IMAGONIRMIA Award 2019

IMAGONIRMIA Award, ed. 2019
“variable displacement”

Roberto Fassone is the winner of the 4th IMAGONIRMIA “variable displacement” Award with the project THE MUSEUM OF LOST TIME.

The residency yielded multiple outcomes:

(1) the laying of urban signage related to The Museum of Lost Time, thus its institution as a place that is nonexistent but real in time, suitable for philosophical speculation and roundabouts; (2) the first museum catalog, In search of lost time, book-game inspired by Wolf Solitaire; (3) The Book of Trees, a collection of trees for children and a tribute to the great Caesar Leonardi; finally. (4) Thank you (wasting time), a presentation to the public in the form of a performance, of the outcomes of the artistic residency

The artist himself presented his idea this way, “The project consists of the desire to erect a museum, an invisible architecture in the Craftsman village Modena West. The Museum of Lost Time will be a potentially endless journey through space; the paradoxical experience of the journey will be the museum itself. To give concrete life to this project, the idea is to install on the perimeter of the area covered by the announcement, a variable number of road signs indicating the direction to reach the museum. However, the layout of the signs will be designed in such a way that you will never reach your destination. Each sign will indicate the direction to reach the next sign and so on until it creates a  circle, a metaphorical snake eating its own tail. However, the process of getting the museum in place is still an unknown path, a potential round-trip. The stories that will run through him will be the foundation for a worthy replacement for him.”

During the weeks of residency, the artist accompanied the bureaucratic process that made possible implementation of the project and thus the installation at some road junctions, of four signposts, developing, both from this relationship with the relevant offices of the municipality, and from other relationships put in place in the local community, a literary and parallel operation. The fourth QUADERN OF IMAGONIRMIA thus becomes the BOOK.
In search of lost time
, which also features a tribute to Cesare Leonardi, with the unique copy of
The Book of Trees
, a collection of trees for children.

Thanks to Anna Maria Vandelli – Modena City Council’s Department of Urban Planning, Building, Housing Policies and Productive Areas and Alessandra Filippi , Alessandra Filippi on the Council, councillor for the former president of Legambiente

→ Also read THE MUSEUM OF LOST TIME in the
Village Lexicon

Roberto Fassone
(the following text is to be read while listening to A Mess… by Shabazz Palaces)

Roberto Fassone lives and works between Florence and Pol Sesanne. His quest is a northern mossy brupo that feeds mainly on the noise of the sun, invisible skeletons, and out-of-tune babies. It lives in large brupi herds, where it chatters about the fears of ghosts. In recent years Fassone has exhibited and performed his work at Italian and international institutions, including: Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern; Quadriennale di Roma; Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo; MAMbo, Bologna; Fanta-MLN, Milan; OGR, Turin; MOCAK, Krakow; Centrale Fies, Dro; Carroll / Fletcher, London; AOYS (online), Zkm, Karlsruhe; Mart, Rovereto; Palazzetto dello Sport, Asti; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Civitella Ranieri Foundation.