Careof join this sparkling second edition of Studi festival, showing and presenting the work of the artists that are currently part of FDV Residency Program, an entire program of residences for creatives that took place in Fabbrica del Vapore.

Through FDV Residency Program, Careof will promote international exchange projects, inviting artists from all over the world and offering them important opportunities both for their professional development and also to relate themselves with the territory.

WORKS ON DISPLAY

Riccardo Giacconi / DINOSAURI

Riccardo Giacconi is the winner of ArteVisione 2016, Riccardo Giacconi is the winner of ArteVisione 2016, a project by Careof and Sky that support young italian artists. The third edition has offered to the ten selected finalist - Aves Project, The Cool Couple, Irene Dionisio, Elisabetta Falanga, Roberto Fassone, Gaia Formenti, Valentina Furian, Riccardo Giacconi, Martina Rosa, Caterina Erica Shanta – an opportunity for their professional growth through ArteVisione LAB, a workshop with audiovisual and film industry experts. The final prize consists in the production of a video artwork supported by an internationally renowed mentor, the artist Adrian Paci and 4 residency months at Careof.

Dinosauri
video, 25 min., 2016

The video, realized during the residency at Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, tells about the meeting with the tuareg community of Pordenone, the only one in Italy. Tuareg, or “blue men”, are nomadic people whose original territory is the Sahara desert, that doesn’t belong to any State or government.
Close to Pordenone we can find the Grave and Magredi areas, dry landscapes built by gravelly deposits of Tagliamento, Meduna and Cellina rivers. It is there, and also at the Natural History Museum of Venice, that the events narrated in the video took place.

The Cool Couple / OPEN STUDIO

The Cool Couple finalists of Artevisione 2016 prize, they have received a scholarship which consists in three months residency at Careof. The duo, born in the late 2012, has based its researches on the production, distrubution and consumption processes of collective representations. The Cool Couple tries to trigger critic reflections on the consequences of our actions along the unstable margin that distinguishes the visible from the invisible.
For Studi Festival, The Cool Couple has decided to open the doors of their new studio, making themselves available to talk about their artistic practice and their last projects, like Approxhimation to the West: a research about the West and its crisis. Through the analysis of a particular geographic area, that one of Carnia, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, and analyzing the period between the spring of 1944 and May of 1945 – time frame in which this region has become the first republic in Italy and, after, the promised land of some tens of thousands of Cossacks – the duo created resonances not only with the european history starting from the second post-war period, but mainly with our present time.

Serena Porrati / AT THE HEART OF FORGING

Serena Porrati is the winner of Premio FOMAS Group - At the heArt of Forging, organized in collaboration with Careof, has as its main objective the promotion of contemporary art and the enhancement of the relationship between art and business, through the involvment of the artists.
In particular, the Prize aims to bring the artist closer to the practice of forging metals and its working techniques. The prize also requires the artist to realize a work through a technical and productive support of competent and equipped staff. The study expresses the interest on matter as a system of memory, accumulation and amnesia. The elements are thought to be a stream that overflows redefining the concept of essence and coexistence. Periodic and informatic systems converge, disclosing the viscosity of everything.
Time does not exist or it exists only in the form of lazy variations of temperature. The interior coincides with the the exterior and the process reveals the object to arrive at its complete dissolution.

NASTYNASTY© / TURBOVANISH

NASTYNASTY© are Emiliano Biondelli & Valentina Venturi. Active since 2008 its research is focused on the impact of photography in our culture, in our dynamics of meaning generated by images and the power that these have to condition our world perception and the authenticity criteria. Photography, video and publishing are the areas in which NASTYNASTY is moving and experimenting.

TURBO VANISH
Video Installation in loop 1min in HD, and two photographs printed on fabric, 2013/14

"You can have any color as long as it is black," wrote Herny Ford, in his autobiography published in 1922, talking about the well-known Model T. Standardize the manufacture drastically to allow everyone to buy a car. On the other hand we talk about the car, that is the car as the machine par excellence. Because machine is, from dictionary, "any device or apparatus built by appropriately connecting two or more elements so that the relative motion of these transmits or even amplifies the human or animal force or natural forces, and is capable of performing predetermined operations with fatigue savings or time ". The Tuners seem to stubbornly and successfully oppose this. Customizing your car to the point of making it almost unusable for the purpose for which it was built, working on it with an exhausting expenditure of effort and time. Heroic attempts to oppose the present consolidated purchase, consumption, capitalist junkyard, which transform serial products into unique objects. Singularity. Is it already art? Not really, but it's obsession, which produces an aesthetic. The Turbo Vanish project focuses on this aesthetic, appropriates it, alters its codes with a waste of intentions, and connects two universes that are miles away from each other, that of Tuners and that of contemporary art. Turbo Vanish is a Tuning project, the tuners obsessively process their cars turning them into something unusable; cars lose the purpose for which they were produced because they are transformed into sculptures with a huge waste of time and energy. This desperate attempt to create "post apocalyptic spaceships" is actually at the service of photography as driven by vanity.