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Exploring the planet as a sculptural object - testing its limits, sensing its processes, reporting back on how it feels.

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𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘀. 𝘽𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧

Cuneo, 8-9-10-11 ottobre

Dal 2022 Connecting Worlds invita a diffondere un senso di sintonia tra genere umano ed ecosistemi naturali e l’edizione 2026 ha esplorato l’acqua attraverso un dialogo tra arte e scienza.

Artistə: Caretto I Spagna, Enzo e Barbara, Simon Faithfull, Elena Mazzi, Suzanne Husky, Francesca Grilli, La Grande Acqua

L’iniziativa ha preso forma all’interno della Tenda Ferrino 1870, in Largo Audiffredi e presso l’infopoint del Parco fluviale Gesso e Stura.

Un evento di Associazione Art.ur e @andrea_lerda_curator
Nell’ambito di Spazioso
Con la curatela di @andrea_lerda_curator
Con il patrocinio del @comunedicuneo
Con la collaborazione di @parcofluvialegessostura @visitcuneese
Con il contributo di @regionepiemonte.official @fondazionecrt @fondazionecrc @comunedicuneo @parcofluvialegessostura
Partner tecnico: @ferrino_official
Educational: @itur_natura_cultura_turismo

Riprese e montaggio di Marco Rostagno

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L’acqua scorre nel corpo umano come una memoria antica: siamo fatti della stessa sostanza che da sempre attraversa i fiumi, le nuvole e gli oceani, ma la devastazione climatica a cui stiamo assistendo mette a rischio gli equilibri idrici del nostro pianeta.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘀. 𝘽𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 ha raccolto opere di artistə italianə e internazionali per raccontare l’acqua da diverse prospettive: un interlocutore senziente ed elemento vitale ma anche una risorsa minacciata e mercificata.
In dialogo con i contributi di ricercatrici e ricercatori, le opere hanno invitato a riflettere sul rapporto tra il genere umano e l’acqua: un’occasione per riflettere sui rischi del presente per agire, insieme.

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Un evento di Associazione Art.ur e @andrea_lerda_curator
Nell’ambito di Spazioso
Con la curatela di @andrea_lerda_curator
Con il patrocinio del @comunedicuneo
Con la collaborazione di @parcofluvialegessostura @visitcuneese
Con il contributo di @regionepiemonte.official @fondazionecrt @fondazionecrc @comunedicuneo @parcofluvialegessostura
Partner tecnico @ferrino_official
Educational @itur_natura_cultura_turismo

Slide 1,3,5,7: foto di Marco Rostagno
Slide 2,4,6: foto di Francesco Doglio

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See you next week in Göttingen!
Very excited to see my work among such great artists and being part of a so thoughtful curated show by Stephan Klee 🩶

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ARTISTS & CURATOR TOUR THIS SUNDAY 3PM!! EXHIBITION OPEN FINAL WEEKEND 2-7pm SAT & SUN

Video: extract from Simon Faithfull (2023) 'Smoking With a Lighthouse'.

THE WORK THAT DIDN'T WORK is an exhibition that explores those moments in an artist’s practice when the thing they are working on just doesn’t quite “work”. As ostensible failures, the works included offer compelling insights into the working practices of the artists who made them, echoing John Cage’s mantra that “Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.”

The logic of the contemporary artworld – symptomatic, perhaps, of a wider social atychiphobia, or fear of failure – does not generally understand such flawed undertakings as worthy of exposure. They are kept from view, ignored, or silently manoeuvred around.

Yet they remain a vital and essential part of the creative process. Recognising the value of the artist’s insight and awareness in deciding that a work didn’t work, the exhibition aims at a more candid and nuanced account of artistic practice – providing a counter to our screen-based world’s increasing obsession with the flawless and the mistake-free, and the risk-averse approach to creativity it brings about.

The works in the exhibition range (according to the artists) from the curiously unengaging to the formally irresolvable, from the impossibly complex to the painfully overthought, and from works that have lost their status as artworks to works where even the curator isn’t sure whether they were ever actually meant to BE works.

These instances of apparent failure offer the visitor a window into something essential about the way the artists work and think – both as creative practitioners, and as human beings.

Curated by Dave Ball

#failure
#artpractice
#atychophobia
#johncage
#berlinart

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🌿 Prende il via la quinta edizione di 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘀, il progetto pubblico nato nel 2022 su iniziativa del Parco fluviale Gesso e Stura di Cuneo che intreccia arte contemporanea e sostenibilità.

Per l’edizione 2026, dal titolo "Bodies of Water", le opere e gli approfondimenti in mostra ci invitano a guardare all'acqua non solo come merce o risorsa, ma come interlocutore senziente e corpo da proteggere.

Tra le opere in mostra:

𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗼 𝗜 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗮 – 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳. Un dialogo tra gli artisti e il Rio Ischiator. L’acqua è un interlocutore senziente che si racconta agli umani.

𝗘𝗻𝘇𝗼 𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗮 – 𝘿𝙚𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙄𝙄, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰. Un’installazione che esplora il potere della fito-depurazione dell’acqua e delle collaborazioni interspecie.

𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 – 𝙎𝙚𝙡𝙛-𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙩: 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝘾𝙮𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙡𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙨, 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵. L’immagine ambigua di un corpo semi sommerso nell’acqua evoca la vulnerabilità umana di fronte alle emergenze climatiche.

📍Largo Audiffredi, 10:00 – 21:00
Infopoint Parco fluviale Gesso e Stura, Piazzale Cavallera 13, 10:00-13:00 | 14:30-18:30
📅Da giovedì 8 a domenica 11 ottobre
Ingresso gratuito

Un evento di Associazione Art.ur e @andrea_lerda_curator
Nell’ambito di Spazioso
Con la curatela di @andrea_lerda_curator
Con il patrocinio del @comunedicuneo
Con la collaborazione di @parcofluvialegessostura @visitcuneese
Con il contributo di @regionepiemonte.official @fondazionecrt @fondazionecrc @comunedicuneo @parcofluvialegessostura
Partner tecnico: @ferrino_official
Educational: @itur_natura_cultura_turismo

Slide 1: image courtesy Caretto | Spagna
Slide 2: image courtesy Enzo e Barbara, galleria Michela Rizzo, foto di Enrico Fiorese
Slide 3: image courtesy Simon Faithfull

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EXHIBITION OPEN THIS WEEKEND 2-7pm SAT & SUN!!

THE WORK THAT DIDN'T WORK is an exhibition that explores those moments in an artist’s practice when the thing they are working on just doesn’t quite “work”. As ostensible failures, the works included offer compelling insights into the working practices of the artists who made them, echoing John Cage’s mantra that “Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.”

The logic of the contemporary artworld – symptomatic, perhaps, of a wider social atychiphobia, or fear of failure – does not generally understand such flawed undertakings as worthy of exposure. They are kept from view, ignored, or silently manoeuvred around.

Yet they remain a vital and essential part of the creative process. Recognising the value of the artist’s insight and awareness in deciding that a work didn’t work, the exhibition aims at a more candid and nuanced account of artistic practice – providing a counter to our screen-based world’s increasing obsession with the flawless and the mistake-free, and the risk-averse approach to creativity it brings about.

The works in the exhibition range (according to the artists) from the curiously unengaging to the formally irresolvable, from the impossibly complex to the painfully overthought, and from works that have lost their status as artworks to works where even the curator isn’t sure whether they were ever actually meant to BE works.

These instances of apparent failure offer the visitor a window into something essential about the way the artists work and think – both as creative practitioners, and as human beings.

Curated by Dave Ball

#failure
#artpractice
#atychophobia
#johncage
#berlinart

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EXHIBITION OPEN THIS WEEKEND 2-7pm SAT & SUN!!

