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ARP 11th Edition: Call is now open for the residency that investigates the notion of contemporary and promotes young artists and curators with a Pack and Go exhibitions tour. Applications until June 30, 2025.

May 28, 2025

What does contemporary art mean and, above all, how -and to what extent- can the definition of contemporary  adapt to the continuous flow of time and history? 

ARP returns with a new edition of its training residency to explore the notion of the contemporary. The White Cube will be at the center of the discussion. What relationship does the creative idea maintain with the place in which it is realized? What urgencies or motivations lead the Artist to position themselves inside, outside or beyond the White Cube? Is it the artwork that gives meaning to the space, or the spaces that gives meaning to the artwork?

Are you a young artist or curator with a multidisciplinary approach who is eager to engage with diverse perspectives? 

As an artist, do you have the ability to create a work that can travel with you -one that represent your poetics- in an exchange of ideas, techniques and languages?

Apply to the CALL for ARP- PACK AND GO!

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The winners of the 10th edition of the ARP-Art Residency Project, the residency program created with the contribution of the MAECI and the Italian Cultural Institutes.

July 25, 2024

Francesca Brugola – Italy, Rebecca D’Eramo – South Africa/Cyprus, Natalie Hasan – Cyprus, Biel Llinàs – Spain, Pia Truscott – South Africa and in the role of curator Angelica Piras – Italy, are the six young winners who will arrive in Rome to participate in the residency Hic et Nunc workshop n.3 which investigates the concept of contemporary.

They were selected by the jury composed of the Director of ARP Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, the curator, critic and art historian Simone Ciglia and the art historian and professor Carlotta Sylos Calò.

The workshop talk program is an exciting cavalcade between the most discussed themes of contemporary art debate, and will take place with a group of esteemed professors, scholars, researchers and art critics and curators. Most of the programs will take place at Centro Di Sarro and in Museums, archeological sites and other locations in Rome, but thanks to the hospitality of Fondazione Morra Greco the workshop will take the opportunity to have also a stage in Naples.

Return of the residency is the Pack and go circuit which allows the winning artists to show and discuss their work and the curator to create the concept of the events. Thanks to the participation of the Espronceda Institute of Art and Culture and the support and collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institutes of Barcelona, the 10th Edition of ARP, after Rome, will move to Spain with a new show that will fall within the initiatives of the 20th Contemporary Day promoted by Amaci-Mic-Maeci.

POZI: places and landscapes of tomorrow. Curated by Giggs Kgole, with a text by Buhle Mathole. From 2 to 6 July 2024.

July 1, 2024

The Centro Luigi Di Sarro presents the “POZI” project by the students of the Architecture and Design Course at the University of Cape Town (UCT), which arrives in Rome thanks to the collaboration with the Embassy of South Africa.

On display are the visionary works of the artists who participated in the project, conceived and led by the South African artist Giggs Kgole.

The project, accompanied by Kgole himself, demonstrates not only the skill of these budding architects, but also stimulates their ability to engage in global contexts and artistic expressions.

The collaboration with Giggs Kgole, active internationally, “symbolizes the bridge between local talent and global opportunities”, as Professor Buhle Mathole writes “the students explored and interpreted the essence of Kgole’s artistic world, developing environments that are more than simple work spaces: they are reflections of creative synergy and cultural dialogues.”

The Call for the 10th Edition of the ARP-Art Residency Project is now open. Artists and curators under 30 can apply and win the training residency created with the contribution of the Italian MAECI.

June 5, 2024

Young artists/curators, under the age of 30, from Europe, Africa and the Balkans can participate. Applications by 14 July 2024. Focus of the program, which will take place in September-October 2024, is the Hic et Nunc workshop which delves into the concept of the contemporary with a series of meetings and visits. Return of the residency is the Pack and go circuit which allows the winning artists to show and discuss their work and the curator to create the concept of the events.

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HIC ET NUNC n2 – THE EXHIBITION. For the 19GdC Amaci and with the support of the MAECI in Rome the first stage of the PACK AN GO. Followed by a stop in Val Camonica, Lozio and Bienno, and finally Tirana, Albania, for the 9th Edition of the ARP-Art Residency Project.

October 15, 2023

With the theme HIC ET NUNC (here and now) and the pack and go formula, this ninth edition of the ARP-Art Residency Project continues the investigation into the concept of the contemporary by putting young talents to the test in relation to the handling of the work, the discussion of practices and methods and the search for a set-up solution that adapts to each different circumstance. The pack and go has planned three stages for the 9th Edition of ARP: Rome, Bienno in Val Camonica and Tirana in Albania. The exhibition events were created taking into account the peculiarities of the environments, whose spatial articulation made it possible to highlight the projects and requests of the five protagonists, who present distinct, but not distant from each other, points of observation of the contemporary. Preceded by moments of substantial discussion with experts in the sector on fundamental themes, such as the role of art and that of its innumerable actors, the first exhibition stage at the Centro Di Sarro in Rome was organized into thematic sections, based on language, materials and poetic. This is how Azzurra Pizzi (Italy), winner of the curator selection this year, introduces her presentation of the events. And in her presentation text she leads us to discover the 5 winning artists and their works.

  • Beatrice Caruso – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Beatrice Caruso – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Anna Martynenko – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Anna Martynenko – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Samela Balazi – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Samela Balazi – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Miriro Mwandiambira – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Miriro Mwandiambira – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Cheriese Dilrajh – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Cheriese Dilrajh – Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro
  • Roma 7 Ottobre 2023 – Centro Luigi Di Sarro

Showing her intimate sphere, Samela Balazi (Albania) makes known her drawing practice and the use of natural pigment, ideal for transferring immediate authenticity to the raw canvas. Making her own the widespread practice of dry stone wall construction, Beatrice Caruso (Italy) presents her assemblages made up of irregular wooden wedges and collages to address the challenging topic of repositioning elsewhere. Convinced that art is a tool for answering questions relating to our personal growth, Anna Martynenko (Ukraine-Germany) with her deck of illustrated cards triggers an investigation mechanism aimed at exploring our personality between static and consolidated positions and new openings of acceptance of the most rejected side of ourselves. Disciple of the ritual of walking Cheriese Dilrajh (South Africa) presents photographic montages, whose composite aspect reveals simultaneous visions elaborated by synaesthetically experiencing the melting pot offered by the Fordsburg market in Johannesburg, a place with a difficult past now full of lively realities. Trespassing into the field of performance and using the sound medium, Miriro Mwandiambira (Zimbabwe) intends to bring attention to the role of the woman-artist free from conventions and capable of fighting for social redemption. (from the text by Azzurra Pizzi in the ARP9Ed catalogue)

ARP 9Edition. The HIC ET NUNC n.2 workshop continues the investigation into the idea of the contemporary. At the center of the meetings are the 6 winners of the residency program created with the contribution of the MAECI. The final exhibition on 7 October 2023 for the 19th GdC Amaci.

September 15, 2023

A work that reflects the contemporary to be carried with you in hand luggage. This is the challenge for 5 winning artists and a curator of the ninth edition of the ARP – PACK AND GO competition: a residency-workshop that questions and investigates the notion of the contemporary.

ARP – Art Residency Project is the artistic residency programme, conceived and created by the Luigi Di Sarro Centre, with the aim of promoting a disposition towards intercultural dialogue and the comparison of practices and methods in the world of art too. For its ninth edition it once again proposed the PACK AND GO formula, that is, the challenge of conceiving and creating a work that represents one’s idea of contemporaneity and which is easily transportable to allow maximum mobility.

We live in difficult years and even for artists, especially emerging young people, the slowdown, if not the forced blockade, of social relations created by the covid-19 pandemic, wars and the economic crisis has represented and represents an obstacle. The ARP program has always worked by promoting educational trips, but with this formula it wants to go further and attempt to cross not only geographical borders, but also emotional ones.

It was thought that a project that started from the analysis of the idea of the contemporary would offer fertile ground for returning to dialogue, confrontation, opposition and sharing.

The young artists selected Samela Balazi, Beatrice Caruso, Cheriese Dilrajh, Anna Martynenko and Mirino Mwandiambira and Azzurra Pizzi as curator come from European, Balkan and African countries.

The jury that selects the artists is made up of Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, Simone Ciglia and Carlotta Sylos Calò.

The Hic et Nunc workshop n.2 will be attended among others experts by Angelo Capasso, Simone Ciglia, Heidi Erdmann, Carlotta Sylos Calò, Matteo Piccioni and Alessandra Troncone, curated by Alessandra Atti Di Sarro.

The folds of the void, is the exhibition that concludes the CL/PA – the travel project created thanks to the support of the Italian Council (X Edition 2021). Giulia Fumagalli + Aran Ndimurwanko. Opening 19 November 2022 h.17-20.

November 18, 2022

How to tell two distant places after having had an intense experience of them?
What shapes can they take? What in them can be considered full?
What, instead, empty? And how these entities so different can dialogue?

These are some of the questions that revolve around The folds of the void, the exhibition by Giulia Fumagalli (Carate Brianza – MI, 1990) with Aran Ndimurwanko (Trento, 1991) which take place at the Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome, from 19 November to 23 December 2022. Critical text by Alice Evangelisti.

It is a heterogeneous selection of works resulting from the double residency that the two artists experienced during the spring 2022, first in Chile and then in Panama.
The result is thus their personal and artistic vision of these two places, geographically close, but completely at the antipodes. On the one hand, the Chilean landscape, visually open due to the immense desert expanse, which, although empty, is capable of triggering continuous connections. On the other hand, the Panamanian one, visually closed due to the presence of the impenetrable jungle, which fills the eyes and the mind, overpopulating them with images.

Two completely opposite experiences, which mutually activate sensations of fullness and
of emptiness, opposing them but at the same time making them also become the consequence of the other. Thus, focusing on the extrinsic and intrinsic characteristics of these two places, Fumagalli and Ndimurwanko give their interpretation. If Fumagalli investigates two natural elements water and air – which materialize in light and poetic installations able to evoke their presence, Ndimurwanko shapes the earth, giving life to works full of daily rituals.

The exhibition is part of the project CL/PA – the travel by Giulia Fumagalli, created thanks to the support of the Italian Council (X edition, 2021), a program for the international promotion of Italian art of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.