Milca Ronzoni exhibits works made during and following her residency at DRAWinternational at the Alliance Française, Buenos Aires.

Chernobyl

A series of 25 drawings that explore the 'interference between man and nature' by the traces he leaves behind, in particular reference to the nuclear disaster in the Ukraine in 1986 and the "Red Forest",  the pine forest that absorbed the radiation situated close to the city.

Milca Ronzoni is a visual artist who was born in Argentina in 1985. She trained in the workshops of Juan Doffo, Silvia Brewda, Ariela Naftal. Milca learnt lithography with Natalia Giacchetta and handmade binding with Carlos Quesada and Claudio Di Natale. She studied Visual Arts at the former IUNA and Arts at the UBA.

Since 2001 Milca has exhibited individually and collectively in numerous spaces in Argentina and abroad such as: Eduardo Sivori Museum of Plastic Arts, MAC Salta, Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Luján, Maritime Museum ex-presidio of Ushuaia, art x art, French Alliance of Buenos Aires, Isidro Miranda, arteBA, among others.

The Alliance Française, Buenos Aires is pleased to present artists, artist groups, curators, curator groups that will exhibit their projects in the galleries of the Belgrano Center, the Flores Center, the Martínez Center and the Palermo Center within the framework of the 2019 schedule.

This call call was aimed at artists, groups of artists, curators, groups of curators from 18 to 35 years of age as of December 31, 2018 inclusive, native or naturalized Argentines who prove their  residence in the country.

It is such a pleasure to hear from past artists in residence that the work they started here in Caylus continues to inspire them.

“It’s been two years since my residency with you all, and I thought it was time to give you an update on my work, especially since it’s coming together in a solo show this fall here at my college and has everything to do with my time in Caylus.   

The wild boar on the sofa will be a centrepiece now that I have finished, it with all sorts of junk under the sofa,  and the Opposum chair has been joined by some other furniture with wild creatures that don’t belong, as well as a few sculptures. I attached a photo below and you might recognise the chair. One of the biggest pieces uses a wallpaper design based on the floral wallpaper in the studio there, and has a constructed fireplace similar to those in the studio.”

Carla Stetson, artist in residence in 2016, has a solo show that opens at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College on November 1st and Carla will be giving a lecture about her work on November the 5th from 5pm-7pm.

ARTIST TAE EUN AHN is the winner of the Open Call Prize Exhibition 

ANTHOLOGY 2017 at CHARLIE SMITH LONDON. It is the seventh edition of this annual juried exhibition.

Selected and curated by internationally respected art world professionals, Anthology is a multi-disciplinary exhibition that reaches out democratically to artists worldwide. The 2017 jury is Kate Bryan (Art Historian, Curator, Broadcaster), Matthew Collings (Artist, Writer), Faye Dowling (Curator, Editor, Producer), Zavier Ellis (Gallery Director, Curator, Collector) and Bert Moore (Collector).

Tae Eun Ahn 

Untitled 

2017 Performance 1hours 30min 

This performance is a response to a question about where we come from and head to. Throughout the performance, a performer continues to build a structure with clay that has the same weight as her body. By using clay which is often referenced as earth or dirt—which we all are made out of(‘The Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being’ : Genesis, chapter2, verse 7) and where we naturally go back after our death when we are buried—the performance is to construct a shelter for one’s body which can only be achieved after laborious endeavour against its materiality. 

Also, the notion of the process is deeply rooted in this performance. Clay has a condition which needs certain amount of time to build a structure upwards, as it needs to be harden enough to support the loads. But as the performance is continued without stopping or waiting for the clay being dried, the clay structure keeps collapsing. Despite of the collapse, the performer continues to build the structure until she uses all the clay she prepared. By allowing collapsing of the clay and accepting the collapse as another way of building rather than a failure, the performance focuses the “process” of building rather than what is being made out of. 

EXHIBITION ‘Deanna Petherbridge’ at the Whitworth Art Gallery

2 December 2016 – 4 June 2017

A solo show of pen and ink drawings from across a 45-year career.

Since the 1960s, Deanna Petherbridge has pioneered critical thinking on drawing and its place in art and architecture.

Travelling extensively through Europe, India, the Middle East and Far East, her detailed monochrome drawings are inspired by diverse landscapes, cities and cultures: from mathematical patterns of Islamic design, to rustic Umbrian dwellings and Manchester’s industrial cast-iron structures. Detailed geometric studies or free inventions in brush and wash, her distinctive works deal with the impact of colonialism, industrialisation and warfare. Her passionate condemnation of present conflicts is expressed in the 2016 triptych The Destruction of the City of Homs.

This exhibition brings together over 40 works from across her career, including the Manchester Suite a collection of drawings made during her six-month residency at Manchester Art Gallery in 1982. Her studies of the city’s Victorian architecture during its first wave of regeneration in the 1980s led to a consideration of the resonance of history in cities, places and landscapes, a central theme of the exhibition.

From 1995-2001 Petherbridge was Professor of Drawing at the Royal College of Art where she set up the Centre for Drawing Research, the first doctoral programme in drawing in the UK. She has curated numerous exhibitions including The Primacy of Drawing: An Artist’s View in 1991, which led to the publication of her acclaimed book The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice in 2010.

This exhibition coincides with the publication of a major new monograph, Deanna Petherbridge: Drawing and Dialogue, by Circa Press available from December 2016 in the bookshop.