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COMING SOON AT PALAZZO BOTTIGELLA IN PAVIA
Some of you might still remember the beautiful Renaissance Palazzo in Pavia: Palazzo Bottigella also called il Gandini.
Last spring my bags passed through that historic city landmark and for few months took over its courtyard and the upper loggia.
Well, this time the Curator Marinagela Calisti invited more artists to invade that space with contemporary art and to open its door to the city life with the show entitled THE ROOMS.
Each artist will interact with one of the Palazzo’s rooms. The exhibitions opens on 27th September.
In the meantime Marinagela Calisti is working hard to create a meeting point for contemporary culture that can embrace the town’s history and its artistic activities and that can also regularly function as a landmark of exchange.
WAITING ROOM AT CAP LANDEN
Waiting Room was filmed at Cap Landen, or better at Enrico Landini’s beach, my favourite place when in Italy. I have been going to this beach for years and always finding it very inspirational. Loads of my videos material and footage have been filmed here. Shame that the plastic bags you’ll see in this video I have rescued from the beach.
WAITING ROOM
WAITING ROOM and the previous two videos (FOR SALE NOT FOR SALE and TRA ORIZZONTE, INFINITO E PRECIPIZIO C’E’ IL MARE) posted prior to this, are my last works for this season.
Next week I’ll start a new adventure at OTIS College for Art and Design in Los Angeles. For the next two years I will be a student again attending Suzanne Lacy’s Public Practice MFA programme.
While I am very excited for this amazing opportunity and to the prospect to intensively learn and experiment again I am also holding my breath in trepidation, wondering what will happen next to my art and I. Where will we be going?
This video WAITING ROOMS was inspired by PAUL KIKUCHI’s music. The piece is from the album OPEN GRAVES: HOLLOW LAKE and titled: WAITING ROOM! Although other circumstances influenced the making of the film I really liked the idea that this time a video work was created to complement a piece of music rather than the other way around.
I am a great fun of Paul’s work and this is not the first time that we ‘collaborate’ or better that he lends his work to me!
I met Paul at the Montalvo Arts Center in 2012 and would love to meet JESSE OLSEN BAY too. Jesse and Paul perform together in this album, check it out: OPEN GRAVES:HOLLOW LAKE PREFERTURE RECORDS© 2009
AND HERE IS THE VIDEO IN QUESTION, I HOPE YOU LIKE IT!
PALAZZO BOTTIGELLA: THE VIDEO
Here it finally comes! Now it’s more of a reminder of ‘PASSING THROUGH’ Palazzo Bottigella in Pavia last winter.
The video is longer than usual but this time I really wanted to express the hard work that gets invested into making artworks. Often is tedious and physical work but a necessary and vital phase to materialize the vision of an idea.
Some people might just like to see the final artwork as in a magic wound pop up gesture. Personally I think that the real magic lies in the process of chasing up an idea until it becomes true. The magic is the force behind the discipline invested and the commitment to pursuing a creation: a work of art.
In the past year in few but heartbreaking occasions my bags have been thrown away after they had finished serving their function as art.
To me it was unbelievable how a museum and couple of other places took the decision to dispose of my work even if in tatty and decaying conditions, that was actually the point from the very beginning.
These incidents made a very poignant point that I find relevant to the concept of my work. It is interesting to once again notice how most people view plastic bags as the usual disposable, worthless and cumbersome object that we are impatiently waiting to get rid of.
Well, here it is, this long tedious video partly shows how much time and hardship goes into making the artwork.
What the video doesn’t portray is all the other more hidden phases: collection, storage, deinstalling, dissembling, drying, recycling, packing, documenting, shipping thousand of plastic bags.
Of course it is much easier to get rid of them in the rubbish bin, but that is exactly the point!
Fortunately I was able to reclaim all the bags used for PASSING THROUGH, not even one got wasted! Thank you Mariangela Calisti!
In fact I was also able to recycled plastic pipes and metal wire. Some of the bags here in the videos have been repurposed evolved into a new life and meaning at the Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains in Lausanne.
Long Live my bags, I say!
CLAUDI PIRIPIPPI 
