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Villa Arson, from March 1st to August 25th 2024, Nice.
Gently Brut is our latest solo show, curated by Vittorio Parisi at Villa Arson, Niece.
From Vittorio’s curatorial text:
« We are in 2068 and throughout the world students have regained control of what is left of universities. »
“When asked to imagine the future of art schools, Parasite 2.0, a collective of architects and designers at the crossroads of architectural conception, scenography and the visual arts, began with this thought. With a leap through time, tasting more like the distant past.
Perhaps this scenario went through their minds as they walked through the studios, galleries, pathways, terraces and gardens of the Villa Arson, a school which encourages its students to appropriate the spaces and to make them come alive.
Dedicated since the mid 1980s to a type of experimentation where everything becomes hybrid and intermingled, the Villa Arson is several things simultaneously. Both school and art center, building and garden, 18th century villa and “outstanding contemporary building”, made of raw concrete and stones from the Var.
In such a context, Parasite 2.0 conceived Gently Brut as a series of specific interventions distributed around the original villa and the architecture created by Michel Marot in 1960, considered to be one of the most singular examples of brutalism in France.
As the title of the exhibition suggests, the interventions are carried out in opposition to the architecture and embody its contradictions: the roughness of the concrete is softened by the use of textile, the brutalist grey by colored pigments, the monumental scale by human scale, and the rigorous conception by the spontaneity of the creative gesture.”
Team:
Stefano Colombo
Carlo Costanzo
Eugenio Cosentino
Luca Marullo
Ph. Stefano Colombo
"10 Anni di Parasite 2.0"_In dialogo con Salvatore Peluso su PTW School
[READ]"Scenografie Politiche" per Menelique #4
[READ]In dialogue with Nick Axel for Extra Extra Magazine n.13°
[READ]"Parasite Invasion" is part of Istmo magazine's first release!
[READ]"Ten Deserts" for Un Sedicesimo #55 by Corraini Edizioni.
[READ]"At the beginning there was the desert" for Magda Magazine. Text by Parasite, photography by Giaime Meloni.
[READ]Our article on Horst Arts and Music Festival is on Domus web
[READ]"Architecture, artifice and the normative man" on Avery Shorts
[READ]"Three Stories: On Future Shock, Retreat, and Architecture as Scenography" on DUE a weekly publication made by Sofia Pia Belenky and Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard and designed by Simone Niquille for the Architectural Association.
[READ]"Cosmology, Subcultures and Urban Wilderness" on Archinect
[READ]"The Internet Was a Desert" on Archinect.com
[READ]"The desert on the margins is my Heimat: for a non-eurocentric vision of migrations and architecture"_Cartha on Making Heimat, a special issue on the German Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, 2016
[READ]"Towards a Digital Talking Architecture"_Form of Formalism, n.3, 2016
[READ]“L’architetto neofiliaco”_Kabul Magazine, 2016
[READ]"The Neophiliac Architect: Three-act play" Trans 28, architectural magazine edited by ETH Zurich Architecture Department
[READ]"Partytopia, crypto urban desert e primitive future tribalism" Artribune, “Carnet d’architecture” a cura di Emilia Giorgi
[READ]“Primitive Future Office”_Plug-in Book, 2016
[READ]"Extreme-Land#5" Interview with Simone Niquille_ATP Diary
[READ]"Extreme-Land#4" Interview with Matilde Cassani_ATP Diary
[READ]"Extreme-Land#2" Interview with m-a-u-s-e-r_ATP Diary
[READ]"Extreme-Land#3" Interview with Aristide Antonas_ATP Diary
[READ]"Extreme-Land#1" Interview with Andreas Angelidakis_ATP Diary
[READ]“Città: rammendare le coscienze” Archphoto
[READ]Parasite 2.0 is a design and research agency based in Milan and London. Founded in 2010 by Stefano Colombo, Eugenio Cosentino and Luca Marullo, they investigate the status of human habitats, acting within a hybrid of architecture, design, and scenography.
Parasite 2.0 has worked and collaborated with Venice Architecture Biennale, Fondazione Prada, Apple, Copenhagen International Fashion Fair, Ikea, Missoni and Sunnei, among others.
They taught at The Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, NABA Nuova Accademia Belle Arti Milano, MADE Program and since 2022 they have been regularly teaching at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Parasite 2.0 were awarded the YAP Young Architects Program MAXXI in 2016.
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Via Boncompagni 51/10,
Milano, 20139, Italy.
info [at] parasiteparasite.com
TEAM
Eugenio Cosentino
Luca Marullo
Stefano Colombo
Beatrice Utano
Andrea Moretti
Silvia La Monica
PREVIOUSLY
Angelica Colonnato, Alberto Spinella, Anna Minissale, Anton Kuzmin, Antonello Livrano, Antonino Giuffrida, Benedetto D’Antoni, Emma Varotto, Filippo Cocca, Gabriele Fedele, Giorgia Leone, Gilles Hellemans, Iacopo Costanzo, Lavinia Romina Mates, Massimo Tenan, Tomoyo Tsurumi, Petra Adela Popa, Roxana Orasteanu, Valerio Morgante, Salvatore De Pascalis, Sara Barilli, Simona Pavoni, Sofia Vrenozaj, Motong Yang, Sara Chieppa, Mariaclaudia Tricarico, Martina Simionati, Carlo Costanzo, Monica Mammone.
WEBSITE
Alessandro Barbieri
Mattia Losa
Federico Scudeler
Paolo Baiguera
IDENTITY
Alessio D’Ellena
FONT
Laica Mono, released by ABCDinamo
Alessio D’Ellena