Spatial Poetry

Farkhondeh Shahroudi

Villa Romana fellow 2017

First solo exhibition curated by Alessandra Tempesti

25.05.2017 – 18.06.2017

Lottozero / Textile Laboratories presents the first Italian solo exhibition by Farkohondeh Shahroudi, an Iranian artist living in Berlin for over twenty years. With a series of recent works created during her prizeresidency at Villa Romana in Florence, the artist shapes a poetic narrative with her three-dimensional creatures, made of cloth and sewn by hand. Sculpture, installation and poetry are the languages through which she has developed a multifaceted, polyphonic body of work throughout the years, nourished by past and present history, in a social and personal, intimate and political dimension.

Vernissage
25.05.2017 18:30
Artist talk
13.06.2017 18:30
Finissage
18.06.2017 18:30

In collaboration with: Villa Romana
Supported by: The city of Prato
Technical Sponsor: Aviem Tessuti

Fair for quality fabrics and sartorial craftsmanship for the comeback of sustainable consumption.

Fashion Revolution: who made my clothes? I chose it myself!

There is a certain pleasure in recognizing something that was well done. It is better to have less of something good that a lot of bad things.
It's time to rediscover Italian production, the value of labour, made to measure, handmade and the quality in textile production and tailoring in general.
At this fair you'll be able to see tailors and designers at work, buy fine fabrics, seek advice or commission a bespoke piece on the spot.

With the presence of the tailors and designers

Violeta Nevenova
Alessandra Jane, www.alessandrajane.com
Andrea Moretti Sartoria, www.andreamorettisartoria.com
Ang un bebé, www.angunbebe.com
Chiara Ciabatti per Camiceria Baldini, www.camiceriabaldini.it
Eugen Nita

and three of the best fabric stock retailers in Prato
Aviem Tessuti
Tex Ingro
Textus

with the support of CNA Federmoda 
and Birrificio Badalà 
media partner Pratosfera

Link to the facebook event here.

A huge thank you to the Crafts Council Nederland for inviting us to talk about Lottozero and the Lab and district as a school during their yearly event at the Dutch Consulate in Milan. We love this event and find it to be one of the most stimulating talks of Milano Design Week.

Thursday March 30th, during a public roundtable talk about Lana Rigenerata, one of the tipical textile products of the Prato area, Luca Vanello will talk about his artistic projects including the latest one focused on this specific topic. We have some illustrious guests, like Roberto Gualtieri, president of Gruppo Colle, and young entrepreneur Giuseppe Alocca, of Lofoio. Always wanted to know more about this product and never had the chance? Come! (yes we will translate to English)

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.

Topics:

• How to observe the collection: see and be inspired
• Pattern as an interpretative key
• Recognizing the identity and the main characteristics of the collection objects
• Working with the archive: references and contemporary examples
• Dexterity and practice: interpreting the artifact through deconstruction
• Mark making;
• The application of experimental practices to production activities of the participating designers

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.
SEE YOU IN BARCELONA!

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!