DIOGENE URBANBIVOUAC
International Residence Art Program, Turin, Italy

The programme is intended for international artists with the aim of experimenting a brand new method of close examination of the artist’s work and of his/her role in the society.
The selected artist will, in fact, be hosted in a small housing form (the Bivouac - camping), built in an “interstitial” area of the city, that will become the place where the artist lives and works, experimenting a new way of strong interaction between the urban environment and its community.
The competition is open to all the artists of every nationality and currently working in the specific sector of visual arts, without any trends or techniques restrictions.

Application avaliable on line
Deadline 10 July 2008

DIOGENE - Tel. +39 3381731873

info@diogenebivaccourbano.it

www.diogenebivaccourbano.it

Event: Incontri D’Autore
Venue: Fiera Internazionale del Libro - Pad. 3, Torino
Dates: 11 May, 6pm

“La Bellezza vista nella differenza” (Beauty as seen in difference). A confrontation between images and texts of the projects “Acrobazie” (Acrobacies) and “Follie Italiane” (Italian Folies).

Speakers: Giovanni Foresti, Psychiatrist, Director of Centro Fatebenefratelli of San Colombano (MI)
Elisa Fulco and Teresa Maranzano, Curators and creators of the project Acrobazie dell’Atelier “Adriano e Michele”
Sara Rossi, artist

Venue: Galleries of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
Opening: 20 June 2008 at 8.00 pm
Dates: 20 June - 25 July 2008

Mile of Paper is a group show of bookworks created by the current artist-researchers pursuing their MA/MFA in Fine Art and some of the main tutors on the programme at the University College for the Creative Arts, Kent, UK. This installation of long accordion bookworks will be spread throughout the existing painting galleries of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta. This project is curated by Ruth Bianco, and is special in its inspiration from the Duchampian gallery intervention entitled Mile of String of 1942 in New York.

Mile of Paper

Event: FUTURO PRESENT/PRESENT CONTINUOUS//
- An appointment with the first international festival to give a voice to contemporary art
Dates: 23 to 25 May 2008
Venue: Faenza, Italy
Information: Santa Nastro, press office, sn@good-will.it - +393295794324 - +39051220080 - info@good-will.it

Three days will be dedicated to the near future of contemporary art, as told by curators, artists and professionals.
The festival will host national and international guests, together with the scientific committee of the event, made up of Angela Vettese, director of the Municipal Gallery of Modena, Carlos Basualdo, curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Pier Luigi Sacco, the scientific director of goodwill and of the strategic plan for the cultural district of Faenza.

With an innovative format, Futuro Presente / Present Continuous was founded as a result of the need to revive the voice of contemporary art.

present-continuous_en.pdf
fac_programma_en.pdf

www.festivalartecontemporanea.it

Events: Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry’s first solo show in Sweden will open with Performance #3 - Performance at Verklighetens gårdshus Friday 4 April, 7pm - Artist talk Tuesday 8 April, 7pm
Opening: Friday 4 April 7-9pm
Dates: 4 to 18 April 2008
Venue: Galleri VERKLIGHETEN, in Umeå, Sweden

Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry’s first solo show in Sweden will open with Performance #3, which will be performed live in the gallery space together with audience members who will become an essential part of the work.

Working with video, performance and collaboration with audiences, Kihlberg & Henry create situations with an in-built mechanism to create videos that depict a significantly different scene from the performative situations in which they were created.
Performance #3, which is the third part in a series of works where the documentation of the performance appears more important than the performance itself, illustrates this idea via a performance and its representation. An art performance has been meticulously planned in a film storyboard, and the artists will make a shot-for-shot rendition live in the gallery. While Kihlberg & Henry act as directors and camera operators, as well as playing the part of the artists, visitors to the performance play the part of the live audience. The video that results from the performance, which will be shown later in the gallery alongside Performance #1 and Performance #2, will be dubbed with studio sound effects, giving it realism in a filmic sense, yet theoretically distancing it from the raw liveness often associated with performance art.

