We are excited to announce that we are part of the project Cambiamoda, realized thanks to the support of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation by Mani Tese in collaboration with Istituto Oikos and other great partners:  Faircoop, Altis - Alta Scuola Impresa e Società, Koinètica, Guardavanti.

The initiative aims at promoting a change in the lifestyle, consumption and production in the sector of fast fashion, towards more responsible and sustainable models, respect of human and environmental rights, through actions of education and awareness raising. 

Over the course of the next year, we will teach design thinking workshops in universities all over Italy and we will hold not one, but two special editions of our beloved Fashion Revolution Fair!

Get in touch or follow us for further information!

Saturday 30th November at 19:00 you are all invited to the opening of Soft Feelings (Part I / Anatomy Class), an exhibition by Alice Ronchi that shows the first study of her ongoing research. We are so proud to present the results of her residency at Lottozero! She spent the last 2 months at Lottozero working on her new project focused on the intimacy of the body and sexuality.

Soft Feelings explores the intimate sphere of the body, its emotions, sensations and desires. The first chapter (Anatomy Class) is structured as a glossary of anatomical parts, erogenous zones, irregularities and peculiarities of the body, realized with materials and techniques that relate to the textile world.
The underlying narrative of the project is a visual poetry, where sexuality and emotion are treated with extreme purity and delicacy, as if being explained to a child. It uses a pastel colour palette with a predominance of pink, which represents the fleshy pink of the skin.

h 17:00 Artist talk with Alice Ronchi
h 19:00 Vernissage

30.11.2019 - 16.02.2020
Open during office hours and by appointment (info@lottozero.org / +39 0574 22883)
Lottozero textile laboratories, Via Arno 10 Prato

In collaboration with Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci
The project is part of Toscanaincontemporanea2019

www.aliceronchi.com

Every Monday evening, from 18.00 to 21.00, Lottozero opens its doors and welcome everyone to join the (self) Sewing Club. Our industrial sewing-machines workstations will be available for tailors, designers, creatives and for everyone who is fond of the craft of sewing.

This is not a course but a way to open our space, spend time together and share our passion for textiles and dressmaking.

See you next Monday at Lottozero textile laboratories!

SUNDAY, October 27th from 10:30 to 12:00 at LOTTOZERO, Via Arno 10, Prato.

Croissant and sounds: one-hour listeing session, great stories to share!
Breakfast Club is a preview of LUCIA | RADIO AT THE MOVIES, an international audiocraft festival, coming next, on December 12-14 2019 in Florence.

Next October 27th at Lottozero, Radio Papesse presents some of the most extraordinary and recently produced audio stories: features and fiction, radio productions and podcasts that are reshaping the way we use to listen. It’s cinema without images, audio narratives that Radio Papesse invites you to listen together! Italian and English subtitles will accompany the listening/screenings. ‬Featuring stories by Jess Shane, Janna Graham and Neil Sandel.

For the occasion in the Lottozero Kunsthalle we will be presenting a selection of works by artists who have worked with us in the past years and who are united by their interest in researching the textile matter: Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Darius Dolatyari, Chloé Rozycka Sapelkine, Luca Vanello, Roland Barth.

TUESDAY, October 8th from 10:00 to 18:00 at LOTTOZERO, Via Arno 10, Prato.

Tapestry Weaving is an ancient textile craft that consists of the weaving of vertical and horizontal threads to compose real textile paintings. The weft and warp is worked in small strokes creating areas of color and composing drawings, figures and geometric motifs in cloth structure.
The first evidences of Tapestry weaving date back to 11th century Germany, later the technique developed mainly in France and in Flanders. From the end of the 1800s there was a revival of the tapestry thanks to the work of the artists of the Arts and Crafts movement by William Morris and the Bauhaus and today it is widely used by many contemporary artists.

Read all the details of our workshop here.

Get your tickets here for all future workshops check it out here or sign up for our newsletter.

After being invited by Museion Bozen-Bolzano, the museum of contemporary art in Bolzano, to curate their Studio House for all of 2019, it’s time to present our third and last exhibition with Homo Bulla, a new and site-specific project by American artist Anna M. Rose.

The masses of hair used in her sculptures are made of synthetic fibres, works that overturn the stereotypes linked to femininity. Homo Bulla is a playground where the visitor is physically involved, and can experience the ambiguity of the game’s rules and gestures, once they are out of the their original context.

The exhibition will be visible for FREE from the 6th of September to the 27th of October. 
The Opening is on Thursday September 5th at 19.00 h.

See you there!

We are happy to announce, that Lottozero has been selected to take part in the first round of the Creative FLIP P2P exchange program.

As part of the European Creative Hubs Network we have been given the amazing opportunity to do a one week exchange to a partner hub in order to extend our international network and learn and share good practices with fellow hubs!

We are excited and looking forward to visiting STPLN in Malmø, Sweden, coming October!

For CREAZIONI URBANE; the summer program of the city of Prato we will be holding a series of workshops designed to revisit and redesign old, unused clothes and accessories. The participants will bring their own garments from home and during the workshops they will learn and experiment various techniques with which they can give their pieces new life.

