Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Gianni Pettena fonds, 1960-2019
•    Série(s): Works, 1966-2018
•      Projet: Proposte per il concorso Trigon [Proposals for the Trigon competition] (1971), 1971-2017

Personnes et institutions:

• Gianni Pettena (archive creator)
• Gianni Pettena (artist)

Titre:

Proposte per il concorso Trigon [Proposals for the Trigon competition] (1971)

Date:

1971-2017

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 113 digital files (398 MB)
  22 drawings (including 17 reprographic copies)
  18 photographic materials

Présentation du contenu:
This project series documents five of the fifteen proposals submitted by Pettena for the Trigon competition in Graz, Austria, in 1971. The proposals documented in this project series are the following: Proposal n° 7 "Imprisonment" and "Architectural project #2 (Planes crossing)"; Proposal n° 11 "Instantaneous birth"; Proposal n° 12 "Conservazione"; Proposal n° 13 "Sedie e tavolo d’erba"; and Proposal n° 14 "Grass Architecture" I, II, and III.

Pettena won the first prize for both his proposal "Imprisonment" and "Architectural Project #2" (Proposal n° 7) and for "Grass Architecture" I and II (Proposal n° 14). In these proposals, Pettena "questioned the temporal dimension of architecture as well as its relationship with nature." [1] The proposal "Grass Architecture" consists of shapes of grass rising from the ground, creating a perishable form of architecture coming from within and becoming part of the territory. The "Imprisonment" and "Architectural Project #2" proposals are a variation of Pettena's previous performance project "Cancellazione di uno stato" in 1970. These proposals consist of "trails of passing airplanes crisscrossing? the sky, creating the outlines of a grid of clouds. Here, the legacy of the grid in modern architecture is rendered formless, as if “naturalized” by the evaporation of the clouds, subject to chance and the freely drifting trails left by the airplanes." [2]

The project series contains presentation drawings (five original drawings, seventeen reprographic copies, and four photographic reproductions), for Pettena's proposals "Imprisonment" and "Architectural project #2 (Planes crossing)", "Instantaneous birth", "Conservazione", "Sedie e tavolo d’erba", and "Grass Architecture" I, II, and III. The project series also includes photographs of models for the "Grass Architecture" proposal.

Sources:
[1] FRAC Centre-Val de Loire, http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/pettena-gianni/grass-architecture-317.html?authID=148&ensembleID=454 (last accessed 11 November 2019)
[2] FRAC Centre-Val de Loire, http://www.frac-centre.fr/_en/art-and-architecture-collection/pettena-gianni/imprisonment-317.html?authID=148&ensembleID=115 (last accessed 11 November 2019)

Numéro de référence:

AP207.S1.1971.PR02

Mode de classement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.

Localisation:

Graz Autriche

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English
• Italian

Sources complémentaires:

• For materials related to Pettena's performance project "Cancellazione di uno stato", see AP207.S1.1970.PR01 Cancellazione di uno stato [Cancellation of the State] (1970).

Contient:

• AP207.S1.1971.PR02.001, Photographic reproductions of presentation drawings, Proposte per il concorso Trigon, circa 1971
• AP207.S1.1971.PR02.002, Presentation drawings for the proposals, Proposte per il concorso Trigon, 1971
• AP207.S1.1971.PR02.003, Presentation drawings for the proposals, Proposte per il concorso Trigon, 1971
• AP207.S1.1971.PR02.004, Digitized presentation drawings for the proposals, sketches, photographs of a model for Grass Architecture proposal, and project descriptions, Proposte per il concorso Trigon, 2001 - 2017