ARP 5TH EDITION DOCUMENTARY 2015-2017
September 24, 2017
Category: ARPen
the ARP DOCUMENTARY at CORTOLOVERE with a Site specific by VALENTINA COLELLA curated by EMANUELE MESCHINI
September 18, 2017
Opening 19 September 2017, h.16.30 – Chiesa di Santa Chiara, Lovere (BG) Italy.
A conversation about art, a two-voices comparison, sometimes intimate and sometimes ironic: this is the ARP DOC, which tells about the V Edition of the exchange art residencies promoted by Centro Di Sarro with the contribution of MAECI-Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the collaboration of Everard Read/CIRCA Gallery in Cape Town, Ruth Prowse School of Art and Rainbow Media NPO. In the activities of ARP Italy / South Africa 2015-2017, 6 young people were involved: the two artists selected to participate in the residencies, two assistant curators who assisted them and two filmmakers who made the documentary: Angelica Farinelli, who filmed and organized the material, and Giorgio Cristiano, who edited the 25 minutes movie with tells, through the voices of Valentina Colella and Zwelethu Machepha, what is ARP.
At the 20th edition of the short film International Festival of “shortLovere” (Lovere, BG), there is the Doc, but also THE POSSIBILITIES OF A FLIGHT, a site specific that tests, as an extra step of the path, Valentina Colella and Emanuele Meschini, who as assistant curator has followed the work of Machepa in Rome, concluding in the best way the dialogue between the participants in the project.
“ARP is not just a travel and training program, we have the ambition that it is an opportunity for human and professional growth, made up of the ability to compare and relate, to discover and consolidate one’s own creativity”, explains Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, ARP’s artistic director and vice-president of the Centro Di Sarro, who conceived it.
The exhibition will remain open throughout the duration of the Festival, from September 19 until September 23 at the following times: 4.30 – 8.30 pm at the Church of Santa Chiara, via S. Maria, Lovere, Bergamo. School visits by reservation only.
Selections ARP-ART RESIDENCY PROJECT ITALY SOUTH AFRICA VI Edition 2017-2018
June 13, 2017
The 6th Edition of Exchange Program between Italy and South Africa ARP-Art Residency Project offers to young visual art artists a six-week period of residency in Rome or Cape Town during which to carry out a work project aimed at an exhibition. The cultural exchange, promoted by the Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome with the Everard Read/CIRCA in Cape Town, has a MAECI, Italian Foreign and Cooperation Ministry’s contribution. The ARP project will take place in November-December 2017 in Rome, Italy (Stage 1) and February-March 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa (Stage 2).
On the basis of the submitted work proposals, two young artists will be selected (Italian citizens under 35 years old) that will travel from Italy to South Africa and 2 young artists (South African citizens under 35 years old) that will travel from South Africa to Italy.
The selection is carried out, with unquestionable judgment, by the Centro Luigi Di Sarro and the Everard Read/CIRCA Cape Town.
Winners will be guaranteed travel, accommodation (sharing accommodation) and a scholarship of Euro500,00 each, to be used during the residency period.
Participation in ARP expects that young people selected for the residency interact with the local artistic and social reality with which they will come in contact, following a program of activities, developed and coordinated by the Project Director who will be responsible for the entire programme.
The residency will end with a show in the exhibition spaces of Centro Luigi Di Sarro and Everard Read/CIRCA gallery, which will guarantee organization, setup, communication and promotion. The work materials and everything else needed for production and preparation, remains in charge of the artists.
Each winner will donate a work to the Centro Luigi Di Sarro Collection and two works to the Everard Read/CIRCA.
During the course of the Project, photographs and video footage required for the accurate documentation and communication of the activities of ARP will be realized: from the moment of submission of the application, artists authorize the dissemination of their name and art proposal for the purpose of promoting the ARP cultural exchange programme activities.
The application for Stage 2 (residency of 2 Italian artists in Cape Town, South Africa) consists in:
– Artistic work project aimed at the realization of an exhibition, complete with arguing theoretical proposal and low resolution photographs of the works or links to videos, written in Italian and English.
– CV in European format in Italian and English
– Artistic biography in Italian and English
– Copy of a valid identity document
info@centroluigidisarro.it
LEARNING CAPE TOWN – VALENTINA COLELLA – ARP 2017
March 31, 2017
ARP-Art Residency Project 2015-2017 is concluded. The project, ideated by Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome now in collaboration with Everard Read Gallery Cape Town, began in 2009 and involved various important galleries as well as 13 artists. This fifth edition enjoys the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; in the period 2015-2017 the project’s activities increased, witnessing many young art enthusiasts as well as art students actively contributing to the residencies in Rome and Cape Town of the two winners of the selection, Valentina Colella for Italy and Zwelethu Machepha for South Africa. Young curators, art historians, photographers, videomakers and students of various disciplines collaborated with the two leaders of this exchange, the artists, through training contributions and the participation to meetings and workshops. It is because of this activity, considered of high cultural, Educational and social value, that ARP project was invited this year to take part to Cape Town Art Fair in the Cultural Platforms section, next to the most important South African non-profit organisations.
The final actions af the ARP project, which enjoyed the enthusiastic support of the Italian Consulate of Cape Town since the beginning, saw two conclusive events:
The exhibition at Everard Read Gallery Cape Town, “Learning Cape Town by Valentina Colella the italian artist, who was selected for a residency in the framework of ARP Project V Edition. Paintings, sculpures, photographs and video installation to celebrate the monthly artistic residency in the Mother City for the 32 years old italian artist from Introdacqua, a small village settled on the Appennino Mountains in central Italy.
16-31 March Valentina Colella Solo Show LEARNING CAPE TOWN Everard Read/CIRCA Gallery
Saturday 25th March in Philippi the “INKCUBEKO YETHU ART EVENT” concluded the 2015-2017 edition of ARP Project.
This event, introduced for the first time in this 5th edition of ARP, will be held at TSOGA CENTRE in Samora Machel, Philippi. It was an ART DAY focussing on young and emerging artists, with music, art workshops for children, and theatrical drama. Special guests of the event – set up by RAINBOWMEDIA NPO and by the UBUNTUBETHU youth collective, which is also the force behind IQFM community radio – were the two ARP artists, Valentina Colella and Zwelethu Machepha (who created a site specific artwork interacting with the audience); during the day was also displayed, in the spaces of the Tsoga Centre, an exhibition of artworks selected among the entries for a call for U35 artists working and living in South Africa. The winner, selected by a jury of experts, received a cash prize delivered personally by the Italian Consul, Alfonso Tagliaferri.
PROMO ARP DOC VALENTINA COLELLA IN CAPE TOWN
March 16, 2017
FOOTPRINTS by VALENTINA COLELLA – Everard Read/CIRCA Johannesburg
March 3, 2017
Exhibition/Event curated by the Centro Luigi Di Sarro and presented by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Pretoria in collaboration with Rainbow Media. Sponsor: HIP Hellenic Italian Portuguese Alliance – Italian Section e Associazione Abruzzo Sudafrica.
Thursday March 9, Circa/Everard Read Gallery, 6 Jellicoe Ave, Rosebank, Johannesburg.
A visionary, hyperconnetted, contemporary dream. The Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Pretoria supports young italian artist in Sud Africa and present the exhibition/event titled FOOTPRINTS by VALENTINA COLELLA a collateral event of the bigger project ‘ARP – Art Residency Project 2015-2017’, by Centro Luigi Di Sarro in Rome, that has planned the residency of the artist in Cape Town for February and March 2017.
The show is made up of three parts: the first one is focused on Abruzzo, Valentina Coltella’s homeland, and presents a video shot in Campo Imperatore; the second displays a multimedia piece in which a route is traced starting form her town, Introdacqua near Sulmona, up to the mountains till a shelter overlooking the Peligna Valley. Then the route is transferred on the map of the same town indicating some topical points, corresponding to some places which are fundamental for the local residents. Each of this points is accompanied by pictures with latitude and longitude coordinates so allow the visitors to locate the places on GPS. The third and last part is the pictorial one, composed by 9 works on paper with studies on essential forms of the earth, the sky and the flight between the two spaces.
Valentina Colella is a concettual artist who expresses herself with different media, as paintings, drawings, installations, video and photos. After completing her studies, she started an in-depht analysis of scenarios referring to the concept of opposition intensified by the various tranfers from the reality to digital. She draws her inspiration from nature and the landscape surrounding her. That landscape is that of Abruzzo, so beautiful and wild, but deeply devastated by telluric episodes and unusual meteorological happenings in recent times. Colella exhibited her work in London, Cologne, Rome, Argentina, Taiwan. With her project “Learning”, Valentina has been selected for the ARP-Art Residency Project to a 6 week residency in Cape Town.
ARP-ART RESIDENCY PROJECT SHOWS AT CAPE TOWN ART FAIR
February 16, 2017
We are delighted to announce the arrival in Cape Town of Italian artist Valentina Colella, who was selected for a residency in the framework of ARP-Art Residency Project V Edition. The project, ideated by Centro Luigi Di Sarro of Rome in collaboration this year with Everard Read Gallery Cape Town, began in 2009 and involved various important galleries as well as 13 artists. This fifth edition enjoys the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation; in the period 2015-2017 the project’s activities increased, witnessing many young art enthusiasts as well as art students actively contributing to the residencies in Rome and Cape Town of the two winners of the selection, Valentina Colella for Italy and Zwelethu Machepha for South Africa. Young curators, art historians, photographers, videomakers and students of various disciplines collaborated with the two leaders of this exchange, the artists, through training contributions and the participation to meetings and workshops. It is because of this activity, considered of high cultural, educational and social value, that ARP project was invited this year to take part to Cape Town Art Fair in the Cultural Platforms section, next to the most important South African non-profit organisations.
