12/11/2009 - TWISTER VISITING ARTISTS

This activity originates and supports the exhibition-TWISTER project, born from the will of the Lombardy Region to connect and enhance the detection of the ten most important contemporary art museums in the region, with a plan for the dissemination of contemporary art in the territory through the implementation site-specific interventions. In keeping with this mission, the project was designed Twister Visiting Artists: a proposal for training given to young artists, designed to support the regional network by exploiting this important occasion of vision through a time of high educational value and cultural. Participate in the project because all the museums that have joined the TWISTER project which will spend the collaboration of scientists or of each teaching section. The ways in which this project takes shape is related to the conduct of discussions are taking part, lessons, surveys, video recordings on contemporary reality Lombard then invite young artists to develop the themes of the works of Twister with his own contribution through discussion of the proposed critical the exhibition and the production of self-employment. The artists were selected by the project ARTHUB, born in 2009, archive and observatory promoted by young contemporary creative scene freeUndo, the nonprofit network UnDo.Net. ARTHUB The project intends to promote the artists working in video and sound art, promote production and facilitation of work-through an online repository and stages - but especially by activating synergies and collaborations with organizations and institutions such as museums, with l ' targeted goal of participating in educational projects and training workshops and experience the highest level. Young artists will be accompanied on a visit to the works, housed in the headquarters of the exhibition, welcomed by the museums involved, assisted throughout the path from the Education Department of the GAM in Gallarate, in the persons of Marianna Francesca Consonni, Alessandro Castiglioni and Lorena Giuranna and tutor UNDO.net. Twister is an international project sponsored by ten and unique museums and exhibitions of the Lombardy Region and Ontario - Department Culture, Identity and autonomy, with the contribution of Fondazione Cariplo, for the production and acquisition of ten site-specific art interventions / site related and an artistic network. The interventions, designed ad hoc, refer to the history and identity of the individual museum / institution and are related with the urban and the land surrounding it. Ten artists winners, selected through an open competition by invitation, who now see accepted their works in the permanent collections of the ten institutions involved. They joins the artistic intervention in the network, which tends to show the same time the specificity of each site and the cohesion of the project twister. Artistic intervention site specific / site related MARIO AIRO, Loto - Stelline Foundation, Milano (Milan) Massimo Bartolini, a landscape from a distance - GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Gallarate (VA) Carlo Bernardini, Code Space - MAM-Museum ' Modern Art, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti (MN), Loris Cecchini, Untitled - Gallery Prize Suzzara, Suzzara (MN) MADAME DUPLOK, For Miracles - Museo Civico Floriano Bodini, Gemonio (VA) CLEAR Dynys behind him - FAI - Villa and Pan Collectionza, Varese (VA) Lara Favaretto, Monument momentary - GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (BG) Maik and Dirk Löbbert, Welcome - Visual Arts National Award City of Gallarate, Gallarate (VA) March BETTER, Those who neglect are condemned to re-read to read the same thing-Museum of the Twentieth Century, Milan (MI), OTTONELLA Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini, maybe we can even make a map for getting lost - Museum of Contemporary Art, Lissone (MB) Speech ArtsNetwork Ten statistical site-specific video installations make up the project in Dreams & Dramas network Cnaani Ofri - Israeli artist who lives and works in New York - involving ten museums and institutions showing both their specificity, is the cohesion of the TWISTER project. Interventions, short, poetic and integrated architecture are designed to the transition space and projected on glass: new perceptions of physical and psychological spaces known to rethink their physical contexts, historical and social.