposed rebuilding it as part of a public art project in the city of Lyon, GrandLyon Habitat. Read more.
creator: Maljković, David
date: 2009
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: image/jpeg
format: application/msword
language: French
type: Text
type: Still Image

Totalni portret grada Zagreba
description: Total Portrait of the City of Zagreb was a project for a documentary film on the city of Zagreb. The only document which has survived is a sheet of paper typed and signed by Tomislav Gotovac himself. He states his intention to observe the city as though it were a human being. The aim was to produce a “21st-century” film, a total vision of the city as a living organism. Read more.
creator: Gotovac, Tomislav
date: 1979
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: image/jpeg
type: Text

Yugoslavian Pavilion in Paris
description: 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. Read more.
creator: Picelj, Ivan
creator: Radic, Zvonimir
creator: Richter, Vjenceslav
creator: Srnec, Aleksandar
date: 1950
contributor: Bignotti, Ilaria
contributor: Remondina, Camilla
format: image/jpeg
type: Still Image

Synthurbanism
description: Richter developed the idea of Synthurbanism in the early sixties as a result of his in-depth analysis of the legacy of the historical avant-gardes and the synthesis of arts, through the principles of Modernism, along with the experience he acquired working on several pavilion and urban planning projects . As the neologism suggests, it was a visionary, but not utopian project, synthesizing urbanism to provide for the lives of ten thousand people in a single, poly-functional, urban structure consisting of multiple units in the form of a ziggurat. This gave rise to the idea of the Heliopolis, a four-dimensional, constantly revolving residential structure which would provide its inhabitants with an constantly changing view. Read more.
creator: Richter, Vjenceslav
date: 1954-1964
contributor: Bignotti, Ilaria
contributor: Remondina, Camilla
format: image/jpeg
type: Still Image

The Moons
description: The Moons is a video that should have been part of a larger, realised project We used to call it: Moon. It consists of five short films which are almost drafts. The same scene is shot from the same standpoint, but with different lights and background music. In this scene, a strange landscape is composed of small sculptures that look like monuments. Two wooden spheres move and change position, representing the two moons of the title. Read more.
creator: Tadić, Marko
date: 2011
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: video/mpeg
type: Moving Image

The Room
description: The Room is a film created by Marko Tadić using stop motion animation technique, but it was abandoned by the artist during the editing phase. The video represents a seance, or rather what happens in the room after everyone has left. The animation reveals furniture and objects moving, candles burning down, light effects and flashes similar to explosions, and the appearance of figures - toys and knick-knacks. In the closing scene, a small pottery cat looks into the fixed camera and in the background we can see the almost destroyed room. Read more.
creator: Tadić, Marko
date: 2009
contributor: Scotti, Marco
format: video/quicktime
type: Moving Image

Lithopuncture Zagreb
description: In October 2004, Marko Pogačnik created a series of urban sculptures in Zagreb as part of the "Urban Intervention" project. They were part of a cycle that the Slovenian artist had been developing since the 1980s, entitled Lithopuncture. He saw this as a kind of acupuncture applied directly to the Earth's surface at certain "energy points", rather like acupuncture practised on the human body in relation to the chakras. Four years later the works were partially removed. Read more.
creator: Pogačnik, Marko
date: 2004
contributor: Zinelli, Anna
format: image/jpeg

[Project for a book]
description: Project for a book (2017) consists of three A4 sheets of paper, the draft for a book which was never published, donated as source of inspiration and research. Read more.
creator: Martek, Vlado
date: 2017
contributor: Modena, Elisabetta
format: image/tiff
type: Text
type: Still Image

Prazno miesto
description: Prazno miesto [Empty mind] should be considered as an element of the artistic process, and the project documentation for some of a group of works not (yet) realized. Read more.
creator: Martek, Vlado
date: 2014
contributor: Modena, Elisabetta
format: image/tiff
type: Text
type: Still Image

Pjesma se ne vraća u abecedu
description: Pjesma se ne vraća u abecedu (Poem is not coming back into the Alphabet) should be considered as an element of the artistic process, and the project documentation for some of a group of works not (yet) realized. Read more.
creator: Martek, Vlado
date: 2012
contributor: Modena, Elisabetta
format: image/tiff

