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f i n e ARTS 2011-2012 THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME f i n e ARTS 2011-2012 Rashid Ali Angela Catlin Charles Cooper Colin Darke Domenico de Clario Kimathi Donkor George Egerton-Warburton Nicholas Hatfull Jessica Kirkpatrick David Lock Fiona MacDonald Duarte Natário dos Santos Laure Prouvost Luke Roberts Felix Schwimmer Heather B. Swann Covadonga Valdés THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME 1 The projects realised by DOMENICO DE CLARIO, GEORGE EGERTON-WARBURTON, LUKE ROBERTS, HEATHER B. SWANN have been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its Arts funding and advisory body. The Derek Hill Foundation Giles Worsley Fund IFLA The Incorporated Edwin Austin INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION Abbey Memorial Scholarships OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Acknowledgements All works © the artists and architects Prof. Mihai Barbulescu, Eleonora Farina, The Romanian Academy, Edited by Jacopo Benci Rome Roberto Casiraghi, Ginevra Pucci, Roma Contemporary Graphic design Silvia Stucky Claudia Conforti, Giuseppe Bonaccorso, Tor Vergata University, Rome Photography courtesy of the artists and architects, except Inge Lyse Hansen, Antonella Salvatore, John Cabot University, Claudio Abate (pp. 6-7, 8-9, 10, 16-17, 18, 20, 27, 32-33, 43, 44- Rome 45, 46); Celia Yang (pp. 8, 9) Daniela Bigi, Roberto Lambarelli, Arte e Critica / Arte e Roma via Stucky (p. 32); Mary Wilsey, Wanted in Rome Translations Jacopo Benci Celia Yang, Anna Prosvetova, Giorgia Tamburi, Clara Giannini Published by THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Donatella Astolfi, Fulvio Astolfi, Alice Bygraves, Alba Coratti, Marina Engel, Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Joanna Kostylo, The British School at Rome Maria Pia Malvezzi, Eleanor Murkett, Antonio Palmieri, Via Gramsci, 61 00197 Roma Renato Parente, Giuseppe Pellegrino, Marisa Scarsella, Registered Charity No. 314176 Valerie Scott, Magdalena Sygidus ISSN 1475-8733 ISBN 978-0-904152-64-7 2 Fine Arts 2011-2012 C ONTENTS 04 Preface Christopher Smith 06 Introduction Jacopo Benci 12 Rashid Ali 14 Angela Catlin 16 Charles Cooper 18 Colin Darke 20 Domenico de Clario 22 Kimathi Donkor 24 George Egerton-Warburton 26 Nicholas Hatfull 28 Jessica Kirkpatrick 30 David Lock 32 Fiona MacDonald 34 Duarte Natário dos Santos 36 Laure Prouvost 38 Luke Roberts 40 Felix Schwimmer 42 Heather B. Swann 44 Covadonga Valdés 47 Biographies 3 P REFACE The 2011-12 Fine Arts programme has been another success, a combination of startlingly original work and huge diversity. After the great uncertainties of recent years, my colleagues in the Faculty of the Fine Arts have worked tirelessly to create new funding opportunities and new awards, and I am as grateful to them as I am delighted to see new artists coming to the BSR. As we rebuild, slowly, from the past, we also have the opportunity to bring new ideas and new projects to Rome. I am particularly pleased that from this year, for the first time, all members of the BSR will receive the Fine Arts catalogue. One of our ambitions was to re-establish links with the whole BSR community, and by so doing, to encourage old friends to reconnect with us, and recent award-holders to sustain their connection. We hope all of those who are reading this review will be inspired to come back to the BSR, and it is tremendous that this summer, in July, August and September, all our studios will be occupied by former or current award-holders. For many of our supporters, this has been a difficult period too, and to them, both long-standing friends and new sponsors, we are truly grateful. This year, we have received support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland; the Australia Council for the Arts; the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres, Québec; Creative Scotland; the Derek Hill Foundation; the Giles Worsley Fund (in collaboration with the RIBA); the Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarships; the International Federation of Landscape Architects; the Linbury Trust; the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery), and the National Art School, Sydney. Beyond doubt the most significant achievement was the contribution by a group of former award-holders to revive the Rome Prize in Architecture for 2012-13. We are also beginning to broaden the number and nature of arts related events at the BSR; we began the year with a lecture by the Otolith Group, who were showing at the MAXXI. It is our determination to continue to work on this area of our activity and to provide a stronger programme to support arts and architecture. We see no distinction between the intellectual value and challenge of the various areas of the BSR’s activity. What makes the BSR so unusual as a British research institute is the range and quality of activity; the very best artists from across the Commonwealth and the very best scholars live and work together, and their interactions illuminate our shared experience. We are always open to new ideas and new projects. The fascinating overlaps between the work of portraitist Kimathi Donkor, architect Rashid