PIANO, Prepared Platform for Contemporary Art
France–Italy 2014–15
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PIANO, a Franco-Italian curatorial platform created upon the initiative of d.c.a / French association for the development of centres d’art, is entering its second phase in 2015, further developing the dynamic initiated in 2014, with a renewed ambition covering new ground and continuing to explore different formats.
PIANO is a shared workspace and a polyphonic instrument that welcomes, at various rhythms and tempos, d.c.a’s member centres d’art on the French side, and a wider range of organizations in Italy: public and private museums, as well as foundations and alternative spaces. This year, the platform is more importantly claiming to be an active and constructive research area promoting the definition of new models with a wealth of shared expertise from the institutions involved.
PIANO comes in various formats: residency exchanges, invitations to international curators and the curatorships shared by the directors of the different art venues. They involve emerging and established artists from all generations.
The projects produced in 2014 reflect the diversity and uniqueness of the partner organizations:
Exercizing Doubt: Exhibition as Research
Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche (Paris)
ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum (Bolzano)
Piano – alto !
Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou CAC (Cajarc)
Centre d’art contemporain Chapelle St Jacques (Saint-Gaudens)
BBB centre d’art (Toulouse)
Careof DOCVA (Milan)
Dolomiti Contemporanee (Casso)
Red Swan Hotel
cneai = centre national edition art image (Chatou)
MACRO Museo d’arte contemporanea Roma (Rome)
Alfred Jarry Archipelago
Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain (Quimper)
Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson (Noisiel)
Museo Marino Marini (Florence)
The Book Society #02
Centre d’art contemporain – la synagogue de Delme (Delme)
Peep-Hole (Milan)
Double cross, from both sides of a mountain
cab – centre d’art bastille (Grenoble)
Viafarini DOCVA (Milan)
www.pianoproject.org designed and powered by CURA. is an online information exchange instrument for art professionals, but also a resource platform open to the public.
In the spirit of the “prepared piano” invented by Erik Satie and later popularized by John Cage, PIANO encourages the novel use of cultural exchange instruments. With the aim of returning to the essence of art and constantly reshaping its creative tools, PIANO promotes plasticity in relations between disciplines, spheres and regions. Whether online or at large, PIANO aims to harmonize public and private cultural initiatives, combining their sensibilities.
With 49 centres d’art, d.c.a / French association for the development of centres d’art aims to give centres d’art greater visibility by collaborations, co-productions, joint publications, national and international partnerships, based on artistic exchanges.
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PIANO, Prepared Platform for Contemporary Art, France–Italy 2014–15, initiated by d.c.a / French association for the development of centres d’art, in partnership with the Institut français in Italy, the French Embassy in Italy and the Institut français, with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication and Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati.
