cinema nervi
ONLINE EVERY TUESDAY, BEGINNING 19 JANUARY 2021 AT 11AM
on the NAM – Not a Museum IgTv
and on the Manifattura Tabacchi YouTube channel.
FACEBOOK EVENT
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Cinema Nervi is a videoart project which offers an enriching
contemporary and experimental contribution to the exhibition Pier Luigi Nervi, Structure and Beauty, dedicated to the work of the world-renowned Italian architectural engineer, on display in the temporary exhibition spaces at Manifattura Tabacchi.
19 January: Lucia Tahan – Palazzo del Lavoro / Torino
26 January: Clube – Ambasciata Italiana / Brasilia
2 February: The Pleasure Paradox – Stadio G. Berta / Firenze
9 February: Alessio Grancini – Manifattura Tabacchi
16 February: Anabel Garcia Kurland – Sede Unesco / Parigi
Cinema Nervi is a project created in collaboration with Parasite
2.0. The work of the collective looks into the state of the human habitat through a hybrid of architecture, design and art. By revisiting the work of Nervi and the
exhibition in the spaces of the ex-industrial complex, Parasite 2.0 add a contemporary and inter-
disciplinary perspective on Nervi’s creations by using the language of the digital world. It is an
approach which mirrors the experimentation explored by NAM – Not A Museum, a contemporary art
programme from Manifattura Tabacchi.
Cinema Nervi takes place over two parallel levels. There is a digital space, dedicated to the virtual exploration of the works, and a physical installation of an imaginary project that was never actually carried out by Nervi, which can be seen alongside the exhibition Pier Luigi Nervi, Structure and Beauty.
Parasite 2.0 has drawn its inspiration from one of Nervi’s most beloved projects, the Cinema-Teatro Augusteo in Napoli, calling on the contribution of 5 different international architectural studios, artists and designers. Lucia Tahan (Berlin), Clube (Sao Paolo), The Pleasure Paradox (Milan, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Rotterdam), Anabel Garcia-Kurland (London) and Alessio Grancini (Los Angeles), have been asked to reinterpret various works of ‘Nervian’ architecture; respectively, the Palazzo del Lavoro in Turin, the Italian Embassy in Brasilia, Manifattura Tabacchi and the Stadio G. Berta (now known as the Artemio Franchi) both in Florence, and the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, using design tools that would have been unknown during Nervi’s time; video and digital artforms.
Cinema Nervi takes place over two parallel levels. There is a digital space, dedicated to the virtual exploration of the works, and a physical installation of an imaginary project that was never actually carried out by Nervi, which can be seen alongside the exhibition Pier Luigi Nervi, Structure and Beauty.
The structure of Cinema Nervi is double-sided, with the digital architecture displaying the video contributions online,
and a physical device which is viewable as part of the exhibition.
The project Cinema Nervi is inspired by one of the works Nervi was most fond of, i.e. the Cinema-Teatro Augusteo in Naples, as a space dedicated to presenting works to a public, and also by the possibilities of the contemporary digital production which allow us to visualize future scenarios for what, in this case, seems to be a heritage with no future.
exhibition pier luigi nervi architettura come sfida
Parasite 2.0 (Parasite 2.0 (Stefano Colombo, Eugenio Cosentino, Luca Marullo) is an architecture, design and research office founded in 2010 and based in Milan, Brussels and London. They investigate the status of human habitats, acting within a hybrid of architecture, design and scenography. They have worked and collaborated with Triennale Milano, Galleria Skala, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Forecast (Berlino), Galeria e Bregdedit (Valona), MAMbo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni, domesti.city (New York), XX Chilean Architecture Biennale (Valparaiso), La Biennale di Venezia, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI, among others. They have led didactic activity at the Faculté d’architecture de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, Design Academy Eindhoven and Politecnico di Milano, among others. They taught at NABA Nuova Accademia Belle Arti Milano and Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and they are currently teaching at MADE Program in Siracusa, IED Roma and Free University of Bozen. Parasite 2.0 are represented by Operativa Arte Contemporanea Gallery and Galleria Corraini Arte Contemporanea.
