Passingfrom italian remotes countryside to Hong Kong
city can create dislocation and estrangement in the traveller-type of the XXI
century. But it can also be important to outline guidelines of an alternative
working method to land, for example, a new treaty of geography, to identify
similarities unusual and unforeseen tensions and friction that can arise only
with comparison of reality of antipodes. Italian Landscape Practice is
collection of pictures, videos and text by Alessandro Carboni. The artist has
been exploring the asthonish Italian landscape around three different regions: Abruzzo, Valle d’Aosta
and Sardinia.
In each of them the artist has been
developing interdisciplinary landart projects focused on particular
aspects of cultural heritage from environment to people, from agriculture to
architecture etc.
Program:
Opening
– 25th February, 6pm
Conference
– 2nd March, 10am
“From
Space to Place: landscape and art practice”
Alessandro
Carboni meet local people, artists, architects and researcher from Hong Kong.
In Valle d’Aosta (2012),
Carboni, has conducted an interdisciplinary exploration of Italian Alps
describing the geography territories, glaciers, rivers etc. It has focused on
water cycle in its various states of transformation. In Abruzzo (2010), the
artist has been developing the project Rethinking Human Energies. It has focused on the concept of “human
energy” related to the unstoppable demography decreasing process happening in a
small rural village, Guilmi. The research defined in several stages, included
actions in urban and rural areas and direct meeting, workshops and collective
work-installation in collaboration with the local inhabitants. In Sardinia
(2009), Alessandro, has been working on the project Furriadroxius with inhabitants
of Malfatano, the last representatives of an invisible community, which thrives
on sheep farming and handicrafts, and the reciprocal exchange of goods of first
necessity, rhythms, and a system of rules quite unusual. The environments in
which people live, the tools of their work and the context (visual and
auditory) surrounding them, became the narrative material for an
interdisciplinary investigation and artwork of the rural territory.
The
projects are part of Carboni research and interdisciplinary project Overlapping
Discrete Boundaries, a multidisciplinary research project focused both on an
objective analysis of urban context and on the other hand focused on the
intimate, subjective relationship between the observer and the perceived
environment. Overlapping Discrete Boundaries has been carried out by early
2010, through creative residence program both Asian and European cities.
Alessandro
Carboni addresses his research paths that always involve multiple domains and
that draw from both the theoretical and practical studies. His experience,
gained as a visual artist and performer, focuses on the body and its
relationship with space. Its practices were consolidated over the years through
a method of composition
that approaches similar paths in science (particularly some of the research
carried out in architecture, urban geography, cognitive processes and complex
systems theory). In recent years, he has developed several projects,
exhibitions and performances at festivals,
museums and galleries in Europe, USA,
Hong Kong, India
and China.
His practice is also expressed through research project Complex Body Network.
Recently presented the performance Learning Curves, Kaitak
River, at the XIII Biennale of
Architecture in Venice.
Alessandro Carboni is co-founder of Formati Sensibili -Art&Science Mashups,
an independent production company for the artistic and scientific research.
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