Italy

Past Resident
2014: Meg-Multiforms, The Gallery Apart

Artist

Alice Schivardi

Alice Schivardi is interested in collecting stories and establishing human relationships, leading her toward a pursuit of the other as well as of the self. She focuses both on the natural and human condition, using technological and manual language. Schivardi’s work explores social phenomena and their logic, with a methodology that treasures the intimate exchange of micro-experiences. The threads of her “embroidery drawings” become a link between the artist and the stories, the artistic process and the finished artwork. Alice Schivardi lives and works in Rome.

Events & Exhibitions

Alice Schivardi: Wormholes

April 22–May 10, 2014

Alice Schivardi, Coccinelle, 2012, 32 pieces: embroidery drawings, curved glass, and resin frames. Courtesy of the artist.

Alice Schivardi, A Imagine e Somiglianza (detail), 2012, Embroidered drawing, scotch and collage on acetate paper. Courtesy of the artist.

Alice Schivardi, Equazione Uno, 2012, Installation of six speakers, embroidered drawing, scotch and collage on acetate paper. Courtesy of the artist.

Alice Schivardi, Portable Bug Cemetery, 2013, Lawn, earth, and insects, 138 × 16 × 138 in. (350.52 × 40.64 × 350.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist.

Alice Schivardi, Portable Bug Cemetery (detail), 2013, Lawn, earth, and insects, 138 × 16 × 138 in. (350.52 × 40.64 × 350.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist.

Residents from Italy

Chiara Ianeselli

Italy

Italian Council - Directorate-General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) at the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities

2024

Raffaela Naldi Rossano

Italy, Greece

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture

2024

Valentina Furian

Italy

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York

2024

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Philippines

Past Resident
2013: ACC - Asian Cultural Council

Artist

Samuel Penaso

Samuel Penaso’s works are a mix of his experiments in media including painting, performance, sculpture, installation and video among others. Penaso is influenced by his dichotomy of life experiences as a child growing up in the country and as an adult living in the city. Experiences, emotions and stories about him and others are widely expressed in his works, most notably in his portraits. His work generates waves of nostalgia, weaving the purity of childhood experiences together with his present ideologies.

Penaso is a visual and performance artist from Guindulman, Bohol. He received a BFA at the Technological University of the Philippines. He has held solo exhibitions in Japan, Thailand, Austria, Germany, Singapore, among others. He represented the Philippines in the Nippon International Performance Art Festival in both 2005 and 2011 and has participated in the the Asian International Art Exhibition, Ayala Museum, Manila; ArTriangle, Malaysia and Young Art Philippines, Luxembourg. He is one of the core members of Tupada Action and Media Art (TAMA) a group of performance artists and an active member of the Art Association of Philippines (AAP).

Samuel Penaso, Constant Reinvention, Steel, 60 × 72 in. (152.4 × 182.88 cm).

Samuel Penaso, Black Rain, Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm).

Samuel Penaso, Stripewalker Project, 2009.

Samuel Penaso, Text Country, Acrylic on canvas, 48 × 48 in. (121.92 × 121.92 cm).

Samuel Penaso, Time Machine, Acrylic on canvas, 48.

Residents from Philippines

Katrine Elise Agpalza Pedersen

Philippines, Norway

OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway

2024

Carlos Quijon, Jr.

Philippines

ACC - Asian Cultural Council

2024

Ambie Abaño

Philippines

ACC - Asian Cultural Council

2012

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Philippines

Past Resident
2012: ACC - Asian Cultural Council

Artist

Ambie Abaño

Ambie Abaño’s shift from painting to printmaking brought her to an exploration of the medium as she investigates portraiture in relation to both material and process. From two-dimensional prints, her experimental works led to the creation of portraits and figures in sculpture, mixed media works, and installations, always with an element of traditional printmaking processes.

Ambie Abaño (born Manila 1967) abandoned the practice of architecture in favor of being a visual artist. She exhibits widely in the Philippines and across Asia. Abaño is a faculty member at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. For the past six years, she served as president of the Philippine Association of Printmakers and remains active in their training program. Her solo exhibitions include: SurFACE (2011); Sanctuaire des memoires (2012) at the Alliance Francaise de Manille, and TransFIGURATION at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2006). She participated in A/P: Analog Playground, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; The Speaking House, Kerala, India (2012); Asian International Art Exhibition (2007-2011), and Open Studios at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2011).