Dart – Chiostro del Bramante

CRAZY: Madness in Contemporary Art

19.02.2022 – 08.01.2023

21 international artists, more than 11 new site-specific installations: for the first time the works of art will invade the interior and exterior spaces of the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, because madness can have no limits.

A perception of the world is the first sign of instability, the first contact between external reality and the brain, between physical truth and poetic creativity, between laws of optics and neurological disorders.

The 21 artists called to participate are part of this madness.

Carlos Amorales, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter, Massimo Bartolini, Gianni Colombo, Petah Coyne, Ian Davenport, Janet Echelman, Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young, Lucio Fontana, Anne Hardy, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Jaar, Alfredo Pirri, Gianni Politi, Tobias Rehberger, Anri Sala, Yinka Shonibare, Sissi, Max Streicher, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu.

Madness, like art, refuses established patterns, escapes from any rigid framework, rebels against constraints, so also does Crazy, the project from Dart – Chiostro del Bramante, curated by Danilo Eccher. No ordinary and predictable path in favor of a creative explosion capable of expanding, like Ian Davenport’s pigment flowing on the stairs, and of modifying the spatial perception, like Gianni Colombo’s environment (1970). A violent shockwave that invades every accessible room, mixing and ensuring strong expressive leaps between the works, from the neon of Alfredo Jaar, also visible from the outside, to the totally immersive colors of Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young. A complex, subjective, oblique narration; an inclusive and participatory atmosphere; a distribution of artworks and isolated and autonomous spaces in all available places, even invading those usually excluded from the museum pathway.

Dart – Chiostro del Bramante

Inside the Renaissance architecture designed by Donato Bramante in 1500: great exhibitions, Italian and international artists, creative projects, as well as a bookstore, a cafeteria, a series of cozy spaces, an extraordinary place in the center of Rome a few steps from Piazza Navona.

Thanks to the female leadership and the passionate and competent management of president Patrizia de Marco and her daughters Laura, Giulia and Natalia de Marco, Dart – Chiostro del Bramante has established itself over the years as a reference point for all those who want to discover modern and contemporary art, with exhibitions of high artistic and cultural value, educational tours for all age groups, workshops and guided tours for all audiences.

Dart – Chiostro del Bramante: the culture of culture.

The exhibition will be accessible in compliance with and according to the regulations for the containment of Covid-19.

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Opening celebration, November 2, 2021, at Vallarta Botanical Gardens

A new, permanent immersive artwork in the chapel of the gardens by Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young.  

Los Angelitos de Nuestra Señora del Jardín, 2021

David Allen Burns and Austin Young / Fallen Fruit

Custom made wallcovering, archival watercolor inks printed onto natural fabrics. Dimensions variable.

An immersive installation artwork created by the artists specifically for the chapel at the Vallarta Botanical Gardens, outside of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This unique asynchronous wall coverings source’s materials from hundreds of original photographs taken by the artists in the gardens at different times of year — as well as historic watercolors and lithographs, by Mexican botanist Rafael Montes de Oca and English ornithologist John Gould, respectively. Orchids and hummingbirds dance around the interior spaces intermixed with seasonal favorites from the botanical collection. The extraordinary flora and fauna naturalized by this exotic setting is permanently embellished into the interior spaces of the chapel and contextualized by never ending organically merging colorfields. The natural world turned inside out.

Noche de Los Muertos & Inauguration of Art “Los Angelitos de México” in the Garden Chapel

Event: Tuesday, November 2, Vallarta Botanical Garden at 6 pm.

The Vallarta Botanical Gardens presents a new expositionby artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young of the project Fallen Fruit, “Los Angeleitos De Mexico”

Evento: Martes, 2 de noviembre en el Jardín Botánico de Vallarta a las 6:00 pm

EL JARDÍN BOTÁNICO DE VALLARTA PRESENTA UNA NUEVA EXPOSICIÓN DE ARTE. ARTISTAS DAVID ALLEN BURNS Y AUSTIN YOUNG DEL PROYECTO THE FALLEN FRUIT DEBUTAN “LOS ANGELITOS DE MÉXICO”Martes, 2 de noviembre en el Jardín Botánico de Vallarta a las 6:00 pm

Una instalación artística en la capilla del Jardín Botánico de Vallarta creada por los artistas, en las afueras de Puerto Vallarta, México. Este singular tapiz asincrónico se nutre de cientos de fotografías originales tomadas por los artistas en los jardines en diferentes épocas del año, así como de acuarelas y litografías históricas del pintor mexicano Rafael Montes de Oca y del ornitólogo inglés John Gould, entre otros.

