Ginestrelle A.I.R. Artists in Residence 2010-2011

Collective art exhibition by international artists

Assisi “Sala Pinacoteca” Piazza del Comune

25 November - 2 December 2010

CON IL SOSTEGNO E IL PATROCINIO DEL         

Un ringraziamento particolare: COMUNE DI ASSISI

Ufficio Turismo - Ufficio Cultura Ing. CLAUDIO RICCI Sindaco di Assisi

Prof. GIOVANNI ZAVARELLA critico d’arte Arch. TIZIANA LEOPIZZI Ellequadro Events S.r.l. - Artour-o

CESVOL Centro Servizi per il Volontariato - Perugia

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Warwick Allsopp

Actor and writer Warwick graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2001.

Warwick is one half of the surreal comedy duo Allsopp and Henderson and, with co-writer Tamlyn Henderson, has written and performed shows around Australia and the UK.

Their first show, A Porthole Into The Minds Of The Vanquished, received a Best Newcomer Nomination at the 2006 Melbourne

Comedy Festival, and enjoyed successful seasons in 2007 at the Sydney Opera House, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Soho Theatre in London’s West End. Their second show, The Jinglists (Winner of the 2008 Moosehead Award), toured Australia in 2008, and played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Soho Theatre in 2010 to critical acclaim.

The work in this exhibition marks the first collaborative effort with partner and artist Katherine Uren.

The atmosphere of Mount Subasio and the Ginestrelle Arte Studio inspired work focusing on the natural environment of Umbria. Combining their skills of painting and poetry, this work allowed Warwick and Katherine to find a new voice as an artistic team.

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Seunghyun Woo In my studio practice I mostly present sculptures and paintings. Sculptures I make contains shape of animal figures and natures in first stage, and I overspread with marbling colour and mixture of plaster and paint. Sometimes I use pre-exist objects that refer inflated the notion of beauty. I do same process with it. Paintings are on the extended line of sculpture, which I do not try to draw something but try physical approaching to the colour and fluidity as a material. I call this generation process “marbling isness” which only happen unconsciousness erase myself. My fundamental intention is questioning

what is the beauty which activating today’s life. Forms, shapes and structures which have been produced by one’s or all’s aspiration comply with aesthetic perception, function as a delivering desire. We cannot judge this as a right or wrong but there is a pinpoint moment we feel that is our taste or not. How can we reach the decision, how can we tell that is your own decision. In Buddhism they say when the mind escape a state of nothingness, and get to divide what you like and dislike then it starts to judge right or wrong which related to your taste. That intellectual point of view means your nothingness of mind has been contaminated subtly, as it contaminated subtly we do not realize our contamination. This story is very similar with original sin story in Christianity. Both of them describe same fundamental theory differently. What I intend to create is the beauty implies goodness or no will. This is only achieved after rigorous physical and sums of spontaneous selection. Before the actual making process, I do many of drawings until I got to far away from various images, which later allows me work automatically.

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human dreams, passion and also despair, I wanted to engrave my trace in my works. I believe that art is a method of confession for an artist, because the very reason why we make art is the need for personal expression, like a diary. And I am more interested in art making process rather than product. I wanted my works to be close to my own life as possible, because I think that genuine art is our lives and art is an illusion out of life. I also wanted to remove the distiction between the painting and sculture, art and liturature, and eventually, art an life. The installation is a vision of Paradise Lost. The materials consist of two parts: sculptamold, and the found objects such as the pages of daiary, drawings, newspapers and candles. The blocks of white pillars were done by sculptamold. All these are reminiscent of Greek Roman ruins from ancient times and it is a nostalgia for the Paradise. Through working on these, I constantly tried to ask what it is to have faith, hope and yearning as an imperfect being, in the imperfect world, in this Paradise Lost. play.it.clean2010@googlemail.com

Collin Sekajugo

is on a mission to “use art to change lives.” Over the last two years, these words have become more than a credo for the self-taught artist, 28, who has dedicated himself to founding and directing Ivuka Arts Kigali: an ambitious arts project that aims to develop Rwanda’s contemporary cultural heritage by honing the skills of promising young artists and providing platforms for their exposure.

A painter by profession, Sekajugo’s own work explores how light, shadow, color and texture interacts to make his subject rise “off the canvas”. His artwork holds the distinction of being displayed in various public and corporate collections, and is featured both at Meredith Laing Studios (Bel Air, California) and the prestigious Gallery Watatu (Nairobi, Kenya). Sekajugo credits a large part of his success to the opportunities he has had to work alongside other professional artists; and now that he has successfully “come of age” in the art world, he is helping others do the same. But his vision doesn’t stop there. At the beginning of 2008, Sekajugo launched RwaMakondera (Rwandan Horns), a children’s traditional dance troupe affiliated with Ivuka Arts. RwaMakondera brings together children from disadvantaged backgrounds and places them in an artistic community that nurtures their talents and gives them a vehicle for self-expression. The initiative also subsidizes the children’s school fees and helps them transition from begging on the streets to being in school. In December, RwaMakondera was selected from amongst 11 other performance groups to represent Africa in Holland’s annual Via del Mondo Festival, to be held in Tilburg this May.  

http://www.ivukaarts.com/

 

 

Keith Wilson - R.U.A.

was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1971. He studied at Methodist College, Belfast, the University of Ulster and at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, gaining an Honours Degree and a further Postgraduate Diploma in 1995.

He returned to Ireland in 1995. In 1999 he was invited by the Ballinglen

Arts Foundation in County Mayo to take up a six week painting residency and, having completed this, since 2000 he has been living in and working from a rural home studio in North Mayo. His most recent work has been inspired by the garden of his home and its immediate surroundings.

He has held numerous solo exhibitions throughout Ireland and has taken part in many group shows at home and in the United Kingdom as well as various exhibitions in Europe and the USA.

In 2005, he was the winner of the AXA Insurance Drawing prize at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin and in 2006 was the recipient of the Hennessy-Craig Scholarship Award, also at the RHA, for the painting ‘Returning’.

In October 2006 he was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast.

In March 2008 he was shortlisted for the Golden Fleece Award in Dublin. During 2009 he spent three months as artist in residence at the new R.H.A. studios in Dublin and also participated in 'Monoprint 09' at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.

In 2010 he was awarded Mayo County Council's Bursary Award to take up a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Co. Monaghan. He was also elected a full member of the Royal Ulster Academy. http://www.keithwilson.co.uk/

Noilin O’Kelly

Noilin graduated from the Crawford College

of Art and Design in Ireland with a first class

honours degree, majoring in Printmaking and

Textiles and later completed her MA Fine Art

at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and

Design.

She uses a broad range of media from, digital

imagery, printmaking, drawing, textiles

through to installation.

Her work is held in many private and corporate collections, having more

recently been bought by the University of the Arts, London collection.

Her practice concentrates on roles and identity in life and examines the

effects of situation and background.

She is interested in portraying clichéd objects and environments in order to

present the viewer with a fresh viewpoint.

www.noilin.com