Containerart
{{Short description|Public art event}}
ContainerArt was a travelling public art event and exhibition project, which used shipping containers to display works of contemporary art from 2005-2012.{{Cite web |title=Containers - Criticism |url=https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/240485/containers |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=e-flux |language=en}} The containers displayed different works of art in each location and at each event.{{Cite web |title=Container Art |url=http://www.containerart.org |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190315150627/http://www.containerart.org:80/ |archive-date=2019-03-15 |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=www.containerart.org}} As a form of installation and place-based art, ContainerArt was part of an emerging practice of re-purposing shipping containers in urban environments and shipping container art.{{Cite web |title=The Rise Of Shipping Container Art: Transforming Urban Spaces |url=https://nearpodcast.org/the-rise-of-shipping-container-art-transforming-urban-spaces/ |website=NEAR Podcast}}
ContainerArt began in Italy and was produced by the Associazione Cuturale ContainerArt. Image:Containerartny.JPG
The Associazione Cuturale ContainerArt was an Italian non-profit association headed by Ronald Lewis Facchinetti. Facchinetti's curatorial philosophy was described in his book "Beauty Inside", and was primarily concerned with helping the viewer achieve the "aesthetic experience" while isolated inside a container and in front of the work of art.{{Cite book |last=Lewis Facchinetti |first=Ronald |title=Beauty inside: teoria e pratiche di containerart |date=2008 |publisher=Proedi |isbn=978-88-89721-37-7 |edition=2. |location=Milano |language=it |trans-title=Beauty Inside: Theory and Practice of Container Art}} Later, ContainerArt also operated as an international franchise with partners in various countries, including Brazil, China, Canada and Israel. The international partners developed and curated their local shipping container art exhibits with support from ContainerArt, but with independent themes and goals. Events in both Sao Paulo and New York City focused on video art installations inside the containers.
ContainerArt events usually lasted for 10 days during which the container was open to the public. Containers were placed in streets and public parks. Maps were distributed so that visitors could explore neighbourhoods and places through art. ContainerArt also placed "bStrogs" or street blogs outside the open containers. Computers connected to the internet were sometimes used to comment upon the work. ContainerArt also made use of Bluetooth technologies to communicate information on the works and events to the phones of passers-by.
Exhibitions
| class="wikitable"
|+Italy !Year !City !Containers !Theme !Partner(s) ! |
| 2005
|21 | | |{{Cite web |date=2016-03-04 |title=ContainerArt 2005 |url=http://www.dexigner.com/news/5608 |access-date=2025-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061755/http://www.dexigner.com/news/5608 |archive-date=2016-03-04}}{{Cite web |title=containerart |url=https://containerartnews.wordpress.com |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=containerart |language=en}} |
| 2005
|21 | | | |
| 2007
|24 | | | |
| 2007
|Rome |14 | | |
| 2008
|6 | | | |
| 2008
|2 | | | |
| 2008
|4 | | | |
| 2008
|23 |"Ecosystems" |
| 2008
|Milan, Tirana, Turin, Venice |13 |"Beauty Inside Will Save the World" | | |
| class="wikitable"
|+International franchise partner exhibits !Year !City !Containers !Theme !Partners ! |
| 2006
|8 |DiVA Video Art fair |
| 2007
|3 | | | |
| 2008
|12 |Video art |Lucas Bambozzi and Cao Guimarães |
| 2009
|15 |Repurposed materials |
| 2011
| | |{{Cite web |last=Yeo |first=Sharon |date=2011-07-30 |title=Fun on the Midway: 2011 Capital Ex |url=https://onlyhereforthefood.ca/2011/07/29/fun-on-the-midway-2011-capital-ex/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=Only Here for the Food |language=en}} |
| 2011
|Vancouver |15 | |Pacific National Exhibition |{{Cite web |last=Vancouver |first=Port Metro |title=Local Artists Bring Shipping Containers to Life at this year's PNE |url=https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/local-artists-bring-shipping-containers-to-life-at-this-years-pne-510595701.html |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=www.newswire.ca |language=en}} |
| 2012
|Vancouver | | |Pacific National Exhibition |
Selection process
ContainerArt projects not curated by content partners were directly chosen by Ronald Lewis Facchinetti in association with local co-curators or franchisees. Any artist could apply by sending a project and filling out an application available on the ContainerArt website.
