Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Meg-Multiforms, The Gallery Apart
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
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
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
Past Resident2013: Danish Arts Foundation
Ruth Campau
Ruth Campau works in an expanded field where the work’s interaction with the surrounding environment is essential. Her mark is the idea that with a concentrated brushstroke, she can convey presence by translating and freezing it solid onto a surface; brushstrokes immortalize the body’s movement. Her jumping off point is the notion of an infinite painting, where what she is showing is merely a segment of a larger painting and, as such, merely a kind of representative of a human presence. Accordingly, the complex of issues that are prevalent in the very execution takes on a great deal of importance and the body, motion and time become decisive key factors in her work.
Ruth Campau’s work has been shown at Baltic Sea Record 2013, Stadtgalerie Kiel; Sculpture by the Sea 2013, Aarhus; KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, 2013; Designmuseet Danmark, Copenhagen, 2013; Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, 2012; The National Museum, Copenhagen, 2012; Gallery Hartwich Rügen, Berlin, 2012; PS Projectspace, Amsterdam, 2012; Gallery Asbaek, Copenhagen, 2011; Preview, Tempelhof, Berlin 2010 and KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, 2010. Her work is in the collections of serveral museums including ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, and the Esbjerg Kunstmuseum. Campau lives and works in Copenhagen.
Ruth Campau, Diamond (Yellow, Purple, Gold), 2011, Acrylic on acrylic plate and mirror acrylic plate, 28 × 30 in. (71.12 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, Carpet, 2010, Acrylic on acrylic plate, mirror acrylic plate, and radiant acrylic plate, 159 × 192 in. (403.86 × 487.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, MIrage, 2011, Acrylic on acrylic plate and mirror acrylic plate, 46 × 222 × 94 in. (116.84 × 563.88 × 238.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, Garden of Blue, Red and Yellow, 2013, Acryl on acrylic, 336 × 256 in. (853.44 × 650.24 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ruth Campau, Satellite, 2012, Acrylic on acrylic plate, mirror acrylic plate, aluminum construction, metal airboard, and wood, 94 × 310 × 46 in. (238.76 × 787.4 × 116.84 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
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, 72 × 60 in. (182.88 × 152.4 cm).
Ambie Abaño, Diaries, 2010, Woodcut on recycled wood carved into books.
