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Public Improvisation
4 December 2008 - 15 January 2009

Epson FAR Award for Artistic Research – III edition
4 December 2008
at Fabbrica del Vapore, Via Procaccini 4 – Milan, Italy

Public Improvisation, the exhibition of Yona Friedman’s students of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti XIV Advanced Course in Visual Arts, opens 4 December 2008.
The exhibition, curated by Luca Cerizza and Anna Daneri, is realized with the support of Epson and in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan – Leisure Council, Artegiovane Milano and Careof, DOCVA, Viafarini. Public Improvisation will be open to the public until 15 January 2009 at the Fabbrica del Vapore, in the three spaces run by the Municipality of Milan and in those of Careof.
The works on display are by the twenty-three international young artists who participated in the 2008 Advanced Course in Visual Arts : Einat Amir (Israel, 1979), Elena Bajo (Spain, 1974), the group BridA formed by Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica and Tom Kerševan (Slovenia), Elia Cantori (Italy, 1984), Ludovica Carbotta (Italy, 1982), Davide Cascio (Switzerland, 1976), Oppy de Bernardo (Switzerland, 1970), Giovanni De Lazzari (Italy, 1977), Andrea Dojmi (Italy, 1973), Mark Durkan (Ireland, 1984), the group Knowles Eddy Knowles formed by Jon Knowles (Canada, 1980), Micheal Eddy (Canada, 1981) Robert Knowles (Great Britain, 1983), Audrey Lam (Hong Kong, 1981), Marco Lampis (Italy, 1976), Gabriel Martinez (USA, 1973), Margherita Moscardini (Italy, 1981), Marlie Mul (The Netherlands, 1980), Massimiliano Nazzi (Italy, 1982), Treasa O'Brien (Ireland, 1978), Alessandro Quaranta (Italy, 1975), Linda Quinlan (Ireland, 1977), Therese Sunngren (Finland, 1982), Ciro Vitale (Italy, 1975), George Warburton (Australia, 1988).
The exhibition will offer the unique occasion to see drawings, photographs, installations, performances and video works conceived and realized after this year’s course during which the artists worked on the practice of improvisation and on the use of simple techniques for the creation of an artwork, needing no instructions, drawings or plans, because - in Yona Friedman’s own words -, “for being accessible to a general public, art has to employ simple techniques, easy to implement. Improvised public art can be explored anywhere in public spaces: in streets, in woods, in a hall, on a lake. The site itself is part of the work of art”.
During the opening a commission (formed by Epson Italia Video Projector Business Manager Carla Conca, art critic and director of Connecting Cultures Anna Detheridge, and curator and art critic Corinne Diserens), will select three works for the Epson FAR Award for Artistic Research. The award, at its third edition, has been created thanks to Epson Italia that with this initiative supports young artists by awarding the most interesting works of visual experimentation.
The bilingual catalogues on the workshop and the final exhibition and that on the projects realized by Yona Friedman in Como will be published by Mousse and Charta.