Thursday, January 01, 2004

PRESS RELEASES IN ENGLISH

More Fools in Town is a collaborative project of A Constructed World and Charlotte Laubard. More Fools in Town organize exhibitions and events in an apartment in the center of Turin in a responsive and impulsive way that seeks a wider audience. It is a lo-fi, lo-hi energy interface with big aims.

A BIT OF A CRISIS

Oreet Ashery (London) and Saverio Lucariello (Marseille)

OPENING MONDAY 31 JANUARY 2005 18:30 - 20:30
After the exhibitions ‘Fully Functional’ and ‘Picnic 1’ with the participation of artists from Los Angeles, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Naples and Shenzhen in China, spazio More Fools in Town is please to host its fifth edition ‘A bit of a crisis’ with artists Oreet Ashery and Saverio Lucariello.
Even if migration and mobility are praised values now-a-days their effect on identity is still something discomforting and even dramatic. We all live in an on-going state of crisis, trying to relate to a world and a culture where borders are always shifting.

Both Oreet and Saverio are artists who work away from their country of origin - Israel for Oreet and Italy for Saverio. Their work has in common to set moments of crisis in communication and in representation. They suggest a difficulty in relating to the surrounding world, balancing between tragi-comedy and schizophrenia.

More Fools in Town is a project in Turin by three people who live away from their country of origin, Charlotte Laubard, Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva. More Fools in Town, an ACW project, organizes exhibitions and events in an apartment in the centre of the city in a responsive and impulsive way that seeks a wider audience. It is a lo-fi, lo-hi energy interface with big aims.
open Monday for the inauguration and Friday 4 and Saturday 5 February from 16:00 alle 19:30
or by appointment tel: 340 707 1837

More Fools in Town
via Guastalla 19. 10124 Torino
aconstructedworld@libero.it

PICNIC 1

The Association Isola dell’Arte presents the first ''Picnic'' at the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea on the second floor of Stecca degli artigiani Milan.
The project Picnic consists of a series of temporary exhibitions, in which museums, foundations, galleries, non profit spaces, collectors, artists and curators propose works and projects in the Centro per l’Arte della Stecca. Picnic creates a convivial situation in which to instigate and show works as well as providing an hospitible environment for projects which might be difficult to show in other spaces in the city.

PICNIC 1 presents: More Fools in Town, a collaborative project of artists A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva + Geoff Lowe) and curator Charlotte Laubard. More Fools in Town organizes exhibitions and events in an apartment in the center of Turin in a responsive and impulsive way that seeks a wider audience. It is a lo-fi, lo-hi energy interface with big aims.
The event presented by More Fools in Town for Stecca degli artigiani includes an installation of works by artists from their first three exhibitions including Chu Yun (China) Simon Moretti (London) Ester Partegas (New York) vedovamazzei (Milan) Jon Campbell and Elizabeth Newman (Melbourne) Mungo Thomson (Los Angeles) Sarah Ciraci and Gabriele di Matteo (Milan) My International Family (Asti/Berlin). ACW will also present Big Dirty Love, a video work made in collaboration with Steve Piccolo and a performance ‘explaining contemporary art to live eels’, where eels swim around a group show of works by various artists, before being returned to the pond, the river, the ocean and ultimately the bottom of the Sargasso sea.

Charlotte Laubard, Jacqueline Riva + Geoff Lowe will conclude the project with a talk open to the public at 19.00.
The out office will be open to the public for information about the story of the resistence of the quartiere Isola and on this occassion they will be selling t-shirts to raise funds. out will also be displaying solar energy lamps.

Following Projects and Appointments:
“15 Hirosaka, Kanazawa / 17, Via dei Prefetti, Roma – Arte contemporanea nel contesto urbano”
Incontro con Alberto Garutti, artista e Cloe Piccoli, critica d’arte
Centro per l’arte, giovedi 18 novembre, ore 19.00:
“Foucault alla Stecca degli artigiani”
In occasione del ventesimo anniversario della morte del filosofo francese:
Thomas Hirschhorn, artista
Enzo Umbaca, artista (in collaborazione con Adriano Sofri)
Emanuela de Cecco, critica d’arte
Tiziana Vilani, filosofo
Marco Alita, psicologo (lila milano)
moderatore Marco Scotini, critico d’arte e curatore indipendente
Centro per l’arte, giovedi 25 novembre, ore 19.00
Info: Alessandra Poggianti: tel. 349-8051697, ida@undo.net

ANOTHER DAY IN A CONSTRUCTED WORLD

Party during Artissima
Thursday 4 November 2004 from 22:00 to 24:00

We await you for the opening of our new show ‘Another Day in A Constructed World’.
Special projects by Jon Campbell (Melbourne) and Loredana di Lillo (Milano) and the premier of the video ‘More Fools in Town Trailer”.

