For Artissima 2018, Operativa Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present a project focused on the concept and the application of the DISPLAY, its role and its temporal continuity development in the contemporary art scene.

The display, in this case meant as an expedient tool employed in order to exhibit and to explain a content, will be the very core of the booth project, completely conceived by Parasite 2.0 (architects studio based in Milan) in collaboration with Alessandro Dandini De Sylva (artist and curator based in Rome), both represented by Operativa.

The idea came out following Parasite 2.0's residency at Travertino Pacifici in Tivoli (RM), where they had access to the company's historical Roman Travertine caves to realize their own idea of display in support of the contemporary artworks. Starting from the 60's and 70's research of the applied design on permanent museum exhibition solutions - such as Carlo Scarpa's restructuring plan interventions as Castelvecchio in Verona or Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo - the project aims to open up a dialogue between the display devices/pieces in Travertine marble especially made on the occasion of the residency, and the most recent works by Cleo Fariselli (Cesenatico, 1982), Emiliano Maggi(Roma, 1977) and Vincenzo Schillaci (Palermo, 1984).

The display elements (bases, plinths, shelfs, brackets, plan surfaces) will be indeed created to be functional for the artists' work exhibition, either sculptures and paintings, in a measured interaction of forays and crossed references.

For Artissima 2018, Operativa Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present a project focused on the concept and the application of the DISPLAY, its role and its temporal continuity development in the contemporary art scene.

The display, in this case meant as an expedient tool employed in order to exhibit and to explain a content, will be the very core of the booth project, completely conceived by Parasite 2.0 (architects studio based in Milan) in collaboration with Alessandro Dandini De Sylva (artist and curator based in Rome), both represented by Operativa.

The idea came out following Parasite 2.0's residency at Travertino Pacifici in Tivoli (RM), where they had access to the company's historical Roman Travertine caves to realize their own idea of display in support of the contemporary artworks. Starting from the 60's and 70's research of the applied design on permanent museum exhibition solutions - such as Carlo Scarpa's restructuring plan interventions as Castelvecchio in Verona or Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo - the project aims to open up a dialogue between the display devices/pieces in Travertine marble especially made on the occasion of the residency, and the most recent works by Cleo Fariselli (Cesenatico, 1982), Emiliano Maggi(Roma, 1977) and Vincenzo Schillaci (Palermo, 1984).

The display elements (bases, plinths, shelfs, brackets, plan surfaces) will be indeed created to be functional for the artists' work exhibition, either sculptures and paintings, in a measured interaction of forays and crossed references.