RE-CREATE | RE-USE | RE-ARRANGE

U S E O F M A T E R I A L S A P P L I E D T O S E T U P A N D S C E N O G R A P H Y

installation: a work formed by a compound of various elements or objects arranged in a space.The installation can be rearranged or reassembled in different expository spaces, undergoing possible adjustments, as long as the relations between the various elements and the general meaning of the work do not result altered. .Museum arrangement: the basic objective of an arrangement is to minimize the presence of the structures in order to value the works and to draw visitors’ attention on the content rather than the container. Such mode of operation is performed through: 1. A reduction to the bare minimum of the volume and obstruction of the structures carrying the works;2. Direct and concentrated illumination on the works in order to highlight their features and to make the structures “disappear”; 3. Systematic and clearly readable captions;4. Defined and univocal visit route, even if composed by sections and alternative routes.

Exposition: Public exhibition, sometimes temporary or permanent, of handmade objects or works of arts of a specific field.

Installation

Museum arrangement Exposition

The experience of Ricrea Festival

Ricrea Festival is an itinerant festival, which crossed the main provinces of Puglia and Lazio, proposing didactic and expositive spaces, moments of meeting and entertainment on the theme of reuse. In Apulia, it was held in the Urban Laboratories resulted from the project “Bollenti Spiriti”. The Festival is a project funded by the Prime Minister's Office – Dept. of Youth and National Civil Service, for the contest “Giovani protagonisti - Protagonisti per natura”.

During the Festival :

Exhibitions Meetings Contests Theatre performances

Fatti d’Arte curated the selection of the works and the realisation of the museum arrangement that carried them

Planning

We started considering the necessity to use recycled materials in order to assemble and realise the arrangement

We listed all the suitable materials in relation with the contest’s sections that were: Fine artVideo and Images DesignFashion

List of suitable materialsWooden cases

Tin cans

Videotapes Net used in construction

sites

Irrigation rubber pipes

Old plexiglass panels

Old picture frames

Pallets

Old cars’ tyres

Then, we decided the forms and colours to use for the arrangement

Each element had to built taking into account these forms

During the realisation of the single elements, these forms evolved. For example the circle turned into a spiral.

The square The rectangle

The circle

Forms to be used

The colour

There were no doubts about the use of the white, being colour that emphasises the works

The white represents the absence of any chromatism. Every other colour can change tone in the course of time, while the white pigment, if spread pure, maintains its tone unaltered for long and can strengthen tones and

contrasts of other colours matched to it.

- All the structure were painted with a white acrylic

Il layout

The structure disposition was planned to grant the visitors a better usability of the spaces and to be easy fitting to all the places where it was held.

The arrangement did not have a precise order. The route had no start and no end. The purpose was to leave the choice to the visitors who, following the emotions suggested by each section, could decide to be guided by them for the whole visit.

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Even the cables for the electrical functioning of some works and devices of the video section, were white.

A possible disposition of the arrangement and its usability

The chosen materials

Old picture frames

Old plexiglass

panels

Tin cans

Wooden cases

The outcome

Frames and tin cans

Wooden cases and frosted plexiglass panels

Advantages of this museum arrangement

Possibility to extend the expositive space using the same treated materials

The choice of the colour assures a longer life span of the structure. In fact, they can always be adjusted, even after years.

The possibility to disassemble the structures allow an easy transport and the opportunity, if needed, to compact the arrangement so to reduce it.

Other expositive solutions

The old chairs that are no more useful because of the weakening of their structure, find a new use as a support of works of art, in particular tin cans and bottles of olive oil. Here, the chairs become a support for the artist creativity. The exhibition Olio d’artista gathered and immortalise the artist vision encouraging the use of alternative supports.

Boards from construction sites

Bitonto’s Cathedral yard

The suspension of the chairs creates an unusual looking of the support, which loses its original function to adopt another one. The alternative image of the chair raises in the visitor a sense of lightness and offers a complete view so to fully appreciate the works at a close distance.

The colour values and highlights the works

Application of re-use to theatre scenography

Even theatre scenes can be built using reused materials. In fact, for the theatre project ‘The Tempest’, we projected, with the

students of the middle school ‘Carmine Sylos’, a whole ‘recycled’ scenography.

We realised wooden and walkable trunks, applying wooden branches collected on our beaches. In addition, we created a big sail sewing by hand different fabrics; we then dyed it so to obtain

an irregular colour for the whole sail.

Scaffolding is useful if the purpose of the director is to give the scene dynamicity and a gigantic shape, as with the show “La Venexiana” directed by Raffaele Romita.

Even theatre objects and costumes can be realised with recycled materials.

Hundreds of plastic plates, recovered from school canteens and carefully washed, became thousands of feathers that covered wings

180 cm long and 90 cm large.

The word ‘GLAM’, realised entirely with recycled materials, was the inspiration for the scene of the show ‘Tutto sui tacchi di tutti’, produced

by Fatti d’Arte.

Example of the costs for the arrangement of the exhibition Olio d’artista

Boards: recovered from construction sites Cost: 0 €.

Wooden chairs: recovered from old workshops and from garbage binsCost: 0 €

Water paint, mixed with sawdust and chalk - 10 litres. Cost : 25,00 €

Transport costs: 15,00 €

Total cost (included skilled labour): 40,00 €

Advantages of the use of recycled materials:

Reduction of materials costs;

Reduction of the materials processing costs;

Reduction of waste storage costs;

Opportunity of work for artisans and promotion of their skills

Re-use is intended as an alternative to

use and dispose

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