Exhibition supported by:
Statens Kulturråd, Västerbottens läns landsting, Umeå Kommun, Vivid, The British Council

www.verkligheten.net

Curated by: Bruno Lorini and Giulio Mozzi
Inauguration: 9 April 2008, at 6pm
Dates: 9 to 20 April 2008
Venue: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di P.za San Marco 71/C, Venice
Info: Bruno Lorini, brunolorini@yahoo.it, press@bevilacqualamasa.it, +39 041 5207797
website: http://thepainterandthefish.wordpress.com, www.bevilacqualamasa.it

Inauguration: 3 April 2008
Dates: 4 - 7 March 2008
Venue: Fiera Milano City
Position: Pad. 2 - Stand: D13

Special project, Bourgeois Plaisir curated by Milovan Farronato

Artists presented: Manuele Cerutti, Radu Comsa, Erica Fenaroli, Giorgio Guidi, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Mike Johnston, Stefan Kraus, Sara Rossi, Eli Stertz, Toba Toba, Chiara Zizioli+Alessandro Lorenzini

Curated by: Bruno Lorini and Giulio Mozzi
Inauguration: 9 March 2008, at 5pm
Dates: 9 March to 30 March
Venue: Piacenza, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi // Spazio espositivo sotterraneo
Info: Bruno Lorini, brunolorini@yahoo.it

Carlo Dalcielo, a yong artist created by the painter Bruno Lorini and by the writer Giulio Mozzi, read Raymond Carver’s poem “The Painter and the Fish” and made a 55 frame storyboard from it. These 55 frames were described in words and 55 artists were invited to each create a work of one of the frames: every artist received the text of the poem and the description of the only frame assigned to him/her, free to execute it in their own manner and interpretation.
The result of this organic project is the exhibition in object at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi.
The book “Raymond Carver, The Painter and the Fish, a project by Carlo Dalcielo”, published by minimum fax of Rome within the series “Carver’s Books”, will accompany the exhibition.
Minimum fax would like this publication to commemorate this great American, minimalist author in a year which sees both the 70th anniversary of his birth and 20th of his death.
In April the exhibition will move and be presented to the public at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice and other venues are to follow and be communicated.

www.ilpittoreeilpesce.wordpress.com

Event: Crypto-phobia – New Painting & Film
Dates: 7 March to 12 April 2008
Opening: 7 March 2008, from7pm to 11pm
Venue: brot.undspiele galerie berlin, Gartenstr. 2, 10115 Berlin

In his first exhibition in Berlin Clement Page confronts us with enigmatic images exploring human phobia. CRYPTOPHOBIA unites Page’s film »Turned to Stone« (2006) and brand new large black & white watercolours. In his film the psychological disturbance of vision known as »Photophobia« or »Fear of Light« is explored. The paintings are part of an ongoing series which explore Sigmund Freud’s case history: »The Wolfman, from the History of an Infantile Neurosis«. This case of an enigmatic Russian boy bewitched by a severe phobia of animals (wolves in particular), has haunted psycho-analysis ever since its publication in 1914. The case centres around a series of cryptic images which conceal and reveal one another’s meaning in an endless chain of association. Page’s paintings interrogate these associations and the cryptic meanings they produce. Concurrently, Page is making a black & white three screen film entitled »The Wolfman’s Magic Word«, which will be completed in 2009.

http://brot.undspiele.com

Event: Art Waiting Room
Curated by: Marinella Paderni
Inauguration: 22 February 2008, at 6pm
Dates: 22 February - 18 April 2008
Venue: LAGO S.p.A., Via dell’Artigianato II, 21, 35010, Villa del Conte (PD)
Organised by: Fondazione March, Via Armistizio, 49, 35142 Padova
Contacts: t. +39 049 8808331; info@fondazionemarch.org

fondazione march was created in Padova on the 29th of March, 2007 with the idea of being not only a place, but a plan for contemporary art, engaged in the promotion of independent artistic research and in the creation of a system that favours the development of free creativity from any conditioning and from the laws of the market.

Art waiting room is a project in collaboration between fondazione march and Lago S.p.A., born to stimulate the international creativity and the interdisciplinary relations. It’s an example of union between art and economy, that operate in synergy in order to amplify the sense of both the territories.

Art waiting room intends to change the concept of the waiting that precedes a professional meeting.

This is the second appointment with Art waiting room showing a video called “The Waiting Room” by Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, curated by Marinella Paderni.

For the video, the artists built a film set of an institutional waiting room during a residency at The New Art Gallery Walsall, where members of the public were invited to star in a series of videos about the unavoidable circumstance of waiting. The relationships between the artists and the audiences who took part is now mostly hidden behind music, dubbed sound (from footsteps to horror effects), and elaborate editing, a process through which the finished product is far removed from the collaborative and live process in which it was made.

www.fondazionemarch.org