Ali, and our two BSR / Society for Libyan Studies fellows Mattia Toaldo and Barbara Spadaro in exploring the relationships between northern Africa and Italy from the later 19th century to the contemporary period is simply one example of the uniquely international and interdisciplinary nature of BSR work. I hope you will enjoy this review, and I hope you will encourage others to become part of this unique and wonderful institution. With your support, we will continue to stand for the lasting value of creativity and the arts. Professor Christopher Smith Director 4 Fine Arts 2011-2012 P REFAZIONE Il programma Fine Arts nel 2011-12 è stato nuovamente un successo, una combinazione di opere sorprendentemente originali e grande diversità. Dopo le forti incertezze degli ultimi anni, i miei colleghi della Faculty of the Fine Arts hanno lavorato instancabilmente per procurare nuovi finanziamenti e nuove borse residenziali, e sono riconoscente a loro quanto sono felice di vedere nuovi artisti giungere all’Accademia Britannica. Mentre lentamente recuperiamo rispetto al passato, abbiamo anche l’opportunità di portare a Roma nuove idee e nuovi progetti. Sono particolarmente lieto del fatto che da quest’anno, per la prima volta, tutti i sottoscrittori della BSR riceveranno il catalogo Fine Arts. Una delle nostre ambizioni era di ristabilire i legami con l’intera comunità BSR, incoraggiando in questo modo i vecchi amici a riconnettersi con noi, e i borsisti recenti a mantenere il contatto. Ci auguriamo che tutti coloro che leggono questa pubblicazione ne traggano desiderio di tornare alla BSR, ed è eccellente che quest’estate, in luglio, agosto e settembre, tutti i nostri studi saranno occupati da borsisti passati o attuali. Anche per molti dei nostri sostenitori questo è stato un periodo difficile, e siamo veramente grati sia agli amici di lunga data che ai nuovi sponsor. Quest’anno abbiamo ricevuto il sostegno di Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Australia Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres del Québec, Creative Scotland, Derek Hill Foundation, Giles Worsley Fund (in collaborazione con il RIBA), Incorporated Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Scholarships, International Federation of Landscape Architects, Linbury Trust, Max Mara Art Prize for Women (in collaborazione con la Whitechapel Gallery), e National Art School, Sydney. Senza dubbio il risultato più significativo è stato il contributo di un gruppo di ex borsisti, che consentirà di far rivivere il Rome Prize in Architecture nel 2012-13. Stiamo anche ampliando il numero e la natura degli eventi artistici alla BSR, e abbiamo iniziato l’anno con una conferenza di The Otolith Group in occasione della loro mostra al MAXXI. È nostra ferma intenzione continuare a lavorare in questo settore della nostra attività e offrire un più forte programma a sostegno delle arti e l’architettura. Riteniamo non ci siano differenze di valore e impegno intellettuale tra le varie aree di attività della BSR. Ciò che rende l’Accademia unica fra gli istituti di ricerca britannici è la gamma e la qualità delle sue attività; i migliori artisti e i migliori studiosi provenienti da tutto il Commonwealth vivono e lavorano insieme, e le loro interazioni illuminano la nostra esperienza condivisa. Siamo sempre aperti a nuove idee e nuovi progetti. Le affascinanti tangenze tra i lavori del pittore ritrattista Kimathi Donkor, dell’architetto Ali Rashid, e dei nostri due borsisti BSR / Society for Libyan Studies, Mattia Toaldo e Barbara Spadaro nell’esplorare le relazioni tra Nord Africa e Italia dalla seconda metà del XIX secolo a oggi, sono solo un esempio dell’unicità del carattere internazionale e interdisciplinare del lavoro dell’Accademia Britannica. Spero che apprezzerete questa pubblicazione, e suggerirete ad altre persone di diventar parte di questa istituzione unica e meravigliosa. Con il vostro aiuto, continueremo a sostenere il duraturo valore della creatività e delle arti. Professor Christopher Smith Direttore 5 I NTRODUCTION The academic year 2011-12 brought two new Fine Arts residential awards, the Creative Scotland Document Fellowship, whose first recipient was Scottish photojournalist Angela Catlin, and the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, awarded to French artist Laure Prouvost; and the resumption of the Rome Scholarship in Landscape Architecture, awarded to the Portuguese architect Duarte Natário dos Santos and supported by the International Federation of Landscape Architects. We are grateful to our sponsors for the welcome addition of these scholarships. Their recipients demonstrate once again that the British School is increasingly multinational as well as multidisciplinary. This year we had the pleasure to have as our residents – in addition to six artists from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland – five artists from Australia; three from France, Spain, the United States; and three architects from Somalia, Québec, and Portugal. On 22 September 2011, Domenico De Clario, Australia Council Resident over the summer months, staged a one-night public performance/installation entitled Forestories, in collaboration with fellow Australian performance artist Sam Burke.