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From boring to interesting

tankboys — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:18:59 +0000

We have been asked to present a workshop curated by Spazio XYZ in collaboration with Ox Studio. We’ve chosen “From boring to interesting” as workshop theme and addressed the process of creating an interesting solution to a boring brief. At the end of the day the participants have presented the work they have created to a panel for discussion and assessment. The Panel have been led by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico from the New York School of Visual Arts.
The workshop took place at Fondazione Claudio Buziol (Venice — Italy) on Friday 4th June 2010 from 9am — 5pm.

We’d like to thank Ox studio and Fondazione Claudio Buziol.

She’s a master of disguise

tankboys — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:36:08 +0000

Banana Camouflage is a fruit that was classified for the first time by Hungarian botanist Franktof Burnsteins in 1979. According to the Burnsteins’ records, It started to grow spontaneously in the fields of Nicaragua in 1975 and since then has been expanding as far as Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Suriname and Brasil.

Banana Camouflage comes in a variety of sizes and colors, depending on the environment
it is found in. This fact has brought many scientists to describe it as a case of mimicry in nature. Burnsteins in particular put forward the hypothesis that the fact that certain bananas were mutating size and color had to be attributed to a “nature choice” to rebel against the human attitude towards its species. In his notebook of the time, Burnsteins wrote the sentence:
“She’s a master of disguise”, to describe the unusual behaviour of this banana variety [...].

She’s a master of disguise is printed in a limited edition 20,
with the precious help of Rujana Rebernjak and Cosimo Bizzarri.

You can buy it here:
we_are(a)tankboys.biz

Quali cose siamo

tankboys — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:36:23 +0000

We have been invited to participate at the third interpretation of Triennale Design Museum, curated by Alessandro Mendini and Silvana Annicchiarico, that have made a selection of young designers and architects who had to reflect about the theme of living and of a designing utopia, creating the new edition called “Quali cose siamo”. The brief we have been given, together with other participants, was to create a series of towers, with the restrictions that consisted in the same square plant and the same height. This system of towers, characterized by the multiple language concerning the signs, materials, cultures and objects, thought as a totemic symbol and spirit of the city, where the facades and the volumes will express, with their different languages, the aesthetical and ethical tensions of its inhabitants, their poetry and responsibility.
If the museum’s question is “What things are we”, the towers’ question is “what are the places we live in”.

Other participants invited are: Antonio Cos, Matteo Bazzicalupo, Lorenzo Damiani, Esterni, Diego Grandi, Giulio Iacchetti, Interaction Design Lab, Alessandro Loschiavo, Raffaella Mangiarotti, Miriam Mirri, Nucleo, Lorenzo Palmeri, Daniele Papuli, Gabriele Pezzini, Matteo Ragni, Temp, Marco Zito.

Opening: March, the 26th
(by invitation only)
La Triennale di Milano
Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6
20121 Milano
www.triennale.it

Two Shamans

tankboys — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:05:10 +0000

Two Shamans is an exhibtion curated by Tankboys
and Salvatore Cuschera for the Wonder Room project.

From wise to warrior, from mystic to magician, the shaman is the cardinal figure in animist belief, the reference point for healing, and the incarnation of the beliefs and hopes of ever member of a community. In the hyperliterate, hypercivilized and hyperdigital world of today, shamans are relegated to the role of fairy tale character or circus sideshow.Nevertheless, they are the object of an indefatigable fascination. And, although taking on new forms and significance, shamans are not about to disappear. Behold two shamans, one hailing from the Oriente, the other from the Occident.

Opening: March, the 22th, from 6pm to 10 pm.
Via Tortona 31, 20144 Milano
www.wonder-room.it

Obsolescenza

tankboys — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:02:43 +0000

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

One Year of Photocopies

tankboys — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:44:57 +0000

One Year of Photocopies

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.

Let’s meet on

Tuesday, January, 19th, 2010

at 7 pm, Via Procaccini 4, DOCVA

Milan, 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

Fight Back, Fight’s Back

tankboys — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:03:06 +0000

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

tankboys — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:10:11 +0000

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

tankboys — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:25:32 +0000

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 Workshop

tankboys — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:05:06 +0000

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.