Black Italy produces architectural projects, publications, performative actions; smaller-scale projections of an imaginary sampled on a territorial scale.
Since 2020 Black Italy has been producing a sequence of projects for clients engaged in cultural research: artists, curators, musicians, researchers.
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Black Italy produce progetti di architettura, pubblicazioni, azioni performative; proiezioni a scala minore di un immaginario campionato a scala territoriale.
Dal 2020 Black Italy produce una sequenza di progetti per clienti impegnati nella ricerca culturale: artisti, curatori, musicisti, ricercatori.
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Black Italy works on its imaginary through a field research on abandoned places in internal Italy by archiving editorial, filmic, visual, sonic samplings; cultural recordings selected for the dual property of being traces of historical and subaltern conditions and traces for contemporary and radical actions.
The coherence of the projects respect to an imaginary built on a territorial scale is in their scenic character, in analogy of abandoned houses in the inland territories of the Country, seductive structures that allow complex behaviours. The spaces are surveyed through body movements and designed as sets of gestures and relationships.
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Black Italy lavora al suo immaginario con una ricerca sul campo sui luoghi abbandonati dell’Italia interna archiviando campionature editoriali, filmiche, visuali, soniche; registrazioni culturali selezionate per la doppia proprietà di tracce di condizioni storiche e subalterne e di tracce per azioni contemporanee e radicali.
La coerenza dei progetti rispetto ad un immaginario rilevato a scala territoriale è nel loro carattere scenico, analogo a quello delle case abbandonate sui territori, strutture seducenti che provocano comportamenti complessi. Gli spazi sono rilevati attraverso movimenti del corpo e progettati come scenografie di gesti e relazioni.
Black Italy 009, O.-A. apartment
Alternative light design.
Black Italy 009, O.-A. apartment
The lights reveal also a space just a little distant from the one you would like to illuminate, some instead are dedicated to gestures and behaviors to which a theatrical lighting is offered.
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Le accensioni rivelano anche uno spazio appena distante rispetto a quello che si vorrebbe illuminare, alcune invece sono dedicate a gesti e comportamenti cui viene offerta una illuminazione di natura teatrale.
Black Italy 009, O.-A. apartment
An apartment on the top floor of a 1920s building, exposed to the double scenario of the Greco locomotive depot to the West and the Villa Finzi park to the East. A house dedicated to a relationship established between Frankfurt and Palermo, still scenarios of complex reciprocal translation. An apparently usual space that then reveals the attention dedicated to the two partners and the scenic character of some of the solutions.
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Un appartamento all’ultimo piano di un edificio degli anni ’20, esposto al doppio scenario del deposito locomotive di Greco verso Ovest e del parco di Villa Finzi verso Est. Casa dedicata a una relazione stabilita tra Francoforte e Palermo, ancora scenari di complessa traduzione reciproca. Uno spazio apparentemente consueto che poi rivela le attenzioni dedicate ai due partner e il carattere scenico di alcune delle soluzioni.
A nocturnal garden
On Vesper 10, Project Eden, a review of projects, actions and plants that describe a possible nocturnal garden.
Photographic traps that record exclusive facts of the dark (Hanimann, Trapped, 2018); images of lovers, plants and voyeurs (Yoshiyuki, The Park, 1971-1979); Playmobil kit (night walk, article number 6891); the garden of childhood fears (Caroline Voss, Arnaud Devos); the presences of the Atelier dell’errore; the JBL Control 85M, ‘mushroom landscape’ speaker certified waterproof, resistant to atmospheric agents and insects; the Diospyros ebenum; Convolvulus sabatius; Ipomoea bona-nox…
Altri giardini / Other gardens
Venezia. Guida alla selva. Curated by Sara Marini. NERO. 2024
Projects for private clients can go through suspensions due to changing wishes, to the complexity of administrative procedures... An interval in which critical aspects are investigated through an unusual amount of drawings, a time in which even intense design solutions appear, however taking on the ephemeral character of this pause and are not then realized according to those drawings.
