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         RADIO AS AN ARTS SPACE  – STATION ZONE – curated by Irena Pivka, Ilari  Valbonesi, Brane Zorman – will act as a sound art platform,  intersecting selected archives from Rome and Ljubljana broadcasting   sound art productions, texts and interviews from   radioCona, Radio Študent, Maurizio Nannucci, SoundArtMuseum, RAM, MGLC, ŠKUC, Galerija P74, artists archives    ZVO.ČI.TI (So.und.ing  ) project. and    
               The project is curated by   Irena Pivka,     Ilari Valbonesi           in   Brane Zorman. 
      
      Program radioCona    RADIO AS AN ARTS SPACE - STATION ZONE  is a part of a  Compagni DI VIAGGO  exhibition, curated by Alenka Gregoric,  City Gallery  Ljubljana, Slovenia  
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   Produced by - radioCona / ZONE 
 partners of the project: City Gallery Ljubljana, Zerynthia / RAM Live New Radio Belgrade 
 project AS AN ART RADIO SPACE is cofinanced by European Cultural Foundation  ECF  (BIFC) 
 project is cofinanced by radioCona Ministry of Culture of the R   epublic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana  
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    Compagni  di viaggio   /             Traveling Companions       
              
       Consisting  of several segments, this exhibition provides a multilayered view of  the artistic production of the featured artists and the role, or perhaps  simply a visual reflection, of their friendship with the two key  protagonists, Dora Stiefelmeier and Mario Pieroni, whose archives,  collection of artworks, and current projects are put on view. The  process of the selection for and the staging of the exhibition were  guided by the predominant idea of showing Stiefelmeier and Pieroni’s  participation in the production of artworks, their work on exhibitions,   and, last but not least, their informal and congenial assoc    iations with  numerous prominent figures both on the Italian and international art  scenes. Hence the title of the show   Compagni di viaggio / Traveling Companions  ,  which presents, by way of a variety of artworks, audio archives,  videos, postcards, letters, poems, and documentary photographs, the many  years of their active cooperation and friendship.The drawings,  sculptures, postcards, letters, and artist’s books with inscribed  dedications displayed on the first floor bear witness to the lively  activities of the Pieroni Gallery in the 1970s and 1980s, of the  non-profit organization Zerynthia established in the early 1990s, and of  radio RAMradioartemobile.  This collection had grown out of the decades  of close contacts between Stiefelmeier and Pieroni, on the one hand, and  artists and other figures on the international art scene, on the other.  Both the selection of works and documents and the design of their  display are the work of the Irwin group, who have used the material to  produce a distinct view, interpreting and translating into exhibition  format the story of professional and friendly links between people of  different generations and styles of expression. Most artists are  presented with a single artwork, or even only with a postcard they sent  on some occasion or other (intervening in the given visual image,  putting their thoughts in writing, in the intervention, or in the choice  of motif), with a taped  video work they made, having b    een unable to  meet in person, or even an intervention in Stiefelmeier and Pieroni’s  home or gallery. This provides visitors with an opportunity to see a  great deal of documentary material and artworks, which in their diverse  ways reflect the cordial links between, as well as some quite intimate  details in the lives of, Stiefelmeier, Pieroni, and the artists.The last  decade of their active participation and creative zeal is represented  by three works: RAM live, SAM SoundArtMuseum (an installation by Getulio  Alviani and Pietro Grossi), and the current project   Il Treno       www.radioartemobile.it      since 2001 and collecting such audio material as sound artworks,   interviews, dialogues and other related materials.  (The Train). In  collaboration with RAM live – an Internet radio station broadcasting  from RADIO  AS AN ARTS SPACE – STATION ZONE - curated by Irena Pivka, Ilari  Valbonesi, Brane Zorman - will act as a sound art platform, intersecting  selected archives from Rome and Ljubljana, broadcasting sound art  productions, texts and interviews from radioCona, Radio Študent,  Maurizio Nannucci, SoundArtMuseum, RAM, MGLC, ŠKUC, Galerija P74,  artists     archives and ZVO.CI.TI (So.und.ing) project.   
      For  the first few days of the broadcasting, radioCona will have its studio  on the ground floor of the gallery, broadcasting live a program  on  88.8MHz and on     www.cona.si/       
      radio  in collaboration with RAM radioartemobile www.radioartemobile.it that  will include, in addition to the selected audio works and sound art  projects, interviews, talks, and other content.   
         
      
        The  current projects are exhibited on the second floor: a number of sound  works; the archive of the SoundArtMuseum (established in 2004 and  curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Riccardo Giagni, and Cesare Pietroiusti,  it has over 1,000 audio works); and the second station of the   Il treno   project (the first one was in Turin on November 6, 2010), entitled    Landscapes on the Move  ,  curated by Lorenzo Benedetti and Cecilia Casorati, and presenting works  by Donatella Spaziani, Liliana Moro, Mario Airò, Massimo Bartolini,  Dario D’Aronco, Marco Fedele di Catrano, Valentino Diego, Donatella  Landi, Eva Marisaldi, Alfredo Pirri,      and special guests of the   Train    project, Jannis Kounellis and Alvin Curran. The sequence of  exhibitions, meetings, and short trips creates the connections between  the chosen galleries, while metaphorically the title can be understood  to refer to the rapid succession of scenarios and stories changing in  the art spaces as quickly as they would on a train, broadening the  horizons of the viewers-passengers in the process.         Also Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani’s documentary   S.T.   (Untitled), a work in progress featuring many of the artists participating in   Compagni di viaggio  , and Jimmie Durham’s film   Pursuit of Happiness   will be screened as part of the exhibition.         (Alenka Gregorič)               
      
        
            
        The exhibition has been supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia.