Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Anonymous
Aliki Panagiotopoulou
Aliki Panagiotopoulou explores materials, techniques and modes of narration to create works in an idiosyncratic idiom. Balancing between chronicle, confession, interpretation and invention, her meticulously constructed works act as exaggerated signs of a sublimated origin, resonating with the primitive desire to know an all-encompassing truth and the inevitable acknowledgement that most truth is invented. Through Panagiotopoulou’s drawings, paintings and sculptures, the viewer is confronted with their own idea of beauty, sexuality and sense of self by having to revisit familiar yet unexplored territories.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou (born 1980, Athens) studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Art and received an MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Art, London in 2005. She is currently based in Athens, Greece. Recent exhibitions and projects include ‘Personal-Political’ at the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece; ‘Petrosphere’ at ReMap3, Athens, Greece and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, UK; ARTSCHOOL/UK, Cell Project Space and Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Infinite Chambers of the Beehive that is the World, A.Antonopoulou.Art Gallery, Athens; and B.Y.O.B. at Kunsthalle Athena, Athens.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, If on a Summer’s Day, 2011, Oil on linen , 21 × 24 in. (53.34 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, A Traveller, 2011, Oil, ink and pencil on prepared paper on cardboard, 21 × 245/8 in. (53.34 × 62.55 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, A Kiss and Some Pain, 2011, Sanguine, ink and pencil on prepared paper, 85/16 × 113/8 in. (21.11 × 28.89 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Melancholia, 2007 , Appropriated monk’s bed, door, oil lamp, egg-cup, tin funnel and sickle , 79 × 71 × 353/8 in. (200.66 × 180.34 × 89.85 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Greece
Past Resident2012: Beca Arte, CCU - Corporación Cultural La Araucana
Alejandra Prieto
In her work, Alejandra Prieto experiments with different materials and media — digital photography, sculpture, and video — while focusing mostly on representations of highly fashionable commodity objects, such as designer furniture, shoes, and clothing accessories. Her work interrogates our everyday approach to these kinds of objects by denaturalizing their production, distribution, and consumption and disrupting our everyday relationships with them through the different materials she employs, such as coal and perishable foods. Her work with coal, in particular, makes use of the different meanings of this material in contemporary society. Coal represents hard labor, production, and all the historical processes related to these phenomena. In shaping coal in the form of Nike sneakers or a Hèrmes scarf, for example, the artist makes visible the processes hidden by consumption circuits and the strategies of display related toconsumption spaces.
Alejandra Prieto (born 1980, Santiago, Chile) studied her BFA at PUC University of Chile and MFA at the University of Chile. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in group exhibitions, including MAC USP – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de Sâo Paulo; Roebling Hall Gallery, NY; OTR Gallery, Madrid; 7th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brasil; and VI International Biennial SIART, La Paz, Bolivia. She will participate in the 11th Havana Biennale, Cuba, and will have her first solo exhibition in New York at Y Gallery.
Alejandra Prieto, Black Tears, 2011 , Coal, iron, bulbs, 62 × 40 × 40 in. (157.48 × 101.6 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Alejandra Prieto, Coal Mirror, 2011 , Coal and iron , 118 × 72 × 6 in. (299.72 × 182.88 × 15.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Alejandra Prieto, Les Jardinieres du Roy, 2009 , Coal , 16 × 16 × 1/4 in. (40.64 × 40.64 × 0.63 cm). Courtesy of the artist .
Alejandra Prieto, Air Classic, 2009, Coal, copper and iron, 14 × 14 × 6 in. (35.56 × 35.56 × 15.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Alejandra Prieto, To handle, 2010, Coal, 14 × 6 × 1/4 in. (35.56 × 15.24 × 0.63 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco
Patrick Tuttofuoco creates innovative imagined structures, architectural assemblages, films and animations motivated by the urban environment as a site of constant transformation. The use of light and movement characterize Tuttofuoco’s works, which combine immediate sensorial allure with the power to trigger profound theoretical responses. Frequently working in collaboration, Tuttofuoco’s diverse artistic practice seeks to forge new dialogues between public and private, between individuals and the environment they inhabit. Operating on an open, communicative level his works explore architecture as the product of the energy and combined efforts of the people who constructed and live in it, as a human energy that lives through its functionality.
Patrick Tuttofuoco (born 1974, Milan, Italy) lives and works in Berlin and has shown extensively internationally, in both solo and group shows. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include: Things are queer, MARTa Herford, Germany; Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Palazzo Grassi, Venice; TURN ON: Contemporary Italian Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; 10th Havana Biennial: Integration and Resistance in the Global Age; Dandelion, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; 50th Venice Biennial; Folkestone Triennial,
England; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nimes, France; Shanghai Biennale; and Revolving Landscape, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, First Person Plural, 2009.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Mirrors and Windows (Christine), 2009, Plastic, wool, resin, wood, cardboard and steel mesh , 32 × 40 × 75 in. (81.28 × 101.6 × 190.5 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Those Ghosts (David Copperfield), 2011, Coated MDF, perspex, spray paint, fabric, resin, 60 × 32 × 63 in. (152.4 × 81.28 × 160.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Three Wise Monkeys, 2010, Fabric, wool, resin and spray color, 13 × 15 × 118 in. (33.02 × 38.1 × 299.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Patrick Tuttofuoco, Janus, 2011 , Printed forex, steel tubes, colored water and acrylic paint , 200 × 90 × 210 in. (508 × 228.6 × 533.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