PARA MÁS INFORMACIÓN O PARA COMPRAR SU BOLETO PARA EL EVENTO EXTRAORDINARIO 

The Vallarta Botanical Garden is a 64-acre botanical garden at 1,300 ft above sea level, near Puerto Vallarta. The garden was founded in 2004 and has been open to the public since 2005.

Carretera Puerto Vallarta, Carr. Costera a Barra de Navidad Km 24, 48425 Jal., Mexico +52 322 223 6182

ACROSS TORRANCE + MAIN GALLERY:

a new public art exhibition with Torrance Art Museum including a new public artwork ‘Lago Seco Fruit Trail’ by Fallen Fruit!

JULY 17 – AUGUST 28, 2021

more info http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/ultra

An adventurous new public art exhibition featuring more than 20 artworks from some of the region’s most exciting contemporary artists in accessible locations throughout Torrance. Sculpture, installation, video projection, and interactive experiences are among the works that visitors will find in various parks, storefronts, schools, and government buildings.

Torrance Art Museum serves as the hub station. The Main Gallery will feature additional works by some of the Ultra! artists, providing a wonderful complement to the other locations.

Ultra! Featured Artists:Luciana Abait, Richard Ankrom, Badly Licked Bear, Joshua Beliso, Reed van Brunschot, Juan Capistran, Ana Carolina Estarita-Guerrero, Fallen Fruit, Finishing School, Jeff Frost, Narsiso Martinez, Julie Orser, Matthew Pagoaga, Esther Ruiz, Abram Santa Cruz, Sonja Schenk, Allison Stewart, Jan van der Ploeg, Dan S Wang, Glen Wilson, and Yarn Bombing LA.

Join us for these Ultra! Events taking place at Torrance Art Museum.

Saturday, July 17 at 12pm
Ultra! Kickoff & Museum Reopening Ceremony
Live Performances & Installations by: High Beams Project, Yozmit, Zac Monday, Mary Anna Pomonis, and Justin Stadel.

Saturday, August 21 at 3pm
Ultra! Extra
Live Performances by: Ibuki Kuramochi and Beck+Col with Tetiana Sklyarova and Kayla Aguila.

Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young). “PEOPLE POWER,” performance score generated with a public call for participation, dimensions variable, created for Time in this Time, 2021.

A collaborative score

In simple language, using short sentences, Fallen Fruit asked people to tell them what they know best about being a great person. The duo then created a new score with the answers.

Fallen Fruit prompted contributors:
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“It can be thoughts from recent weeks or the past months—or maybe it is something you learned from your family or mentor … or also, from another time in your life when you really learned: 

‍How to be a great version of YOU.”
‍For example:
“My mother taught me to always mind my own business and to always love myself.”“(I started to) take a short walk everyday at a different time of day and never choose the destination in advance, (I just) wander… and openly explore the world each day.”Or, “Sometimes, I tell my cats all of my secrets….”

— Fallen Fruit

LIKE IN PARADISE I WIE IM PARADIES

HÖHENRAUSCH Museum, Linz, Austria

OPENS MAY 6, 2021

Fallen Fruit, along with more than 40 international artists have transformed HÖHENRAUSCH.

The multi-part exhibition trail leads through the OK Center, onto the rooftops of Linz, up atop the historical attics of the former Ursuline convent into the Ursuline Church.

curators: Martin Sturm, Rainer Zendron

Duftende Liebesgedichte, ein Spiegelgarten mit Kirschbäumen, ein künstlicher Vogelschwarm als Baum der Erinnerung, ein wachsendes Kunstwerk aus Kunstdünger und Fans, die verzückt Lieder von Madonna singen: Mehr als 40 internationale Künstler*innen verwandeln den HÖHENRAUSCH in ein weltliches Paradies,  entwickeln Räume für individuelle Träume und blicken hinter die Fassaden käuflicher Illusionen.

WIE IM PARADIES: Heutzutage ist der Begriff „Paradies“ fest im „Diesseits“ verankert und ein fixer Bestandteil unserer Alltagskultur und Konsumwelt geworden. Ob als Bezeichnung für Einkaufszentren, Urlaubsziele oder Swingerclubs: Wir schaffen uns „künstliche Paradiese“, die Momente der Glückseligkeit schenken oder diese wenigstens versprechen.

Der mehrteilige Ausstellungsparcours führt durch die Räume des OK hinauf auf die Dächer von Linz und über die Dachböden des ehemaligen Ursulinenklosters in die Ursulinenkirche. Unvergessliche Eindrücke für Groß und Klein!

