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THE OTHER SHAPE OF THINGS | 1. Failed Objects • 2. Datamorphosis • 3. AAS47692
THE OTHER SHAPE OF THINGS is the title of a cycle of works that explores the form of information through heterogeneous technologies and techniques, including 3D-scanners, weaving, genetic analysis, data manipulation and 3D-printing. This research has currently led to three different projects
1. Failed Objects
The first project, THE OTHER SHAPE OF THINGS – 1. Failed Objects (2017-ongoing), focuses on a collection of hundreds of ‘failed objects’: 3D prints that I collected before they were destroyed by 3D printing labs all over the world. This project tackles the concept of ‘failure’ within technological mediations and technical reproductions.
2. Datamorphosis
The second project, THE OTHER SHAPE OF THINGS – 2. Datamorphosis (2019-ongoing), consists of 15 series of sculptures, called Libri (Books), based on the 15 books that comprise Ovid’s poem The Metamorphoses. This work explores the possibility of interpreting Latin poems about metamorphosis as coding instructions and spatial coordinates for the production of new sculptural forms.
3. AAS47692
The third project, THE OTHER SHAPE OF THINGS – 3. AAS47692 (2022), consists of six works produced from the DNA of a Norwegian spruce tree. The series focuses on the interplay between material form and genetic information through an experimental use of natural materials, weaving, data analysis, and digital elaboration.
EXHIBITIONS
- (2022) Fondazione Zegna. L’altra forma delle cose (AAS47692 / Picea Abies), curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, Casa Zegna, Trivero, Italy
- (2021) Hermitage Museum. Cyfest 13: Cosmos and Chaos, curated by Elena Gubanova, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- (2019) (Solo Exhibition) Art Rotterdam. 2019. New Art, GALLLERIAPIÙ, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- (2018) (Double Solo Exhibition) Artissima 2018, New Entries: GALLLERIAPIÙ, Turin, Italy
- (2017) (Solo Exhibition) RE-CAPTURE: Room(s) for Imperfection, GALLLERIAPIÙ (part of THE WRONG – New Digital Art Biennale), curated by Federica Patti, Bologna, Italy
(Selected) BIBLIOGRAPHY:
[EXHIBITION REVIEW]
Juliet
“The Breathing of a Code / Il respiro di un codice”
by Piermario De Angelis, June 2022 (eng – ita)
[SOURCE (eng) | SOURCE (ita) | PDF (eng) | PDF (ita) | PROJECT]
[EXHIBITION REVIEW]
Exibart
“L’altra forma delle cose’: Emilio Vavarella alla Fondazione Zegna, Valdilana”
June 2022 (ita)
[EXHIBITION REVIEW]
La Stampa
“L’altra forma delle cose: nell’arte di Emilio Vavarella le due anime della famiglia Zegna”
by Simona Romagnoli, June 2022. (ita)
[EXHIBITION REVIEW]
Artslife
“Memoria vegetale come materiale pulsante: una grande mostra di Emilio Vavarella”
By Flavinia Severini, 20 May 2022 (ita)
[SOURCE| PROJECT]
[CRITICAL TEXT]
Artslife – Fotoromanzo
“Emilio Vavarella: arte, errori e tecnologia. Una costante messa in discussione”
by Andrea Tinterri, May 2020 (ita)
[INTERVIEW]
ATP Diary
“Nuove ipotesi di realtà. Intervista con Emilio Vavarella (New hypotheses of reality: interview with Emilio Vavarella)”
Interview by Elena Bordignon, January 2020. (ita-eng)
[INTERVIEW]
Objects.
“Glitch, quando l’errore diventa arte. Intervista a Emilio Vavarella”
Interview by Maria Chiara Wang, 2018. (ita)
[PDF | SOURCE | ARCHIVED]
[CURATORIAL TEXT]
Curatorial text.
“RE-CAPTURE: Room(s) for Imperfection”
by Federica Patti, 2017 (ita-eng).
[WRITTEN CONTRIBUTION]
Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Vavarella, Emilio. “What is it like for a computer bot to be a computer bot?” and “Visual Essay”
Catalogue of exhibition at MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, CURA Editions, 2018 (ita-eng).
[EXHIBITION REVIEW]
Wall Street International Magazine.
“Re-Capture. Room (s) for Imperfection. Solo show di Emilio Vavarella”
2017 (ita).
[SOLO EXHIBITION REVIEW]
Artribune
“Errori e tecnologia: Emilio Vavarella a Bologna”
2017. (ita)
[SOURCE]
[INTERVIEW]
ATP DIARY
“Intervista con Emilio Vavarella”
By Irene Angenica, 2017 (ita)
[SOLO EXHIBITION REVIEW]
Exibart
“Emilio Vavarella, Re-Capture- Room(s) For Imperfection”
2017 (ita).
[PDF]
[CURATORIAL TEXT]
Curatorial text.
“RE-CAPTURE: Room(s) for Imperfection”
by Federica Patti, 2017 (ita-eng).
[SOLO EXHIBITION REVIEW]
Juliet Art Magazine
“Emilio Vavarella: RE-CAPTURE: Room(s) for Imperfection”
2017 (ita-eng).
[SOURCE (ITA) | SOURCE (ENG) | ARCHIVED]
[MA THESIS]
“The influence of digital and robotic techniques on sculpture.” (Tentative title)
MA Thesis by Bram Rinkel, advisor: Ria de Boodt).
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium, 2018 (eng)
[INTERVIEW]
Digicult.
