Sous-série
AP207.S2.SS07
Description:
The sub-series documents the exhibition "Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto", curated by Pettena and presented at Palazzo delle Albere, in Trento, in 1991. The exhibition presented the work of Italian architect Ettore Sottsass. The exhibition, promoted by his son Ettore Sottsass Jr, led to the donation of the Sottsass archive to the MART, in Trento. The sub-series contains research material, including photocopies of articles and books on Ettore Sottsass, photographs of his projects and reproductions of his plans, as well as some notes by Gianni Pettena. This sub-series also contains preliminary project descriptions for the exhibition catalogue with a selection of plans and images of the buildings designed by Sottsass.
1980-1996
Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto (1991)
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AP207.S2.SS07
Description:
The sub-series documents the exhibition "Ettore Sottsass sr. Architetto", curated by Pettena and presented at Palazzo delle Albere, in Trento, in 1991. The exhibition presented the work of Italian architect Ettore Sottsass. The exhibition, promoted by his son Ettore Sottsass Jr, led to the donation of the Sottsass archive to the MART, in Trento. The sub-series contains research material, including photocopies of articles and books on Ettore Sottsass, photographs of his projects and reproductions of his plans, as well as some notes by Gianni Pettena. This sub-series also contains preliminary project descriptions for the exhibition catalogue with a selection of plans and images of the buildings designed by Sottsass.
Subseries
1980-1996
Projet
Laundry (1969)
AP207.S1.1969.PR02
Description:
This project series documents Pettena's installation "Laundry" realized in the context of the Campo Urbano, a series of artistic events staged during a day at the Piazza del Duomo, in the historic centre of Como, in Italy, on the 21st of September 1969. Pettena was one of the forty artists, musicians, architects and art critics invited to the event [2]. For his installation, "Pettena chose to hang out washing on clothes lines, with the aim of underlining the difference between the appearance of a city and the experience of living in it." [2]. The project series contains photographs of the installation at the Piazza del Duomo, in Como, sketches of the installation, and a project description in English and Italian. Sources: [1] Radical Pedagogies, https://radical-pedagogies.com/search-cases/i05-campo-urbano/ (last accessed 4 November 2019) [2] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-laundry-1969-1/ (last accessed 4 November 2019)
circa 1969-2017
Laundry (1969)
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AP207.S1.1969.PR02
Description:
This project series documents Pettena's installation "Laundry" realized in the context of the Campo Urbano, a series of artistic events staged during a day at the Piazza del Duomo, in the historic centre of Como, in Italy, on the 21st of September 1969. Pettena was one of the forty artists, musicians, architects and art critics invited to the event [2]. For his installation, "Pettena chose to hang out washing on clothes lines, with the aim of underlining the difference between the appearance of a city and the experience of living in it." [2]. The project series contains photographs of the installation at the Piazza del Duomo, in Como, sketches of the installation, and a project description in English and Italian. Sources: [1] Radical Pedagogies, https://radical-pedagogies.com/search-cases/i05-campo-urbano/ (last accessed 4 November 2019) [2] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-laundry-1969-1/ (last accessed 4 November 2019)
Project
circa 1969-2017
Sous-série
AP207.S2.SS10
Description:
The sub-series documents the exhibition and the related publication "Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo" curated by Pettena. The exhibition was presented at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, in 1996. The exhibition, dedicated to American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, is the result of several years of Pettena's research on landscape architecture and how urban parks symbolized social changes in the second half of the 19th century. This sub-series contains research material such as notes by Pettena, information on Olmsted's landscape projects, publications on Olmsted, and leaflets and ephemera from other exhibitions or events on Olmsted. The research material also contains correspondence of Gianni Pettena with experts on Olmsted or with the Frederick Law Olmsted Association. Also included, are documents related to the planning and the production of the exhibition and the related publication, such as correspondence, exhibition programs, strategic program, summaries of the exhibition's themes, object lists, and budget and draft texts for the publication.
1991-1996
Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo (1996)
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AP207.S2.SS10
Description:
The sub-series documents the exhibition and the related publication "Olmsted: L'origine del parco urbano e del parco naturale contemporaneo" curated by Pettena. The exhibition was presented at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, in 1996. The exhibition, dedicated to American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, is the result of several years of Pettena's research on landscape architecture and how urban parks symbolized social changes in the second half of the 19th century. This sub-series contains research material such as notes by Pettena, information on Olmsted's landscape projects, publications on Olmsted, and leaflets and ephemera from other exhibitions or events on Olmsted. The research material also contains correspondence of Gianni Pettena with experts on Olmsted or with the Frederick Law Olmsted Association. Also included, are documents related to the planning and the production of the exhibition and the related publication, such as correspondence, exhibition programs, strategic program, summaries of the exhibition's themes, object lists, and budget and draft texts for the publication.