Kuratoren: Martin Sturm, Rainer Zendron

Take a virtual tour of ‘Natural History’ by Fallen Fruit / David Burns and Austin Young. A new artwork commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne for the Triennial 2020. The wall text for the ‘Natural History’ triptych are below. https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/virtual-tours/triennial-2020-fallen-fruit/

Natural History , 2020, Fallen Fruit artist collective, United States est. 2004 
David Allen Burns artist , United States born 1970 
Austin Young artist ,United States born 1966 

Natural History, 2020, Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young

Central to the work of Los Angeles–based art collective Fallen Fruit (David Allen Burns and Austin Young) is the desire to create beautiful and sumptuous spaces where audiences can enjoy museum collections in new, unexpected ways that simultaneously reveal a series of layered social constructs.

Using the medium of wallpaper, Fallen Fruit creates unique designs inspired by seemingly local flora and fauna. Natural History, 2020, takes its subject matter from Australia, and critically combines introduced species of birds and plants together with indigenous ones, many of them drawn from images held in the NGV Collection.  

As an immersive environment, Natural History also includes works from the NGV Collection, creating completely new visual and cultural contexts in which to view canonical European and Australian paintings and sculptures. Seeing the artworks in this new way helps draw into question the preconceived knowledge and ideas that usually frame our understanding of art, history, place, indigeneity and colonialism.

Fallen Fruit critically revisits and questions a range of issues in Natural History, including exacerbated  colonialism and its social constructs with regards the classification of the natural world, narrative depictions of religion and the supernatural in art.  In the artists’ selection, organsation and juxtaposition of historical artworks from the NGV Collection combined with their wallpaper, contemporary disruptions and perspectives on race, class, gender and sexuality emerge.   

Natural History  2020 , digital prints (and found objects from the NGV collection), Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne , Natural History 2020 is supported by Nicholas Perkins and Paul Banks , Collection of the artists  

Naturalised plants (Royal Botanic Gardens) room E14A

The images on this wallpaper comprise a pattern of roses and other non-native plantsrepresenting European ideals materialized in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, alongside with fruits and flowers from the streets of inner-city Collingwood. The pattern images from photographs by the artists simultaneously represent colonizers’ social constructs regarding the ‘naturalization’ of plants as well as the adaptive powers of introduced species conducive to urban and rural environments. 

Naturalised plants (Royal Botanic Gardens) 2020  Room E14A, 2020 , digital prints (and found objects from the NGV collection) Collection of the artists 

Native plants (Cranbourne Gardens) This pattern from Fallen Fruit photographs taken at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne,  2020 freatures banksias, kangaroo paws, and others that are among the hundreds of indigenous species being preserved in this ecosystem.  Many artifacts in dialogue with the wallpaper here are European artifacts brought to Australia with limited cultural context and thus mis-identified. 

Native plants (Cranbourne Gardens)  room E14 B , 2020, digital print (and found objects from the NGV collection), Collection of the artists 

Sketchbooks and drawings (National Gallery of Victoria) is a pattern created from historic botanical drawings, notebooks and sketchbooks held in the NGV Collection. The intricately drawn birds, insects, and eucalypts and other indigenous shrubs creates an atmosphere that the artists speculate existed before and during the time of settlement. 

Sketchbooks and drawings (National Gallery of Victoria) room E14C, 2020, digital print (with found objects from the NGV Collection) Collection of the artists 

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The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue, offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this time. Featuring major new commissions and recent works that span geography, perspective and genre, the exhibition celebrates the work of some of the world’s most accomplished artists and designers, while also giving voice to emerging practitioners.

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A Time capsule for the present. An online project – As told by artists and creators. Curated works for the present.

A question from #fallenfruit we want to hear from you. In simple language, share what you know best about being an extraordinary person. It can be thoughts from recent weeks or the past months, or maybe something you learned from family or a mentor. Give the insights that only you know best, and Fallen Fruit will create one of our signature scores with the answers we receive. Put your answer below or go to timeinthistime.com and email [email protected] your answer #timeinthistime #fallenfruit

check it out HERE

19 DEC 2020 – 18 APR 2021

We are excited and grateful that our artwork is a part of the NGV Triennial.

www.ngv.vic.gov.au

The NGV Triennial brings contemporary art, design and architecture into dialogue, offering a visually arresting and thought-provoking view of the world at this time. Featuring major new commissions and recent works that span geography, perspective and genre, the exhibition celebrates the work of some of the world’s most accomplished artists and designers, while also giving voice to emerging practitioners.

Read our new interview HERE

What Artists Are Doing Now. Contemporary art collective Fallen Fruit in Los Angeles

“Fear is very easy to grow. Love is also very easy to grow. We are focused on promoting messages of love and joy. A fruit tree is a great symbol of generosity. And fruit trees are endlessly giving (fruit) without expecting anything in return. :)” – David and Austin of Fallen Fruit