Artists could exhibit free of charge. Artists whose project was approved were assigned a container in which to exhibit their work.
The event allowed them to display their project in an unusual context with wide access to the general population of a city.
References
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External links
- {{Cite web |title=Container Art Exhibit featured at the Vancouver PNE |url=http://wallfarmers.ca/?section=39&id=151 |website=wallfarmers.ca}}
- {{Cite web |title=Genova invasa dai contenitori d'arte |url=http://www.mentelocale.it/arte/contenuti/index_html/id_contenuti_varint_20933 |last=Baroncelli |first=Francesca |date=2008-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629095728/http://www.mentelocale.it/arte/contenuti/index_html/id_contenuti_varint_20933 |archive-date=2008-06-29 |website=MenteLocale |language=it}}
- {{Cite web |title=GENOVA. CONTAINER DI ARTE, NATURA E SPIRITUALITA' DA TUTTO IL MONDO |url=http://www.genovapress.com/Genova-cose-da-fare/genova-container-di-arte-natura-e-spiritualita-da-tutto-il-mondo.html |date=2008-05-26 |website=Genova Press |trans-title=GENOA. CONTAINER OF ART, NATURE AND SPIRITUALITY FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD |language=it}}
- {{Cite web |title=ContainerArt 2005 |url=http://www.dexigner.com/news/5608 |last=Ozler |first=Levent |date=2005-08-23 |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815192852/http://www.dexigner.com/news/5608 |archive-date=2011-08-15 |website=Dexigner}}
- {{Cite web |title=Conversazione con Ronald Lewis Facchinetti |url=http://www.alphabetcity.it/index.php?com=articolo&id=1251 |last=Federico |first=Daniele |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531005211/http://www.alphabetcity.it/index.php?com=articolo&id=1251 |archive-date=2008-05-31 |website=Alphabet City |language=it}}
- {{Cite web |title=L'arte in un container |url=http://www.luxury24.ilsole24ore.com/ArteCreativita/2007/11/container-art%20_1.php |last=Alison |first=Irene |date=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713012045/http://www.luxury24.ilsole24ore.com/ArteCreativita/2007/11/container-art%20_1.php |archive-date=2011-07-13 |website=Luxury24}}
- {{Cite web |title=Tra Roma e Israele l'arte corre sul web |url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/roma/tra_roma_e_israele_larte_corre_web/01-12-2007/articolo-id%3D224520-page%3D0-comments%3D1 |date=2007-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813003135/http://www.ilgiornale.it/roma/tra_roma_e_israele_larte_corre_web/01-12-2007/articolo-id=224520-page=0-comments=1 |archive-date=2011-08-13 |website=Il Giornale |language=it |trans-title=Between Rome and Israel, art runs on the web}}
- {{Cite web |title=Container pieni d'arte |url=http://www.mentelocale.it/17467-container-pieni-d-arte/ |last=Santini |first=Laura |date=2007-03-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719084847/http://www.mentelocale.it/17467-container-pieni-d-arte/ |archive-date=2011-07-19 |website=Mentelocale |trans-title=Containers full of art |language=it}}
- {{Cite web |title=Arte: Roma, Oltre 40.000 Persone a 'Containerart' |url=http://notizie.interfree.it/cgi-bin/desc.cgi?id=134479 |date=2007-11-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110722035618/http://notizie.interfree.it/cgi-bin/desc.cgi |archive-date=2011-07-22 |website=Club Interfree}}
- {{Cite web |title=ContainerArt |url=http://www.exibart.com/profilo/eventiV2.asp/idelemento/47954 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609125740/http://www.exibart.com/profilo/eventiV2.asp/idelemento/47954 |archive-date=2011-06-09 |website=ExiBart |language=it}}
- {{Cite press release |title=ContainerArt Diverse sedi, Genova |date=2007-03-16 |url=http://www.undo.net/it/mostra/49961 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807185742/http://www.undo.net/it/mostra/49961 |archive-date=2011-08-07 |language=it}}
- {{Cite web |date=2007-07-02 |title=ContainerArt Roma e Gerusalemme |url=http://www.amicidisraele.org/news.php?extend.238 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070702191738/http://www.amicidisraele.org/news.php?extend.238 |archive-date=2007-07-02 |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=Amici d'Israele |language=it}}
Category:Art exhibitions in Italy
Category:Contemporary art exhibitions