Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Mondriaan Fund
Maura Biava
Maura Biava employs analytic geometry to achieve her artistic ends. Working with a mathematician who translates equations into graphic representations, she searches for forms that resonate or evoke specific emotional or pneumonic responses. She then names that form, combines that form with others, to produce concrete, semantic/poetic objects, drawings, photographs and installations. Artists have long been attracted to the hidden geometries in nature. Biava starts with the geometries and generates strange, new and compelling natural forms.
Maura Biava (born 1970, Reggio Emilia, Italy) is based in Amsterdam. She graduated in 1992 from the Academy of Brera in Milan, then in 1999 from the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Biava has exhibited all over the world including Cooling Out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Going Dutch, Museum of New Art, Pontiac; New Photography from the NetherlandsCornerhouse, Manchester; Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel; Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; A’dam & Eve, De Appel, Amsterdam; Museo Zauli, Faenza; Doride/Ultramarine, Photo Museum Amsterdam and On the Edge of Vision, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Maura Biava and Richard Schur
June 17, 2014
Maura Biava, Trinity - Fired Abstraction, 2010, Ceramic and wood, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Maura Biava, Trinity - Informing Abstraction, 2011, Collage, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Maura Biava, Trinity - Informing Abstraction, 2011, Ceramic, wood, paper, marble, stone, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Maura Biava, Abstract Flora #10, 2014, Photography, 8 × 12 in. (20.32 × 30.48 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Maura Biava, Judy's Revolutions - in collaboration with Dike Blair, 2011, Mixed media on paper, 12 × 18 in. (30.48 × 45.72 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from The Netherlands
Past Resident2014: Canada Council for the Arts
Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin’s work ranges from assemblage to video and photography. His multifaceted production deals with energy flows, entropic devolution, and the forms of visual, spatial and technological paradox that derive from these antithetical forces. Most of his works are retooled everyday appliances, found objects that disclose an ironic re-utilization not only of the mechanic universe but also of tropes of Conceptual Art and Minimalism, which in his hands take on a critical dimension. Although universally recognizable, their new behaviour defies their functions and uses. Crafting unforeseen relationships between waste, productivity, risk and consumption, De Broin defamiliarizes established modes of signification in everyday technical environments. A mid-career survey of his work was mounted by the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal in 2013. De Broin has held solo exhibitions and projects like La maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel, Paris; Reciprocal Energy at Musée d’art contemporain Val-de-Marne, France; Reverse Entropy at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Disruption from Within at Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada; Shared Propulsion Car at Exit Art, New York, Épater la Galerie at Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany.
Events & Exhibitions
Brooklyn Commons: Vito Acconci and Michel de Broin
April 15, 2014
Michel de Broin, Keep on smoking, 2005, Bicycle, generator, battery, analogue gauge, smoke machine, 39 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 23 2/3 in.
Michel de Broin, 100 watts to 3 watts, 2007-2013, Light bulb, cable, base, 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 6 in.
Michel de Broin, Majestic, 2011, Street light, steel, wire, light, 39 1/3 x 39 1/3 x 32 4/5 ft.
Michel de Broin, Blowback, 2013, Steel, 32 4/5 x 13 1/8 x 13 1/8 ft.
Michel de Broin, Bleed, 2009, Modified powerdrill, water pump, plinth.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2014: A.F.I.S.
Gabriele Picco
In his paintings, Gabriele Picco uses every day items in order to explore the relationship between art and ordinary life. His works playfully interact with material, modern art masters, literature and society, but his work is always anchored in the present. His recent paintings are made with Brillo pads, dust, leftovers of We buy gold stores, and a moka coffee maker, stretching the boundaries between painting, sculpture and performance.
Gabriele Picco’s (born 1974, Brescia) works have been featured in various exhibitions all across Europe, Asia and United States, among them the Prague Biennale; the Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai; Fondazione Re Rebaudengo, Turin and Temp Art Space, New York. Picco has been awarded the Michetti Prize for European painting and the New York Prize. His work is also included in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The The Robert Lehman Foundation; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Monfalcone and The Montblanc Collection, Hamburg. He is also a writer, with two novels published in Italy, Spain, Portugal and South America. Picco currently lives between Italy and New York.
Gabriele Picco, The pretty things are going to hell, 2013, Dust on canvas, 37 1/2 x 30 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Gabriele Picco, Brillo painting (yellow), 2014, Soap pads on painted canvas, 31 1/2 x 23 2/3 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Gabriele Picco, Brillo painting (blue), 2013, Installation of soap pads on painted canvases. Courtesy of the artist and Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan.
Gabriele Picco, We Buy Gold, 2014, We buy gold leftovers, molding paste on canvas, 87 x 11 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Gabriele Picco, Zeno Cosini paintings, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