Ništa
description: Ništa [Nothing] should be considered as an element of the artistic process, and the project documentation for some of a group of works not (yet) realized. Read more.
creator: Vlado Martek
date: 2015
contributor: Modena, Elisabetta
format: image/tiff
type: Text
type: Still Image

Mislim na umjetnost
description: Mislim na umjetnost (I think of art) should be considered as an element of the artistic process, and the project documentation for some of a group of works not (yet) realized. Read more.
creator: Martek, Vlado
date: 2017
contributor: Modena, Elisabetta
format: image/tiff
type: Text
type: Still Image

arte arte arte
description: arte arte arte (art art art) should be considered as an element of the artistic process, and the project documentation for some of a group of works not (yet) realized. Read more.
creator: Martek, Vlado
date: 2003
contributor: Modena, Elisabetta
format: image/tiff
type: Text
type: Still Image

Ambivalentna tautologija
description: Ambivalentna tautologija is dated 2013. The idea was to display a picture of Martek’s studio in the studio of Goran Trbuljak (Varaždin, Croatia, 1948). Although it was never carried out, thanks to documents describing it, we can say that the work was realised in the form of a statement. Read more.
creator: Martek, Vlado
date: 2013-2014
contributor: Modena, Elisabetta
format: image/tiff
type: Text
type: Still Image

Museum of Photography
description: Petar Dabac began by tackling the issue of conserving photographic heritage to protect the legacy of Tošo Dabac, his uncle. He proposed the establishment of a Museum of Photography in Zagreb to collect, store and copy photographic documents. The Museum would also have exhibitions, a library and a permanent display. Read more.
creator: Dabac, Petar
date: 1986
contributor: Bignotti, Ilaria
contributor: Remondina, Camilla
format: image/jpeg
type: Text
type: Still Image

Studi per quadri non realizzati. Quaderno 18
description: Thomas Braida donated some pages from his notebooks to the MoRE Museum. This type of donation sobering to what we might call the pictorial projects in our imaginary, where the notebook (rich in literary references and artistic influences) in the hands of Braida is enriched with drawings and design sketches. Leaving the romantic vision of the artist who depicts life, from Braida's design material emerges not just a simple and quick pencil stroke on a white sheet, but rather pages of notebooks which have a design characterized by a complex use of techniques and colors thanks, pastels, watercolors, markers, pens, and nibs. In all, there are three donations, notebook 16 of 2015-2016, notebook 17 of 2016-2017 and the number 18 of 2017-2018. Read more.
creator: Braida, Thomas
date: 2017-2018
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: image/jpeg
type: Still Image

Studi per quadri non realizzati. Quaderno 17
description: Thomas Braida donated some pages from his notebooks to the MoRE Museum. This type of donation sobering to what we might call the pictorial projects in our imaginary, where the notebook (rich in literary references and artistic influences) in the hands of Braida is enriched with drawings and design sketches. Leaving the romantic vision of the artist who depicts life, from Braida's design material emerges not just a simple and quick pencil stroke on a white sheet, but rather pages of notebooks which have a design characterized by a complex use of techniques and colors thanks, pastels, watercolors, markers, pens, and nibs. In all, there are three donations, notebook 16 of 2015-2016, notebook 17 of 2016-2017 and the number 18 of 2017-2018. Read more.
creator: Braida, Thomas
date: 2016-2017
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: image/tiff
type: Still Image

Studi per quadri non realizzati. Quaderno 16
description: Thomas Braida donated some pages from his notebooks to the MoRE Museum. This type of donation sobering to what we might call the pictorial projects in our imaginary, where the notebook (rich in literary references and artistic influences) in the hands of Braida is enriched with drawings and design sketches. Leaving the romantic vision of the artist who depicts life, from Braida's design material emerges not just a simple and quick pencil stroke on a white sheet, but rather pages of notebooks which have a design characterized by a complex use of techniques and colors thanks, pastels, watercolors, markers, pens, and nibs. In all, there are three donations, notebook 16 of 2015-2016, notebook 17 of 2016-2017 and the number 18 of 2017-2018. Read more.
creator: Braida, Thomas
date: 2015-2016
contributor: Rossi, Valentina
format: image/tiff
type: Still Image