Calori & Maillard selected works

Calori & Maillard selected works

Causerie site specific project 2017 The project Causerie reopened to the public the Gavina space designed by Carlo Scarpa in Bologna (IT). Based on the architecture, the artists have created a series of sculptures that interacts with the space by mimesis or contrast. The sculptural elements respond to the location as part of a conversation, in a dialogue of echoes and references. The installation fits the space as a geometrical counterpoint. Playing along with the architecture designed by Carlo Scarpa the sculptures amplify and expand the complexity of the architectural language. The intervention mingles personal elements and historical references, rising a dialogue where abstract forms of architecture become figures and body attributes. (top left photo: outdoor view of the Gavina space) Cyclope ceramic, 18 x 17 x 9 cm, 2017 Inspired by the window facade designed by Carlo Scarpa for Gavina in 1961-63 in Bologna. The glasses are made in ceramic glaze.

Oh my legs acrylic and lack on wood, 68 x 68 x 2 cm, 2017 Inspired by the circular section designed by the architect Carlo Scarpa for Gavina in 1961-63 in Bologna. The sculptures (series of 8) are positioned on the right and on the left side of the squared columns in the space, in the attempt to make them jump

Tickler n.3 - Talking Heads feathers, durmast wood, aluminium, 190 x150 80 cm, 2017 Series of sculptures to tickle the space and make architecture move and laugh.

installation view, Causerie, ex Gavina, Bologna (Photo: Alba Deangelis)

Fashion Show various materials, 2016 Collection of wearable sculptures depicting contemporary and utopian architectures. Sources such as skyscrapers, their presence, their history and symbolism related to the human body are reconsidered and rearranged into the collection.

Messe Tower, fashion show wearable sculpture (photo by James Kendi) 2016

Commerzbank tower, fashion show wearable sculpture (photo by James Kendi) 2016

Life in space, photo collage and satellite rings, installation view at OIOIX, Seoul 2015

Installation view at Fundacion Botin, Santander, Spain

Building an image performance, 2016 installation view at Italian Cultural Institute, New York (Photo: James Kendi) Building an image is a performance where a photoshooting is set as exhibition display. The sculptures of the series fashion show are photographed during the performance. The space is dark and arranged with a soft gray backdrop paper, softbox lights, light reflectors and a professional photographer. Each photo sparkles the space and gives a whole sight to the performance. The sculptures take the place of the models, while the backdrop creates a landscape. The performance reflects on the construction of images and strategies that are applied in fashion as in real estate, on the creation of a fiction around a city.

Immortal game various materials, 2016 Chess board made of found, crafted and collected objects, belonging to the imagination from travelling and architectural modelling. The collection of the objects started in 2010 and involves items from Milan, Venice, Shanghai, California, New York, Naples, Frankfurt am Main and Seoul. The Immortal is a well known chess game played by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky, where Anderssen strategy shortcircuited the game by using minor pieces and proving how minor powers can rule the game.

Immortal Game performance at Studi Festival, Milano and Localedue, Bologna 2017

L Oiseau de feu performance, 2015 In the performance L Oiseau de Feu, a ballet for tower cranes (2014-15) the artists transformed a construction site into a stage. The construction site was in Frankfurt am Main financial center, and there the related tower cranes followed a choreography designed by the artists. Turned into potential ballerinas the machines abandoned their productive proprieties, suggesting that the action can be either blindly functional, or poetically inappropriate.

L Oiseau de feu, video HD single channel installation view at Olhalle, FDJT, Offenbach (Photo: Olga Pedan)

coreography drawing for L Oiseau de feu, ballet for tower cranes, Maintor construction site

Calori & Maillard is an artist duo working on sculpture and performance. Their collaboration combines backgrounds in design and film into a practice where the real and the surreal merges, often with the infiltration of the absurd into a real situation. In the performance L Oiseau de Feu, a ballet for tower cranes (2014-15) the artists transformed a construction site into a stage. The construction site was in Frankfurt am Main financial center, and there the related tower cranes followed a choreography designed by the artists. Turned into potential ballerinas the machines abandoned their productive proprieties, suggesting that the action can be either blindly functional, or poetically inappropriate. Their installations suggest a profound sensitivity to the physical interrelation between individuals, objects and surrounding. In Bronze (2014) the gallery neon lights are substituted with tanning lamps, giving an unexpected sunbath to visitors and mocking the conventional look of art spaces. Their practice tends to reduce, define, erase and mix the thin line between art and life, staging situations that induce a rethinking of already given structures. Power systems and conventional behaviors are triggered and stretched through improvise and unexpected elements, which find the escaping point in the irony of the counteraction. The sense of instability and the loss of horizon is often researched, questioning the expected and suggesting alternatives to the usual modes of conduct.

