On the 11th of June 2008 the Romanian Academy in Rome is pleased to announce the 6th edition of the summer show entitled Spazi Aperti.

This year’s edition, curated by Mirela Pribac, graduate of the MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, 2007, is centered around site-specificity and video art. Although untitled the exhibition could thematically be labelled as the Metanoia of Video and the Corruption of Site. In other words video and site-centered works are seen as media embracing realms of interpretation beyond their stereotypical limitations. Through the rhetorical sense of metanoia the works will, more than ever before, corrupt and invade the exhibition space.

Spazi Aperti 2008 is searching to discuss and play with video art, a medium generally extirpated from the place of its production, and understand it as site and as a platform for site-specificity. Video art, agressively and opulentely insterted into alternative niches of the otherwise traditional space of the Romanian Academy, will search to create a site or stage onto which other seeds of site-specific works are able to germinate. Moreover video works will be given peculiarly specific spaces that simulate the privacy of each environment they should exist in. This approach will offer a different perspective of how video can be installed, seen and used by artists as well as a view of the osmotic relationships between video and other site-centered media.

Artists are invited to physically interact with the space by creating performances and site-specific installations. Rather than approaching the vast space of the Romanian Academy as a traditional exhibition space, we are seeking to approach it organically and motivate artists to generate site-specific interventions that are, in most part, ephemeral or on view for the very first time.

The artists who are part of the exhibition will come as close as possible to site specificity, making interventions in the entire space of the academy.

This years’ participants will include:
Daniel Bozhkov, Jana Dambrogio, Tim Davis, Kate Gilmore, Lisa Sanditz, Caveh Zahedi (American Academy), James and Eleanor Avery, Anthony Faroux, Catrin Huber, John Walter (British School of Rome), Odette Lafrance Sabbadini (Canadian Institute), Todd McGrain (Cornell University), Bettina Letz (Forum Austriaco di Cultura), Véronique Ellena (French Academy), Beate Kirsch, Norbert Sachs, Elke Zauner (German Academy), József Attila Erdody (Hungarian Academy), Nobushige Akiyama (Japanese Institute), Petri Ala-Maunus, Susanne Christensen, Katja Kublitz, Joni Jonsdottir, Sidsel Falsig Petersen, Stein Ronning (Scandinavian Circle), Denisa Papcova (Slovak Institute), Moisés Mahiques, Ángel Núñez (Spanish Academy), Anna Pang (Swedish Institute), Daniel Brefin, Eugène, Domenico Ferrari, Luzia Hürzeler, Petra Elena Köhle and Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin (Swiss Academy), Ioana Anca Gabriela Bodea, Alexandru Niculescu, Petre Cristian Raduta (Romanian Academy).

With the special participation of:
Matei Bejenaru (Romania), Jacopo Benci (Italy), Mircea Cantor (Romania), Dina Dancu (Romania), Jeremy Deller (United Kingdom), Duo van der Mixt (Romania), Rudolf Finsterwalder (Germany), Rustam Khalfin (Kazakhstan), Gaisha Madanova (Kazahstan), Carsten Nicolai (Germany), Hirotaka Otsuka (Japan), Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich (Russia), Cristano Pintaldi (Italy), Cristi Pogacean (Romania), Alexandru Radvan (Romania), David Schnell (Germany), Tina Schultz (Germany), Sign of Sound (Italy), Gabriela Vanga (Romania), Joachim Weischer and Matthias Weischer (Germany).

The artists part of the video event entitled “The Academies and Rome – A Video Screening”, curated by Shara Wasserman and presented by the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo at the Romanian Academy on the 19th of June include:
Elisabetta Benassi, Jacopo Benci, Wolfgang Berkowski, Carola Bonfili, Daniel Bozhkov, Christoph Brech, Daniel Brefin, Adam Chapman, József Attila Erdõdy, Mariana Ferratto, Luzia Hurzeler, Aurelia Mihai, Beverly Piersol, Marco Raparelli , Guendalina Salini, Bohdan Stehlik / Una Szeemann, David Zink-Yi

Accademia di Romania
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