The Wall , Bologna/ Italien

Verfahrensart
Open Ideas Comeptition (for Students and Professionals)

Wettbewerbsaufgabe
From the Great Wall to Pink Floyd, the wall has always been present in the history of humankind acquiring a symbolic meaning broader than any other architectural element.
The wall is an element of division. It marks a boundary and defines a space. It is expression of the human mind itself. The latter considers reality as divided into opposites, into abstract and intangible taxonomies that build imaginary walls between different expressions of what is known. Hot/cold, black/white, good/bad: physical or abstract concepts separated by a psychological border that distinguishes one entity from the other.
The wall is an element of break, an impassable limit or a community perimeter. It has influenced painting, science and literature suggesting and encouraging a cultural production of unequaled fascination and importance. The walls are the canvas of artists like Raphael and Bansky. The walls enhance movies and literature. The walls, again, marked and still mark extremely painful moments of the international political scenario (from Berlin to Mexico).
For these reasons, the wall will be the protagonist of “The Wall”, the next exhibition of con-fine Art, a cutting-edge publishing house in the organization of high-cultural profile international exhibitions. Con-fine Art has already been the curator of “Dalì Experience” and the current “Bologna Experience”. With 100.000 visitors, both exhibitions successfully inaugurated a new concept of exhibition: an exhibition closer to the users, an exhibition that offers an immersive experience of the work of art.
Through the exhibition of works of art by artists like Gianbattista Piranesi, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Hitomi Sato, The Wall will tell and delve into the role of the wall in history, analyzing the meanings, connotations and tangible and abstract aspects that created the imagination and representativeness of this extremely fascinating element.
Consistently with a constantly changing artistic perception, opened to new unexpressed contributions, con-fine  Art invites all designers to design a series of installations. They have to be imagined in the most significant places of Bologna in order to involve the city in the thinking about the wall promoted by the exhibition.
“The Wall” gives designers a unique opportunity. With their creative contribution, they can take part in one of the most engaging exhibitions of the contemporary cultural scenario. They will boast a prestigious showcase to exhibit their work. With their ideas, they can also contribute to the international debate regarding the role and the meaning of one of the most inseparable protagonists in the history of humankind: the wall.

Gold Anerkennungen
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Team: Davide Coluzzi DAZ
Mitglieder: Davide Coluzzi · Tamara Tolnai

Projekt: Where you can bang your head
Team: Di Betta - Piazza
Mitglieder: Cecilia Piazza · Arianna Di Betta

Projekt: Generosity Wall
Enrico Evangelisti

Projekt: The Machine
Team: OHA
Mitglieder: Ilkin Evin Akpinar · Luca Mule


Anerkennungen
Projekt: A Wall: A Reflection
Team: NLA
Mitglieder: Luca Negrini · Susanna Lindvall

Team: A.D.P.
Mitglieder: Philippe Buchs · Dafni Retzepi · Adrien Comte

Projekt: Parete del Portale
Team: GREY
Mitglieder: Nam Ho · Vy Huynh

Projekt: Intelligent decorative structure
Team: AA
Julien Audemars · Nicolas Antille

Projekt: wall_for_unity
Team: i2
Mitglieder: Federica Terenzi · Ashita Parekh

Projekt: inside/out
Team: Iki
Gabriele Mundula

Team: Architettura semplice
Carlo Morrone

Projekt: The New Room for the Palazzo della Mercanzia
Team: Archinema
Mitglieder: Geoffroy Jutzeler · Justine Duay

Team: MAPO
Mitglieder: Giulia Bersani · Davide Zaupa

Team: IN3Dstudio
Mitglieder: Marcello Silvestre · Maurizio Calierno