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Quando progetti per clienti privati attraversano sospensioni dovute a desideri che mutano, alla complessità delle procedure amministrative, si stabilisce un intervallo che consente di indagare aspetti critici, un tempo in cui appaiono soluzioni progettuali anche intense e complete che assumono però il carattere effimero di questa pausa e non sono poi realizzate secondo quei disegni.
Black Italy 002, R.-T.T. apartment
Display space, panorama of objects and solutions. Visual presences of radical artistic research in Italy arranged on the same level as some technical and formal choices. A minimal apartment-archive of ‘liked’ things that confuses visual arts, shapes and systems, in a catalog of a series of rooms/pages.
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Spazio display, panorama di oggetti e soluzioni. Presenze visive della ricerca artistica radicale in Italia disposte sullo stesso piano di alcune scelte tecniche e formali. Un appartamento-archivio minimo di cose preferite che confonde arti visive, forme e impianti, nel catalogo di una serie di camere/pagina.
Black Italy 002, R.-T.T. apartment
Spaces are defined by establishing relationships between audio devices, lights and plants, presences that follow and enable intimate behaviors and domestic broadcasting practices. When it was first opened this apartment hosted a concert and a performance as Centrale Fies off site. / Gli spazi sono definiti stabilendo relazioni tra dispositivi audio, luci e piante, presenze che seguono e consentono comportamenti intimi e pratiche di trasmissione domestica. Alla sua prima apertura questa casa ha ospitato un concerto e una performance come sito off di Centrale Fies.
Black Italy 002, R.-T.T. apartment
Black Italy 004, Casa Cicca Museum
The program of this small house museum required a space for artists in residence and one for the work of curator Giulia Currà. The house was already split in half, so the two spaces are analogues except for minimal variations.
When one of the spaces of Casa Cicca Museum stages a live action, this is broadcast and post-produced in the other. The two sets can swing roles in real time.
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A small exhibitionist house, watched by a court of tall buildings around it, swinging the roles by the inhabitants through stagecraft solutions. Casa Cicca Museum transfers the ambiguities of his first location - a brothel in Porta Cicca (Ticinese), home of the legendary mistress Deborah the Queen - to the equally passionate Via Arquà surrounded by the latin american vibes of the via Padova district.
Black Italy 004, Casa Cicca Museum
Pleasure ground
Workshop, Iuav University of Venice, 2020
Black Italy 001, Sonic Hypothesis in a pleasure ground
Site specific spatial installation, with Nicola Di Croce, Centrale Fies art work space, Drò (TN), 2019.
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Natural and luminous presences, audio devices and sequences, gestures and behaviors are transferred from the graphic language of design representation to a scenic space, in a smaller-scale projection exercise of an imaginary sampled on a territorial scale.
Sonic Hypothesis in a Pleasure Ground is the action that establishes symbols and devices used in subsequent design episodes.
Plants, audio and light devices are perceived as ambiguous presences, which occupy the space subject to other rules, but which need special care and attention.
A survey of the relationships between the elements of a design imaginary. A recording of the mutual seduction between plants and branches, incomplete structures, gestures of a girl, sonic presences. A clearing.
Black Italy 001, Sonic Hypothesis in a pleasure ground
Site specific spatial installation, with Nicola Di Croce, Centrale Fies art work space, Drò (TN), 2019
Il paese nero | Black Italy
Luca Ruali, Il paese nero | Black Italy, in Loc. Fies 1, bruno, Venezia, 2019 ISBN 9788899058272 Distributed by Motto
ReMade in Italy. Fare altre cose
Venice Biennale 2012. 13th International Architecture Exhibition
Italian Pavilion
29th August - 25th November 2012
A structure close to the abandoned station of Castroreale, Sicily, 2015
Libro Vivo
Università Iuav di Venezia
Tolentini, Biblioteca
Santa croce, 191
8-10 maggio 2019
ore 18-21
a cura di Saul Marcadent
Landescape
Alcamo, Alcamo Marina 14-22 giugno 2019
Con Andrea Masu, Federico Lupo, Claudia Lombardo, EmaJons + Sbrama, Lorenzo Raspanti, Esco UK, Alcart.