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fine arts 2008-2009 SARA BARKER JOSEPH BEDFORD GABRIELLA BISETTO PENELOPE CAIN DRAGICA JANKETIC CARLIN LUKE CAULFIELD KATIE CUDDON GRAHAM DURWARD PIERRE GENDRON CELIA HEMPTON CATH KEAY REBECCA MADGIN AMANDA MARBURG RUTH MURRAY EDDIE PEAKE LIZ RIDEAL JAMES ROBERTSON DAVID SPERO AMIKAM TOREN fine arts 2008-2009 Sara Barker Joseph Bedford Gabriella Bisetto Penelope Cain Dragica Janketic Carlin Luke Caulfield Katie Cuddon Graham Durward Pierre Gendron Celia Hempton Cath Keay Rebecca Madgin Amanda Marburg Ruth Murray Eddie Peake Liz Rideal James Robertson David Spero Amikam Toren THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME 1 The projects realised by GABRIELLA BISETTO, PENELOPE CAIN, AMANDA MARBURG have been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its Arts funding and advisory body. The Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellowship is organised and administered by The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford and The British School at Rome with the support of Arts Council England and St Peter’s College, Oxford. Acknowledgements Edited by Jacopo Benci David Chandler, Photoworks, London Graphic design Silvia Stucky Prof. Mihai Barbulescu, Romanian Academy, Rome Photography courtesy of the artists and architects, except Martin Brody, American Academy in Rome Claudio Abate (pp. 16-17, 47), Serafino Amato (pp. 30-31), Joachim Blüher, Pia Gottschaller, German Academy Villa Luke Caulfield (pp. 13, 46), Fernando Maquieira (pp. 24-25), Massimo, Rome Jacopo Benci (cover image; pp. 6-11, 51, 64) Marianna Di Giansante, Francesca Monari, Timothy Mitchell, Translations Jacopo Benci Æmilia Hotel, Bologna Gianmatteo Nunziante, Nunziante Magrone Studio Legale Associato, Rome Published by THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME Casa dell’Architettura, Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C. di Roma e at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Provincia, Rome Marco Dalla Vedova, Dalla Vedova Studio Legale, Rome The British School at Rome Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali, Comune di Roma Via Gramsci, 61 00197 Roma Veronica Della Scala, RialtoSantambrogio, Rome Registered Charity No. 314176 Daniela Voso, ESC Atelier Occupato, Rome Benedetta Cestelli Guidi, s.t. fotolibreriagalleria, Rome ISSN 1475-8733 ISBN 978-0-904152-55-5 Daniele Bianca, Fabio Campagna, Giulia Cantisani, Marco Delogu, Patrizia Mania, Mirela Pribac, Luigi Prisco, Monica Scanu, Shara Wasserman Donatella Astolfi, Fulvio Astolfi, Alba Coratti, Lucy Davis, Marina Engel, David Forgacs, Alessandra Giacinti, Maria Pia Malvezzi, Eleanor Murkett, Antonio Palmieri, Renato Parente, Giuseppe Pellegrino, Cristiana Perrella, Susan Russell, Marisa Scarsella, Valerie Scott, Chris Siwicki, Geraldine Wellington DALLA VEDOVA STUDIO LEGALE 2 Fine Arts 2008-2009 C ONTENTS 04 Preface Andrew Wallace-Hadrill 06 Introduction Jacopo Benci 12 Sara Barker 14 Joseph Bedford 16 Gabriella Bisetto 18 Penelope Cain 20 Dragica Janketic Carlin 22 Luke Caulfield 24 Katie Cuddon 26 Graham Durward 28 Pierre Gendron 30 Celia Hempton 32 Cath Keay 34 Rebecca Madgin 36 Amanda Marburg 38 Ruth Murray 40 Eddie Peake 42 Liz Rideal 44 James Robertson 46 David Spero 48 Amikam Toren 51 Biographies 3 P REFACE This is the fourteenth time I have written a preface to the annual BSR Fine Arts catalogue, and it cannot be without a certain regret that it is the last. Among the many factors which make the experience of living and working in the British School at Rome so extraordinary and rewarding, an outstanding one is the presence of artists and architects in the residential community. Diverse, imaginative and energetic, they constantly invite us to look at the experience of Rome and Italy with fresh eyes, and to find surprise and excitement in what might seem to have been reduced to the banal by centuries of over-exposure. This year, I have been taught to look at the run-down post-industrial suburbs of the Ostiense area in a new light by Rebecca Madgin, inaugural holder of the new Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship in Architecture, studying transformations of industrial space, and by Celia Hempton, Sainsbury Scholar in Painting, whose murals and canvases capture the same wastelands in the bright, hazy colours of Rome’s light. Liz Rideal, the last in a fine line of Wingate Rome Scholars in the Fine Arts, and Penelope Cain, one of a distinguished tradition of resident artists from Australia, have shown me Herculaneum, the site at which I myself work, in a new light by their projections: the washing, fluttering on the lines of the modern town’s most crowded and poverty-stricken quarter, gave the city of the dead a ghostly new life. These are only examples of the constant interaction between disciplines and re-imagining of the physical environment which seems to me a key contribution of the