Black Italy



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Black Italy produces architectural projects, publications, performative actions; smaller-scale projections of an imaginary sampled - on a territorial scale - on the places of abandonment of internal Italy.
Since 2020, Black Italy has been working on a sequence of projects for clients engaged in cultural research: artists, curators, musicians, researchers.
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Black Italy produce progetti di architettura, pubblicazioni, azioni performative; proiezioni a scala minore di un immaginario campionato a scala territoriale sui luoghi dell'abbandono dell'Italia interna.
Dal 2020 Black Italy lavora a una sequenza di progetti per clienti impegnati nella ricerca culturale: artisti, curatori, musicisti, ricercatori.
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Il paese nero | Black Italy
Luca Ruali, Il paese nero | Black Italy, in Loc. Fies 1, bruno, Venezia, 2019
ISBN 9788899058272
Distributed by Motto
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Dal dopoguerra in Italia sono stati abbandonati migliaia di paesi e i desideri delle persone si sono uniformati a immaginari urbani. Le foto notturne dal satellite rivelano l’abbandono dell’Appennino e delle Prealpi: sono illuminate solo le aree urbane collegate da strade e ferrovie veloci, oltre questa unica città luminosa c’è un paese nero.
Il paese nero / Black Italy è un archivio di registrazioni da un Paese vuoto, sequenze per il montaggio di un paesaggio seducente che invita al piacere di azioni sul territorio e restituisce all’abbandono il senso di lasciarsi andare.
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Since postwar period in Italy thousands of towns have been abandoned, and people’s desires have flattened into uniformly urban imagery. Nocturnal satellite photographs reveal the desertion of the Apennines and the Pre-Alps: only the urban areas connected by fast rail service and roads are illuminated. Beyond this single, sprawling luminous city there is a black country.
Il paese nero / Black Italy is an archive of recordings from an empty country, sequences for the montage of a seductive landscape that promises the pleasure of actions on the territory, and renews the sense of letting oneself go in the concept of abandon.
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Black Italy 002, R.-T.T. apartment
Display space, panorama of artworks and solutions. Works mostly by the italian radical artistic research arranged on the same level as technical and formal choices. An apartment-archive of ‘liked’ things that confuses visual arts, shapes and systems, in a catalog of a series of rooms/pages.
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Spazio display, panorama di opere e soluzioni. Presenze della ricerca artistica radicale in Italia offerte sullo stesso piano di scelte tecniche e formali. Un appartamento archivio minimo di cose preferite che confonde arti visive, forme e impianti, nel catalogo di una serie di camere/pagina.
Black Italy 009, O.-A. apartment
Alternative light design.
Black Italy 009, O.-A. apartment
The lights reveal also a space just a little distant from the one you would like to illuminate, some instead are dedicated to gestures and behaviors to which a theatrical lighting is offered.
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Le accensioni rivelano anche uno spazio appena distante rispetto a quello che si vorrebbe illuminare, alcune invece sono dedicate a gesti e comportamenti cui viene offerta una illuminazione di natura teatrale.
Black Italy 009, O.-A. apartment
Black Italy 009, O.-A. apartment
An apartment on the top floor of a 1920s building, exposed to the double scenario of the Greco locomotive depot to the West and the Villa Finzi park to the East. A house dedicated to a relationship established between Frankfurt and Palermo, still scenarios of complex reciprocal translation. An apparently usual space that then reveals the attention dedicated to the two partners and the scenic character of some of the solutions.
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Un appartamento all’ultimo piano di un edificio degli anni ’20, esposto al doppio scenario del deposito locomotive di Greco verso Ovest e del parco di Villa Finzi verso Est. Casa dedicata a una relazione stabilita tra Francoforte e Palermo, ancora scenari di complessa traduzione reciproca. Uno spazio apparentemente consueto che poi rivela le attenzioni dedicate ai due partner e il carattere scenico di alcune delle soluzioni.
A nocturnal garden
On Vesper 10, Project Eden, a review of projects, actions and plants that describe a possible nocturnal garden.
Photographic traps that record exclusive facts of the dark (Hanimann, Trapped, 2018); images of lovers, plants and voyeurs (Yoshiyuki, The Park, 1971-1979); Playmobil kit (night walk, article number 6891); the garden of childhood fears (Caroline Voss, Arnaud Devos); the presences of the Atelier dell’errore; the JBL Control 85M, ‘mushroom landscape’ speaker certified waterproof, resistant to atmospheric agents and insects; the Diospyros ebenum; Convolvulus sabatius; Ipomoea bona-nox…
Altri giardini / Other gardens
Venezia. Guida alla selva. Curated by Sara Marini. NERO. 2024
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Expiring drawings
Projects for private clients can go through suspensions due to changing wishes, to the complexity of administrative procedures... An interval in which critical aspects are investigated through an unusual amount of drawings, a time in which even intense design solutions appear, however taking on the ephemeral character of this pause and are not then realized according to those drawings.
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Quando progetti per clienti privati attraversano sospensioni dovute a desideri che mutano, alla complessità delle procedure amministrative, si stabilisce un intervallo che consente di indagare aspetti critici, un tempo in cui appaiono soluzioni progettuali anche intense e complete che assumono però il carattere effimero di questa pausa e non sono poi realizzate secondo quei disegni.
Black Italy 002, R.-T.T. apartment
Photos by Allegra Martin.
Black Italy 002, R.-T.T. apartment
Spaces are defined by establishing relationships between audio devices, lights and plants, presences that follow and enable intimate behaviors and domestic broadcasting practices. When it was first opened this apartment hosted a concert and a performance as Centrale Fies off site.
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Gli spazi sono definiti stabilendo relazioni tra dispositivi audio, luci e piante, presenze che seguono e consentono comportamenti intimi e pratiche di trasmissione domestica. Alla sua prima apertura questa casa ha ospitato un concerto e una performance come sito off di Centrale Fies.
Black Italy 002, R.-T.T. apartment
Black Italy 004, Casa Cicca Museum
The program of this small house museum required a space for artists in residence and one for the work of curator Giulia Currà. The house was already split in half, so the two spaces are analogues except for minimal variations.
 
