Fragmenti: Rome built in a day

FRAGMENTI:

Rome built in a day

A project that intends to present perspectives, expressions and conceptions of Rome, through the positions of a selection of emerging Rome-based artists. It seeks to show their understanding of this city, whilst disclosing those intertwined realities visitors and locals share.

“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning roads, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, serrations, notches, abrasions.”

(Italo Calvino, The Invisible Cities)

In Fragmenti: Rome Built in a Day the artists are invited to use puzzle pieces as a canvas that forms a map of present-day Rome. Each selected artist is commissioned to work on one of the puzzle pieces during a meeting with one of the curators of the show. During the time spent together, as the conversation on the artists’ practices unfolds, the choices behind their representation of Rome are disclosed.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Visitors are invited to add their own perception on a blank puzzle piece. This participatory aspect of the exhibition implies that each element of the city is a piece of a larger mosaic, each visitor, in that moment, participates in a larger idea and project. Rome is not only a physical reality, but a place where existences and histories multiply and confront each other, ethereal and labyrinthic.

Fragmenti: Rome Built in a Day gives a chance to artists, visitors, and citizens to relate and share reflections, points of view, and considerations on the city that surrounds us. The exhibition gives not only a prompt but also a physical and tangible space to take a step back and see the larger picture, starting from our piece. Moreover, Fragmenti: Rome Built in a Day becomes the representation of the many lives, some more similar, others more distant, that meet and part in a shared space.

The view on Aurelian walls from below is one of the many representations of the ancient site the artist came up with within the past years. For him, for many reasons, they are an incredible frame for accidents and phenomena.

3. Michele Tocca

"All of my art has something of Rome in it, it's a great source of inspiration for me. I love how there is leggerezza (lightness) in the air, you can see people fully immersed in what they are doing, like when you see someone sitting at a café just reading their newspaper."

1. Matilde Adele

The piece refers to small sculptures of AI-generated images of cats. The exhibition was called Micio? (Cat?) after a graffiti tag she saw everywhere in the Pigneto area. Rome is kind of the city of cats.

2. Alessandra Cecchini

Monochrome collage reflects Traven's perception of Rome as a "beautiful mess", a chaos in which multiple epoches are constantly involved.

4. Traven Thomas

“Rome is the place that hugs you…”
A night walk near Castel Sant'Angelo with musicians playing in the streets is Maya's way of romanticizing the city while growing up and finding herself in a big city.

5. Maya Ogle

"It is not possible to describe Rome with one word… Rome forever and finished. And you have to like Rome for all those pieces that are missing, because most of them do."

6. Cristallo

"Rome in one word is "Full". It’s full of people, things to see, everything, also what should not be here."

9. Crollame

"It's beautiful. It’s strange. This city is unique because you can work vertical, horizontal, up, and down, past, and future... Before, I hated it. But you can hate it and love it at the same time."

7. Diego Miguel Mirabella

His piece is a statement on how our garbage can transform itself and that the materials around us create an alphabet for how we read our city.

8. Andrea Polichetti

Pieces of Rome show the struggles but also joys of living in the city. Although she has to adjust to the spontaneity and slow pace of Italian life, the atmosphere of Rome brings her joy and makes her reffer to the city as home.

10. Anastasiia Lazareva

Rome’s ruins are a vital element to the city, similar to Athens and Cairo, and its decadence comes from its decaying. Minimalism and ruins meet once there is only ashes left to look upon, and so Francesca’s puzzle piece was burned into a smoke reminiscent of the pollution of the city and the future of Rome that inevitably awaits it.

11. Francesca Cornacchini

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Francesca Cornacchini

A 2006 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum displayed graffiti as an art form that began in New York's.

"I had always sought for the feeling of belonging to any culture, any history, and I felt this in Rome. This feeling made me find historic relations between my culture (Iran) and Rome."

12. Ayna Moazen

"Rome seems the perfect metaphor for the bittersweet process of finding our place in the world. Rome is full of contrast and discovery... When finding your place in Rome, the possibilities are endless, exciting, peculiar, and behind schedule..."

14. Kristen Fiorvanti

"It started as a relationship between earth and sky. Now, it's a person that survives in Rome engulfing it."
To Pierre, Rome itself is a an alienating city to survive through angry glaces and insurmountable distance. However, it is also the right place to enjoy everyday routines, meetings and even sounds.

15. Pierre Peroncini

Enchanted by the spirit of Porta Portese and its abandoned treasures, artist thinks about lost memories and dreams of the past, crushed under the ever-turning wheels of time.

18. Keaton Gershen-Lewis

"Rome is like a parent who says a lot of things that you don’t understand, and that then you find yourself saying". Francesco has always wanted to run away from it until he realized that Rome, immobile itself, can only be appreciated as a place to stay rather than escape from.

16. Francesco Misiti

"The city is full of culture, but the people in Rome seem to not be as cultured as the city", – this is only one of many contradictions that define Rome's beauty and anxiety.

17. Dina Matar

The drawing comes from a series "Sexual Tension Without Intension" and identifies artist's relationships with his hometown and its unique disproportions.

19. Guglielmo Maggini

Contrasting colours are inspired by the ones of Piazza Vittorio. This piece comes from artist's own puzzle of childhood memories of the vibrant and bustle neighbourhood he grew up in.

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