Each workshop will start with an introduction that illustrates some examples of designers and artists that are significant for the themes and techniques of the workshop, which can inspire participants to interesting and intelligent methodologies and approaches for the development of their project.

At the end of the workshop the participants will return home with a completely renewed garment.

9-11 July 2019 : Natural dyes

15-17 July 2019: Make it shine, working with the heat press

23-25 July 2019 Woolfill - the technique of Heleene Klopper

As you know for all of 2019 we have been invited by Museion Bozen-Bolzano, the museum of contemporary art in Bolzano, to curate their Studio House. 
We Have three site specific projects by Lottozero artists, curated by our very own Alessandra Tempesti.

The second artist we will be presenting is Norwegian Magrethe Brekke with How to Implement Utopia, which will be visible for FREE from the 7th of June to the 25th of August. 

Magrethe Brekke works with dacron, a highly resistant and light synthetic fabric used for hang-glider wings. She manipulates the surfaces manually, transforming the language of patterns into a visual code, with which she talks about ecological themes of immediate urgency.

The Opening: Magrethe Brekke at Museion Atelier is on Thursday June 6th at 19.30 h. See you there!

Silk-screen printing is the finest printing technique in the textile industry. Even today the most important fashion houses resort to this semi-artisanal process to print refined clothing and accessories, most importantly the scarf.
This workshop offers the possibility of learning all the fascinating steps of printing a four-color scarf using historical motifs that have made the prints of brands such as Hermes, Etro, Ferragamo so iconic.

SATURDAY, June 1st at LOTTOZERO, get your tickets here for all future workshops check it out here or sign up for our newsletter.

UPDATE:

Call open until the 12th of MAY, notifications by the 26th of MAY

Lottozero has been active for Fashion Revolution, the global movement calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry, with a variety of projects for the last 3 years.

 The goal of FR is to unite the fashion industry and ignite a revolution to radically change the way our clothes are sourced, produced and purchased, so that what the world wears has been made in a safe, clean and fair way.

 Just like FR we want a cleaner, safer, fairer, more transparent and more accountable fashion and textiles industry and that is why THIS YEAR we want to give one designer/fashion brand the chance to come to the production district of Prato. Get to know the district, the history, the main players of textile and fashion production. SEE who makes their clothes with the objective of sourcing at least one material or producing at least one new item here.

CALL

Lottozero offering 1 independent designer or small brand the opportunity to complete a 1-3 week residency in the heart of the textile district of Prato. The designers will be living in the Lottozero residency apartment and working with the consultation of Lottozero and the consultation of some of the key figures of the leading textile/fashion companies of the district.

The selected designer/brand will have the opportunity to access the most prestigious textile and fashion companies in the district, to see the best dead stocks and to visit the Prato Textile Museum and get exclusive access to its historical textile archives. Scope of the project is to source at least one material or produce at least one new item of their collection here.

What does this residency provide?

• A 1-3 week stay between September and December 2019 (please indicate your preference in the application), at the Lottozero Residence

• Access to Lottozero's co-working space and laboratory in Prato and to the textile archives of the participating companies of Prato and of the Textile Museum

• Up to 12h of personalized consultancy, logistical support and mentorship from the Lottozero staff

• Technical support from the companies, for the successful realization and/or development of the project

• 1 day visit to the main fabric dead stock suppliers of the area

• 1 visit to the Textile Museum of Prato

• Participation in company visits

TO APPLY:

Please submit a

1) C.V.

2) motivation letter and project outline for the residency (in one unique pdf file)

3) your portfolio or website/instagram

to info@lottozero.org

Applications are due by April 28th, 2019.

Applicants will be notified by May 13th, 2019

The residency must last between minimum 1 and maximum 3 weeks (necessary time decided in relation to the project) and take place between the 10th of September and the 10th of December 2019.

This project is done in collaboration with Beste S.p.a.

It’s with great pleasure, that we announce that we are one of the winning partnerships of the WORTH Partnership Project 2nd Call! 

We presented the project in the first days of May at the WORTH Weekend in Valencia, where we were one of the 85 shortlisted projects who were presented to the team who selected the winning 65 project proposals. 

We will now go on to receive €60.000 of benefits including international media promotion, exhibitions in international events, professional mentoring and much more. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2JcyTl2

We are incredibly proud and honoured to announce that we have been invited by Museion Bozen-Bolzano, the museum of contemporary art in Bolzano, to curate their Atelierhaus. 
We will be presenting site specific projects by three Lottozero artists, curated by our very own Alessandra Tempesti.

The first artist we will be presenting is Luca Vanello (voted one of Exibart 222 artist to invest in) with Tired Eyes Dislike the Young, which will be visible for FREE from the 21st of March to the 2nd of June. 
The Opening: Luca Vanello at Museion Atelier is on Thursday March 21st at 18.30 h. See you there!

Atelierhaus Museion. Photo: Rene Riller

Lottozero Kunsthalle will be presenting a selection of works by artists we have collaborated with in the past years and that are united by their interest in researching the textile matter. Work for sale will be by Elena Khurtova (RU/NL) and Marie Ilse Bourlanges (FR/NL), Anna Rose (USA/IT), Virginie Rebetez (CH), Farkhondeh Shahroudi (IR/DE), Claudia Losi (IT).

