Marisa Merz – Non corrisponde eppur fiorisce / It doesn’t match yet it flourishes
July 5th, 2011
APRIL develops the graphic design project of the Marisa Merz – Non corrisponde eppur fiorisce / It doesn’t match yet it flourishes.
An exhibition in two Foundations: Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice – June / September 2011 and Fondazione Merz, Turin – May / September 2011 and a book of the two shows: presentation and study day Fondazione Hangar Bicocca, Milan – September 2012
APRIL as member of A2 develops the communication / ID project , the web site and the media / video documentation for the Gaetano Marzotto Price.
The Gaetano Marzotto prize is for the entrepreneurs of the new Italy and has been created to celebrate the150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy.
We are searching for those businesspeople who tomorrow might be able to unite business and society: new societies that can generate occupation and social wellbeing.
An international jury will select the best three proposals which, quite apart from the prize, will have partners and a network available for the better development of their ideas.
The award, which will last for ten years, has the aim of creating an innovative platform in Italy.
April is currently working on various projects aimed at launching a new Armani Hotel in Dubai. Is responsible for concept design and production of the Video e Art installation.
APRIL ha curato l’allestimento della mostra “Fuori Centro”, presso l’hangar Bicocca di Milano, dedicata ai video di 12 artisti contemporanei italiani sul tema della “vulnerabilità”. L’allestimento si articola attraverso una serie di parallelepipedi bianchi disposti lungo la navata unica del capannone adiacente a quello di Kiefer e delle sue torri.
Studio e realizzazione delll’allestimenti temporanei per il lancio di IDOLE, il nuovo profumo di Armani.
National Geographic – Face to Face with frogs
December 12th, 2008
Photographs by Mark W. Moffett,” will feature stunning images by this award-winning photographer, ecologist and explorer. Moffett has spent years documenting frogs and other wildlife across the globe. Face to Face with Frogs, Photographs by Mark W. Moffett is organized and produced by the National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC.
Odysseys & Photographs — Masters from the National Geographic Archives
November 13th, 2008
“Odysseys and Photographs — Masters from the National Geographic Archives,” is a new photography exhibit organized by the National Geographic Museum, featuring the work of legendary photographers Maynard Owen Williams, Luis Marden, Volkmar Wentzel and Thomas Abercrombie. Through the exhibit’s nearly 60 photographs, many of which lay hidden for decades in the National Geographic archives, visitors will be able to travel with Williams to Greenland in the 1920s, see a different side of the Caribbean with Marden, look through Wentzel’s lens as he spent nearly two years traversing India and witness a changing Middle East with Abercrombie. The spectacular images portray a dazzling array of people and places and bring the world into focus through a unique and fascinating perspective. Odysseys and Photographs, Masters from the National Geographic Archives is organized and produced by the National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC.
Furla Spring Summer 2008
September 3rd, 2008
Conception, development and production by APRIL of the FURLA Spring-Autumn Collection display, presented at the company’s Milanese headquarters.
Furla Fall Winter Collection 2007
February 23rd, 2007
APRIL ha ideato, curato e prodotto l’allestimento per la collezione FURLA Autunno-Inverno 2007, presentata nella sede milanese di via Sant’Andrea.
Verso il terzo Veneto – Biennale Architettura 2006
June 2nd, 2006
The exhibition “Verso il Terzo Veneto”, at the Italian Pavillion, Giardini, Venezia. Two video installations and a 100 sqm wallpaper document a travel trough Veneto region as process of awareness of the urban chaos today.Promoted by Regione Veneto (Curated by Cristiano Seganfreddo e Sandro Voltan).
Inhabituel – Dagli ateliers alla Fabbrica del Vapore
April 1st, 2005
Concept, development and Setup of INHABITUEL, a travelling exhibition of contemporary art in Italy, shown in the spaces of the Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan.
Assab One 2004
September 3rd, 2004
Set up and organization of Assab One 2004, a contemporary art exhibition hosted in the former GEA Grafiche Editoriali Ambrosiane printing company in Milan.
Twenty three artists have been invited to establish a dialogue with an industrial building in the process of transformation.
Its future involves the creation of an exhibition space and various units (lofts, ateliers, workshops) sharing services and common facilities.
Kitchen – TV Show concept
February 3rd, 2003
The project is the set design for an Italian national television program broadcast daily from 8:00p.m. to 8.15 pm on RAI 1.It is a show on cooking with daily guests who prepare and enjoy dinner together in front of a studio audience. The concept consists of a split level apartment with an elevator-platform on which [...]
Prada Parallel Universe
July 23rd, 2002
April collaborated with OMA/ AMO to produce a visual concept for Prada based on a single shopping centre in Beijing China for the Broadway.
The material was transported to New York and distributed throughout the Prada Broadway store in New York.
We collected hours of footage from a massive shopping mall in the Beijing periphery. The material was formatted and displayed throughout the New York Prada store to create a programmatic wormhole, a parallel universe.
New Stories New Design
June 3rd, 2002
APRIL and Cibic&Partners jointed hands for the creation of “New Stories New Design”, an international research cum exhibition project which aims to explore the role of industrial design in contributing to the economic regeneration of marginalised communities , with particular focus on the migrant population in Italian urban settings. The project, implemented in collaboration with the Domus Academy and the Polytechnic of Milan, was selected and included in several international exhibitions, such as the International Design Fair onf Milan (2002), the Biennale of Art of Venice (2004) and the Biennale of Art of Shanghai (2006).