Past Residents
Marinella Senatore
Marinella Senatore is a teacher, film director and director of photography. She also works with drawing, painting and installation. In the last years, Senatore has been working with storytelling as a way to involve the public in the making of an art work. These projects are often collaborative films where the viewer becomes the participant, and the hierarchy between the artist as author and the public as recipient is questioned and renegotiated. As a director of photography, Senatore uses cinema lighting in her film and video installations. She has recently dedicated her time to photography, installation, drawing and painting, investigating the concepts of ‘collective memory’, modalities of narration and the social mechanisms of relationships.
Marinella Senatore teaches Video and Photography at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She attended the National Film School in Rome, Italy; the XI Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy with visiting professor Alfredo Jaar; the Fine Arts School, Naples, Italy; and currently pursues a PhD in Public Art at University of Castilla-La Mancha. Her work has been exhibited widely in Italy and abroad, incuding Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Moderna Museet, Stockolm, Sweden; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
Events & Exhibitions
The Power to Host
June 15–July 29, 2011
Marinella Senatore, System of Measure, 2008, Mixed media on paper, 15 × 24 in. (38.1 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Marinella Senatore, Generation, 2009, Lambda print, 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Marinella Senatore, ROUTE #2, 2010, Dimension variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Marinella Senatore, Speak Easy, 2009, Video. Courtesy of the artist.
Marinella Senatore, Nui Simu, 2010, HD video. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Pietro Ruffo
Pietro Ruffo’s paintings, drawings and sculptural installations reflect his intense social and moral concerns. The large ‘maps’ which trace the cultural and military influence of some of the world’s largest imperial powers appears also in the artist’s choice of techniques. Technical drawing and geographical maps are elaborated further with free-hand drawing, installations achieved with highly technical materials and an intensely manual practice. Last year, the themes of colonialism and the desire of liberty led Ruffo to develop a project named The rise of liberalist thought in the U.S.A. through the figure of Isaiah Berlin, an Oxford Professor considered to be one of the strongest exponents of
liberalism in the 20th century.
Pietro Ruffo was in 1978 in Rome, Italy, where he later studied architecture. Recent exhibitions include: MAD, Museum of Art and Design, New York; TEA, Tenerife Espacio de Las Artes, Islas Canarias Spain; Schöndeling Kunstverein-Langenhagen, Germany; MAXXI Museum of Art of the XXI century, Rome, Italt; MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy; in M.A.R Museum of Ravenna, Italy; La Pescheria Museum of Contemporary Art, Pesaro, Italy. In 2005, Ruffo travelled to Beslan, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russian Federation, to work with children who survived the Chen rebels massacre in their local school. Ruffo also worked on other public projects, including a sculptural proposal for Ground Zero in New York, a special project at the psychiatric hospital in Colmar, France, and various art workshops with children in disadvantaged situations.
Pietro Ruffo, Isaiah Berlin, 2010, Watercolor and cut-out on paper, 65 × 80 in. (165.1 × 203.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Pietro Ruffo, Liberty, 2010, Ink on paper cut-out, 0 × 40 × 40 in. (0 × 101.6 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Pietro Ruffo, Liberty (Detail), 2010, Graphite and paper cut-out, 80 × 80 in. (203.2 × 203.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Past Resident2010: Foundation for a Civil Society
Maja Hodošček
The idea of democracy is defined by important characteristics such as freedom and equality. In her work, Hodoscek explores deviations from this concept, but also explores to what extent democracy is actually present in contemporary societies. Furthermore, Hodoscek surveys the impact of global capitalistic systems on our everyday lives, the essence of her work being the exploration of social exclusion. Her work is based on participatory, process-based approaches and is most often in the form of video, photography, installation and intervention in the public space.
Maja Hodoscek lives and works in Celje, Slovenia. She graduated in 2009 from the Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at multiple video festivals and exhibitions. In 2010, Hodoscek received the OHO Award for Young Visual Artists organized by Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Maja Hodošček. Courtesy of the artist.
Maja Hodošček, Promised Land, 2010, Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Maja Hodošček, Landscape, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Maja Hodošček, Landscape, 2010, Photographs. Courtesy of the artist.
Maja Hodošček, Promised Land, 2010, Postcards. Courtesy of the artist.