THE WORK THAT DIDN'T WORK is an exhibition that explores those moments in an artist’s practice when the thing they are working on just doesn’t quite “work”. As ostensible failures, the works included offer compelling insights into the working practices of the artists who made them, echoing John Cage’s mantra that “Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.”

The logic of the contemporary artworld – symptomatic, perhaps, of a wider social atychiphobia, or fear of failure – does not generally understand such flawed undertakings as worthy of exposure. They are kept from view, ignored, or silently manoeuvred around.

Yet they remain a vital and essential part of the creative process. Recognising the value of the artist’s insight and awareness in deciding that a work didn’t work, the exhibition aims at a more candid and nuanced account of artistic practice – providing a counter to our screen-based world’s increasing obsession with the flawless and the mistake-free, and the risk-averse approach to creativity it brings about.

The works in the exhibition range (according to the artists) from the curiously unengaging to the formally irresolvable, from the impossibly complex to the painfully overthought, and from works that have lost their status as artworks to works where even the curator isn’t sure whether they were ever actually meant to BE works.

These instances of apparent failure offer the visitor a window into something essential about the way the artists work and think – both as creative practitioners, and as human beings.

Curated by Dave Ball

#failure
#artpractice
#atychophobia
#johncage
#berlinart

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OPENING FRIDAY 2 Oct at HilbertRaum, Berlin.

THE WORK THAT DIDN'T WORK is an exhibition that explores those moments in an artist’s practice when the thing they are working on just doesn’t quite “work”. As ostensible failures, the works included offer compelling insights into the working practices of the artists who made them, echoing John Cage’s mantra that “Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.”

The logic of the contemporary artworld – symptomatic, perhaps, of a wider social atychiphobia, or fear of failure – does not generally understand such flawed undertakings as worthy of exposure. They are kept from view, ignored, or silently manoeuvred around.

Yet they remain a vital and essential part of the creative process. Recognising the value of the artist’s insight and awareness in deciding that a work didn’t work, the exhibition aims at a more candid and nuanced account of artistic practice – providing a counter to our screen-based world’s increasing obsession with the flawless and the mistake-free, and the risk-averse approach to creativity it brings about.

The works in the exhibition range (according to the artists) from the curiously unengaging to the formally irresolvable, from the impossibly complex to the painfully overthought, and from works that have lost their status as artworks to works where even the curator isn’t sure whether they were ever actually meant to BE works.

These instances of apparent failure offer the visitor a window into something essential about the way the artists work and think – both as creative practitioners, and as human beings.

Curated by Dave Ball

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CONNECTING WORLDS giunge quest'anno alla 5° edizione.
LIVING ROOM celebra invece l'edizione numero 10.

Vi aspetto a Cuneo dall'8 all'11 ottobre.

CONNECTING WORLDS 2026 prende forma quest'anno attorno al concetto di "Bodies of Water". Le opere di Elena Mazzi, Caretto I Spagna, Suzanne Husky, Francesca Grilli, Enzo e Barbara, Simon Faithfull e La Grande Acqua - insieme agli approfondimenti di ricercatorə Laurie Debove, Stefano Fenoglio e Mirca Zotti invitano a riflettere sulla profonda relazione tra genere umano e corpi d'acqua. Protagonisti i fiumi, le sorgenti, le aree umide e ogni ecosistema idrico che regola gli equilibri ecologici del pianeta Terra.

L’acqua è presentata come interlocutore senziente ed elemento vitale, ma anche in quanto merce e corpo malato. Immagini positive e scenari inquietanti risuonano con i fatti di cronaca ecologica che si rincorrono sempre più frequenti: fusione dei ghiacciai, inondazioni, surriscaldamento dei mari, eventi alluvionali estremi e inquinamento idrico. Al tempo stesso, scenari di cura e di rigenerazione invitano a intendere il concetto di riequilibrio come un’utopia realizzabile.

