#yap2016

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What is the Young Artist Project?

In case you’re unsure of what The Young Artist Project is and the pressure behind it check out this video from The 2016 Young Artist Project and take a look!

A cast of young artists are selected from a hundreds of applicants. They have just 14 days to create an original, riveting cross-disciplinary performance that is the exciting culmination of intense process for the performers, giving audiences the rare opportunity to not only see a fantastic collection of entertainment, but to get a firsthand glimpse of some of the brightest stars of tomorrow.

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Weaving the Museum: 2 architects, 5 km of rope,  & a former schoolhouse called MoMA PS1 

Magic hour in MoMA PS1 courtyard, where Studio Escobedo Soliz has woven 5 km of rope into a canopy for summer events. The Mexico-City-based  team created the work as winners of the museum’s annual Young Architects Program. 

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YAP’s winners Escobedo Soliz are building their temporary installation “weaving the courtyard”. Is not an object or a sculpture standing in the courtyard, but a series of simple actions that generate new and different atmospheres. The architects plan to use the existing holes in the courtyard's concrete walls, created when they were cast, as the framework for a woven canopy made up of brightly colored rope. They use the materials as they are, without altering their original state, therefore in the end of the summer these materials can be reused, for their usual purposes.

Opening in early June, Weaving the Courtyard will mark the 17th year of YAP, which began in 2000.

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This summer saw the return of YAP – Young Architects Program, that promotes and supports young architecture, now in its sixth Italian edition and organized by MAXXI in collaboration with MoMA/MoMA PS1 of New York, Constructo of Santiago de Chile, Istanbul Modern (Turkey) and MMCA, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (Korea).

A gigantic green dinosaur, a neon flying saucer, a rainbow and myriad coloured lights. The winner this year is the installation MAXXI Temporary School: The museum is a school. A school is a Battleground by the Milan studio Parasite 2.0: three sets that reproduce with elements in wood, rubber and metal, animal shapes and fragments of nature.

Fantastical settings, references from diverse cultures, fragments of nature and pop-up details providing backdrops for visitors’ selfies: interaction with the public is fundamental to this year’s project. All the structures have green as their dominant colour, which is read as a green screen by a special web application created for the project: yap2016.fondazionemaxxi.it.

The exhibition is open till the 5th October 2016