The Arte Útil archive

09.09.2017 – 07.01.2018 / Fri 03:30 p.m. – 06:30 p.m. / Sat-Sun 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 03:30 p.m. – 06:30 p.m.
Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea
via del campanile,
13 Foligno (PG)
Italy

Exhibition

MANUFATTO IN SITU / 10 LANDSCAPES

A project by Viaindustriae

Manufatto in Situ / 10 landscapes is an archive – exhibition on contemporary landscape, an inquiry on natural and urban spaces crossed by artistic works / artefacts from 1962 to the present, in Umbria, Italy and abroad. It si the result of a research led by artists, curators, architects in the intersection between art, nature and architecture. Curated by Viaindustriae, Manufatto in Situ describes 10 years of artistic residency in the Umbrian landscape (Art Park in Cancelli, Val Menotre, Foligno downtow, Foligno industrial area, Perugia San Pietro’s garden, Natural History Museum of Casalina, Isola Maggiore of Lake Trasimeno). Based on a “site-specific” practice, the inquiry gathers traces, works, documents that, in the occasion of this exhibition, dialaogue with other regional and extra-regional environmental artistic contexts.

The exhibition develops through 10 thematic tables, presenting works of art, photographs, drawings, writings, artist’s books, ephemera, posters, political posters, extensive documentation of the complex geography of the landscape, art, public space and common goods.

Artists: A Constructed World, Vincenzo Agnetti, Mario Airò, Gianfranco Baruchello, Joseph Beuys, Caretto&Spagna, Chto Delat, Gino De Dominicis, Fernando De Filippi, Lucio Fontana, Piero Gilardi, Stefano Graziani, Kinkaleri, Sol Lewitt, Enzo Mari, Luca Maria Patella, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Raqs Media Collective, Mauro Staccioli, Ufo, Giuseppe Uncini, Vito Acconci, Mirella Bentivoglio, Tania Bruguera, Alberto Burri, John Cage, Alexander Calder, Mario Ceroli, Enrico Cattaneo, Giuseppe Chiari, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Giancarlo De Carlo, Nico Dockx, Luciano Fabro, Emilio Fantin, Francesco Fonassi, Buckminster Fuller, Dino Gavina, Aldo Grazzi, Licio Isolani, Mikhail Karikis, Jannis Kounellis, Ugo La Pietra, Myriam Laplante, Leoncillo Leonardi, Francesco Lo Savio, Eliseo Mattiacci, Gino Marotta, Virgilio Massani, Amedeo Martegani, Maurizio Nannucci, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Giancarlo Norese, Ico Parisi, Claudio Parmiggiani, Cesare Pietroiusti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Umberto Raponi, Superstudio, Cy Twombly.

Archives: ASAT Archivio Storico Acciaierie Terni, Parco Arte Vivente Torino, Archivio Mauro Staccioli, Biblioteca Comunale Volterra, Fondazione Cassa Risparmio Volterra, Comune di Gubbio, Archivio Enrico Crispolti, Archivio Maurizio Cancelli, Progetto Diogene Torino, Archivio Progetto Oreste, Neon Campobase Bologna, Fonoteca Regionale O. Trotta, Orto Botanico San Pietro, Cittadellarte Biella, Archivio Arte Útil, Archivio Studio A’87, Radio Papesse Firenze, Archivio Flash Art, Black Market International, Archivio Moreno Orazi, Archivio Licio Isolani, Comune di Volterra, Archivio Sergio Borghesi, Comune di Campello sul Clitunno, Fondazione Centro Studi Piero Gilardi Torino.