BAU, Italia

the Cultural Association BAU
announces the publication of
BAU 6
CONTAINER OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

Produced yearly in a limited edition of 150 copies by the Cultural Association BAU in Viareggio (Italy), BAU Container of Contemporary Culture houses in a serigraphed cardboard box various original contributions size A4 (cm. 21x29,7), signed and numbered, from individual authors and groups. The magazine is a sort of workshop that satisfies the participants’ curiosity for a mutual discovery of the motivations and expressions of their work. The publication picks up the inheritance of the artists’ magazines and of the assembling projects of the Sixties-Eighties ("Assembling", "Tèchne", "Geiger", etc.), with the addition of an original dimension of group work and of shared planning and ideas, that is also expressed through the organization of exhibitions, readings, meetings, festivals and performative events.

BAU 6 contains works from sixty seven local, Italian and international authors. We are particularly pleased by the presence in this sixth issue of the contributions by Richard Kostelanetz and Geoffrey Hendricks, since "Assembling" magazine and Fluxus were two main sources of inspiration at the birth of our project.

BAU is an independent and no profit Cultural Association founded in 2004 by Antonino Bove, Vittore Baroni, Carlo Battisti and other authors active in Viareggio and on the coast of Tuscany. Locally and through national and international collaborations, the project intends to act as a meeting point and aggregation centre, involving the most diverse disciplines. The project has gained a gratifying success, through public presentations in prestigious art spaces (Fondazione C.L. Ragghianti, Lucca; Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; CAMeC, La Spezia; Centro L. Pecci, Prato, etc.) and through the acquisition of the Container in several international archives, libraries, museums and private collections. In August 2009 BAU will organize in Viareggio the multimedial event and exhibition Sonic BAU, focussed on sound art and audio installations, following the success of the art events organized in 2008 (Luoghi dell'Utopia) and 2007 (Contemporaneo Versiliese).

BAU 6 (2009)
The publication consists of an editorial booklet in colour (16 pages), a poster and 65 original works by 67 authors, in various techniques on paper, thin cardboard, canvas, acetate, pvc, cork, ceramics, foam rubber, etc., plus 2 multimedia discs and 1 audiocassette.
Authors: Adriano Accattino, ALDES / Castello-Moretti, Fernando Andolcetti, Carlo Battisti, Luigi Bianco, Emanuela Biancuzzi, Irma Blank, Sergio Borrini, Luca Brocchini, Gianni Broi, Ugo Carrega, Luciano Caruso, Filippo Ciavoli Cortelli, Cosimo Cimino, Mario Commone, Jakob De Chirico, Adolfina De Stefani, Gabriele Dini, Beatrice Donin, Wolfgang Flatz, Giovanni Fontana, Enzo Forese, Dimitri Fulignati, Emanuele Gabellini, György Galántai, Delio Gennai, Alfredo Gioventù, Katharina Goldyn, Geoffrey Hendricks, I Santini Del Prete e Menadito, Richard Kostelanetz, Peter Küstermann, Alessio Larocchi, Le Forbici di Manitù, Daniele Lombardi, Tania Lorandi, Arrigo Lora Totino, Ruggero Maggi, Marco Marchiani “Mavilla”, Stelio Maria Martini, Giancarlo Micheli, Enzo Miglietta, Giorgio Moio, Angelina M. Moody, Nadia Nava, Riri Negri, Martino Oberto, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Carlo Palli, Giuseppe Pellegrino, Massimiliano Pelletti, Paolo Pergola, Giorgio Poli, Lisa Ponti, Punto Esponenziale, Oronzo Ricci, Alba Savoi, Danilo Sergiampietri, Lorena Sireno, Andrea Sozzi, Fausta Squatriti, Rod Summers, Stefano Turrini, Alberto Vitacchio, Piero Viti.

BAU can be found in the following archives and collections:
Archivio Museo della Stampa, Francesco Pirella, Genova; Archivio Poesia del Novecento, Mantova; Assessorato alla Cultura Regione Toscana; Biblioteca Nazionale, Firenze; Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CAMeC, La Spezia; Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea “L. Pecci”, Prato; Circolo Culturale "Il Gabbiano", La Spezia; Collezione Luigi Bonotto, Vicenza; Collezione Francesco Conz, Verona; Collezione Paolo Della Grazia, Monza; Collezione Giuliano Gori, Fattoria di Celle, Santomato (Pt); Collezione Gianni Landonio, Buguggiate (Va); Collezione Davide Mengoli (London); Collezione Stefano Nastasi, Partanna (Tp); Collezione Carlo Palli, Prato; Collezione Fiorenzo Smalzi, Firenze; Fondazione Berardelli, Brescia; Fondazione “C. L. Ragghianti”, Lucca; Fondazione Sarenco, Cunettone di Salò, Brescia; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Vienna; Lavatoio Contumaciale, Roma; MACRO, Roma; Mart, Rovereto; Museion, Bolzano; Museo d’Arte delle Generazioni del ‘900, Cento (Bo); Museo Ideale “Leonardo Da Vinci”, Vinci; PAC, Milano; Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena; The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach; Collezione Gianni Sassi (Re); Tate Modern Library, London; Tracce “Cahiers d’Art”, Ruvo di Puglia (Ba); etc.

The six issues of BAU (n. 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4+5 and 6) are available to collectors, institutions and those interested in supporting the activities of the Association.
Check our website http://www.bauprogetto.it/ and contact the email http://us.mc903.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@bauprogetto.it to obtain details on how to receive the publication or on how to participate in future issues.

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phone: (Italy) 0584 963918