How Long Can Jello Not Be Refridgerated

nododocFest4: Operation catalogs

this crazy operation's aim to help rescue the international festival of documentary NodoDocFest that, now in its fourth edition, was in danger of closing its doors: the idea we came up with talking Fabrizio Arpesella, soul of the festival, who with great courage, decided to continue the fourth year, whatever the cost, counting on the public domain and launching the operation "add a step" .

Already collaborators NodoDoc (Artelier Mécano are the three prizes for the 2008 ...), could not escape the call, and here we are at hand make covers for the 300 limited edition catalogs!

Thus, together with Fabrizio, Claudio Fulgeri Domains and Gloria, who have dealt with the graphic composition of the inside pages, we have imagined a catalog that deliberately resembles a fanzine of the 70s, with characters mimeograph and photocopy the effect of dirty, printed in black and white, on paper that costs less, to be bound by, all together to save on printing costs.

Far from any aesthetic research, we chose for the cover picture dirty, real, a piece of reality that those accredited to the festival will bring home all the memory visions of several documentaries in the program this year, using posters and flyers put forward by the past three editions, we have created 600 fragments of wall posters, which is evident in the layering and overlapping of the old posters.

A written NodoDoc4 made a stencil with a spray gloss black, brings us back to the road, a card with stamping "International Documentary Film Festival" and the dates of the event, complete the whole.

In this way we want to be a complaint against the many waste: we have recycled the materials we had at our disposal and print as many copies as there really are. We saved
image, convinced that if the content is valid, everything else can be reduced to the essentials.

In a difficult period for the Italian culture we have decided to be there anyway, we have rolled up their sleeves and "we're back in the cellar" in a spirit of collaboration and never lose sight of those ideals for which is the penalty to get involved.

COME TO NUMEROUS FESTIVAL 5 to 10 May 2010 in Trieste at the Cinema Ariston.

Making Cinema Sweet Popcorn

awards for node doc fest 2008

These images dating back to 2008, the second edition of NodoDocFest, held in Trieste at the Cinema Ariston.

The three awards were made with recycled materials, as in the tradition of Artelier Mécano, using old reels, gears and other metal elements.

above: Franco Piavoli
under: Audrius Stonys

One Red Bump On Shaft

cromofilla

The fragment for all is the fundamental concept che sta alla base della collezione “ Cromofilla ” il cui nucleo centrale è costituito da una serie di pannelli ornamentali di ispirazione orientale: i soggetti rappresentati sono le foglie di alcune specie vegetali ingigantite oltre misura e mai rappresentate nella loro interezza, nel tentativo di cogliere quella momentaneità duratura e di indurre il fruitore a completarne la forma nella propria immaginazione.
La scelta di un formato verticale, stretto e lungo e la ritmicità della sequenza decorativa sono un chiaro riferimento al paravento giapponese, dipinto su foglia metallica: le superfici riflettenti in oro e argento creano colore e luminosità ma anche molteplici effetti ottici capaci to transfer the subject in a deliberately irrational space.

Represented always parallel to the surface of the painting and "frozen" in a shot from the radical cut, big leaves floating in an abstraction aimed at finding the surreal in the real world, where the gap is offset by a concentration of images, as materialized under the lens of a microscope ideal, resulting in a very personal herbarium which Artelier Mécano achieved through the application of gold leaf and silver superimposed in several layers, then treated with aniline, bitumen and solvents, abraded , scratched and incised up to play each of the rib foglia in questione in una sorta di ‘effetto macro’.

sopra: foto dell'esposizione presso www.kamaswami.com

Il medesimo tipo di lavorazione viene applicato anche ad oggetti di uso quotidiano: una serie di piani d’appoggio presenta variazioni sul tema delle foglie, rappresentate sul piano d’appoggio, ed introduce, nei supporti, alcuni elementi meccanici e di recupero che ritroviamo anche nella serie limitata di lampade ed oggetti luminosi che, come timide creature elettriche popolano questo irreale giardino di Cromofilla.

Do You Really Need A Wedding Program

natural artificial

Installation "Artificial Nature" in 2000 stems from an survey work on photographic materials such as wood, iron, rope, long-term exposure to the elements.
The pictures were taken there in '92 during my studies at the Academy of Fine Arts
it's long and patient poses (about an hour - hour and a half each), made with canned pinhole, during which the subject (and matter) caught in the picture probably continue to change their appearance.

The four chairs, limited edition, only played in two series, were made with recycled materials consumed by time (wooden planks and steel rod), 'blocked' and artificially transformed into objects sculpture.

in some frames from our installation "artificial nature" of 2000:
the site no longer exists, a short time After our action, the building, a former factory for glass processing, has been demolished.