Calori & Maillard (Letizia Calori and Violette Maillard) Education 2012-2015 Meisterschulerin Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE 2009-2011 MA visual art IUAV University, Venice, IT 2006-2009 BA Design Politecnico Milan, IT (Calori) 2006-2009 BA DAMS Cinema, Bologna, IT (Maillard) Exhibitions 2017 Causerie, ex Gavina, MAMbo, Art City, Bologna, IT (solo show) Immortal Game, Studi festival, Milano IT And now somenthing compleatly different, L entrepot, Montecarlo, Monaco Immortal Game, Localedue, Bologna, IT 2016 Sublimina, Museo delle Mura, Roma, IT Theater der Bedienbarkeit, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, D Spring Open Studios, ISCP, International Study and Curatorial Program, New York, US Francesca Grilli Calori & Maillard, Premio New York, Italian Cultural Institute, New York,US Low Grade Euphoria, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, New York, US 2015 Parked like serious oysters, MMK, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, DE Brand new bright blue, Satellit, Berlin, DE Seung Sanga, OIOIX, Seoul, KR Getting Lost, Botin Foundation, Santander, ES Do we dream under the same sky, special project, Art Basel, Basel, CH 2014 In then out, Österreichische Skulpturenpark, Graz, AT Index, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, DE Festival 20 30, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna, IT Evakuieren, curated by Akira Takayama, Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, DE Out of frames, MAC Lissone, Milano, IT L oiseau de feu a ballet for tower cranes, Maintor, Frankfurt am Main, DE (solo show) FDJT, curated by Roos Gortzak, Offenbach, DE Power of chi, Spreez, Munich, DE 2013 Cibo, special project, Daimlerstrasse, Frankfurt am Main, DE (solo show) O Grand Soirée, O Milano, IT Messy Sky - Special Edition, curated by Sathit Sattarasart, Scala Cinema, Bangkok, TH 2012 VIVA Performance, curated by Tania Bruguera and Cristiana Perrella, MAXXI Rome, IT Yoko Ono, Search for the Fountain, curated by Cecilia Widenheim, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside, Solalanotte, Frankfurt am Main, DE Douglas Gordon Presents Frankfurt Flash Fiction, The Elefant Club, Glasgow, UK 2011 101 Peace Ideas, curated by Rob Pruitt, Venice, IT Unfounded, Museo Casa Ariosto, Ferrara, IT Ionian Lapsus Festival, Katelios, Kefallinia, GR Visions of Shanghai, A+A gallery, Venice, IT Schiume, Festival of Visual and Performing Arts, Forte Marghera, Venice, IT 2010 As Much As We Need, curated by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, IT Culture_Nature, Spazio Thetis, 12. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura La Biennale di Venezia, IT Titled, curated by Francesco Vezzoli, Galleria Internazionale d Arte Moderna Ca Pesaro, Venice, IT 2009 Ogni limite ha una pazienza, curated by Cesare Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, Fondazione Gervasuti, Venice, IT Sesta Persona Singolare, CZ95, Venice, IT Playlist, Timeline, curated by Filipa Ramos, neon>campobase, Bologna, IT Awards and grants 2016 XIII New York Prize, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Columbia University 2016 Movin Up, Giovani Artisti Italiani 2014 Heinz und Gisela Friederichs Project Stipends, Frankfurt am Main, DE 2013 Staedelschule Portikus e.v. Frankfurt am Main, DE 2013 Ernst & Young Preis, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE 2010-11 Project Grant IUAV, Venice, IT Workshop and Residency Programs 2016 ISCP, International Study and Curatorial Program, New York, USA 2015 Getting Lost, with Julie Mehretu, Fundacion Botin, Santander, ES 2014 Österreichische Skulpturenpark, Graz, AT 2012 VIVA Performance Lab, Cosenza, IT (with Tania Bruguera / Yoshua Okón)

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