institution. For this we have to thank, as ever, the many Arts Councils, foundations and bodies which support these precious scholarships. It is always a pleasure to welcome new initiatives: in addition to the travel scholarship set up in memory of Giles Worsley by his wife Joanna Pitman, open alike to architects and architectural historians, we welcome the fellowship in photography funded by Photoworks, with its inaugural fellow David Spero, and the first Québec Architecture Resident, Pierre Gendron, supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. We also express thanks to the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation for supporting over the years a series of excellent artists. And as each year, we express warm appreciation to the bodies that continue to support awards, to the Linbury Trust in the persons of Lord and Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover for their enthusiastic support of two scholarships and the efforts they make to ensure the attractiveness of these awards to outstanding candidates, to the Edwin Austin Abbey Council, the longest and most loyal of supporters of the Fine Arts at BSR; to the Australia Council for its ongoing support of four three-month residencies; to the collaborative efforts, led by Richard Wentworth and Paul Bonaventura of the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, supported by the Arts Council England and St Peter’s College, Oxford, to sustain the Helen Chadwick Fellowship in both Rome and Oxford; and to Jo Batterham and the Trustees of the Derek Hill Foundation for the support of a scholarship in painting, this year in portraiture. Finally, I would like to thank the many individuals to whose efforts both in Rome and in London the success of the programme owes so much: to the Faculty of the Fine Arts, and especially its outgoing and incoming Chairs, Jenni Lomax and John Gill; to Gill Clark who as Registrar handles the complex procedures of selection; to Silvia Stucky, to whose design this catalogue owes an elegance out of proportion to its modest budget; and finally to Jacopo Benci, who as Assistant Director for the Fine Arts adds so much to the richness of the experience of the resident artists and architects. Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Director 4 Fine Arts 2008-2009 P REFAZIONE Questa è la quattordicesima volta che scrivo una prefazione per l’annuale catalogo Fine Arts dell’Accademia Britannica, e non senza un certo rammarico noto che è l’ultima. Fra i molti fattori che rendono tanto straordinaria e gratificante l’esperienza di vivere e lavorare all’Accademia, uno dei più notevoli è la presenza di artisti e architetti nella comunità dei residenti. Diversi, immaginosi ed energici, ci invitano costantemente a guardare all’esperienza di Roma e dell’Italia con occhi nuovi, e a trovare sorpresa e emozione in ciò che potrebbe sembrare esser stato reso banale da secoli di sovraesposizione. Quest’anno, ho imparato a guardare sotto una nuova luce alla fatiscente periferia post-industriale dell’area Ostiense da Rebecca Madgin, prima titolare della nuova Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship in Architecture, che studia le trasformazioni dello spazio industriale, e da Celia Hempton, Sainsbury Scholar in Painting, i cui dipinti murali e su tela colgono quelle stesse aree abbandonate nei colori vivaci e velati della luce romana. Liz Rideal, l’ultima di una serie di eccellenti Wingate Rome Scholars in the Fine Arts, e Penelope Cain, appartenente a una illustre tradizione di artisti residenti australiani, mi hanno mostrato Ercolano, il sito su cui mi trovo a lavorare, in una nuova luce con le loro proiezioni: le lenzuola svolazzanti dai balconi del quartiere più affollato e povero del borgo moderno hanno dato alla città dei morti una spettrale nuova vita. Questi sono solo alcuni esempi della costante interazione fra discipline e del ripensare l’ambiente fisico che mi paiono un contributo essenziale dell’istituzione. Per tutto ciò dobbiamo ringraziare, come sempre, i molti Arts Councils, fondazioni ed enti che sostengono queste preziose borse di ricerca. È sempre un piacere accogliere nuove iniziative: in aggiunta alla ‘travel scholarship’ creata in memoria di Giles Worsley da sua moglie Joanna Pitman, aperta ad architetti e storici dell’architettura, diamo il benvenuto a David Spero, titolare della prima ‘fellowship’ in fotografia finanziata da Photoworks, e al primo Québec Architecture Resident, Pierre Gendron, sostenuto dal Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Esprimiamo inoltre il nostro ringraziamento alla Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation per aver sostenuto negli anni una serie di eccellenti artisti. E come ogni anno, esprimiamo il nostro caloroso apprezzamento agli enti che continuano a finanziare delle residenze: al Linbury Trust nelle persone di Lord e Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover