OPEN CALL “ARTeFICIALE”

Spaghetti Boost Benefit Corporation announces its first Artist Open Call entitled "ARTeFICIALE." The Open Call will be curated by the art critic Francesca Alfano Miglietti and will have as output a selection of artworks, accompanied by prototypes or projects, which will be exhibited in November in a "pop-up" exhibition-event, in an unconventional location in Milan.

The Call is addressed to all national and international artists who feel the need to try their hand at an initiative to enhance their artistic research, through an approach that goes outside their "comfort zone" and evolves from traditional to more experimental dissemination techniques.

The Open Call has as its theme the artificial, which for Francesca Alfano Miglietti becomes ARTeFICIALE.

Artefice invites experimentation not only with new techniques and synergies between art and objects of consumption and everyday use, but also with rethinking and reinventing a language and an unprecedented "pop up," rhizomatic and extemporaneous exhibition form.

Francesca Alfano Miglietti says:

Artifice, before being the expedient by which a result is achieved within a system, is the skill of making art...indeed it is really "making art." A glimpse, mimetic and alien, concerning the relationship between natural and artificial, creativity and technique, craftsmanship and industry, aesthetics and function, art and science, serial production and uniqueness, craftsmanship and ready-made. A theme meant to graft itself into a romantic fantasy, between natural 'truths' and visionary enigmaticity."

The works that will be proposed within the Open Call will have a common root, although they will be the result of different approaches to poetic space. Just as places that are not defined by their physicality, but by the human relationships that activate them, the works and spaces with which the artists dialogue are also lived landscapes, at the center of which ideally lies the possibility of another kind of vision. Dry, tension-filled works will be preferred for evaluation, precisely because the work must be conceived as a sophisticated machine of connections, gazes, mutual proximities, encounters and stories.

This Open Call is totally free of charge and involves the participation of 5 artists invited by the FAM curator herself and 7 other artists who will be selected through the same Open Call.

All artists will be invited to interact with the Call's theme and objectives, rethinking their artwork as a starting point for a project that goes beyond "traditional" formats and is conceived in dialogue with the world of consumption and everyday use.

The call invites all artists, regardless of age, nationality or gender, to participate in the proposed theme.

• Artists selected through this Open Call will be invited to be part of Spaghetti Boost's ROSTER;

• The 12 selected artists, their works and related capsule projects in ‘limited edition’ and/or art merchandising will be published in a text curated by FAM and Spaghetti Boost dedicated to the exhibition;

• The best projects will have the opportunity to be made into "limited edition" capsule versions and/or art merchandising objects, produced entirely by Spaghetti Boost and royalties from the artists;

• From the first week of November, action will be taken on the exhibition spaces for the output of the Open Call, i.e., the setting up of the exhibition/event. The selection of works and artists will be by a committee composed of the Board and part of the Scientific Unit of Spaghetti Boost:

  • Ornella Vanoni 

  • Franco Bosisio 

  • Paolo Marai 

  • Enrico Ceccato 

  • Giuseppe Cogliolo 

  • Stella Pende 

  • Edward Van Vliet 

  • Antonio Gallo 

  • Maura Gancitano e Andrea Colamedici - Tlon 

  • Paolo Orsacchini 

  • and the curator Alfano Miglietti;

• The artworks and prototypes or merch/capsule ideas of the selected artists will be presented in November in the "pop up" exhibition/event, on Spaghetti Boost's web platform and social profiles, through a communication campaign in support of the event that began in June 2024 and will continue for the duration of the call, continuing for the months following the event. 

• Expenses related to transportation, logistics and insurance of the works will be borne by Spaghetti Boost (just for works coming from Italy); 

Upon agreement between the finalist artists and Spaghetti Boost or third parties, SB itself will have right of first refusal on the purchase of a work indicated by Scientific Unit and FAM among those of all selected artists;