For the occasion David Littler, sound and visual artist from England, will present the world premiere of “Travels with a music box”, his new performance series of improvised solo sound pieces uniting his work with traditional UK textile folk songs and field recordings with punch card patterns from the textile industry, in order to create immersive sonic environments created using all parts of the music box and live sampling processes.
Concert starts at 18.30.

Picture: Khurtova/Bourlanges, "Disrupted Systems", black porcelain, glazed, 2011

We are happy to announce that the Lottozero textile laboratory is finally open to all, these are the fees:

YEARLY MEMBERSHIP

includes:

-       1 hour of personalized consultancy

-       1 day at the Lottozero coworking or lab

-       unlimited access to our library during Lottozero opening hours

150 EURO/YEAR + VAT

GUEST

includes:

1 day in the Lottozero laboratory

50 EURO/DAY + VAT

CARNET

includes:

5 sessions to use within a month during Lottozero opening hours

170 EURO/MONTH + VAT

MEMBER

includes:

Monthly access:

550 EURO/MONTH + VAT

All prices are to be considered EXCLUDING VAT and include an assisted personalized introduction and assessment of appropriate use of the machinery. For those who do not have the necessary skills, collective and individual courses for the use of the machinery and the various techniques offered in the laboratory are organized.

Special options for weekends and evenings are to be discussed individually, with the possibility of a surcharge. Full laboratory rental to be discussed individually.

We are happy to announce that Anagoor, the theater company for which we have done textile consulting regarding the sourcing of the materials for the scenography of their play ORESTEA / Agamennone, Schiavi, Conversio has won the Silver Lion of the Venice Biennale, you can catch the play in Italy on the following dates:

12-17 MARCH 2019
ORESTEA / AGAMENNONE, SCHIAVI, CONVERSIO
METASTASIO, TEATRO FABBRICONE
PRATO - IT 

20-24 MARCH 2019
ORESTEA / AGAMENNONE, SCHIAVI, CONVERSIO
TEATRO VERDI
PADOVA - IT MORE INFO

26-31 MARCH 2019
ORESTEA / AGAMENNONE, SCHIAVI, CONVERSIO
TEATRO ASTRA
TORINO - IT MORE INFO

A guided visit to the site-specific installation by Luca Vanello, with curator Alessandra Tempesti.

Entitled Generous Images Unable to Reach, the project is the result of various periods of residence by the artist at Lottozero textile laboratories between 2017 and 2018.
The intervention, in the form of a site-specific installation activated by a performance, investigates the relationship between human beings and non-human entities during the bereavement process. It explores the material as "vibrant agent" and the the impact of the latest digital technologies in the intimate and emotional process of accepting pain.

www.lottozero.org/luca-vanello
www.lucavanello.com

Opening hours:
Monday-Friday: 10.00-13.00 / 14.30-18.00
Saturday and Sunday by appointment (+39 3488137701 / alessandra@lottozero.org)

Our brand new textile laboratory will finally open with a very special open-door weekend on November 9th, 10th, 11th with talks, workshops, music and food.

Take this chance to come visit us in the industrial city of Prato.
Participate in one of our workshops:

Workshop: SHIBORI CON TINTURE NATURALI
Workshop di STAMPA A QUADRO SU TESSUTO
ELETTROKNITTING Workshop
OGGETTI STRA- ORDINARI

DATES

9th, 19th and 11th of November 2018

Friday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The Facebook Event

PROGRAM

Friday November 9th

4.00 pm "ART AND INDUSTRY" talk with personalities of the sector (by invite only)

19.00 pm  Institutional moment and presentation of Creativewear exhibition

Saturday November 10th

10.30 am  to 1.00 pm Workshop Oggetti stra-ordinari

2.00 pm - 5.00 pm Workshop Shibori with natural colors

2.00 pm - 6.00 pm Workshop Elektroknitting 

7.00 pm Inauguration of the Lab, and of the Luca Vanello exhibition

9.00 pm Concert by Andrea Borghi

Sunday November 11th

10.00 am - 6.00 pm Professional screen printing on fabric

3.00 pm - 6.00 pm weaving workshop

WHERE

Lottozero / textile laboratories

Via Arno 10

59100 Prato

www.lottozero.org

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

Fondazione Museo del Tessuto who has worked with us from the beginning of our adventure entrusting us with incredibly cool projects that we have loved to do with them

Associazione NUB  who have been fundamental in assuring the quality of the sound art we have featured

With the Patronage of Comune di Prato  

WITH FUNDING FROM:

Fondazione Unipolis

AND THE KIND SPONSORSHIP OF

For the LAB

Siser 

Italsteel

Neon Prato

Ventex

Studio Auriga

Tessitura Ubertino

Artimino

Plank

ModulBlock

Epson Italia 

for the refurbishing of our headquarters in 2016:

EWO with their fantastic Led lighting solutions

Grohe with their innovative Blue Pure water filtering system

Artemide with their iconic lamps