contemporary art contest
concorso internazionale
d'arte contemporanea
the dam before the tragedy - archive photo (courtesy fondazione vajont)
dolomiti contemporanee and the Vajont area are in arcipelago italia, the Italian Pavillion of the 16th venice’s biennale of architecture.
“Arcipelago Italia. Projects for the future of the country’s interior territories” is the title of the project by curator Mario Cucinella for the Italia Pavillion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, promoted by Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura contemporanee e Periferie Urbane, MiBACT.
through arcipelago italia, cucinella has carried out an explorative journey, a reconnaissance of italy‘s inner areas, placing particular focus on a series of sites and projects, as well as architecture and cultural socialization procedures that involve the territory’s participation, and that are always equipped with a vision in regards to the determination of the future of the human landscapes, one that presents itself through good practices, actions based on networking strategies, open regenerative process-oriented approaches, and re-innovative ideas which may prove themselves to be capable of responsibly tackling the theme of enhancement and reclaiming of the environmental, landscape-related, cultural and social heritage.
the sites aren’t enough in and of themselves, and there is no future for the heritage if the people don’t operate towards that goal: the future is the product of present actions.
the call for the italian pavillion was answered by more than 500 projecs, 67 of which have eventually been selected by the curator, and find now a home at the tese delle vergini at the arsenale.
among them is dolomiti contemporanee, inside the itinerary dedicated to the eastern alps.
a great photograph of vajont’s mt. toc (by isabella sassi farìas), sighted from the nuovo spazio di casso, welcomes visitors at the entrance of the pavillion.
the exhibit will remain open until november 25th 2018.
12/10/2016
On Satuday, October 15th, on the occasion of the 22nd Amaci Day of the Contemporary, the Nuovo Spazio Di Casso will remain open from 10 AM through 6:30 PM, with an exhibit of the projects which reached the Twocalls final.
21/05/2016
On Thursday, June the 2nd, at 3 PM, inside the Nuovo Spazio di Casso, Two Calls for Vajont, the International Contemporary Art Contest that Dolomiti Contemporanee launched in June 2014, is going to be reintroduced.
A few months after the proclamation of the Contest’s results, with the selection of the winners, the project, thus, begins again.
19/07/2015
The results for the International Artistic Contest Two Calls for Vajont, hereby presented, are the outcome of a crossing of the short lists supplied by the jury members, subsequently examined by the Dolomiti Contemporanee’s Inner Committee.
Several jurors proposed some ideas on the ery structure and objectives of the Contest itself, and on its next phases (Jaar, Vettese, Basso Fossali).