We invite you to visit stand F13, where the artworks of all Italian and South African artists who took part until today to ARP project will be exhibited, and where it will be possible to find out more about all the events organized by ARP between now and the end of March.
Saturday 18th February from 11 until 3, artists Colella e Machepha will be at ARP’s stand to introduce themselves to CTAF visitors. At 2 pm, the Italian Consul in Cape Town, Antonio Tagliaferri, and the Director of the Italian Insitute of Culture of Pretoria, Anna Amendolagine, will be in conversation with the Project Director, Alessandra Atti Di Sarro, of Centro Luigi Di Sarro, about ARP project and its history. All artists and gallerists who took part to ARP exchanges in the last eight years have been invited to join and share their experiences.
ARP – Art Residency Project will be at CTAF17 CULTURAL PLATFORMS
January 4, 2017
The Centro Luigi Di Sarro’s artistic residencies exchange programme arrives at Cape Town Art Fair. The local partner RainbowMedia was in fact invited to participate in the CULTURAL PLATFORMS thanks to the value of the learning experience that ARP- Art Residency Project has played between Italy and South Africa. Started in 2009 and raised every two years, Arp-Art Residency Project has handled to date 12 artists between the two countries and collaborated with several partners as Erdmann Contemporary, SMAC Art Gallery and Everard Read Gallery and the Diplomatic Missions of Italy and South Africa with the aim of offering an artistic and educational experience. The two-year period 2015-2017 which will end in next March with Valentina Colella’s residency in South Africa also has a contribution of MAECI, Italian Foreign Ministry. The stand at the CTart fair will trace all the stages of the project from its beginnings, giving space to the testimonies of those who took part, among whom we like to point Paolo Bini (ARP 2013) winner of the 2016 Premio Cairo.
Paolo Bini – Premio Cairo 2016
November 10, 2016
Congratulation to Paolo Bini! He won the XVII Edizione Premio Cairo 2016 in Milan, one of the most relevant prize focused on the emerging talents. Paolo Bini was selected for our ARP-Art Residency Project 2013 to go for a monthly art residency in Cape Town and this experience definitely opened his southafrican adventure. Now the Centro Di Sarro are very proud about this award. The ARP is an exchange programme focused to the young talents. In RSA ARP is active from 2009. The new edition will be in march 2017 in Cape Town.
ARP – Art Residency project: On the Way to Cape Town, Valentina Colella shows in Italy and Germany
September 10, 2016
From 17 to 25 September 2016, the ‘Museo Laboratorio Ex-manifattura Tabacchi’ Museum, Città Sant’Angelo (Pescara, Italy) will be host to the exhibition by the young artist from Abruzzo Valentina Colella “… e dopo accadde il bianco! [and then All became white!]” curated by Vittoria Biasi. The exhibition will be hosted later at the Italian Institute of Culture in Cologne from 7 October to 7 November and will conclude in December in Emigrant Museum Pascal D’Angelo in Introdacqua (L’Aquila). The project is sponsored by the Italian Institute of Culture in Cologne, the Province of l’Aquila, the Municipality of Introdacqua and the Municipality of Città Sant’Angelo.
The world of nature in the poetics of Valentina Colella is a declaration of a narrative strategy referring to ghosts, and to heroes, which, removed from all temporal projections, become free in the mental space, imitating aerial space. The artist starts her history by photographing meshes for cages and structures for windows, as a moment of reflection on the idea of opposition which accompanies man’s life and seems to be “inscribed within the constitution of the world.”
In “… e dopo accadde il bianco!”, Valentina Colella’s embarks upon a narrative which focuses on the buzzard, a bird found in Abruzzo and common in certain parts of Europe and Asia. The artist studies the buzzard’s behaviour, isolating certain realities which she analyses in a manner almost looking to possess its rules.
The overlapping pages, engraved within the gradual reduction of the silhouette, create the sculptural depth of the flight. Every page appears like the layout of an isobar of the flight, of the sound, of the unattainability of being.
The Director of the Institute of Culture in Cologne, Lucio Izzo, states: “A dialogue in the name of contemporaneity and of a conception of art as social commitment that, however, does not exclude either the emotions and the individual perception of the mystery inherent in the places or their intrinsic poetry.
The artist gives voice to a modern Italy, deeply rooted in its lands and origins, and yet totally projected to the future. Such is the spirit that distinguishes our culture and that, with the consciousness of belonging to Europe, characterizes our identity of today and our contribution to the global culture”.
“The title of the exhibition”, writes the curator Vittoria Biasi, “arises from the conception of the work which aims to go above and beyond, to overcome a limit of the visible. The silhouettes engraved or painted within a deliberate ritual process develop the procedure horizontally and in depth through an imaginary invisible white meeting between man, bird and my lucky star, as the artist says. A new form of image was born from the experience of what is real: this is a philosophical principle of thought, of love, of pride, of oneself”.
