Like an Open Door, David Casini, photo: Margherita
Caprilli
Like an Open Door.
The Construction Site as Potential
An artistic journey between art and the
city
November 14 - 15, 2024 | December 13 - 14, 2024 |
February 07 - 09, 2025
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * Like an Open Door. The construction site
as potential is an artistic journey between art and the city curated by
Elisa Del Prete and Silvia Litardi, founders of NOS Visual Arts Production,
and Margarethe Makovec and Anton Lederer, founders of < rotor >
Centre for Contemporary Art. The project takes place in Bologna between
November 2024 and February 2025, through a series of events scattered
throughout the city. These events will activate various spaces through
the involvement of 15 artists.
This artistic journey is the outcome of a two-year research project that
NOS and < rotor > have developed around the artistic contexts of Bologna
(IT) and Graz (AT), identifying artists from each region whose works and
research resonate with each other. After an initial exhibition held in
Graz in 2023 that explored the artwork as a space for unexpected possibilities,
transformation, and change of perspective, Like an Open Door now lands
in Bologna, expanding this concept to the urban context, particularly
focusing on the condition of transformation, imaginability, and potentiality
metaphorically triggered by construction sites.
In collaboration with NOS
visual arts production.
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * Friday, December 13 2024
11.30 am - Inuit Bookstore - Via Petroni 13A, Bologna
The dialogue between the Austrian artist and the illustrator and cartoonist
was developed in collaboration with Inuit, the bookshop and print shop
on Via Petroni, a key hub for contemporary drawing, illustration, and
comics. This will be followed by a guided tour of the works at Fondazione
IU Rusconi Ghigi.
4 pm - Via Petroni - Start/Start Via Petroni 9, Bologna
Former President of Bologna’s "Commission for Architectural
and Landscape Quality," Alemagna leads a walk through the historic
center, uncovering the dynamics that shaped the area. Not a lecture, but
a moment of social connection and shared knowledge to rekindle a sense
of belonging.
Saturday, December 14 2024
11 a.m. - Giardino Lunetta Gamberini - Starting Point / Starting - Via
Pellizza da Volpedo 17B, Bologna
Installation Lunetta Lunettes
A walk through Lunetta Gamberini with Katia Anguelova to discover Ivana
Spinelli's temporary artistic interventions. Through minimal works like
Rovina 1, 2, 3 and the use of special "lunettes," the artist
invites participants to explore the park’s layers. An opportunity
to reflect, together with Anguelova, on the relationship between art,
nature, and care in urban spaces.
12 pm - Lunetta Gamberini Neighborhood House - Via degli Orti 60, Bologna
Breakfast with artists-in-residence zweintopf, in dialogue with Emanuele
Rinaldo Meschini
Since 2006, Eva and Gerhard Pichler, founders of the zweintopf duo, have
explored the "poetry of mundane things," challenging the rush
of "as soon as possible." Their interventions, bordering on
the tragicomic, reveal the absurdity hidden in the codes of the ordinary
and the public. Together with Emanuele Meschini, art critic and University
of Bologna Art Department researcher, they will discuss their work and
their residency experience in Bologna.
6 pm - Jugopetrol - Viale Silvani 10A, Bologna
Flavio Favelli, Markus Wilfling, duet.
In Flavio Favelli's studio Jugopetrol, the Italian artist and the Graz
based artist Markus Wilfling engage in an unconventional duet of stumbles
and inescapable movements. Sculptures and photographs narrate the precarious
state of the urban construction site.
14.11.2024 - 09.02.2025
From Nov. 14, 2024 to Feb. 9, 2025, art installations at the Fondazione
IU Rusconi Ghigi on Via Petroni will be accessible to the public by reservation
only, except during the weekends of Like an Open Door
Opening hours without reservation:
Nov. 14 and 15, 2024 December 13 and 14, 2024
February 7 - 9, 2025 from 11 am to 7 pm
Friday, February 7, 2025
Sons and True Sons, Lecture Performance di Total Refusal, 19:00 Fondazione
IU Rusconi Ghigi - Sala Tassinari (Palazzo D'Accursio) - Piazza Maggiore
6, Bologna
Total Refusal, an Austrian collective active since 2018 and composed of
artists, researchers, and filmmakers, presents Sons and True Sons in Bologna—and
for the first time in Italy. This lecture performance explores the connections
between toxic masculinity, meritocracy, and the 2021 assault on the United
States Capitol, based on research into the links between the world of
video games and the digital manosphere.
Duration 60 minutes. Admission is free of charge and subject to availability.
Reservations are not required. We therefore recommend that you arrive
at least 30 minutes before the start of the performance.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Special presentation Inflating House di Alfredo Barsuglia e Pasta al Limone
di zweintopf , 12:00 Fondazione IU Rusconi Ghigi – Palazzo Verzaglia
Rusconi - Via Petroni 9, Bologna
Inauguration of the works Inflating House by Alfredo Barsuglia and Pasta
al Limone by the duo zweintopf, outcomes of the program’s artistic
residencies. Both Barsuglia and zweintopf use humor to explore pressing
urban issues: Inflating House, an inflatable house protruding from the
façade of a 19th-century palace, addresses the challenge of urban
overdevelopment. Meanwhile, Pasta al Limone, a series of posters inspired
by Diego Sarti's sculptures, reflects on the disruptive impact of gastronomic
tourism and the resulting concerns of local residents. The artists, together
with curators Elisa Del Prete, Silvia Litardi, Margarethe Makovec, and
Anton Lederer, will meet the public to present the new works that join
the core installations inaugurated on-site in November.?
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Finissage, 12:00 Jugopetrol - Viale Silvani 10A, Bologna
Together with artist Flavio Favelli, curators Silvia Litardi, Margarethe
Makovec, and Anton Lederer will discuss with the public the dialogue between
Favelli's three sculptures and Wilfling's series of photographic shots.
