d’Amico Group has announced The Owner’s Cabin, an innovative and unique international artist’s residency program that will take place on board the company’s ships as they operate around the world.
The residency program will be inaugurated today when Italian born, Berlin based, Benedetto Pietromarchi boards the dry cargo vessel Cielo di Vaiano in Punta Pereira, Uruguay and travels with the ship across the Atlantic for approximately one month.
Fundamental to Pietromarchi’s practice is the investigation into the relationships between nature and artifice, biology and construction, and how these notions are experienced and perceived within the context of our varied cultures, histories and present realities. This residency will provide Pietromarchi with the time, space and exposure to investigate how these various elements come together within this specific and rarely experienced context and to eventually produce a body of work informed by his time onboard.
Throughout its history, the Italian company has also shown a great commitment to the arts, with particular (but not exclusive) interest in supporting the promotion of the art and culture created by Italians in the various countries where their offices operate.
Ultimately, The Owner’s Cabin provides a novel platform on which to combine shipping, art and culture. The d’Amico Group is excited to facilitate and support such a dynamic window into this international world through the implementation of the residency, and looks forward to witnessing how the invited artists react to and visualize both an environment and experience that is usually invisible to those outside of the industry, but intrinsic to life across the globe.