PIANO
Prepared Platform for Contemporary Art France–Italy 2014–2015
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PIANO is a Franco-Italian curatorial platform created on the initiative of the d.c.a / the French association for the development of centres d’art.
For the first phase of the project in 2014, 17 organizations are joining forces to develop 20 art projects, some of which even fall outside of this Franco-Italian geography. In 2015 PIANO aims to extend the exchanges to new French and Italian art organizations, eventually turning towards Europe as a whole.
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:
La démocratie est illusion / La democrazia è illusione (The Democracy is Illusion)
Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain (Brest)
Villa Croce Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (Genoa)
The Registry of Promise
Fondazione Giuliani (Rome)
Parc Saint Léger (Pougues-les-Eaux)
Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac (Ivry-sur-Seine)
De Vleeshal (Middelburg, Netherlands)
Ephemera
Cneai = (Chatou)
MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (Rome)
Piano – alto !
Careof DOCVA (Milan)
Dolomiti Contemporanee (Belluno)
Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou (Cajarc)
CAC Chapelle St Jacques (Saint-Gaudens)
BBB centre d’art (Toulouse)
Soleil politique
Museion (Bolzano)
CAC Brétigny (Brétigny-sur-Orge)
From & To
Villa Arson (Nice)
Kunst Meran Merano Arte (Merano)
www.pianoproject.org designed and powered by CURA. will be 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 48 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-–2015, 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.
