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A.I. Gallery Fashion artisans enter contemporary art galleries Rome 8­11 July 2011 A.I. Artisanal Intelligence ‐a project promoted by AltaRoma‐ is a platform created to unite Art, Craftsmanship and Fashion in the name of Made in Italy. A.I. is a publication dedicated to emerging creativity, it is a blog and a series of events hosted in unusual, highly appealing venues. Its main theme is the art of handcrafting, a timeless tradition and an increasingly current response to the desire of today’s world for uniqueness and exclusivity. The protagonists of the first edition of A.I. Gallery were the studios and ateliers of artists who opened their venues on a “once‐off” basis to fashion design. This year, the project – based on an idea by Clara Pamphili and curated by Alessio de Navasques – will revolve around the art galleries of the Artughet Association, concentrated in the Ghetto area. Five Roman galleries, including the Valentina Bonomo gallery, the Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Edieuropa, the Pio Monti contemporary art galley and Opera Unica, will host five young designers who have based their own individual stylistic identities on the concept of handmade items. Each artisan will create a site‐specific installation using pieces from their own collections, in a “first‐ever” interaction with spaces that generally only exhibit contemporary works of art. Hence, during the event‐filled days of AltaRoma, the Ghetto will be transformed into a sort of artisan Fashion District. The event will be inaugurated on Friday 8 July from 5.00pm to 9.00pm with a presentation of the spaces to the international press and industry members. Visitors will also have a chance to access the exhibitions on Saturday, 9 July, Sunday, 10 July and Monday 11 July from 6.00pm to 9.00pm. Valentina Bonomo Rome will host Gruppo di caftani in un interno, an exhibition by Allegra Hicks. The designer, famed for her prints and fabrics, will present a collection of ten caftans. All unique, numbered, entirely handmade items. Thanks to the designer’s fabrics, the Renaissance courtyard of the gallery will be transformed into an unusual stage; prints, colours, pastels and natural subjects will take visitors into an atmosphere suspended between Marrakesch and Palazzo Fortuny, in Venice. Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery will host Pastpresent by Caterina Gatta. After presenting her collection for the first time in New York and subsequently at Palazzo Moraldo as one of the new talents selected by Vogue, the young Roman designer has returned to her home town with a project that pays tribute to Rome and the atmosphere of Hollywood on the Tiber. Caterina will exhibit six monumental garments, entirely handmade using the vintage fabrics of several of italy’s best‐known fashion designers including Fausto Sarli, Lancetti, Gattinoni, Gianni Versace, Valentino, Irene Galitzine and Clara Centinaro, in a creative meld of tradition and future. Edieuropa, will host Punti di Stile by Francesca Liberatore and the Uroboros collection of jewel sculptures by Bibijou. Francesca Liberatore is back in Rome to present her most recent work featuring brightly coloured garments, contrasting textures and primitive lines. The jacquard working techniques and the application of Swarovski Elements are not only precious but also essential details. The swathes of material design clear‐cut geometries and intertwine into soft knots, highlighting an almost sculptorial study of shapes and volumes in an ongoing process. The Uroboros collection designed and created by Barbara Brancaleoni for Bibijou is halfway between Art and High‐Class Craftsmanship. Scraps of leather and metal are arranged sequentially to create concave‐convex shapes that evoke organic forms and encompass natural fragments, wood and stones smoothed by ocean currents. They are design objects that adapt and are moulded on the body according to the purpose for which they will be used. Pio Monti Arte Contemporanea will host Sie.Obzone: a real artistic project combining Fashion, Design and Photography, resulting from a partnership between Jessica Harris, designer Elena Boni and Berlin photographer Bonnie Strange. An installation of furniture, flowers and candles in which models move, giving life to a retro‐style tableaux vivant. Jessica Harris will use this backdrop to present 11 unique, numbered garments. Based on haute couture techniques, in contrast to her latex lingerie, each piece is constructed in charmeuse satin. Daring silhouettes can be glimpsed through slits and plunging necklines. Opera Unica will host the collection by artisan brand Livia Crispolti Tessuto a mano entitled Filo diretto 2011. The designer proposes an installation conceived as a 10 metre, handwoven canvas, the result of a complex play of weaving, wefts and warps. Everyday occurrences, materials (silk, wool hemp, viscose and raffia), colours (warm, cold, violent or delicate), fullness and voids become an expressive choice: the fabric reveals itself as something intimate to be admired and touched. useful information A.I. Gallery Gli Artigiani della Moda entrano nelle Gallerie d'Arte Rome 8‐ 11 July 2011 inauguration 8 July from 5.00pm – 9.00pm from 9 to 11 July the exhibition will be open from 6.00pm – 9.00pm venues: Valentina Bonomo Rome Gruppo di caftani in un interno by Allegra Hicks Via del Portico d’Ottavia 13 Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery Pastpresent collezione by Caterina Gatta Via del Portico d’Ottavia 7 Galleria Edieuropa Punti di Stile by Francesca Liberatore Collection of Uroboros jewel sculptures by Bibijou Piazza Cenci 56 Pio Monti contemporary art galley Sie. Obszöne, AW 11 by Jessica Harris Installation by Elena Boni and photos by Bonnie Strange Piazza Mattei 18 Opera Unica Livia Crispolti Tessuto a mano ‐ Filo diretto 2011 Via della Reginella 26 Per info:
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