More Fools in Town is a collaborative project of artists A Constructed World, Jacqueline Riva + Geoff Lowe, and curator Charlotte Laubard. More Fools in Town organize exhibitions and events in an apartment in the center of Turin in a responsive and impulsive way that seeks a wider audience. It is a lo-fi, lo-hi energy interface with big aims.

open Monday for the inauguration and Friday 4 and Saturday 5 February from 16:00 alle 19:30 and Friday 19 and Saturday 20 November. Sunday 14 November MFIT will present works from their exhibitions at Stecca degli Artigiani, Milan.
or by appointment tel: 340 707 1837

More Fools in Town
via Guastalla 19
10124 Torino
aconstructedworld@libero.it

FULLY FUNCTIONAL

Michelle Naismith (Glasgow/Nantes) Chu Yun (Shenzhen) Simon Moretti (London) Marcos Davidson (Melbourne) and My International Family (various places)

OPENING FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER 2004 18:30-20:30

After the first exhibition ‘A level of trust. After Kurt Cobain’ which gathered works by artists from Los Angeles, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Naples and Nice, spazio More Fools in Town is happy to host it’s second edition ‘Fully Functional’.
As we live day-to-day what is natural and artificial, or logical and functional, is often not visible. In the supermarket in via Santa Giulia in Turin the rabbits in the freezer come from China, the prawns from Argentina, there is wine from Australia. Our cultures are socializing more and sometimes hide their identities to do so. We are eating-at-the-same-table. And yet our idea of what is natural is a prejudice because our ideas of nature are built-up representations made at some point in our history to provide logical responses about who we are and what we are doing here on earth.

Chu Yun, Marcos Davidson, Michelle Naismith and Simon Moretti present works that escape from logic and functionality, yet they are never dysfunctional. They offer the viewer a possibility to remain in a state of uncertainty about what the works are and what their function would be, opening a void in our catalogue of expectations and certainty. My International Family, a collaboration of Alessandro Ceresoli and Diego Perrone, gathers together images and documentation of works by the artists they like. The project, which is shared with others from time to time, draws a subjective map of contemporary sensibility for fully functional forms and practices.

More Fools in Town is a collaborative project of artists A Constructed World and curator Charlotte Laubard. More Fools in Town organize exhibitions and events in an apartment in the center of Turin in a responsive and impulsive way that seeks a wider audience. It is a lo-fi, lo-hi energy interface with big aims.

Open Friday 8 and Saturday 9 Oct from 16:00-19:30
closed the week-end of Frieze Art Fair
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 Oct from 16:00-19:30
and by appointment tel: 340 707 1837
exhibition ends 30 October

More Fools in Town
via Guastalla 19. 10124 Torino
aconstructedworld@libero.it

A LEVEL OF TRUST. AFTER KURT COBAIN.

OPENING FRIDAY 21 MAY 2004 18:30-20:30

A level of trust. After Kurt Cobain is the first exhibition at spazio More Fools in Town in Torino.

In the time leading up to his death Kurt Cobain was critical of both the music scene and system and his own withering efforts to tell-the-truth within it. What does it mean to be authentic in a market-driven world? Can artists continue to commit themselves to what they believe to be true?

The works of Ester Partegàs (New York), vedovamazzei (Milan), Mungo Thomson (Los Angeles), Arnaud Maguet (Nice), Elizabeth Newman (Melbourne), Piero Golia (Naples), Blair Trethowan (Melbourne) and Olav Westphalen (New York) seek contact and explore identification with the audience. By diverting the signs of production and consumption, they open a space for a shared desire for trust.

On the opening evening there will A Constructed World event performed by Andrea Viliani and Michele Robecchi. On Saturdays, ACW will offer food for visitors to the show.

More Fools in Town is a space for art in an apartment in Torino and is a collaborative project of A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva + Geoff Lowe) and Charlotte Laubard.

Open Fridays and Saturdays from 16:00-19:30
and by appointment tel: 340 707 1837

More Fools in Town
via Guastalla 19
10124 Torino
aconstructedworld@libero.it