Italian Council 2020 • The Cool Couple

The Cool Couple with The Cute and the Useful are among the winners of Italian Council 2020 (8th edition), a program supporting and promoting Italian contemporary art internationally by the Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea (DGCC) of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e per il Turismo.

The Cute and the Useful, describing the wild animal industry as a typical phenomenon of South Africa that merges wildlife conservation and market logics, raises ethical and political issues to discuss the controversial understanding of climate change. The work will consist of a medium-length film and will be accompanied by a publication with textual and iconographic material expanding on the theme described in the film.

The project is promoted by Careof in collaboration with Nirox Foundation and with the cultural partnership of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Pretoria, AcPAV - Associazione Culturale Parco d’Arte Vivente, Torino, and Kabul Magazine. The film work will become part of the collections of MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna.