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Fine Arts 2013–14 Fine Arts 2013–14 Acknowledgements All works © the artists and architect Prof. Mihai Barbulescu, Leonita Rotaru (Spazi Aperti 2014), The Romanian Academy, Rome Editor: Marco Palmieri Translations: Giulia Carletti, Beatrice Gelosia Antonella Salvatore and Inge Lyse Hansen, John Cabot Graphic design: Praline University, Rome Printed in Great Britain by Leycol Print Ezio Genovesi and Henry Horenstein, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome Published in 2014 by the British School at Rome at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, Juliet Franks, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford London SW1Y 5AH Adrienne Drake, Manuela Pacella, Niccolò Fano, Genevieve Bormes, British School at Rome Giulia Carletti, Minkyung Christina Chung, Francesca Gallo, Emma Via Gramsci 61, 00197 Rome Papworth, Stella Rendina, Grace Rivera Registered Charity 314176 Photography courtesy of the artists and architects, except: Claudio Abate (pp. 7, 18–19 (top), 30, 51), Roberto Apa (pp. 9–12, 20–1, www.bsr.ac.uk 26–9, 32–9, 41, 48), James Fields (pp. 44–5) and Antonio Palmieri (p. 23). Julia Davis would like to thank Marco Fulle for allowing her ISSN 1475-8733 to use extracts of video footage in her project completed at the BSR ISBN 978-0-904152-71-5 The projects realised by Amanda Davies, Julia Davis, Annika Koops and Bruce Reynolds have been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its Arts funding and advisory body. The Incorporated Edwin Austin The Derek Hill Foundation Abbey Memorial Scholarships Nicholas Berwin Charitable Trust Contents 4 Preface: Christopher Smith 7 Introduction: Marco Palmieri Exhibitors 16 Johann Arens 18 Marius von Brasch 20 Ursula Burke 22 Amanda Davies 24 Julia Davis 26 Archie Franks 28 Daniele Genadry 30 Ann-Marie James 32 Mason Kimber 34 Annika Koops 36 Cathy Lomax 38 Andrea Medjesi-Jones 40 Ana Rewakowicz 42 Bruce Reynolds 44 Mary-Jean Richardson 46 Daniele Sambo 48 Tomás Sheridan 50 Edward Simpson 53 Biographies 64 BSR Faculty of the Fine Arts and Staff Preface / Prefazione The artists and architects of 2013–14 have Gli artisti e gli architetti ospiti durante questo anno participated in, contributed to and been supported accademico 2013–14 hanno partecipato, hanno by a rich programme of events in the BSR’s full and contribuito e sono stati a loro volta sostenuti dal ricco exciting calendar. As always the catalogue is merely programma di eventi nell’intenso ed entusiasmante a glimpse into this world, but I am privileged to be calendario della BSR. Come sempre il catalogo guarda able to introduce it. giusto di sfuggita a questo mondo, che io ho il privilegio We should begin with the exciting news of Laure di poter presentare. Prouvost’s Turner Prize; Laure was the Max Mara Prize Dovremmo iniziare con la piacevole notizia del Fellow in 2011–12, an award held in conjunction with Turner Prize a Laure Prouvost; Laure ha avuto un Max the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her victory, the year Mara Prize Fellowship nel 2011–12, una borsa di studio after Elizabeth Price’s, means that the last two winners assegnatole insieme alla Whitechapel Gallery a Londra. of the Turner Prize have spent considerable time at the La sua vittoria, un anno dopo quella di Elizabeth Price, BSR shortly before they won the Prize, and it reinforces significa che gli ultimi due vincitori del Turner Prize, poco the sense of the high quality and challengingly prima di ottenere il premio, hanno trascorso un periodo contemporary nature of BSR art. importante alla BSR e ciò conferisce maggior significato As ever, our former award-holders have been al livello qualitativo e alla stimolante natura represented in exhibitions, and perhaps the most striking contemporanea della BSR. example is the 2014 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Come ormai spesso succede, i nostri ex borsisti in which almost every room was curated or contained sono stati coinvolti in varie mostre. L’esempio più work by BSR award-holders. Over 30 award-holders evidente è rappresentato dalla Royal Academy were represented. Summer Exhibition del 2014, in cui quasi ogni spazio This year saw two major changes of personnel; è stato curato o conteneva opere dei borsisti della Jacopo Benci moved to consolidate his research BSR: in tutto erano presenti più di 30 nostri artisti. interests by becoming a permanent member of BSR Quest’anno abbiamo avuto due importanti staff, as Senior Research Fellow in Modern Studies cambiamenti per quello che riguarda il personale: and Contemporary Visual Culture. Marco Palmieri Jacopo Benci è stato nominato Senior Research Fellow joined us as Arts Adviser. He has previously studied in Modern Studies and Contemporary Visual Culture, at the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, per poter portare avanti i propri interessi di ricerca and the Royal Academy Schools, London. His work has ed entrare a far parte a tutti gli effetti del personale had an immediate