Tankboys

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

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 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

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

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

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