Past Residents
Past Resident2013: Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Francesco Arena
Francesco Arena’s works originates from Italian history, in particular from the political and social facts that characterize the recent past. Events that have often been hidden or ‘hushed up’ gain a new life through the synthetic and metaphorical forms of his sculptures.
Francesco Arena (born 1978) lives and works in Cassano delle Murge, Bari. His work has been shown in the solo exhibitions 2012 Trittico 57, Museion, Bolzano; Orizzonte con riduzione di Mare, Monitor, Roma; Com’è piccola Milano, Peep Hole, Milano; Art Statement, Art Basel 2010 and Teste, Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, Fabriano. He also has taken part in several group exhibitions including: 2012 The Revolution Must Be Made Little By Little |Part 2: The Squaring of the Circle, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paolo; Sotto la Strada la Spiaggia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; 2011 Il bel paese dell’arte, GAMEC, Bergamo; Pleure qui peu rit qui veut – Premio Furla, Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna; Contemporary Art in the Evolving City, organized by Nomas Foundation and IMF Foundation, Roma and Practicing Memory – In the Time of an All–engaging Present, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella. In 2009, Arenae won the Premio Ermanno Casoli Prize and in 2011 he was shortlisted for Premio Furla Prize.
Francesco Arena, Cratere, 2010, Ground, metal, wood , 236 × 157 × 236 in. (599.44 × 398.78 × 599.44 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Francesco Arena, Genova (foto di gruppo), 2011, Marble and mud. Courtesy of the artist.
Francesco Arena, Riduzione di Mare, 2012, Performance. Courtesy of the artist.
Francesco Arena, Orizzonte, 2012, Metal beam. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Past Resident2013: Anonymous
Ilaria Marotta
Ilaria Marotta’s curatorial practice is aimed primarily at publishing projects, which since 2009 include the issuing of a magazine and the publication of artist’s books. The magazine – intended as an area dedicated to criticism and curatorship, a tool for research, design and display – consists of a layered system, and is an investigation and experimentation space for artists and curators, who are invited to deal with the two-dimensional means. Her experience also includes projects developed in public and institutional contexts and a practice of cataloging and classification of images to be used to activate, through a substitutive display, a device of sense, in the absence of a work of art.
Ilaria Marotta is a curator, writer and publisher. Co-founder and co-director of CURA., a curatorial project which revolves around the production of a magazine, an exhibition space and a publishing company. She has a degree in Art History and a Master for Curators of Contemporary Art and Architecture from the University La Sapienza in Rome. She was part of the curatorial departement of Macro, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome and consultant for contemporary art at Museum of Contemporary Art (Arcos) in Benevento. Head of the contemporary art section of Italian Encyclopedia Treccani from 2005 to 2007, she has published texts in catalogs of solo and group exhibitions, published by Electa, Charta, quodilibet and Volume! She has curated and co-curated several projects with international artists and she is currently curator of Commercial Road Project in London. She lives and works in Rome.
Manfredi Beninati, All Good Things Come To Those Who Wait...So They Say, 2011. Courtesy of the curator and Cura Project Space, Rome.
Per-Oskar Leu, The English Are They Human? (Commercial Road Project#2), 2012. Courtesy of the curator.
Pietro Ruffo (with Valentino Diego), Roommates, 2010. Courtesy of the curator and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome.
Jesse Ash, A Treatment for Outcomes (Commercial Road Project #4), 2012.
Ian Tweedy, 2012, Artist's book. Courtesy of the curator and La Maison Rouge, Paris.
Residents from Italy
Past Resident2013: Creative Australia
Marco Fusinato
Marco Fusinato’s practice deals with the rhetoric of radical politics (its ambitions and failures), noise as music and the frameworks of conceptual art. Through wide ranging forms of work in gallery contexts and performances, Fusinato foregrounds moments of disruption and impact in which lie the possibility of a shift in perception or change in the course of events.
In 2012, Fusinato presented The Color of the Sky Has Melted a survey exhibition of recent works at Artspace, Sydney and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. His work was also featured in The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennale, 2012; The Inaugural Indian Bienalle in Kochi-Muziris, 2012; The Glasgow International Arts Festival, 2012; Parallel Collisions, the Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, 2012; Sonic Youth etc. – Sensational Fix, CA2M, Madrid, 2010, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, and The Museum of Malmo, Sweden, 2009. Fusinato also performs regularly in the experimental music underground. His forthcoming solo LP Origine/Tema will be released shortly by Penultimate Press, London. He is also working on another instalment of his noise festival HATRED OF FANTASTIC.
Marco Fusinato, Why she doesn't give a fuck about your insurrection (From the series Noise & Capitalism), 2010, UV and India ink on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Marco Fusinato, Aetheric Plexus, 2009, 13200 watts white light, 105db white noise, alloy tubing, par can 56 lights, double couplers, lanbox LCM, DMX controller, DMX mp3 player, powered speaker, sensor, extension leads, shot bags. Courtesy of the artist.
Marco Fusinato, Mass Black Implosion (Shaar, Iannis Xenakis), 2012, Ink on archival facsimile of score.
Marco Fusinato, Double Infinitives, 2009, White UV halftone ink on black aluminum, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Marco Fusinato, There is no authority, 2012, Wool rug, camera, monitor. Courtesy of the artist.
