Projects

Amazing fragile (2015)

This project talks about being vulnerable.

Weakness is the story of our lives, as we all live in a society obsessed with speed and superlatives, encouraging the excess, glorifying individual success, strength and hyper narcissism, without wondering about our origins, our vulnerability, our deepest identity.

But what if the weakness was our deepest and greatest resource?

We all run this race, but in these moments of weakness our consciences are awakened, we become aware of ourselves and this vulnerability becomes the force that drives us towards a reaction, a change of perspective.

From this point of view the works for this project recognise and defend the idea that vulnerability is our truest part as human being.

Paying attention to what is fragile reveals the meaning and the hidden beauty in our daily gestures, these delicate moments can be seen as pure poetry, and break with our routines.

Manon de Latens' delicate drawings and texts, Gigi Piana and Gianmarco Nicoletti's works take on some keys issues: our place in this world, our peregrinations, our origins and aspirations.

Trough the recognition of our weakness these works show us a way to see art where actions reveal a poetic and existential commitment. 

La matière qui change (2014)

La matière qui change (Changing material) is a joint project between provoqArt and three international artists:

Miyako Aoki, lives and works in Tokyo, Japan;
Andreas Kerstan, lives and works in Althütte, Germany;
Gianmarco Nicoletti, lives and works in Nice, France.

This project is a reflection about the use of recyclable materials in art. These materials come from different realities, which are apparently far from art, they have an own story and they dialogue with the final artwork.

The aim of the project is to convert and to transform one form into another, a space into another one or into a thousand others, keeping in mind the original purpose of the support, which is revised, reinterpreted, but it’s still present and functional to communicate the concepts expressed in the works.

Giving free rein to their creativity and using different techniques, the artists express themselves on uncommon supports, they develop an aesthetic subtending a strong and responsible message.

The industrial material - electrical wiring, gauges, coils - used by Andreas Kerstan to made his automaton heads, the polished aluminum supporting Miyako Aoki’s paintings, the old sails used by Gianmarco Nicoletti for his aerial installations, they are all waste or recovery materials becoming noble in the dialogue between the artist, the artwork and its users.