We are so excited to have been selected as one of the few creative hubs that will have the chance to follow the European Creative Hub Network's first international workshop at Factoria Cultural in Madrid on March 22nd and 23rd. We will be in town starting Tuesday until Friday...and will keep you posted on Instagram and Facebook.
Are you a tailor, dressmaker or a hands on fashion designer who sews his/her own clothes? We are looking for you right now! Send us you website/portfolio/pics to info@lottozero.org
Sei un sarto/a, creatore di abiti o un/a designer che autoproduce? Ti stiamo cercando! Manda subito il tuo portfolio/sito/foto a info@lottozero.org
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We are so excited to be part of 10 spaces, the exhibition that marks the opening of 5 brand new artist spaces inside the extraordinary palazzo that hosts Numeroventi, in Via dei Pandolfini 20, Florence. The show will be open only this Sunday, March 26th, from 10 am - 7 pm.
8 artists and designers have been invited to share their work as site specific installations, which they will produce during their residencies at Numeroventi, Don't miss it, it will only last one day.
Lottozero is a female founded, female run and female supporting company and therefore we will be joining the Women's strike on March 8th. That means we will not be taking meetings, we will not read or answer our emails and we will dedicate our social media to a cause we support with all our hearts, for 24 hours. Spread the word!
We are helping our friends at Kunstmeranoarte to find weavers from all over Italy, who want seize the opportunity to participate in this outstanding collective art project.
American artist Helen Mirra is creating a library of handwoven pieces from all over the world, and your piece could be part of it. Find all the info on how to participate here.
INCREDIBLE! Our Inside Lottozero catalogue, designed by Studio Mut, just won the most prestigious graphic design award, TDC Type Directors Club New York Certificate of Typographic Excellence. What an amazing achievement from our favourite design studio in the world Studio Mut, as always, THE BEST...
So now, let's celebrate!
We are back with some exciting news...we'll be holding a creative design methodology workshop for the elaboration of archives and collections!
The workshop "Re/collection: approaching the archive" is organized by the Museo del Tessuto Foundation in during the last days of its exhibition "Across Art and Fashion", visible at the Museum until the 19th of February 2017.
The workshop will be held on Saturday, February 18th from 11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 19th from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Design Lab of the Museo del Tessuto Prato, as part of the activities of the European project TCBL led by the Municipality of Prato.
Starting from the collection on display in the exhibition "Across Art and Fashion" the creative design methodology workshop is aimed at providing participants with tools for re-elaborating archive material and collections and using it as basis of inspiration and starting point for new projects.
Target: The workshop is open to design school students (textile/interior/graphic) and fashion, young freelance designers of all disciplines, operators and employees of textile companies, and anyone who feels the need to renew their creative processes by adding the dimension of working with collections and archives of the past.
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This is something we are really excited about and that we are definitely going to.
The Textile Academy Bootcamp, an in depth intensive 5 days textile fabrication course meant for creatives, fashion and textile designers, teachers and students and digital fabrication experts.
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Prato is a middle sized city in the center of Italy, it's one of the most important textile districts of the country and of Europe. After suffering some setbacks with the recent economic recession it is on its way to become one of the most interesting areas for contemporary art, artisanry, culture, architecture, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Many of you have been asking us about Prato, what it's like, what's going on, why we're here. We created this video together with Confartigianato Imprese Prato during a very special event they held Inside Lottozero, make sure you check it out!
In our hometown of Prato in the heart of Chinatown, with our friends over at Chì-na, with food from Lottozero fave, Cibino ...this will not be your classic Christmas Market, we are so happy and excited to be part of this first edition Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th of December from 10:30 am - 8:30 pm
After winning the Tuscan leg of the first edition of PREMIO CAMBIAMENTI, we were chosen to be one of the 15th finalist to go to Rome to present our project in front of the national assembly of the CNA one of the largest Italian artisan associations. Tessa did an amazing job but we didn't win the final prize. Oh well, it was still a wonderful perfect experience.
After almost five weeks of visits, events, talks our opening exhibition INSIDE LOTTOZERO is closing on November 20th.
We will be having a small Finissage event for you in our international headquarters in via Arno 10, in Prato on Saturday November 19th at 11 a.m.
We thank all our friends and visitors who have helped make this time so special, we loved the opening events and couldn't believe how many of you came.
If you haven't managed to drop by please check out the pictures on our facebook...
Don't miss our guided visits of the INSIDE LOTTOZERO exhibition with curator Alessandra Tempesti.
October 26th 6:30 p.m. / October 29th 3:30 p.m. / November 3rd 6:30 p.m. / November 6rd 4:00 p.m. / November 14rd 5:30 p.m.
Inside Lottozero is the opening exhibition of Lottozero / textile laboratories in Prato Italy, and marked the beginning of our activities there.
Inside Lottozero is an exhibition with 13 young international artists which explores the use of textile material in contemporary art.
The visit starts at 5:30 pm.
Artists/Artisti: Anna M. Rose, Zoè Gruni, Marie Ilse Bourlanges, Elena Khurtova, Roland Barth, Virginie Rebetez, Zeitguised, Claudia Losi, Nicole Miltner, Aldo Lanzini, Kathrin Stumreich, Marjorie Chau, Arianna Moroder, Mariana Sales
Didn't make it to the Opening? Don't despair, check out the video our friends over at NUB made for us!
It is so hard to find companies willing to support eccentric projects like ours, that gives us a whole new and full appreciation for the ones that do, and we would like to extend our most heartfelt thank you to them:
To the ones supporting the incredible refurbishing of our headquarters:
EWO with their fantastic Led lighting solutions
Grohe with their innovative Blue Pure water filtering system
Artemide with their iconic lamps
Guarducci Mario with their close to perfection construction work on our site
ESTRA for being our Energy partner
To the ones supporting our opening exhibition
Lanificio Mannelli with their incredible wool fabrics
Mantero Seta with their incredible silk fabrics
Fiumiflex with their matresses for optimal sleeping comfort
Epson Italia with their incredible projectors
Cibino with the incredible food our artists will get to eat while they are in Prato
Carta Zucchero with the fantastic sweets they are giving us in the morning
Gedac for the coffee we'll drink in the morning
Fotoprint for printing our flyers
Grafix WIDE for printing our banners
Can't make it to the opening?
Get our fantastically designed catalogue in our online shop. Our friends over at STUDIO MUT really outdid themselves with this one
We are so happy and proud to invite you to the OPENING event of Lottozero on October 15th in Prato Italy. This is going to be a unique experience and an incredible night.
We will open the doors to our newly refurbished textile laboratories starting at 6 p.m. with INSIDE LOTTOZERO an exciting exhibition with 13 artists from all over Europe and their work exploring the use of textile material in contemporary art.
There will be art, music, food, drink and performance. And starting at midnight there will be a sleep concert, with 6 musicians taking their turn performing through the night so that you can drift in and out of light sleep.
Thanks to our mediapartner, Radio Papesse you will be able to listen to the sleep concert in live streaming while you are in your own bed at home, from anywhere in the world.