effect in building on Jacopo Benci’s della BSR. solid platform in bringing artists closer to Rome, and Marco Palmieri si è unito al nostro organico Rome closer to the BSR. come Arts Adviser, dopo aver studiato presso la We are beginning to build a small but distinctive University for the Creative Arts a Canterbury e presso programme in support of our artists. Hayley Tompkins, la Royal Academy Schools di Londra. Il suo lavoro who represented Scotland in the Venice Biennale, visited ha avuto un effetto immediato nel rafforzare il già the BSR in April, as the first of our annual programme consistente programma di Jacopo Benci finalizzato of visiting Scottish artists, supported by the Craignish ad avvicinare gli artisti a Roma e Roma alla BSR. Trust. The Abbey Council has commenced a programme Stiamo cominciando a costruire un piccolo ma to send three artists a year to the BSR to spend time importante programma a sostegno dei nostri artisti. with our own residents. The first visitor, in May, was Hayley Tompkins, che ha rappresentato la Scozia Danny Rolph (Rome Scholar in the Fine Arts 1998–9). nella Biennale di Venezia, è stata ospite della BSR At the same time, Marina Engel’s innovative ad aprile, come prima aderente al nostro programma programme Meeting Architecture: Architecture and annuale per gli artisti scozzesi, finanziato dal Craignish the Creative Process brought several outstanding Trust. L’Abbey Council ha avviato un programma per international figures to Rome. We believe that the indirizzare tre artisti all’anno alla BSR al fine di poter support of creative activity at the BSR has never been trascorrere un periodo di tempo con i nostri residenti. 4 FINE ARTS 2013–14 stronger, and the impact could be seen in three well- Il primo di loro, a maggio, è stato Danny Rolph (Rome attended and highly-regarded exhibitions at the Scholar in the Fine Arts nel 1998–9). BSR, as well as a number of external shows featuring Nello stesso tempo, l’innovativo programma di BSR residents. Marina Engel, Meeting Architecture: Architecture and The BSR was delighted to be able to continue the Creative Process, ha portato diverse personalità its collaborations with existing funding bodies and internazionali di rilievo a Roma. Riteniamo che il we would therefore particularly like to thank this year: sostegno della BSR all’attività creativa non sia mai the Arts Council of Northern Ireland; the Australia stato così forte; l’effetto di questo si può riscontrare Council for the Arts; the Australian Experimental nelle tre mostre organizzate presso la BSR, che hanno Art Foundation (with Cibo Espresso, the Helpmann riscosso un grande successo di pubblico e ottenuto un Academy and Arts SA); the Conseil des Arts et des ottimo apprezzamento, così come la serie di esposizioni Lettres du Québec; Creative Scotland; the Derek Hill esterne che hanno visto protagonisti i nostri artisti. Foundation; the Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey La BSR è lieta di poter continuare le sue Memorial Scholarships; the Linbury Trust; the National collaborazioni con gli attuali organismi di finanziamento, Art School, Sydney; the Nicholas Berwin Charitable e, in maniera particolare, quest’anno vorremmo Trust; and the William Fletcher Foundation (NSW, ringraziare: l’Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Australia); as well as the private donors to the renewal l’Australia Council for the Arts; l’Australian Experimental of the Rome Prize in Architecture, including Robert Art Foundation (con Cibo Espresso, la Helpmann Adam, Bob Allies, Tim Bell, Jeremy Blake, Peter Harris, Academy e Arts SA); il Conseil des Arts et des Lettres Eric Parry, Hugh Petter and Robert Tavernor. du Québec; Creative Scotland; il Derek Hill Foundation; The BSR is also extremely grateful to the members l’Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial of the Faculty of the Fine Arts, for their invaluable advice Scholarships; il Linbury Trust; la National Art School and for their care in selecting award-holders. di Sydney; il Nicholas Berwin Charitable Trust; The next challenge we shall be addressing is the e la William Fletcher Foundation (NSW, Australia); studios, which need substantial work to improve their nonché i donatori privati per il rinnovo del Rome environmental conditions, and we expect to start that Prize in Architecture, inclusi Robert Adam, Bob Allies, in 2015. The BSR continues to strive to provide, within Tim Bell, Jeremy Blake, Peter Harris, Eric Parry, Hugh our means, outstanding facilities and excellent support Petter e Robert Tavernor. for our artists. Their work demonstrates every year that La BSR è inoltre oltremodo riconoscente verso they deserve no less. tutti i componenti della Faculty of the Fine Arts per i loro preziosi consigli e per l’attenzione dimostrata nella selezione dei nostri borsisti. La prossima sfida che affronteremo riguarda gli studi, che necessitano di importanti lavori di intervento al fine di migliorare le condizioni ambientali: ci auguriamo di cominiciare questi lavori nel 2015.