project voyager

Monica Robinig (2003)                                                                       Bruno Mangiaterra (2003)



















Project Voyager provides an overview on the work of a group of artists who, despite the diversity of specific languages, addresses the common theme of the use of debris and heterogeneous waste for the production of works of art. 
Project Voyager is the evidence of the specific tendency  considering however the waste material, or the use of technologies outside of their specific use, as an established practice of making art in contemporary aesthetic as well as in the social sensibility.
Project Voyager uses materials stranded on the coast of Conero promontory and delivers them to the artists who transform them working in a temporary open-air laboratory. The works of art are then on display -until after their decay- in Portonovo, within the Regional Park of Monte Conero's great environmental area. This is a Land Art operation which does not require permanent alteration of the hosting site and points out the fact  that the origin of the recycled materials which, although very similar to those commonly found in landfill, they traveled by sea to sea and back.
A ritual?
Just taking into account the latter aspect, that of the journey, PROGETTO VOYAGER  has articulated in its first two editions, performances that have highlighted its importance effectively.
In the inaugural edition in 2002, some of the materials recovered on the beach were employed to  built a raft_art work that was released to the sea currents  with an obligation in the case it was recovered by other artists_seekers to give life to the same project. In 2003, a crucial part of the festival was the boat trip from Ancona to Split made the day following the inauguration of Portonovo.
The voyage was to justify the purpose of establishing a physical contact with the other Adriatic coast, every voyage being an element in establishing relationships, of getting to know each other. The boat with the artists on board bore witness to what had already been achieved, and it also bore seeds that were going to be sown in Split, on the opposite coast.
The reviews of 2003 and 2004 have been curated by Valerio Dehò.


Sergio Capone (2003)

















Luigi Mastrangelo e Gianni Pedullà (2003)

Alessio Unali (2004)















Andrea Papini (2004)