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

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

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

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

1. Venice Art Biennale Guide
2. ! Magazine , first and second issue
3. Moleskine, 0.00 Night edition
4. Jarach Gallery’s stand at Artissima
5. Je t’aime festival, the third edition
6. Tankboys’s business card

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.