Subseries
1991-1996
Projet
AP207.S1.1972.PR05
Description:
The project series documents "About Non-conscious Architecture", a series of photographs thought as a catalogue of natural geographical features, seen by Pettena as "architecture not made by architects" [1]. The catalogue was built during Pettena's travels in the United States, between 1972 and 1973, and includes landscapes of Utah and the Great Salt Lake area and Monument Valley in Arizona. The project was also presented in the form of a film at the 1973 Milan Triennale. The project series contains the photographs taken during research travels for the project selection, including behind the scene photographs, and final photographs series of "non-conscious" architecture. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-non-conscious-1972-73-1/ (last accessed 12 November 2019).
circa 1972-2015
About None-conscious Architecture (1972-1973)
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AP207.S1.1972.PR05
Description:
The project series documents "About Non-conscious Architecture", a series of photographs thought as a catalogue of natural geographical features, seen by Pettena as "architecture not made by architects" [1]. The catalogue was built during Pettena's travels in the United States, between 1972 and 1973, and includes landscapes of Utah and the Great Salt Lake area and Monument Valley in Arizona. The project was also presented in the form of a film at the 1973 Milan Triennale. The project series contains the photographs taken during research travels for the project selection, including behind the scene photographs, and final photographs series of "non-conscious" architecture. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/nat-non-conscious-1972-73-1/ (last accessed 12 November 2019).
Project
circa 1972-2015
Projet
Some Call Him Pig (1971)
AP207.S1.1971.PR07
Description:
The project series documents "Some Call him Pig," a photograph taken by Petenna of billboard produced by the Minneapolis police department to promote the merits of police officers and respond to the slang term "pigs" used to refer to policemen. The billboard shows a policeman holding an unconscious child in his arms and practicing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. "Pettena underlined its 'contradiction in terms' and unintentional irony, incomprehensible to the Americans of the mid-west." [1] The project series contains a photograph of the billboard and project description in English and Italian. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-some-call-him-pig-1971-1/ (last accessed 11 November 2019)
circa 1971-2015
Some Call Him Pig (1971)
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AP207.S1.1971.PR07
Description:
The project series documents "Some Call him Pig," a photograph taken by Petenna of billboard produced by the Minneapolis police department to promote the merits of police officers and respond to the slang term "pigs" used to refer to policemen. The billboard shows a policeman holding an unconscious child in his arms and practicing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. "Pettena underlined its 'contradiction in terms' and unintentional irony, incomprehensible to the Americans of the mid-west." [1] The project series contains a photograph of the billboard and project description in English and Italian. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-some-call-him-pig-1971-1/ (last accessed 11 November 2019)
Project
circa 1971-2015
Projet
AP207.S1.1972.PR06
Description:
The project series documents the film "Random Movies" produced by Pettena in 1972. The project consists of a film created by Pettena with randomly selected filmstrips of film reels that were going to be thrown away. The film was then presented to the public in Salt Lake City without anyone looking at the content before. The filmstrips "were out-of-date promotional films, many of them in two copies, commercial advertisements as well as electoral propaganda. So the screening proved particularly provocative for an audience that had come to attend a “cultured” lecture and found themselves, in an insistent manner, treated as an audience of “advertising skits.” "[1] The project series contains project descriptions in English and in Italian, a film still and a digital version of the film. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-random-movies-1972-1/ (last accessed 12 November 2019).
2011-2015
Random Movies (1972)
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AP207.S1.1972.PR06
Description:
The project series documents the film "Random Movies" produced by Pettena in 1972. The project consists of a film created by Pettena with randomly selected filmstrips of film reels that were going to be thrown away. The film was then presented to the public in Salt Lake City without anyone looking at the content before. The filmstrips "were out-of-date promotional films, many of them in two copies, commercial advertisements as well as electoral propaganda. So the screening proved particularly provocative for an audience that had come to attend a “cultured” lecture and found themselves, in an insistent manner, treated as an audience of “advertising skits.” "[1] The project series contains project descriptions in English and in Italian, a film still and a digital version of the film. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-random-movies-1972-1/ (last accessed 12 November 2019).
Project
2011-2015
Sous-série
AP207.S2.SS09
Description:
The sub-series documents the exhibition "Radicals. Architettura e design 1960-1975", curated by Pettena and presented in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1996. This documentary exhibition on the Radical architecture movement in the 1960s and the 1970s, for presented the Radical movement not as "essentially conceptual contribution, as “fantastic” theories and utopian visions of the future" [1] but as "precursors of the most innovative production of the contemporary, international architectural scene." [2] The sub-series contains research material, including photocopies of articles on the Radical movement and research on previous editions of the Venice Biennale. It also contains correspondence for the planning of the exhibition, including with Hans Hollein and the Biennale administration, a draft exhibition proposal, concept development notes by Pettena, proposals for promotional material on the exhibition and press clippings. Source: [1][2] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/english/exhibitions/settings/ (last accessed 29 January 2020).
