Friday, October 31, 2014

Happy Haloween

One of my favourite subjects to draw: Toulouse the best dog ever!


Thursday, October 30, 2014

Cherimus: Gioco dell'oca at MAXXI Rome.


Some animals in play on the first day of the game.  
Photo: Allesandra Casadei


The first Gioco dell'oca by Marco Colombaioni was realised in 2009 in a small Sardinian town, Valledoria. A painted game invited the public to play and participate. This work is being interpreted by Cherimus at MAXXI Rome as part of the program Open Museum Open City | Esercizi di Rivoluzione curated by Hu Hanrou. In this version the animals are brought to live as costumes constructed by various artists and workshop participants. 

Here is the press release: 
29, 30, 31 ottobre
Cherimus Sardegna vi invita a giocare
al MAXXI - MUSEO NAZIONALE DELLE ARTI DEL XXI SECOLO
COME AND PLAY!

PARTICIPANTS CAN ENJOY FREE ENTRANCE!

Cherimus
Il Gioco dell’Oca di Macro Colombaioni, 2009 – 2014

Wednesday 29, Thursday 30 October 2014; h 4.00 p.m.
Friday 31 October 2014; h 4.00; 7.30 p.m.

A variant of the classic Snakes and Ladders game, with 63 squares which symbolically retrace the stages of human life. Markers are the players themselves, as they move across a living board consisting of characters who represent animals: a jungle with which, along their way, they relate to the final square.

ENROLL BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO info@nomasfoundation.com INDICATING THE GAME AND THE DAY WHICH YOU PREFER TO ENJOY

Thursday, October 23, 2014

The Vertical Jungle; Salon Orizzonti Occupati - Vienna Secession

Here are some details and a close-up of my drawing that was in exhibition during Isola Art Center's salon in Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom. The drawing is part of a series of drawings and a story I wrote all under the title The Vertical Jungle. The prototype of the storybook have been in several exhibitions with Isola Art Center such as the exhibition 1:1 at MSUM in  Ljubljana. The book is being revised and improved, so more about that in the future.

(The photographs are not exactly the best, if anyone has some tips on how to photograph big drawings).








Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom


Here are some photographs from our show  Occupied Horizons at the Vienna Secession that ran from 23 -30 September. It was part of the project Utopian Pulse –Flares in the Darkroom curated by  Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler. In typical Isola Art Center style it functioned like a work in progress and grew as the week went on.  A lot more happened then what is shown here, see Isola Art Center's website and Facebook.


  A shot from Camila Topuntoli's  Isola Utopia Rising shot at the Secession that week. 

 Angelo Castucci, Isola Utopia, videostill with Isola Utopia-font, 2014
View of the first exhibition space

 Valentina Montisci and Kristina Borg painting Zanny Begg's Monument to the III International. Next to it the video by Ines Doujak and on the other side  Isola Sun Cloud by Nikola Uzunovski.

A viewer in front of my work The Vertical Jungle.

working on the piece "Petition to Pope Francis for the Final Abolition of Hell" by Etcetera.

Edith working on her work The time of Anarchy, or the Time of Harmony?

Daniele Rossi printing the posters.

The Secession with Bert Theis's banner on the façade. 


Camilla Topuntoli Rabbit.