During the weekend of the Philosophy Festival in Modena, the exhibition of paintings 'PAESAGGI' will be inaugurated, with works from various private collections in the city. The exhibition represents the love for art and culture that has always characterized family life. On this occasion we want to present a portion of the collection dedicated to the theme of 'landscape', an element of comparison for many authors. On display are some of the great masters of Emilian painting.

The Atelier del Paesaggio group has won the Milan City Council's tender for the realization of green urban spacers.

The MiGARDEN project starts from the idea of rethinking the concept of 'urban vegetable gardens', adapted to the need to create social, green, pleasant spaces, with the scent of edible and aromatic essences, using climbing vegetables and eco-design elements.

aMAZElab, Art, Culture, Landscape has conceived and produced important international programs such as GOING PUBLIC, a project of Public Art active for a decade (2002-2012), on urgent issues such as geography and borders, citizenship and politics, community and territory. GOING PUBLIC has involved a long list of international artists, geographers, urban planners, sociologists and researchers. It has activated a wide network of collaborations carried out both in Italy and abroad: Barcelona, Nicosia, Alexandria, Cairo, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Beirut, Marseille, Palermo, Athens, Tangier, Rotterdam, Kiev, Gdansk, Rotterdam, Bristol, Skopie, Sarajevo.   

aMAZElab, Art, Culture, Landscape, has created unique and pioneering projects such as ‘A ticket to Baghdad’, presented in 2009 at the Tenth International Festival of Aleppo, Syria, a visual narrative of a trip to Iraq - the mother land of all Mediterranean cultures - realized in 2002 during the embargo and the ‘oil for food’ exchanges. 

The 'concrete utopia' of aMAZElab, Art, Culture, Landscape is celebrating its 20th  anniversary! A mobile laboratory that has crossed Europe and the Mediterranean with exhibitions, conferences, performances and seminars in the name of social nature, culture and new landscapes. aMAZElab is a network of creative production and cultural reflection, able to dialogue with the local community and the international territory, with memory and contemporaneity, travelling through unusual places from the Mediterranean, to the Balkans, to the Baltic. 

aMAZElab is an international project by the art historian and cultural promoter Claudia Zanfi.

GOING PUBLIC addresses urgent issues such as the global question of borders, their apparent ‘permeability’ and new geographies. The international debate and geopolitical reflections heavily intervene on the new concept of ‘map’, often impossible to trace. Geographies, walls, borders, demarcations, physical but also mental and cultural.

The project is the first to activate actions on the borders of Nicosia Cyprus, Tangier, Jerusalem, Sarajevo, Beirut, with important international authors.

For more info: http://www.amaze.it/AMAZE/it/goingpublic04/pressrelease

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GOING PUBLIC is an innovative program of the artistic practices that have made the interpretation of society and territory its raw material. The project operates as a mobile and open platform. It has activated an international network of production and research, with original activities mainly at the railway stations of various cities. A sort of display on new mobility between spaces and subjects, in a landscape that is increasingly in transformation.Some of the best artists working with the social media have chosen for Going Public places of transit and communication, including: Los Carpinteros, Maria Papadimitriou, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ursula Biemann, Gianni Motti, Multiplicity,  Maja Bajevic , Pablo Leon de la Barra , Fabiana de Barros,  Adrian Paci, Atelier Van Lieshout, , Calin Dan, Dan Perjovschi, Zafos Xagoraris Meschac Gaba, Zineb Sedira,Yto Barrad, many others. There are a number of important theoretical interventions, including:Basualdo, Boeri, Pietromarchi, Tzirtzilakis, Virno, Eyal Weizman, Zamudio, Zanfi, many others.

On the occasion of the 20th Anniversary, the cultural organization aMAZElab reviews the extensive research carried out so far in the Balkans and the Mediterranean area. All the material is visible at the online archive (www.amaze.it) and it is possible to order the publications at a reduced price.   

For more info: http://www.amaze.it/AMAZE/it/publications

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Geographies, walls, boundaries, physical or cultural.

These are some of the themes dealt with in the ten-year program GOING PUBLIC, which ends its research in the Balkan area. The project wants to investigate the new cultural landscape, through collective narratives that establish a different relationship between the city and its memory, urban policy and public practices. The interdisciplinary, intercultural and intergenerational work presented in this long journey looks at the city, retracing its historical context in dialogue with the current situation 

On the occasion of the award-winning GOING PUBLIC program (2002-2012), a series of projects have been carried out focusing on the relationship between community and territory, urban space and public sphere, borders and mobility. Various platforms have been activated involving artists, students, citizens, to rethink the use of public space, offering alternative proposals for conflict and border areas such as: Beirut, Jerusalem, Tangier, Sarajevo.

The relationship between community and territory, between city and citizens is at the centre of the most recent debates. The proposal of the GOING PUBLIC program, with workshops, seminars, exhibitions and public debates, has focused on urban and peripheral space, social policy and territorial management. In other words, the use of public space in our culture of living.

The public place is a space where people act and create "a common world full of differences" (Saskia Sassen).