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DREAM CIRCUS PROJECT
A relational art experience that has travelled 7.000 km and shared more than 400 nightdreams so far.
a project by
Daniele Catalli
Dream Circus is
a relational art experience
that creates dialogue,
encounter and contact
among its visitors.
Dream Circus is a touring exhibition of relational art
that aims to investigate the visual imagery of dreams.
Dream Circus is presented as an installation made of
dozens of small paper dream drawings.
Give a Dream
a Dream
The public is invited toReceive
write about
a dream or
nightmare that has hit them particularly.
One or more drawings are produced for every
collected dream.
In exchange for their dream visitors can choose
among the available drawings of dreams created
for somebody else. The only criterion visitors must
respect during the choice of the image is to follow
their instinct.
As dreams are chosen, the installation changes giving
way to new images.
The project Dream Circus involves visitors
in the creative process, not only by enabling
them to become authors, but also investing
each one of them with the responsibility
to bring to life a piece of work originated
by their personal stories, and feelings first
transformed into words and later into images.
While small sketches are for exchange only,
a series of large drawings and paintings are
made ​​for collectors.
Dream # 255, ink on paper, cm 70 x 100, 2011
Maieutically, the project Dream Circus explores
A first interpretation of the dream is done with
people’s unconscious and puts it on stage, pulling out
the transposition into a drawing. Exhibiting all the
visitors’ innermost feelings.
drawings that will later be exchanged carries out the
second interpretation.
Here the artist’s role is redefined as a connector of
relationships, as invisible threads binding people
The set of drawings, or fragments of different
unknown to each other, places and cities.
dreams, create each time a sort of collective dream
that can be interpreted in many different ways,
The drawing intended as the medium evolves and
fulfils different functions.
sometimes very far from the original dreams.
Dream Circus is the result of participation
and sharing, which puts the viewer between
contemplation and action, triggering a social
practice which is ultimately the medium of the
work, a work that must be continually nourished by
new dreams in order to exist.
The collection Dream Circus is by all means
indefinite: sometimes it counts hundreds of
drawings, sometimes only a few dozen.
The installation is an endless work in progress,
it changes face at every turn and takes on new
characteristics at each stage.
The work was created along the lines of traditional
pictorial representation of dreams, but it evolves
in the direction of a work of contemporary art,
dynamic and constantly changing, city after city.
Where are the others?
Who is now the guardian of my dream?
Every collected dreams is published on the
official DREAM CIRCUS website:
www.dreamcircusproject.com
They are archived by location and it is always
possible to find your own dream among the
others, comment it and share it with the main
social networks.
Sponsor
Binoculers, Germany
Art Organizations
Produzioni Dal Basso
Imago Associazione Culturale
Print About Me
Galleries & Art Residencies
Van der Gallery, Torino
Evvivanoè, Cherasco
Artist Residency Kanaal10, Amsterdam
Artist Residency Seminaria, Gaeta
Awa Gallery, Amsterdam
Studios & Locations
The Gate, Calamandrana
Cimitero di San Pietro in Vincoli, Torino
Le Canottiere, Milano
Festival, Conferences & Workshops
SeminariaSogninterra Festival, Gaeta
INTEATRO Festival, Polverigi
OpenUP Festival, Baarlo
Paratissima Festival, Torino
SetUp Fair, Bologna
Other Organizations
DFRG, London
Coco-Mat
Pilou
Media Partner
Le Grand Jeu
Frizzi Frizzi
Date Hub
Additional Media
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Twitter
Facebook
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Daniele Catalli
Rome 1979, lives and works in Turin.
Represented by
VAN DER GALLERY - Torino
DFRG - London
EDUCATION
ARTIST BOOKS
2002-2006 BA Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino
Catalli D., Ombre Giapponesi, 36 pages, MonkeystudioEdizioni, Roma 2002
2003-2004 Academie Minerva, Groningen (NL)
Catalli D. Attraverso il bosco, wood, edition of 1, Torino 2013
2000-2001 Accademia di Belle Arti, Roma
Catalli D. , Attraverso il bosco, paper and lasercut, edition of 30, Torino 2013
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Catalli D, Villani L, 24 senza testa, Print About Me, Torino 2013
Catalli D. , Del lavoro e della Morte, silkscreen on cardboard, PAM, Torino 2013
2006 Epidemia2, Ass. 47, Collegno, IT
2011 TanzAtelier Kunsthaus Essen, DEU ( with E. Kofinà )
Selected PUBLICATIONS -Catalogues and more
2011 Seminaria Sogninterra, Maranola, IT
Indolfi I., SeminariaSogninterra Festival, Gaeta, 2011 (catalogue)
2011 Inteatro, Polverigi, IT ( with E. Kofinà )
CHAI J., Unlimited, The Best Small Design Studios of the World, Sendpoints Books Co, Shanghai 2011
2012 Kanaal 10, Amsterdam, NL
G.Cantucci, A.Trabacchini, Sventurata la terra che ha bisogno di (super) eroi,TUFO press, Napoli 2006 (catalogue)
2012 AWA Gallery Amsterdam, NL
AA.VV. Skistory, 300 pages, Bellavite Editore, Como 2009
2013 Inteatro Festival, IT
M4 collective, M4, Torino 2002 (catalogue)
Fotoesordio Mifav, curated by S.Sansonetti, F. Soda, F. Vannucchi, F&D Ed., Roma 2002 (catalogue)
PRIZES and FUNDS
Krakatoa B, Monkeystudioedizioni, Roma 2001
2012 KulturBuro Essen (DE)
Krakatoa A, Monkeystudioedizioni, Roma 2002
2010 Best Production Design Award, Rome Film Festival
WORKS in Public Collections
SOLO SHOWS and PERFORMANCES
Museo della Carta, Fabriano
2013 24 Senza Testa, curated by Stefano Riba, Van Der Gallery, Torino
Inteatro Festival - Ancona
2012 Dream Circus Project, curated by Bianca Roagna, The Gate, Calamandrana
Mifav - Roma
2012 Dream Circus in Amsterdam, curated by Go Go Project, E. Verhamme, Awa Gallery, Amsterdam
2012 Dream Circus Project, Dokhuis, Amsterdam
2011 Mirabolante Esposizione di Metamorfosi, curated by Isabella Indolfi, Emmeotto Gallery, Roma
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Daniele Catalli ideation and art
Eleonora Diana video and documentation
Isabella Indolfi, Daniele Catalli, Anna Martinelli words
Anna Martinelli translations
Andrea Macchia website and media
Eleonora Diana, Andrea Macchia, Claudia Spadoni, Ioanna Kazakou photos
Piri Piri Atelier graphic design
see you soon