Author Archives: Marco Ristuccia

New exhibition for “White Walls”

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Photo: WW #02 - © Marco Ristuccia

Photo: WW #02 – © Marco Ristuccia

Dear friends,

I’m happy to inform you about a new exhibition for “White Walls”, a photo project that I made in Berlin, where I live. More about this work by clicking here.

Here below you’ll find the press release.

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“LOST SPACE”EXHIBITION PROJECT
installation | photography | objects | video | interactive media

Artists: Penelope Vlassopoulou, Alessandra Senso, Marco Ristuccia, Julia Patey, Margarita Novikova, Stephanie Neumann, Carolin Kastner, Bram Braam, Rebecca Agnes.

concept / curating by Susanne Lek

Opening: March 27 7pm -11pm
Opening times: Friday / Saturday / Sunday 3pm – 7pm
Location: Joao Cocteau Kienitzer Strasse 98, Berlin – Neukölln

Exhibition LOST SPACE in Berlin

Most cities have an amazing amount of vacant, unused land in its downtown core. Over the past few years, radically changing economic, industrial and employment patterns have further exacerbated the problem of these lost spaces. This is especially true along highways, rail road lines and waterfronts, where major gaps disrupt the overall continuity of the city form. However, lost spaces, although underused and deteriorating, provide exceptional opportunities to reshape an urban center and counteracts and suburbanization and gentrification.

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White Walls

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Photo: WW #05 – © Marco Ristuccia

Photo: WW #05 – © Marco Ristuccia

This project focuses on the concept of “vacancy” as an increasingly rare subject to find in our chaotic contemporary cities. Something that still has the power to make us feel uncomfortable, with the urge to fill it with things, colors and signs. Indeed our minds are no longer accustomed to the absence of messages. And even the vacuum itself, like a black hole, yearns to be filled in by attracting everything in its range with some sort of magnetic energy. Continue reading →

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

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UNC #01 - © Marco RistucciaPhoto: UNC #01 – © Marco Ristuccia

Today I would like to present to you a project that I realized in 2011 along the Po Valley, close to Milan (Italy). Its name and the concept itself came to my mind from the ideas inside the book “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand”, a masterpiece of the Sicilian writer Luigi Pirandello. I elaborated those ideas and created a personal interpretation that stands behind this photo project. Continue reading →