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YES YES YES REVOLUTIONARY PRESS
Yes Yes Yes Revolutionary Press in Italy investigates the Italian scene of Revolutionary Press and editorial “organs” printed as news sheets, newspapers, magazines, mimeographs, pamphlets, some daily papers and magazines, other discontinuous publications including single editions printed while awaiting authorization… Sometimes the journals were a one time only supplement or attachment, ephemeral and volatile. The dynamic printing activities were linked to the political, ideological, antagonist and counter-cultural struggle of a period of protest and occupation of civil spaces, areas of freedom and social creativity. A critical selection of over 600 publications printed between 1966 and 1977 are cataloged in this book. This research is the natural continuation of the substantial publication, released in 2014 and published by the same publishers: Yes Yes Yes, Alternative press, 66-77 from Provo to Punk, curated by Emanuele De Donno and Amedeo Martegani. That first volume examined the role of European, American alternative, underground and counter-cultural press in a flourishing period: 1966-1977; this new edition focuses, on the same frame of time, on the Italian scene which extensive strategy of “connivance” and the disparate regional geography, has made it necessary, in order to thematically section the topic, to offer a wide view not only of the underground, independent and counter-cultural alternative press media but also of counter-information, ultra-radical political and ideological publications. The substantial selection of magazine collected in the prolific Italian network that also extends to the provinces was found thanks to the contributions of archives, collectors, scholars, publishers and activists from all over Italy who constitute submerged geography of the Italian counter-cultural publishing but also of a resistant and structured collecting process. These “printed media” document a research of radical culture, of authors and co-authors, promoters/artists of free and alternative culture, distributed in experimental formats.
PESCE KHETE – SINOSSI (bon voyage)
15.11.2019 - 22.09.2020
Sinossi (Bon voyage) di Pesce Khete è una serie pittorica su carta che si incentra su diversi cicli stratigrafici, passaggi tracciati per un quadro sinottico dell’opera nel processo. L’artista lavorando in termini appunto di produzione e di pittura sistemica ha cercato di evitare i termini di una “summa” artistica attivando fattori di “scarto”, ripresa e residuo. Le opere che ne derivano sono parte di un processo di ri-scrittura pittorica incessante che si è fermata temporaneamente per la mostra. Strumento progressivo e potenziale del moto pittorico è la base preparatoria, il reticolo di geometrie sentimentali, l’indizio dell’immagine prima della sua strutturazione formale. Questa “sinopia dinamica” è il processo mentale della pittura-laboratorio che genera gli spazi-viaggi potenziali di infinite mostre inedite.
Nel progetto da COLLI independent art gallery Pesce Khete “trasporta” il suo studio pittorico (ex officina auto), sia esso spazio fisico che ricerca mentale, per analizzare alcuni fattori impercettibili del fare arte, le geometrie sottili del contesto, i condizionamenti delle “fughe” spaziali che abitano un atelier o uno spazio mostra traslato. La superficie di un pavimento carrabile, le patine parietali, gli interstizi di malta delle murature, sono forme e traiettorie che si insediano nell’habitat visivo e si trasformano in linee, bande cromatiche, campiture organiche, tensioni nella produzione disegnativa.
Parte integrate del progetto è il libro d’artista “Painting matter Pesce Khete” edito da Colli independent con Viaindustriae publishing, in tiratura limitata di 25 copie contenute in cartella serigrafata con 4 tavole con interventi manuali dell’artista. PAINTING MATTER
PAINTING MATTER special edition
PESCE KHETE
Artist book, edition of 25 copies + 5 artist proof, numbered and signed, containing the standard catalog more 4 different painting each signed, screenprint on leather color folder 820 gsm, 43 x 28.5 cm, 2019. Produced for the exhibition Sinossi (bon voyage) by Pesce Khete, Rome 2019. GO TO SHOP
Libro d’artista e catalogo della mostra Sinossi (bon voyage) di Pesce Khete, presso Colli Independent, Roma. Analizzando diversi cataloghi d’arte, di pittura, per individuare le tipologie di schedatura delle opere in pittura. Strumento descrittivo della materia della pittura, la scheda supporta l’immagine a restituire in solido l’opera, usando codici fisico-dimensionali, contestuali, di proprietà: rendendosi “discorsiva” raggiunge la narratività o la processualità. Partendo da una bibliografia selezionata di tipi di pubblicazioni sulla pittura, anche “maestra”, si sperimenta questo dispositivo letterario per indagare l’opera di un artista con parametri poetici-tecnici, in parte prestati dalla storiografia artistica. Versione a tiratura speciale con cartella in serigrafia contenente la versione standard in aggiunta a quattro tavole pittoriche originali e uniche, tutte firmate nel retro.
