VVV is an intervention by Nico Vascellari with Primorje and Pier. Vascellari’s participation in the exhibition stems from his connection with the city of Rome, where part of his studio has been located for over a decade. At the same time, Vittorio Veneto, his hometown and place of residence, represents a fundamental reference within his artistic practice. Often the setting for his investigations, Vittorio Veneto is also the place where, in 2005, Vascellari founded Codalunga, the first artist-run independent space opened in Italy in the 2000s. Since then, the space has hosted more than two hundred interventions and projects by artists from around the world, establishing itself as a site for experimentation and international exchange. 

The project VVV conceptually shifts the focus from Rome to Vittorio Veneto and takes the form of a tribute to a particularly intense phase of Codalunga’s activity between 2008 and 2011, when the space was curated by Vascellari together with Matteo Castro and Giovanni Donadini. On this occasion, Castro and Donadini join the evening with their musical project Primorje, performing a live soundtrack to the film Il Ritorno Del Circolo Pivetta (La Vendetta) (1994) by Pier, a local artist who was the subject of a solo exhibition at Codalunga and who, before his passing, donated the masters of his film works to Vascellari. 

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From 23 April to 3 May 2026, a trace of the intervention carried out by Nico Vascellari with Primorje and Pier will remain on view in the exhibition space.  

Nico Vascellari, VVV (after Pier), 1994–2026

Pier, Il Ritorno Del Circolo Pivetta (La Vendetta), 1994

Video, 77’ 

Nico Vascellari presents Il Ritorno Del Circolo Pivetta (La Vendetta), a film by Pier, an artist from the Veneto region, who was the subject of an exhibition at Codalunga in 2009 and who, before his passing, donated to Vascellari the masters of his film works. Blending action cinema and everyday gesture, Pier constructs a personal mythology together with his German Shepherds. 

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NICO VASCELLARI (1976, Vittorio Veneto) lives and works between Rome and Vittorio Veneto. His research unfolds across a range of practices including performance, sculpture, installation, drawing, video, and sound. Through an anthropological lens, he explores themes related to nature and its relationship with humankind, as well as ancestral phenomena and rituals, folklore and traditions, often merging them with an underground dimension. 

PRIMORJE is the duo of Matteo Castro (Lettera 22 / Drug Age / Second Sleep) and Canedicoda (Ottaven). The meaning of the name revolves around the idea of a coastline, suggesting a condition of boundary, fluid and unstable in nature. Their sound production is based on the manipulation of magnetic tape through the use of two mixers and two four-track cassette recorders, aiming for a sound that is subtle, unstable yet direct, formless yet constantly evocative. Real sounds are forced into the harmonic repetition of loops. Through variable speeds and intensities, a measured use of silence, and field recordings, they generate distant rhythmic textures, suspended and degraded temporalities, and minimal, at times ominous compositions.