MODO
MODO is a cultural association born in Brussels in the studios of the artists Serena Fineschi, Alessandro Scarabello and Laura Viale.
It is a place of daily practice, as well as a place aimed at stimulating, enriching and renewing the dialogue on the centrality and importance of artwork.
Through targeted events, MODO fosters open discussions in which guests reflect upon selected works of art, focusing on their meaning and place in today's perpetual panorama of instant images.
FOGLIO D.ISTINTO
FOGLIO D.ISTINTO is an editorial project curated by MODO in 2021.
The project debuted with the first issue in March 2021, on the walls of the city of Siena, to continue during the same year with the second issue in June, in the streets of Rome, and in the streets of Turin in September.
FOGLIO D.ISTINTO was born as a response to the lack of a physical experience with art and the hyperproduction of digital content present in this particular moment in history. Printed in one color (black), with the dimensions of 70x100 cm - one of the standard paper formats of the printing machine and hence recalling the project name (foglio means sheet of paper in Italian) - it is a magazine posted in advertising spaces and, for this reason, unexpectedly discovered and read by passers-by.
Each issue was conceived as an "instinctive exercise" – drawing from the speed of the use of social media – but reflecting on the possibility that an entirely primitive approach, purified from digital passivity, can create a form of active content in which the physical experience is able to gain our attention and lead us back to a tangible, material dimension based on existence.
M'ODO
M’ODO took place on Instagram between May and June 2020, arising from the desire to put the spoken word and listening in contrast to the saturation of visual information that has cluttered our way of seeing and consumed our ability to imagine.
Therefore, the M’ODO project asked: Are we able to re-establish our vision, starting from simply listening to a word?
We have asked to more than 50 artists to send us the recording of a single word, without any limitation of concept.
The audio contributions were posted one-by-one on our Instagram profile to the rhythm of three per day. This nonsensical appeal, this independent artistic operation, has also given rise to a single collective voice. A sound string created by sequentially assembling all the individual contributions, was posted at the end of the project.
In Italian, the title of the project, “M’ODO”, means “I am listening to myself”, but it is also an anagram of the name of the MODO cultural association, which conceived and curated the project.
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LA MAGNIFICA OSSESSIONE / THE MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION
Frédéric De Goldscmidt and Edoardo Monti in dialogue with Marina Dacci
La Magnifica Ossessione is a conversation between two generations of collectors, which took place in September 2019 in Brussels, in the studios of Serena Fineschi, Alessandro Scarabello, and Laura Viale.
With the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International and the Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels
