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A sinistra: Katherine Ball
in residenza a Indy Island nel 2011.
A destra: Diego Marcon ora in
residenza presso CIAP Vassivière.
Left: Katherine Ball in residence
at Indy Island in 2011.
Right: Diego Marcon, now
in residence at CIAP Vassivière.
CIAP
VASSIVIÈRE
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ISLAND
Abitare lontano da tutto. Ricercare
una condizione precisa per lo studio,
la concentrazione e la produzione.
I programmi di residenza per artisti e designer
sembrano essere diventati negli ultimi anni
una tappa necessaria e fisiologica allo
sviluppo della carriera di ogni autore: spostarsi
alla ricerca di un nuovo modo
di vivere come strategia pianificata
per trasformare e arricchire la propria pratica.
“Abitare” ha deciso di entrare nelle stanze
e attraversare gli studi di due artist residency
program molto distanti geograficamente
tra loro, ma dalla natura simile e forse
emblematici del nostro tempo: lontani dalla
congestione urbana e dalla densità, vicino
alla condizione di ritiro e isolamento.
Due isole artificiali come il Centre international
d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière in
Francia dove ora vive l’artista italiano Diego
Marcon e Indy Island, una micro-architettura
galleggiante concepita da Andrea Zittel
per l’Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Living far from it all. Looking for the perfect
conditions for research, for concentration
and production. In recent years, residence
programmes for artists and designers seem
to have become a necessary, physiological
stage in the career development of creative
individuals, who go off to look for a new way
of living as a strategic choice that transforms
and enriches them and their work.
“Abitare” has been investigating the interior
spaces of two artist residency programmes
that are continents apart, but quite similar
in nature: far away from the idea of urban
congestion and density, close to the condition
of being on retreat and living on the edges.
Here we look at two artificial islands:
the Centre international d’art et du paysage on
the Île de Vassivière in France, where Italian
artist Diego Marcon is currently living,
and Indy Island, a floating piece
of micro-architecture created by Andrea Zittel
for the Indianapolis Museum of Art. FG
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to apply for a residence at the Centre
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Nella pagina a lato: Diego Marcon
al lavoro nel suo appartamento
e nei nuovi spazi comuni del castello.
Sopra, dall’alto: vista degli ambienti
disegnati da Berger&Berger
e BuildingBuilding durante la mostra
“Champ d’expériences” (2012).
Immagini di lavorazione del film
di Marcon.
La nuova superficie interna degli studi
totalmente bianca, astratta e
caratterizzata da spigoli smussati,
trasforma gli ambienti della residenza in
un paesaggio nel quale da un lato poter
affinare concentrazione e pensiero,
dall’altro abitare in relazione con la
natura, il vento e la luce di Vassivière.
Opposite page: Diego Marcon at work
into his apartment and in the new
spaces of the castle.
Above, from the top: view of the
spaces designed by Berger&Berger
and BuildingBuilding during the show
“Champ d’expériences” (2012).
Work-in-progress images of Marcon’s
project at Vassiviere.
The interior re-conceived by the
architects, which is white, abstract and
softly contoured, turns the residential
location into a landscape in which to
concentrate and sharpen the mind on
the one hand, and to establish contact
with the natural world of Vassivière,
its wind and its light on the other.
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ASSONOMETRIA DEI NUOVI SPAZI INTERNI / AXONOMETRIC STUDY OF THE NEW SPACES
Il Centre international d’art et
du paysage de l’île de
Vassivière ospita dal 2012 un
nuovo programma di artistresidencies negli spazi del
castello ridisegnati dagli architetti
francesi Berger&Berger e
BuildingBuilding.
I nuovi ambienti attraversano
l’edificio esistente aprendosi alle
estremità in due ampie bocche,
una rivolta verso il paesaggio
dell’isola , l’altra verso il cielo
(pagina a lato).
Since 2012, the Centre
international d’art et du
paysage de l’Île de Vassivière
is hosting a new artist-residency
program in the castle of the island,
redesigned by French architects
Berger&Berger and
BuildingBuilding.
The new interior spaces cross the
existing building with large
openings at either end,
one looking out onto the island
landscape, the other looking
up to the sky (opposite page).
1 Appartamento-studio
di Diego Marcon /
Diego Marcon’s
study-apartment
2 Ingresso / Entrance
3 Corridoio / Corridor
4 Spazi studio aperti
a differenti attività / Studio
spaces as platforms
for different activities
5 Stanza a cielo aperto /
Open air patio
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