When one of the spaces of Casa Cicca Museum stages a live action, this is broadcast and post-produced in the other. The two sets can swing roles in real time.
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Black Italy 004, Casa Cicca Museum
Black Italy 004, Casa Cicca Museum
Pleasure ground
Workshop, University Iuav of Venice, 2020.
Black Italy 001, Sonic Hypothesis in a pleasure ground
Site specific spatial installation, with Nicola Di Croce, Centrale Fies art work space, Drò (TN), 2019.
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Black Italy 001, Sonic Hypothesis in a pleasure ground
Site specific spatial installation, with Nicola Di Croce, Centrale Fies art work space, Drò (TN), 2019
ReMade in Italy. Fare altre cose
Venice Biennale 2012. 13th International Architecture Exhibition
Italian Pavilion
29th August - 25th November 2012
A structure close to the abandoned station of Castroreale, Sicily, 2015
Libro Vivo
Università Iuav di Venezia
Tolentini, Biblioteca
Santa croce, 191
8-10 maggio 2019
ore 18-21
a cura di Saul Marcadent
Landescape
Alcamo, Alcamo Marina
14-22 giugno 2019

Con Andrea Masu, Federico Lupo, Claudia Lombardo, EmaJons + Sbrama, Lorenzo Raspanti, Esco UK, Alcart.

A cura di Leonardo Ruvolo
Persona
Workshop curated for MOVIES, Master in Moving Images Arts, Iuav University, Venice, February 2019.
A Magnetic Communication with Nature. Content preview, 2018
Live set dedicated to the abandonment of Italian internal areas, with: Nicola Di Croce
In Outtakes, unreleased and ephemera
Lo-Fi Architecture, Architecture as curatorial practice
An exhibition and a book
curated by Mario Lupano, with Luca Emanueli and Marco Navarra
26th august - 8th october 2010
Opening Thursday, August 26th at 6.30pm
Palazzo Mangilli-Valmarana Cannaregio 4392, Venice