Tankboys

An exhibition about Obsolete
By Temp & Tankboys

A while ago we used to call our girlfriends on the telephone,
pretending to be somebody else, for the fear that her father,
answering from the only telephone in the house, could recognize
our voice. It is not like this anymore and we are free to
telephone without being disturbed. But maybe, while conquering
this independence, we have lost on the way the taste of the risk
of being discovered.

Saturday, February 27th. 2010 at 7pm
Galleria Vastagamma, Pordenone, Italy

Automatic Books is proud to announce that will participate at Opera 2009 Exhibition,
Tuesday, January 19th, at DOCVA, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, where the work we
published last year will be displayed. At 7 pm, Automatic Books will introduce two new
books, by Eleonora Marton and Veronica Bellei.

Tuesday, January, 19th, 2010 at 7 pm,
Via Procaccini 4, DOCVA. Milan, Italy
www.automaticbooks.org

The project Fight Back, Fight’s Back is a billboard created for New York Memories, affixed in Padova, until the 3rd of January 2010. We revisited the slogan “Fight Back, Fight Aids”, used by the members of ACT UP during their manifestations, giving it another meaning, intentionally ambiguous and amenable for different interpretations. It is an invitation for action, fight of ideas, creative revolt, overturn of banalities, refusal of comfortable thoughts, for conquer and defense of personal rights and many more.

We do not want to limit Fight Back, Fight’s Back onto launching a political and artistic slogan in a urban space, but require a personal interpretation of the message and an active participation of the public. The use of an advertisement sign as support to display in a public environment a work of art and not a commercial message, means to transform the medium itself and subvert the citizens’ expectations.

The project Fight Back, Fight’s Back participates at the event WORDS/billboard, curated by Fondazione March and Festival TINA B from Prague. The initiative forecasts the invasion of Padova with works of art, affixed on advertisement signs of dimensions 6×3 m, during December 2009 and January 2010. The works should be exhibited in Prague next fall.

We would like to give special thanks to Tommaso Speretta, Andrea Goffo and Claudia Zini, the creators of New York Memories. They work in the cultural communications environment, and are interested most of all in relations between contemporary art and public spaces.
www.newyorkmemories.org

Skill to Do Comes of Doing is a Temporary Shop we will run from december 12 to january 10. We made a selection of objects made by designer/artizans according to William Morris’s idea, like Daniel Eatock, Pierre Hourquet, Hey Oh, Martino Gamper, Kueng Caputo, Alexa Lexalixfeld, Caffeine Books, Kaugummi and many more.
skilltodocomesofdoing.tumblr.com

Opening: 12 / 12 / 09
XYZ, Via Inferiore 31, Treviso, Italy

Love Walls is a collection of love messages written on walls. We’ll present this work at Be Quite Please, an exhibitions’ project organized by Marco Mucig and La Pisa, at their living room. We produced a xerographic book in a limited edition of 50 with all the work of the exhibition. You can find more information here.

Love Walls at Be Quite Please
October, the 20th, from 6pm to 8.30 pm.
Via Resnati 10, Milano, Italy

Artists’ Book is the title and the theme of the workshop we did at Teach Me 6,
on September, 24 and 25. Each student was asked to design and realize his own artist’s book. Among the guests of Teach Me 6, there were also Temp, Lorenzo Vitturi, Matteo Cibic and Cosimo Bizzarri.
We’ll upload soon the work of students. For more information, have a look here.

To say that the end result is what counts is just not true. Not even in design. Rather, a good designer is more concerned with the process; that winding, potholed road he embarks upon every time he gets a new job. We curated this exhibition with Cosimo Bizzarri, inviting 13 international desingers to design their own Manifesto poster.
The exhibition design is made by Zaven.

Manifesto.
From September the 12th to October the 31th
XYZ Gallery, Treviso, Italy

Artists
Daniel Eatock, Edenspiekermann, Ken Garland, Bob Gill, KesselsKramer, Ellen Lupton, Enzo Mari, Bruce Mau, Mike Mills, Bob Noorda, Bre Pettis & Kio Stark, Stefan Sagmeister, Vignelli Associates

We took part in the “Biografie di oggetti | Storie di cose” conference, with Åbäke, Martino Gamper, Gilberto Penzo and Joe Velluto. Each designer was asked to present the biography of an object that was significant for his own life. The conference was organized by the Claudio Buziol Foundation, combined with the presentation of the book “Biografie di oggetti | Storie di cose“.

We’re part of Segni Divesi exhibition.
Veneto Region asked a group of artists (including us) to design a typographic poster referring to some poems written by C. W. Aigner. More information are here.
Shown below our poster on the catalogue.