“Thought is my Main Medium. Interview with Emilio Vavarella | Il pensiero è il mio medium principale. Intervista con Emilio Vavarella”
by Giada Totaro, July 2020. (ita-eng)
[SOURCE (ita) | SOURCE (eng) | ARCHIVED]
[INTERVIEW / BOOK]
Metafotografia, Vol.2. Le mutazioni delle immagini
“Intervista 25: Emilio Vavarella”
Edited by Mauro Zanchi and Sara Benaglia (eds.) Skinnerbox, Jesi (Italy), 2020, pp. 112-117. (ita-eng).
[BOOK]
Arte e tecnologia del terzo millennio. Scenari e protagonisti [Art and Technology in the Third Millennium: Landscapes and Protagonists]
Catricalà, Valentino and Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, I Quaderni della Collezione Farnesina, Vol. II, Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2020. (ita-eng)
[PDF ]
[MY CONTRIBUTION]
Sculpture Network
“Sculpting Beyond Sculpture”
July 2021. (eng)
[SOURCE | ARCHIVED | PROJECT (1) | PROJECT (2) | PROJECT (3) | PROJECT (4)]
[EXHIBITION REVIEW]
Man in Town
“L’altra forma delle cose: la nuova installazione di Emilio Vavarella a Casa Zegna”
by Rosamaria Coniglio, 1 July 2022. (ita)
[EXHIBITION REVIEW AND INTERVIEW]
ARTEMORBIDA TEXTILE ARTS MAGAZINE
“L’altra forma delle cose / The Other Shape of Things”
by Barbara Pavan, n.8, July 2022. (ita-eng)
[CURATORIAL TEXT]
L’altra forma delle cose
“AAAS47692 / Picea Abies”
Curatorial text by Ilaria Bonacossa, 2022. (ita)
The Parkview Museum “Emilio Vavarella: Unpredictability of Technological Power” in Bio Art (ed. by Camilla Latini, Maurice Xu and Xiadi Sun). Published by the Parkview Museum Beijing – Singapore, 2023. (chi-eng)
[INTERVIEW]
[ACADEMIC / PHD DISSERTATION]
Brno University of Technology
“DIY Technologies in Digital Sculpture” by Dušan Váňa, Advisor: Michal Gabriel, Faculty of Fine Arts – Sculpture Studio, Czech Republic, 2020. (cze)
[MFA THESIS]
University of British Columbia
“The symbolic potential of form, material, and objects” by Rylan Broadbent, Thesis in Visual Arts, Advisor: Aleksandra Dulic, University of British Columbia, Canda, 2022. (eng)
[PROJECT]
[EXHIBITION REVIEW AND INTERVIEW]
ARTEMORBIDA TEXTILE ARTS MAGAZINE
“L’altra forma delle cose / The Other Shape of Things”
by Barbara Pavan, n.8, July 2022. (ita-eng)
[PDF (ita) | PDF (eng) | PROJECT]
CYFEST 13 International Media Art Festival [PROJECT]
[EXHIBITION CATALOG]
Cyland Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp, 52, 124. (rus – eng)
+ CREDITS:
- THE OTHER SHAPES OF THINGS N.1: Developed with the support of a Critical Media Practice Mellon Grant from the Film Study Center at Harvard University and additional support from GALLLERIAPIÙ.
- 3D-scanning support was offered by Rachel Stefania Vroman, Noam Saragosti, Christopher Hansen, James David Moffet III, Sejung Song, and Anthony Natale at the Harvard GSD Fabrication Lab.
- Special thanks to the following individuals and 3D-Printing Labs: 3D Transformations, 3DME, Alex Myers, Amor Danato, Andrew DeGonge, Andy Perkins, Armature Nine, Ben’s Hub, Blown454, Brian Minie, Brian’s Hub, Burak Bingollu (Mappleseed), Chris Digiacomo (Digi-Akimo), Corey Dollar, Dennis Harroun (Mana Digital), Devin Brown, Edison DDDesign, Emmanuel Giloz, Empirical Innovation, Fred Kahl Freidini, FROST, Jacob Blumberg, Jeremie François, JMO Technology, Joe Rizo, Joe Szilvagyi, Jon Cobnut, Josh Bernstein’s Hub, Juan Navarro, LePhilip, Makei, MakeLab NYC, Matt’s Hub, Matteo Forgione (Forgione Engineering, Inc.), Michael Weibel, MONO’s Hub, Newton Library (Masachussets), Openly, Paul Pape Designs, Peter Tolmie, PLV Concept’s Hub, PLV Hub, Ryan Clark, Sam Froud, Scott Janousek, Shannon Klappstein, Solution Nexus Hub, Stephen Somers, Todd Schlemers, Uni-t, Viriya, Voodoo Manufacturing, Voxel8, Z3D and Zack Dowell.
- Exhibition shots by Stefano Maniero.
- THE OTHER SHAPE OF THINGS N.2: Developed with the support of a Critical Media Practice Mellon Grant from the Film Study Center at Harvard University and additional support from GALLLERIAPIÙ.
- THE OTHER SHAPE OF THINGS N.3: Commissioned by Fondazione Zegna. Special thanks to Anna Zegna, Ilaria Bonacossa, GALLLERIAPIÙ, the Harvard AFVS390 studio, the staff and community of Fondazione Zegna and of Oasi Zegna.
- The works in the series have been been produced in collaboration with: Lanificio Ermenegildo Zegna; mending for good; BONOTTO and San Patrignano.
- Exhibition shots by Damiano Andreotti.