1992-2010
Radicals. Architettura e Design 1960-1975 (1992)
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AP207.S2.SS09
Description:
The sub-series documents the exhibition "Radicals. Architettura e design 1960-1975", curated by Pettena and presented in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1996. This documentary exhibition on the Radical architecture movement in the 1960s and the 1970s, for presented the Radical movement not as "essentially conceptual contribution, as “fantastic” theories and utopian visions of the future" [1] but as "precursors of the most innovative production of the contemporary, international architectural scene." [2] The sub-series contains research material, including photocopies of articles on the Radical movement and research on previous editions of the Venice Biennale. It also contains correspondence for the planning of the exhibition, including with Hans Hollein and the Biennale administration, a draft exhibition proposal, concept development notes by Pettena, proposals for promotional material on the exhibition and press clippings. Source: [1][2] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/english/exhibitions/settings/ (last accessed 29 January 2020).
Subseries
1992-2010
Projet
AP207.S1.1987.PR01
Description:
The project series documents "Paesaggi Della Memoria", an installation presented at the Castello Aragonese, in Otranto in 1987. The installation consists of a small mound of sand on which is placed a plastic open suitcase and plastic cuttings that represent the mountains from Pettena's childhood landscape. This work by Pettena is a "metaphor for any possible personal interpretation of the universal theme of the landscape, bestow on it an artistic significance, the charge carried by the values of poetry, of the memory of a space and a time that here also acquire, thanks to the context, the “Mediterranean” dimension, reinforced by the presence of sand and the essential character of the setting." [1] The project series contains sketches and installation photographs and videos. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-landscapes-of-memory-1987/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
circa 1987-2015
Paesaggi Della Memoria [Landscapes of Memory] (1987)
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AP207.S1.1987.PR01
Description:
The project series documents "Paesaggi Della Memoria", an installation presented at the Castello Aragonese, in Otranto in 1987. The installation consists of a small mound of sand on which is placed a plastic open suitcase and plastic cuttings that represent the mountains from Pettena's childhood landscape. This work by Pettena is a "metaphor for any possible personal interpretation of the universal theme of the landscape, bestow on it an artistic significance, the charge carried by the values of poetry, of the memory of a space and a time that here also acquire, thanks to the context, the “Mediterranean” dimension, reinforced by the presence of sand and the essential character of the setting." [1] The project series contains sketches and installation photographs and videos. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-landscapes-of-memory-1987/ (last accessed 11 December 2019).
Project
circa 1987-2015
Projet
AP207.S1.2011.PR05
Description:
The project series documents the installation "Uno Spazio Per Pierre" designed by Pettena in 2011. It was presented in Turin at the Artissima 18, in 2011. The installation consists of a metal beam structure that is shaped like house. On the inside of the structure there is a table and chairs. The layout of all the elements inside the structure is based of the golden ratio. "Designed and built for a friend, Pierre Bal Blanc, this archetypal space [...] presents the artist/curator with a ‘tabula rasa’, that is to say with endless creative possibilities.." [1] The project series contains sketches and photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/arch-space-for-pierre-2011/ (last accessed 23 January 2020)
2011-2015
Uno Spazio Per Pierre [A Space for Pierre] (2011)
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AP207.S1.2011.PR05
Description:
The project series documents the installation "Uno Spazio Per Pierre" designed by Pettena in 2011. It was presented in Turin at the Artissima 18, in 2011. The installation consists of a metal beam structure that is shaped like house. On the inside of the structure there is a table and chairs. The layout of all the elements inside the structure is based of the golden ratio. "Designed and built for a friend, Pierre Bal Blanc, this archetypal space [...] presents the artist/curator with a ‘tabula rasa’, that is to say with endless creative possibilities.." [1] The project series contains sketches and photographs of the installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/arch-space-for-pierre-2011/ (last accessed 23 January 2020)
Project
2011-2015
Projet
Handmade (2012)
AP207.S1.2012.PR08
Description:
The project series documents "Handmade", an installation by Pettena presented at ALT Collection, in Alzano Lombardo, in 2012. The installation consists of covering an entier existing wall of the exhibition space with handmade balls of clay that maintained the size and the imprints of fists that shaped them. The installation is "statement on the importance of the use of natural materials and of the presence of the human being as an actor to connote in whoever uses them a greater and more conscious participation in the gesture and in its production, whether creative or not." [1] The project series contains drawings of the installation and photograph. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-handmade-2012-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
2012-2015
Handmade (2012)
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AP207.S1.2012.PR08
Description:
The project series documents "Handmade", an installation by Pettena presented at ALT Collection, in Alzano Lombardo, in 2012. The installation consists of covering an entier existing wall of the exhibition space with handmade balls of clay that maintained the size and the imprints of fists that shaped them. The installation is "statement on the importance of the use of natural materials and of the presence of the human being as an actor to connote in whoever uses them a greater and more conscious participation in the gesture and in its production, whether creative or not." [1] The project series contains drawings of the installation and photograph. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-handmade-2012-1/ (last accessed 27 January 2020)
Project
2012-2015