Artist’s book by Pesce Khete which is also the catalogue of his exhibition Sinossi (bon voyage) at Colli Independent, Rome. Looking at art catalogues and painting catlogues to identify how to catalogue paintings. This book is a descriptive tool of the matter of painting, where “data sheets” support images, using codes. This book is concieved to investigate the work of an artist through poetic-technical parameters, partly inspired to artistic historiography. special edition version with screenprint folder more four original paintings each unique and signed on the back
YES YES YES REVOLUTIONARY PRESS IN ITALY ’66-’77 – Fernando De Filippi, Pablo Echaurren, Ugo La Pietra, Gianni Emilio Simonetti
13.06-2019 - 28.09.2019
A continuazione della ricerca internazionale Yes Yes Yes alternative press, Colli ospita la scena italiana della stampa rivoluzionaria italiana dal ’66 al ’77. Il percorso raccoglie tutte le anime editoriali da quelle di lotta ideologica a quella indipendente, a quella contro-culturale e artistica in un incrocio che propone una unica ala creativa e di immaginazione sociale. La situazione italiana di quel periodo tratteggia un panorama di correnti, movimenti, azioni politico-estetiche molto articolato: Beat, Provotariato, Situazionismo, Agitazione e lotta politica, Contro-cultura, Contro-progetto, Femminismo, Lotta poetica, Proletariato, Rifiuto del lavoro, Festa e rivoluzione totale, Post-situazionismo e neo-dada, Punk, Movimento ’77. Alle scariche del “No” e dei “contro” si oppongono i “lampi d’amore”, i fogli radicali e creativi, le forme artistiche, di impegno ed avventura situazionista. Gli artisti in mostra protagonisti di quella era editoriale sono Fernando De Filippi, Pablo Echaurren, Ugo La Pietra e Gianni Emilio Simonetti che con lavori “storici” allineati a quelle date rileggono quella retorica e quell’impegno tipografico attraverso l’opera d’arte e il documento stampato.
Le riviste, che saranno allestite infatti “a contatto” con le opere, sono state selezionate per sottolineare sezioni, combinazioni ed influenze: A. Rivista Anarchica, A/Traverso, Brera Flash, Bandiera Rossa, Cannibale, Carta Stampata, Cerchio Magico, Che fare, Cia Book Book, Come in Germania?, Comontismo, Dalle Cantine Frocie, Fallo!, Frankenstein, Fuck, Fuori!, Hemicromis, Get Ready, King Kong International, Inpiù, Insurrezione, L’uno, La rivoluzione, Le Operaie Della Casa, L’erba voglio, Limenetijena, Le Streghe, Lotta Continua, Lotta Femminista, Mo’ Che Il Tempo S’avvicina, Mondo Beat, No, Oask?!, Pantere Bianche, Paria, Potere Operaio, Puzz, Re Nudo, Roman High Roma Sotto, Rosso, Salvo imprevisti, Sex-pol, Una tazza di the, Viola, Vogliamo tutto, Wow, Zut.
All’interno programma espositivo verrà presentato la pubblicazione-catalogo della mostra YES YES YES REVOLUTIONARY PRESS IN ITALY, ’66-’77 from Mondo Beat to Zut, editato da Viaindustriae publishing, a+mbookstore con Colli publishing platform. VAI AL LIBRO
FASTER THAN CHRIST | FRANCO ARIAUDO
01.03.2019 - 18.05.2019
The project Faster than Christ by Franco Ariaudo is inserted in the wider investigation that he artist has conducted on some scenarios of the possible and on the influence that they can have on our perception of the reality or on that we assume to be possible. Through a series of sketches and actions developed since the 2017 during a residence in the island of Biruchiy, dipped in the suggestive landscape of the Azov sea, the project has initially taken the form of a book, Basilisk or How to run on water, that has explored under multidisciplinary points of view the practice of the run on water and its motivational potentialities in front of the challenges that the human being must face.
The project from COLLI independent art gallery is an extension of this research in the format of show that, in its plastic-sculptural evolution, acquires further senses and meanings. Beginning from a (re) teo-philosophical reading that the act of walk on water occupies in the western symbology and imagination, the project gets away from biblical topic toward other domains, closer to more actual anthropological and socio-cultural worries. Which are the necessary ideal conditions for facing the challenge of the run on water? Which are the physical and spiritual strengths that must be implemented, and which are the prerequisites that would allow a person to run on water? And above all, how can we change our point of view on the reality and start to imagine something impossible as possible?
The space of the gallery becomes a training centre that stage a series of tecno-gymnastic prototypes, that act as potential tools to reach this apparently impossible objective. From the installation PETER Mt14:31, a tapis roulant that desecrate the run on water, depriving it of its extraordinary nature, to the footwears that melt the theological lexicon with the mass production promotional one. The sublime fuses with today’s sport aesthetic, in a playful and ironic gesture of appropriation and hybridization. Like, for example, the poster with the representation of Jesus and the evocative writing Why did you doubt?. Starting from a para-scientific register, the project Faster than Christ lays the foundations for the theory and the practice of the run on water, in which the notion of the magic and of the miraculous cohabits with a competitive and pragmatic vision, reflecting some contradictions of the contemporary society. Result of multiples suggestions and visions drawn by the natural world and by the science, the show proposes a radical perspective change on the topic, moving the point of view from the utopic to the dystopic that pull us toward a redefinition of the same notion of impossible and of its perceptive limits, in front of the numerous technological and social transformations that we are going through.
The show is accompanied by the artist book Basilisk, edited by COLLI gallery, Viaindustriae publishing with the graphic project of Friends Make Books. The typeface shown by the works in the exhibition is “Sporty”, by Alessio Di Ellena.
The exhibition is accompanied by the artist book “Basilisco”, edited by Colli independent art gallery, Viaindustriae publishing, with the graphic project by Friends make books. LINK TO THE BOOK
BASILISCO (how to run on water)
FRANCO ARIAUDO