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Montrasio Arte è lieta di annunciare EYE-HAND SPAN. The uncertain distance between the eye and the hand di Antonio Ottomanelli, con testo critico di Nora Akawi.
In mostra una serie di progetti realizzati dall'autore in Afghanistan e Iraq tra il 2011 e il 2014. I progetti appartengono ad un più ampio percorso di ricerca relativo ai processi di ricostruzione nei paesi coinvolti in un conflitto militare a seguito degli eventi del 9/11. Mapping Identity (2011-2013) e Big Eye Kabul (2014), recentemente vincitori del FOAM Talent Prize 2016, sono al centro di un inedito percorso di approfondimento fatto di immagini e testi originali.
Antonio Ottomanelli è nato a Bari nel 1982. Ha studiato architettura a Milano e Lisbona. Fino al 2012 è stato Professore al dipartimento di urbanistica al Politecnico di Milano. Nel 2009 ha fondato IRA-C - interaction research & architecture in crisis context - una piattaforma pubblica per favorire ricerche nel campo delle strategie urbane e sociali.
Il suo lavoro è stato presentato in numerose fiere e istituzioni internazionali: a Berlino, Arles, San Paolo, Dallas, Holon. La sua prima esposizione personale - Collateral Landscape - curata da Joseph Grima, si è tenuta nel 2013 presso la Triennale di Milano. A febbraio 2016 è stata inaugurata la sua personale a Kabul + Baghdad a Camera Torino, curata da Francesco Zanot. Ha preso parte alla 14° Mostra Internazionale di Architettura a Venezia e alla prima Biennale di Design a Istanbul. Nel gennaio 2015 ha fondato insieme a Lorenza Baroncelli, Marco Ferrari, Joseph Grima e Elisa Pasqual, White Hole Gallery, una piccola galleria a Genova, combinando pratiche artistiche e giornalismo al fine di investigare e documentare le forze - visibili e invisibili - che danno forma a società e passaggio. È inoltre co-fondatore di Planar, centro dedicato alla fotografia contemporanea, con base a Bari e editore di Planar Books. È curatore del volume The Third Island, pubblicato in 2015, il primo della serie OIGO. Recentemente nominato FOAM Talent 2016.
Nora Awaki, architetto, vive tra Amman e New York. Ha studiato architettura al Bezalel Academy of Art and Design di Gerusalemme (B.Arch 2009). Nel 2011, ha ricevuto il suo MS in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture dalla Columbia GSAPP (MS.CCCP 2011), dove ha ricevuto anche il CCCP Thesis Award. E' direttrice dello StudioX Amman, una piattaforma regionale per la programmazione e ricerca in ambito architettonico coordinato da Columbia GSAPP. Partecipa come Visiting Lecturer alla Royal Institute of Art di Stoccolma, insegna i corsi post-laurea di Critical Habitats e alla Columbia GSAPP, Barnard College, PennDesign, Harvard GSD, Georgia Tech, the Applied Science University ad Amman, and GJU's SABE. Tra le pubblicazioni si segnalano Architecture and Representation: The Arab City (co-edited by Amale Andraos, Nora Akawi, and Caitlin Blanchfield, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2016), e "Jerusalem: Dismantling Phantasmagorias, Constructing Imaginaries" in The Funambulist: Militarized Cities (edited by L. Lambert, 2015).
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Montrasio Arte is proud to announce Antonio Ottomanelli's Eye-Hand Span.The uncertain distance between the eye and the hand (opening October 5th), with a critical essay by Nora Akawi.
Showcasing a series of projects carried out by the author in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2011 and 2014, that they belong to a wider path of his research in the reconstruction processes in the countries involved in a military conflict as a result of the events of 9/11: Mapping Identity (2011-2013) e Big Eye Kabul (2014), recent winners of the FOAM Talent 2016, are focused on a study path made of unpublished images and original texts.
Antonio Ottomanelli studied architecture in Milan and Lisbon. Till 2012 Adjunct Professor at the architecture planning department – Milan Politecnic. in 2009 he sets up IRA-C – interaction research & architecture in crisis context - a public platform, which wants to support research realities in the field of urban and social strategies. Antonio Ottomanelli’s work has been presented in numerous international festivals and institutions, in Berlin, Arles, San Paolo, Dallas, Holon. In January 2015 he founded, together with Lorenza Baroncelli, Marco Ferrari, Joseph Grima and Elisa Pasqual, White Hole Gallery, a remotely- controlled micro-gallery in Genoa (Italy), combining strategies of artistic practice and journalism to investigate, document and debate the forces — visible and invisible — that shape society and the landscape. �On january 2016, the solo exhibition Kabul+Baghdad curated by Francesco Zanot, was staged by CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia. He co-founder of Planar, center for contemporary photography placed in Bari and editor in chief of Planar Books, the Publishing House edited by Planar. He is the curator of the book The Third Island, published in 2015, the first of a series dedicated to the observation of the impact of major infrastructure works on territorial and social changes. Recently nominated FOAM Talent 2016.
Nora Akawi is an architect based between Amman and New York. In 2012, she joined Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) as curator of Studio-X Amman, a regional platform for programming and research in architecture run by Columbia GSAPP and the Columbia Global Centers | Amman. At Studio-X Amman, she leads the conceptualization and implementation of public programs and research initiatives on architecture in the Arab Mashreq by curating conferences, workshops, publications, screenings, lectures, and other collective forms of production in partnership with researchers or institutions in the region. Since 2014, she has been teaching a graduate seminar course of theory and visualization focused on borderlands, migration, citizenship and human rights at GSAPP. She studied architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (B.Arch 2009). In 2011, she received her MS in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture from Columbia GSAPP (MS.CCCP 2011), where she received the CCCP Thesis Award. She participates as Visiting Lecturer at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Art, in the Critical Habitats post-graduate program, and has served as critic in architecture programs at Columbia GSAPP, Barnard College, PennDesign, Harvard GSD, Georgia Tech, the Applied Science University in Amman, and GJU's SABE, among others.
