Inclus dans:

• Fonds: Gianni Pettena fonds, 1960-2019
•    Série(s): Works, 1966-2018
•      Projet: Falsa Curva D'Autostrada [Fake Expressway Bend] (1971), circa 1971-2015

Personnes et institutions:

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

Titre:

Falsa Curva D'Autostrada [Fake Expressway Bend] (1971)

Date:

circa 1971-2015

Niveau de description archivistique:
Project

Collation:

• 6 digital files (24 MB)
  2 photographs
  2 drawings

Présentation du contenu:
The project series documents the performance "Falsa Curva D'Autostrada", also know in English as Fake Expressway Bend. The performance was undertaken with a group of Pettena's students from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, in 1971. It consisted of hanging a large tarp from the overpass of an expressway under construction. The tarp extended to the road underneath and was used to create a fake bend in the overpass. The performance was targeting "the excess of uniformity in urban design" by reimagining the linearity of the overpass into a fake curve.

The project series contains two photographs of the fake expressway bend, two sketches for the installation, and project descriptions in English and in Italian.

Source:
[1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/ff-intens-1971-1/ (last accessed 4 November 2019)

Numéro de référence:

AP207.S1.1971.PR05

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:

Minneapolis Minnesota États-Unis

Langue et écriture des documents:

• English
• Italian

Contient:

• AP207.S1.1971.PR05.001, Photographs and sketches, Falsa Curva D'Autostrada, circa 1971
• AP207.S1.1971.PR05.002, Project descriptions and digitized drawing, Falsa Curva D’Autostrada, 2011 - 2015