COLORS NOTEBOOK COMES TO LISBON

The project launched by Colors Magazine, the Pompidou Centre and Reporters Without Borders will be on display at the Fabrica Features space

 

Treviso, 13 December 2008. An exhibition on the rest of the world, created by the rest of the world: this is the initiative for the festive season at the Fabrica Features space in Lisbon, which will host the COLORS NOTEBOOK exhibition from 13 December 2008 to 31 January 2009.

 

COLORS NOTEBOOK is a constantly expanding project, launched in 2006 by COLORS Magazine in collaboration with the Pompidou Centre and Reporters Without Borders. Thousands of blank copies of COLORS were, and continue to be, distributed to every far-flung corner of the planet, to give voice to people who are never heard: from Chinese prison inmates and mental patients, to South African children and artists, to ordinary people, who have filled their copies with messages of creativity and imagination as well as deep desperation. The result is a collection of unique issues offering glimpses into our world, with no filters or censure.

 

Thus the Fabrica Features space on the fourth floor of the Benetton megastore is transformed into an exhibition space, where visitors can wander amongst the copies of Colors Notebook, leaf through them, and get to know the extraordinary stories of ordinary people. Blank copies of COLORS NOTEBOOK will also be available for anyone who wants to tell their own story, and maybe even get it displayed at later exhibitions of COLORS NOTEBOOK.

 

Fabrica Features is a network of multiethnic, multimedia commercial and cultural spaces, where exhibitions, concerts, video projections, live performances and workshops are key opportunities to come together and develop an intercultural dialogue. The Fabrica Features network includes both the permanent stores in Bologna, Lisbon, Istanbul and Hong Kong, and the temporary stores project, with spaces currently open in Paris, Rotterdam, London and Porto.

 

COLORS NOTEBOOK is a Fabrica project. Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre, was set up in 1994 on the initiative of Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani. Setting out from the experience of a group with operations in over one hundred countries worldwide, the aim was to combine “culture” with “industry” in an unprecedented experiment. Housed in a villa complex near Venice, which was restored and enlarged by Tadao Ando, Fabrica offers innovative young artists from all over the world funding for one year and the guidance of a team of international experts to develop their projects in the fields of video, graphics, cinema, industrial design, publishing, new media and photography.

 

Inauguration:

Saturday 13 December, 2008

6 pm

Followed by cocktails

 

Lisbon Fabrica Features

United Colors of Benetton Megastore

Rua Garrett n° 83, 4th floor

1200-203 Lisbon

 

For further information:

Fabrica Press Office: +39 0422 516349

 

www.fabrica.it

www.colorsmagazine.com/notebook

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