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Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
Exhibition: 21 November 2002 - 10 March 2003
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, Wed until 9:00 pm
Opening: Wednesday 20 November 2002, 7pm
riccione Mariahilfstraße 22 A - 6020 Innsbruck Austria Phone +43-512-278 590 Fax +43-512-278 590-49 riccione@aon.at
Clemens Bortolotti born in Innsbruck in 1967; studied architecture at Innsbruck TU; awarded diploma in 1995. Assistant at the Department of Building Construction, Prof. Giencke, Innsbruck TU, 1995 - 2000.
Tilwin Cede born in Innsbruck in 1965; studied architecture at Innsbruck TU; awarded diploma in 1995. Assistant at the Department of City Planning, Prof. Langhof, Innsbruck TU, 1995 - 2000.
Mario Ramoni born in Salzburg in 1961; studied architecture at Innsbruck TU; awarded diploma in 1992. Lecturer with Prof. Giencke, 1997 - 98; assistant with Prof. Langhof, 1998 - 99, both Innsbruck TU.
Buildings, projects (select): Defner Office Building and Publishing House, Innsbruck-Igls, 1997 - 1998 Innsbruck-Igls Row Houses (together with A. Fessler), 1998 - 1999 Office and Residential Building, Reith near Seefeld, Tirol, 1999 - 2000 (together with Wolfgang Ohnmacht) 2000 Extension Main School, Zirl; Technikerstrasse Residential and Office Building, Innsbruck, competition, 1st prize (together with Helmut Reitter and Michael Pfleger), 2000 "Housing 2000 - Villages/Places in Town" workshop, Bonn, 2000
Planned / under construction: Mimm House, Innsbruck, 2001 - 2002
Exhibitions: Architekturforum Tirol, color installation, 1996 Installation on the Tiroler Landhausplatz (on the occasion of the "Continuous Towns - Urban Situations" exhibition), Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck, 2000.
To Dwell in Possibility While going through their novitiates at local studios, Bortolotti, Ramoni, Cede & co. made use of the arts context to formulate substantial, para-architectonic statements in public urban spaces. Kitzbühel, for example, attempted in 1996 to garnish the "dead season" between the peaks with cultural events for the residents themselves. For three weeks, riccione draped the façade of a dilapidated old building with a net designating the exile status given to the contemporariness of building culture within a thoroughly commercialized society of tourism. riccione marked that net with a poem by American poet Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in possibility, a fairer house than prose..."
The position held by the non-adjusted, the outsider´s vision in a dull environment emerging from these lines is neither melancholic nor pathetic, but rather cheerful, uninhibited, and supported by sober optimism. riccione as a group stand for their generation's mentality that is attached to a smiling, not a grim guerrilla war. Seeking loopholes for progressive, intelligent ideas in the niches of an ignorant reality - which still marks the building climate in the Alps furrows regardless of much current progress - they have come to realize: to dwell in possibility...
riccione belong to the hard core of the young "Architekturforum Tirol". Thanks to their initiative, and that of MA'nGO, Astrid Tschapeller and Michael Steinlechner, a working meeting developed in 1999 to gather thirty young architects and groups from Austria and Germany in Italy´s Briolo - a follow-up seminar is currently being organized. [...]
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