Past Residents
Past Resident2010: Danish Arts Foundation
Thomas Poulsen (FOS)
FOS’ practice investigates how physical space achieves significance through social interaction and how the aesthetics of social space challenge and transform social constructs. Referring to his approach as Social Design, FOS suggests solutions through the investigation of the physicality of social relations. ‘I see the world as constituted of layers – only a small part visible to us – that exists as a reaction of what lies underneath. What we learn and perceive is in our behavior, what isn’t learned is a part of our reactions. Our social construct is a machine in this framework.’
Thomas Poulsen (FOS). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2011: Anonymous
Armando Mariño Calzado
Armando Mariño Calzado’s recent work is a statement about the representation and the visual consumption of violence inflicted by nature or by humankind. In his work, new media has not only granted the technical possibility for the explicit depiction of violence but also for shortening the time and enlarging the space between the fact and its visual impact. Taking explicitness, immediacy and omnipresence as essential aesthetic values in contemporary society, his work reflects on the role of painting with respect to current aesthetics of violence.
Armando Mariño Calzado (born 1968 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) has studied at the School of Art in Santiago, Cuba, the High Pedagogical Intitute of Arts in Havana, Cuba and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, Holland. Recent projects include Keloids, Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA; Without Mask, Contemporary Afro Cuban Art, South Africa and Cuban Avant Garde, The Howard Farber Collection, Katonah Art Museum, NY.
Armando Mariño Calzado, Beautiful World, 2007, Installation image, Dimensions variable.
Armando Mariño Calzado, Platform1, 2009, Oil on canvas, 122 × 63 in. (309.88 × 160.02 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Armando Mariño Calzado, The Hole, 2005, Oil on linen, 92 × 78 in. (233.68 × 198.12 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Armando Mariño Calzado, The Panda Who Cannot Speak, 2010, Charcoal on paper, 59 × 47 in. (149.86 × 119.38 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Armando Mariño Calzado, Untitled, 2010, Charcoal on paper, 59 × 39 in. (149.86 × 99.06 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Cuba
Liset Castillo
Past Resident2011: Consejeria de Cultura de la Region de Murcia
Juanli Carrion
Juanli Carrión was born in Yecla, Spain in 1982. His artistic practice arises out of an interest in elements/actions that mankind creates/uses to represent reality or identity, and the social-politic relationships that these elements/actions have with existing operating systems. These concerns emerge out of social and political issues surrounding human behavior, both individually and collectively, and speak to the limits of human existence through questioning strategies of representing reality and reconstructing identity.
His artistic practice is developed through media such as installation, video or sculpture and always has a strong photographic background. A photograph is in many occasions the final result or a starting point, as a way of thinking and a key tool of his creative process. Among most recent projects are Atlas Shrugged, Kei-Seki, On Stage-Monuments of Melancholia. Carrión has a B.A in Fine Arts at The University of Grenade and Saint Dennis Paris VIII and an M.F.A in Visual Arts at Polytechnic University of Valencia.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Ok Hyun Ahn (South Korea) and Juanli Carrion (Spain)
July 27, 2010
Juanli Carrion, Intermision - Mysterious Incidente In Lake Desmet, 2010, C-print sobre dibond, 191/2 × 141/2 in. (49.53 × 36.83 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, 2nd Act - Fetterman Massacree, 2010, C-print sobre , 67 × 45 in. (170.18 × 114.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Keisho-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Landscape #13, 2008-09, Duratrans in a golden light box, 22 × 55 × 4 in. (55.88 × 139.7 × 10.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Juanli Carrion, Ogon-Seki, 2009-10, C-print on dibond, 59 × 391/2 in. (149.86 × 100.33 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
