Wall&decò with CARTEdition is a research project born from the collaboration between Wall&decò and AtemporaryStudio, with the aim at exploring the relationship between contemporary art and wallcovering through a collection of artists' projects on wallpapers of high cultural value.
Seven great artists of contemporary art, Fabrice Hyber, Labinac, Liliana Moro, Riccardo Previdi, Francesco Simeti, Donatella Spaziani and Patrick Tuttofuoco have been invited to create artworks on wallpaper in a full scale format of 5.4 x 3.6 metres, available in a special packaging, in unlimited but numbered edition.
How can Art become an integral part of our lives?
How can it enter our intimate, private spaces?
At a time when home has been the sole reference point of our days, the artists' experimentation opens up new possibilities of cohabitation with the work of art in a more informal and everyday dimension.
Wallpaper, in addition to an element of decoration, also becomes an artistic tool, a medium used to extend the path of research to new frontiers of art production and fruition, enriching environments with cultural stimuli and new inspirations.
Fabrice Hyber
with Organic proposes a project dense with concepts pivotal to his work in which the worlds of man and nature come together in search of balance, parts of the same biotope. The subject depicted includes a large tree to which man is connected through the umbilical cord, Mother Nature who nourishes us and gives life, a generating power from which we cannot prescind.
LABINAC
a collective founded by Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves and Kai-Morten Vollmer with the participation of artists/designers Jone Kvie, Elisa Strinna, Philip Modersohn.They therefore started from the original sketches graphic powder prints that Jimmie Durham had made with stuffed animals that were transposed onto paper, conveying a vivid expression of the inner narratives that this visual imagery represents, somewhere between comfort and dreams. Traces and Shiny Evidence combines performative action, the genesis of the work, with the abstract and liquid dimension of dreams.
Liliana Moro
with Black & Birds opens us to the dimension of the sky with a flock of migratory birds, bee-eaters, flying over black backgrounds as a reference to the dimension of emptiness and infinity. A work that, in its stillness, evokes movement. It is the swiftly approaching flock, in the silence one can almost hear the beating of wings.
Riccardo Previdi
realizes for CARTEdition a project entitled Maneki Neko. Traditional Japanese welcome cats, black on a white background, are aligned in a plastic, almost three-dimensional way to reshape space. The artist has used this symbol in several works to convey a sense of openness and permeability capable of accommodating the growing complexity of a world in constant transformation.
Francesco Simeti
His work plunges us into a fantastic landscape in which plants and flowers envelop the space in a riot of vegetation that looks inviting but when observed carefully hides anomalies. A persuasive aesthetic sense conceals a deeper, more raw interpretation, a warning to our society about the environmental and social devastation we are causing and which we mask behind false appearances.
Donatella Spaziani
gives life to the project entitled 1:5 by activating a circular process starting from the use of old wallpapers assembled together in a coloured patchwork to become her wallcovering design. Scanned and enlarged five times, the old papers are transformed, altering the original image in an explosion of giant figures and countless details. A stylistic signature of the artist, black silhouettes of figures, taken from a series of self-shots, also appear in this project, transposed on the wall through the technique of drawing, floating between macroscopic flowers and details that are usually invisible.
Patrick Tuttofuoco
with Within Without, Patrick Tuttofuoco has succeeded in combining the cosmic and personal dimensions in a single work. he artist stages a game of juxtapositions between what is infinitely distant from us and what is close to us, what represents our private, intimate and domestic space. A process of transformation for a work created as a site specific version in 2019 and now repurposed to fit in any context.
