Cinque Mostre

Cinque Mostre 2016: TRANSLATIO

Cinque Mostre
McKim, Mead & White Building
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Rome, Italy
Cinque Mostre 2016 - TRANSLATIO

In conjunction with the exhibition Cinque Mostre 2016 - Across the Board: Parts of a Whole, which remains on view through April 3, the American Academy in Rome presents the second of two appointments exploring the themes engaged by the exhibition. On March 17 the exhibition will be open exceptionally from 5pm to 8pm.

TRANSLATIO is a collaborative publication proceeding from artist Emily Jacir’s Via Crucis, the newly completed permanent installation commissioned by artache at the church of San Raffaele in Milan. Uniting the artist with two scholars of the Medieval Mediterranean, John Lansdowne and Christopher MacEvitt, the book illustrates the movement of objects, images, people, and place between Palestine and Italy. TRANSLATIO is published by NERO.

Emily Jacir is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts; John Lansdowne is the Marian and Andrew Heiskell/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Medieval Studies; and Christopher MacEvitt is the ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow.

Cinque Mostre 2016 is made possible by the Adele Chatfield-Taylor and John Guare Fund for the Arts and by the Fellows Project Fund of the American Academy in Rome.

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Cinque Mostre 2016 – Across the Board: Parts of a Whole

Cinque Mostre
AAR Gallery
McKim, Mead & White Building
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Rome, Italy
Exhibition
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Tuesday, February 9–Sunday, April 3, 2016

Cinque Mostre 2016

Cinque Mostre 2016 - Across the Board: Parts of a Whole

Mark Boulos, Jinn Bronwen Lee, Christopher Cerrone, Karl Daubmann (in collaboration with the Rome Sustainable Food Project) , Javier Galindo, Helena Hladilova, Emily Jacir, John Lansdowne (with James Huemoeller), Senam Okudzeto, Woody Pirtle, Public Fiction (including works by Math Bass, Leidy Churchman, Cécile B. Evans, Stanya Kahn, Nikita Gale, Andrea Longacre-White, Anna Sew Hoy), Bryony Roberts, Alexander Robinson (with Anthony Baus), David Schutter, Maaike Schoorel, Namsal Siedlecki, Mali Annika Skotheim (with the participation of Lysley Tenorio, Javier Galindo, Karl Daubman, Jenny Kreiger, Michelle Di Marzo, and John Lansdowne).

Featuring:

The Picture Club

Micol Assael, Chiara Barzini, Orazio Battaglia, Elena Bellantoni, Pim Blokker, Massimiliano Bomba, Carola Bonfili, Lupo Borgonovo, Joanne Burke, Francesco Ciavaglioli, Ester Coen e Nunzio, Sonia Cucculelli, Tomaso De Luca, Gabriele De Santis con Lorenzo Pace e Andrea Polichetti, Fabio Donalisio, Riccardo Falcinelli, Giuseppe Gallo, Helena Hladilova, Emily Jacir, Antonella Lattanzi, Emiliano Maggi, Luigi Ontani, Francesco Pacifico, Woody Pirtle, Gianni Politi, Fabio Quaranta, Lisa Rampilli, Alex Robinson, Andrea Romano, Maaike Schoorel, Tommaso Sponzilli, and Emma Verdet.

Across the Board: Parts of a Whole is an itinerant and performative exhibition articulated in several areas of the McKim, Mead & White Building at the American Academy in Rome and beyond, crossing multiple disciplines and fields: a game with no fixed rules that intends to address the idea of the fragment as the starting point of a story rather than its conclusion.

Incorporating works by artists, scholarly research, architectural studies, musical compositions, literary texts – the exhibition provides a setting for an evolving narrative moving physically and allegorically through various sites. These different locations disclose a cosmos of tales investigating marginality, authenticity, language, fragmentation, translation, and transformation. Elaborating on historical facts, objects, landscapes, political representation, fictions, and the construction of signs and symbols, the individual parts contribute to the development of a complex and multiform system questioning the potential of abstraction and its impact on reality.

One of the stations of the exhibition, the Academy Bar hosts The Picture Club, a project conceived by Ilaria Gianni, Gianni Ponti, and Saverio Vernini, featuring work by artists and authors from different fields called to reflect on the nature of ​​portraiture as a form of subjective representation. Integrated into the preexisting portrait gallery that gives the bar its unique flavor, the installation reconfigures one of the Academy’s most important venues for the exchange of ideas.

The exhibition is curated by Ilaria Gianni with assitant curator Saverio Verini.

It is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 4pm to 7pm until 3 April 2016.

Cinque Mostre 2016 is made possible by the Adele Chatfield-Taylor and John Guare Fund for the Arts.

Collateral events:

3 March 2016

Temenos

Nina C. Young in collaboration with Miro Magloire of the New Chamber Ballet Elizabeth, Brown Hudec, Daniela Giannuzzi, and Simone Ghera. The piece for two dancers and a violin, specifically developed in relationship to the Tempietto di S. Pietro in Montorio, addresses the union of sound and movement in relationship to architecture. The project seeks to create a “vocabulary” database of simple gestalt sound-movement couplings that will then be codified into a syntax that can be used in increasing complex compositional and improvisational environments.

6pm performance at the Tempietto del Bramante in collaboration with Real Academia de Espana en Roma

17 March 2016

TRANSLATIO

Emily Jacir, John Lansdowne, Christopher MacEvitt. A collaborative publication proceeding from artist Emily Jacir’s Via Crucis, the newly completed permanent installation commissioned by artache at the church of San Raffaele in Milan. Uniting the artist with two scholars of the medieval Mediterranean, John Lansdowne and Christopher MacEvitt, the book illustrates the movement of objects, images, people, and places between Palestine and Italy. Published by Nero.

6pm book presentation at AAR

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Cinque Mostre 2014: Time and Again

Cinque Mostre
AAR Gallery
McKim, Mead & White Building
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Rome, Italy
Exhibition
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Thursday, January 30–Sunday, March 2, 2014

Cinque Mostre 2014

The American Academy in Rome is pleased to present the 2014 edition of Cinque Mostre, five distinct exhibitions in various locations in the McKim, Mead & White building grouped under the overall title Time and Again. The exhibitions, conceived and organized by current Rome Prize fellows and Italian critic Christian Caliandro, feature a wide variety of works in different media by American and Italian artists interrogating the ways in which contemporary art reimagines the past, celebrates new beginnings, evokes a lived experience of history, and calls into question entrenched systems of knowledge and conventional chronologies. With initiatives such as this one, the American Academy in Rome demonstrates its continuing support of innovative artists, writers, and scholars living and working together in a dynamic international community characterized by interdisciplinary dialogue.

CONCRETE GHOST, curated by Christian Caliandro

Nanni Balestrini, Anna Gimon Betbeze, Hamlett Dobbins, Tony Fiorentino, Dan Hurlin, Catie Newell, Reynold Reynolds, Giuseppe Stampone, Marco Strappato, Thomas Kelley, Catherine Wagner

The artists gathered together in Concrete Ghost/Fantasma Concreto condense, in various ways, the diffuse sensation of suspension permeating the present moment. The idea is adapted from a text by Giorgio Vasta, Italian Affiliated Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. It is at once a very specific condition and, at the same time, an elusive and evanescent one. It is that of a ghost possessed of a body, senses, sensuality, and a brain that comprehends. The embodied ghost is the precise opposite of a vanishing body: it is rather immateriality assuming concrete physical form. The concrete ghost entails movement, tension, an oriented mechanism, an atmosphere of perfectly controlled and dominated obscurity.

DANCE MACABRE

Diana Machulina

From ruins to relics in churches and embalmed bodies in catacombs, memento mori are everywhere in Rome, a city whose earthly delights are indelibly associated with La Dolce Vita. Rome is suffused with both hedonism and melancholia; the pleasures of life are ineluctably entwined with the sadness of the inevitability of death. A contemporary meditation upon the Rome’s dual identity, Dance macabre revisits Andy Warhol’s “Dance diagrams,” adding skeletal partners who haunt the dancers’ steps outlined on the floor.

FOUND REALITIES

Evidence and Commentaries on a False Material Culture

Peter Bognanni, Thomas Kelley, Catie Newell

Found Realities is a study collection of unreal domestic objects and behaviors that expose, project, and speculate on a fantastical material culture and the evidence of a fictionalized, unreliable researcher. The work is composed of a series of bizarre objects, drawn depictions of their expected use and nonsensical setting, and elaborate narrative field notes that expose these assumed truths. Everything, at first glance, appears ‘off’ and abnormal to our current tendencies, suspended between familiar associations and a documentation set that feels both thorough and unreal. Staged within an occupied archeological workshop, the uncanny objects, elaborate drawings and passionate field notes take cues from objects, documents, and notational systems from prior archaeological research sites placing Found Realities in a delicate balance between the unbelievable and assumed truths.

HISTORY RECAST, curated by Lindsay Harris

Photography and Roman Sculpture in Contemporary Art

Antonio Biasiucci, Marco Delogu, Milton Gendel, Leonora Hamill, Mimmo Jodice, David Maisel, Catie Newell, Sara VanDerBeek, Catherine Wagner

History Recast offers a close examination of the relationship between photography and Roman sculpture in contemporary art. Revisiting the claim made by French critic André Malraux in 1947 that the history of art—in particular sculpture—had become “the history of that which can be photographed,” this exhibition explores how artists today no longer use the camera simply to document sculpture. Instead, they embrace photography to create new visions of iconic objects that call into question how we view our heritage, our systems of knowledge, and ourselves. The exhibition focuses on photographs of objects located in and around Rome, the city’s museums, or collections abroad, casting new light on the Eternal City as a laboratory in which to excavate the past, as well as our lived experience of history.

LUMEN

A multidisciplinary immersive installation

Catherine Wagner, Thomas Kelley, Eric Nathan, Loretta Gargan

Inspired by newly inaugurated Pope Francis’s affinity for light as a metaphor for change, LUMEN abstracts and re-contextualizes an act of spiritual contemplation. In keeping with a secular regard for the Pope’s palpable sense of hope, LUMEN, an interdisciplinary and multi-sensory experience synthesizing various art forms, reshapes contemporary spirituality by reconsidering the pew, a site for conventional prayer. Audiovisual elements and thyme plantings create an immersive, scented environment removing the pew from its archetypal context. The physical relic, or conventional object of devotion, is replaced with a video projection of light and a musical composition responding to the movement of the video. While the pew remains iconic in scale and orientation, it no longer demands the observer to acknowledge any singular beliefs, but rather encourages a new and open contemplative experience.

Hours: The Exhibition is open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 4pm to 7pm until 2 March 2014

Image: Catherine Wagner, Rome Works - Angel Encased (Bernini), detail of color print 1.27 x 93 cm. Museo storico artistico - Tesoro di san Pietro. Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano (permission granted by Capitolo Vaticano; photograph provided by Stephen Wirtz Gallery and Gallery Luisotti)

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Cinque Mostre 2013

Cinque Mostre
AAR Gallery
McKim, Mead & White Building
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Rome, Italy
Exhibition
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Wednesday, January 30–Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Graphic logo for Cinque Mostre 2013

The American Academy in Rome presents five shows by current Rome Prize Fellows:

1. The Idea of Realism/L’idea del realismo, curated by Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts Carl D’Alvia and Italian curator Christian Caliandro (featuring work by D’Alvia, Pesce Khete, Jackie Saccoccio (2005 Fellow), Ward Shelley (2006 Fellow), Giuseppe Stampone, Gian Maria Tosatti, and Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts Nari Ward).

2. Dinner Conversation, a collaboration between Rome Prize Fellows Erik Adigard (design) and Ross Altheimer (landscape architecture) with Dutch Affiliated Fellow Leonid Tsvetkov (visual art), including Tsvetkov’s Everyday Downfall.

3. Nine Parts of Two, a collaboration between Rome Prize Fellow William O’Brien (architecture) and the composer Wang Lu.

4. ScalaCupola, a collaborative installation by Rome Prize Fellows Erik Adigard (design) and Jesse Jones (musical composition).

5. Camera Obscura, the installation of a working replica of the proto-photographic device, curated by Rome Prize Fellow Beth Saunders (modern Italian studies). The installations will take place in the AAR Gallery and throughout the main building.

After January 30, 2013, the exhibition will be open by appointment only until February 27.

The American Academy in Rome would like to thank the wine producer Azienda Agricola Magda Pedrini of Gavi for its generous contribution.

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