Lago d’Iseo – Christo and Jeanne-Claude – The Floating Piers

Photographs by Wolfgang Volz – copyright 2016 Christo

 Lago d’Iseo – Christo and Jeanne-Claude – The Floating Piers

“Those who experience The Floating Piers will feel like they are walking on water – or perhaps the back of a whale. The light and water will transform the bright yellow fabric to shades of red and gold throughout the sixteen days.”

Christo

The Project. For sixteen days only, until July 3, on the Lake d’Iseo, north of Brescia, 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of high-density polyethylene cubes, undulate with the movement of the waves as Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Floating Piers rise just above the surface of the water.

http://www.thefloatingpiers.com/#introduction/

  Photograph by Wolfgang Volz – copyright 2016 Christo

The Walkaway

Christo and Jeanne-Claude – The Floating Piers

A 3-kilometer-long walkway was created as The Floating Piers extend across the water of Lago d’Iseo. The piers are 16 meters wide and approximately 35 centimeters high with sloping sides. The fabric continues along 2.5 kilometers of pedestrian streets in Sulzano and Peschiera Maraglio.

Photograph by Wolfgang Volz – copyright 2016 Christo

The Story

Christo and Jeanne-Claude – The Floating Piers

In the spring and summer of 2014, Christo and his team scouted the lakes of Northern Italy. Along with Project Director Germano Celant, they found Lago d’Iseo to be the most inspiring location. Since that time they have worked alongside experts from around the world to realize The Floating Piers.

Photograph by Wolfgang Volz – copyright 2016 Christo

 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude – The Floating Piers

The Floating Piers was first conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude together in 1970. It is Christo’s first large-scale project since Christo and Jeanne-Claude realized The Gates in 2005, and since Jeanne-Claude passed away in 2009. As with all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s projects, The Floating Piers is funded entirely through the sale of Christo’s original works of art. After the 16-day exhibition, all components will be removed and industrially recycled.

 

Venice: Ca Corner della Regina - Fondazione Prada - Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement.

  Photograph courtesy Fondazione Prada

Venice: Ca Corner della Regina - Fondazione Prada - Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement. With “Belligerent Eyes” Fondazione Prada, until September 11, restlessly searching for new grounds of confrontation on cinema and visual languages, experiments with new forms of collaboration, analysis and research. “Belligerent Eyes” was born out of the Fondazione’s will to create a reciprocally stimulating exchange with younger generations working in the realms of cinema and visual arts research and production, enabling them to work in complete autonomy and freedom. This new relationship has marked independence as the core of such an artistic collaboration, offering the Fondazione the opportunity to re-invent the expressions of its cultural commitment.

http://www.fondazioneprada.org/project/belligerent-eyes/?lang=en

belligerenteyes.com/ 

 

Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement

Luigi Alberto Cippini and Giovanni Fantoni Modena

“Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement” is, pioneering project on contemporary image production. Conceived and designed by Luigi Alberto Cippini and developed in collaboration with film director Giovanni Fantoni Modena, “Belligerent Eyes” sets itself as an experimental media research facility geared in the spaces of Fondazione Prada’s Venetian venue, Ca’ Corner della Regina.

 

Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement

 At a time when cinema has lost its capacity to assert itself as the beholder of collective imaginary, “Belligerent Eyes” aims at introducing new didactic perspectives in both filmmaking and film studies. Until 11 September, an international network of academics and practitioners, together with fifteen selected participants, will be entrusted as a core group with the development and sharing of various academic initiatives revolving around the future of motion pictures. The intended disciplinary spectrum will investigate the most diverse aspects in contemporary image production: by challenging the traditional norms related to education and scrutinizing the current socio-cultural transformations endured by the field, Ca’ Corner della Regina will foster a borderline association where both professors and students, as part of a sole academic body, will set themselves against new practices and innovations.

 

Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement

  

John Palmesino

The program composes of six cross-curricular phases and a fortnightly corollary module. Each interdisciplinary session is anticipated by a preparatory week which last seven days: various practitioners, including; John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Ronnskog, Trevor Paglen, Mauricio Gris, Vittorio Gallese and Stacy Martin.

 

Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement

Christian Marazzi

A bi-monthly lateral discussion takes place every two Fridays directed by Christian Marazzi, an economist and university professor, provoking new lines of research on image economy, it is partially-open to the public. This choice will allow a selected wider audience to enhance and share the proposed cultural platform, besides highlighting the nature of the assembly as a solid research media facility.

  Photograph courtesy Fondazione Prada

Belligerent Eyes | 5K Confinement

Since knowledge production is nowadays generally perceived as the main derivate of what museums and visual art institutions can engender, “Belligerent Eyes” aims at not dismissing research and its cultural inquiries as a sole commodity for a nominal exhibition.

In conjunction with the Venice Film Festival, “Belligerent Eyes” will lastly promote a broadcasting experiment. This will set itself beyond the traditional Western standards, and it will condense the idea of merging into a singular production structures and disciplines traditionally foreign to the realm of cinema.

http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/

Venice: Seen at the 15th International Architecture Biennale di Venezia

 

Seen at the Arsenale  

Marco Cappai, Ruiyi Chen, Alessandra Segantini, Tobia and Carlo Cappai

 

Seen at the Giardini

Giulio d’Alessio and Axel Vervoordt

Seen at the Arsenale 

Mario Bellini

Seen at the Arsenale 

Aldo Cibic, Tom and Ester Vack

Seen at the Arsenale

William Sawaya and Paolo Moroni

Seen at the Fondazione Cini

Dan Schwartz and Susan Grant Lewin

Seen at the Giandini

Pasquale Leccese

Seen at the Giandini

Roberto De Feo

Seen in Campo Santo Stefano

Lara Aragno and Romeo Gigli

Seen at the Arsenale 

Elisabetta Di Maggio Anita Sieff

Seen at the Arsenale

Alex Scott-Whitby 

 

 Seen in Venice

David Chipperfield

 

Seen at the Arsenale

Philip Rylands 

Seen at Palazzo Loredan

Giovanna Felluga, Samantha Punis, Francesca Gubilei and Luca Berta

Seen at Palazzo Loredan

Simonetta Vespa and Roberta Calarota