Un progetto realizzato grazie alla partneship con @ferrino_official

LIVING ROOM 2026 esplora invece il concetto di "Forcing Eutopias". Il racconto nasce da una domanda: oggi, in un tempo di policrisi, siamo ancora capaci di immaginare scenari utopici e di dare concretamente forma a un futuro migliore?

I quattro progetti artistici prodotti dagli artisti selezionati - Matteo Attriua, Federica Di Carlo, Giulia Poppi e Lihi Turjeman - non offrono delle visioni nitide di universi eutopici, ma nutrono lo spirito di chi osserva, invitando a riconsiderare la possibilità di ogni essere umano di essere protagonista del cambiamento. "Forcing Eutopias" è un invito a essere consapevoli che piccole utopie possono creare una nuova grande realtà.

Due progetti di @associazioneartur e la mia curatela
Con @parcofluvialegessostura

#connectingworlds #art #publicspace #sustainability #peoplecreatives

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FIRST WORKS BEING INSTALLED!! Ana Prvački’s Greeting Committee, in which the artist trained staff at Documenta 13 into being more civil… Exhibition opens Fri 2 Oct at HilbertRaum, Berlin.

THE WORK THAT DIDN'T WORK is an exhibition that explores those moments in an artist’s practice when the thing they are working on just doesn’t quite “work”. As ostensible failures, the works included offer compelling insights into the working practices of the artists who made them, echoing John Cage’s mantra that “Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.”

The logic of the contemporary artworld – symptomatic, perhaps, of a wider social atychiphobia, or fear of failure – does not generally understand such flawed undertakings as worthy of exposure. They are kept from view, ignored, or silently manoeuvred around.

Yet they remain a vital and essential part of the creative process. Recognising the value of the artist’s insight and awareness in deciding that a work didn’t work, the exhibition aims at a more candid and nuanced account of artistic practice – providing a counter to our screen-based world’s increasing obsession with the flawless and the mistake-free, and the risk-averse approach to creativity it brings about.

The works in the exhibition range (according to the artists) from the curiously unengaging to the formally irresolvable, from the impossibly complex to the painfully overthought, and from works that have lost their status as artworks to works where even the curator isn’t sure whether they were ever actually meant to BE works.

These instances of apparent failure offer the visitor a window into something essential about the way the artists work and think – both as creative practitioners, and as human beings.

Curated by Dave Ball

#failure
#artpractice
#atychophobia
#johncage
#berlinart

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FIRST WORKS BEING INSTALLED!! Ana Prvački’s Greeting Committee, in which the artist trained staff at Documenta 13 into being more civil… Exhibition opens Fri 2 Oct at HilbertRaum, Berlin.

THE WORK THAT DIDN'T WORK is an exhibition that explores those moments in an artist’s practice when the thing they are working on just doesn’t quite “work”. As ostensible failures, the works included offer compelling insights into the working practices of the artists who made them, echoing John Cage’s mantra that “Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.”

The logic of the contemporary artworld – symptomatic, perhaps, of a wider social atychiphobia, or fear of failure – does not generally understand such flawed undertakings as worthy of exposure. They are kept from view, ignored, or silently manoeuvred around.

Yet they remain a vital and essential part of the creative process. Recognising the value of the artist’s insight and awareness in deciding that a work didn’t work, the exhibition aims at a more candid and nuanced account of artistic practice – providing a counter to our screen-based world’s increasing obsession with the flawless and the mistake-free, and the risk-averse approach to creativity it brings about.

The works in the exhibition range (according to the artists) from the curiously unengaging to the formally irresolvable, from the impossibly complex to the painfully overthought, and from works that have lost their status as artworks to works where even the curator isn’t sure whether they were ever actually meant to BE works.

These instances of apparent failure offer the visitor a window into something essential about the way the artists work and think – both as creative practitioners, and as human beings.

Curated by Dave Ball

#failure
#artpractice
#atychophobia
#johncage
#berlinart

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@dasheiligeblutderkunst

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