Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community Visual Arts Department
Nicolas Provost
Nicolas Provost’s work reflects on the grammar of cinema, the human condition in our collective film memory and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. His films provoke both recognition and alienation, and succeed in catching our expectations in an unraveling game of mystery and abstraction. With manipulations of time, codes and form, cinematographic and narrative language is analyzed, accents are shifted and new stories are told.
Nicolas Provost (born in Ronse, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels following 10 years in Norway. His films have been exhibited worldwide and have earned awards and screenings at prestigious festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, San Sebastian Film Festival and Locarno Film Festival. Solo exhibitions include The Seattle Art Museum; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France; Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; and Haunch of Venison, London. His award-winning first feature film The Invader had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival 2011.
Nicolas Provost, Stardust, 2010, Video projection with sound, 240 in. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Nicolas Provost, Suspension, 2007, Video projection with sound, 48 in. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Nicolas Provost, Long Live the New Flesh, 2009, Video projection with sound. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Nicolas Provost, Plot Point, 2007, Video projection with sound, 180 in
Nicolas Provost, Moving Stories, 2011, Video projection with sound, 84 in. Courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp and Haunch of Venison, London
Residents from Belgium
Past Resident2012: Akio Tagawa
Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik
Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik explores issues of perception and phenomenology within visual art. He investigates these issues through a variety of media including sculpture and drawing. Schwarz-Kogelnik questions the different values that art institutions and the art market place on works and analyzes how viewers relate to them. His work is a meditation on the values of uniqueness, authorship, originality, objecthood and labor within art, probing the differences between experiencing art directly and through mediated reproductions.
Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik (born 1967, London) currently lives and works in New York City. He studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and Kings College, London, holds an M.Arch from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik & Patrick Tuttofuoco
March 27, 2012
Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik, Urtypes of Threat, 2002, Mixed media, installation with four 60 x 84 in. digital C prints, mercury vapor lights and low frequency sound, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist
Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik, X90 Project, 2010-2012, Mixed media, 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.88 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik, Orb, 2003, Mixed media with Xerox toner, 60 × 36 × 9 in. (152.4 × 91.44 × 22.86 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik, Plato’s Ring, 2002, Mixed media with high voltage high frequency generator, 48 × 48 × 12 in. (121.92 × 121.92 × 30.48 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Residents from United States
Past Resident2012: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
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).
Ambie Abaño, Trapped, 2009, Stuffed prints on textile, 24 × 24 × 24 in. (60.96 × 60.96 × 60.96 cm)
Ambie Abaño, Prayer, 2009, Installation with woodcut on textile and plastic
Ambie Abaño, Self Awareness, 2011, Oil painting and woodcut on phillippine mahogany, 60 × 72 in. (152.4 × 182.88 cm)
Ambie Abaño, Diaries, 2010, Woodcut on recycled wood carved into books
