ENCLAVE LAND ART
Edition
2016
concept of the residency
ARTISTS
LEONARDO CANNISTRÀ
BIO
Italian artist based in Catanzaro. He has studied painting and sculpture in Catanzaro’s Fine Arts Academy. He has participated in several exhibitions and international awards and obtained prestigious results like the 1st price in XXIII edition of “Premio Internazionale di Scultura Edgardo Mannucci”, as well as in “Prix CartoonSEA”. In 2012 was within the finalists of the Artists Residency, with a grant given by Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Museo Marca of Catanzaro. His work turns around painting, sculpture and installation, without limits of medium or definition of styles, with certain pretention to the identity and contemporary precariousness.
CARMELA COSCO
BIO
Carmela Cosco (Catanzaro, 1989) in 2013 obtained a Degree in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro, then attends the second level in the same Academy of Sculpture. Multi-faceted and multi-material, her work ranges between various ways of expression with no technical issues or limitations. Her main research is based on sculpture and installation, but does not neglect the interest in painting and drawing. Often her works have a connotation with the space as a dialogue with the place where they are, adopting the site- specific way as a solution. Her work is always regards social issues, focused particularly with extreme criticism about all consumerist dynamics and the direct consequences on the individual. In her artistic research, her landscape is her mind, able to seize the thousand grades of a communication addressed to falsehood, where she describes the story of a life lived in search of truth. She plays with wisdom and intimacy, as well as with the values of a borderline society, trying to measure the small tracks that still can help us to be placed in the right way.
ANDREA ABBATANGELO
BIO
Italian artist based in Catanzaro.
He has studied painting and sculpture in Catanzaro’s Fine Arts Academy. He has participated in several exhibitions and international awards and obtained prestigious results like the 1st price in XXIII edition of “Premio Internazionale di Scultura Edgardo Mannucci”, as well as in “Prix CartoonSEA”. In 2012 was within the finalists of the Artists Residency, with a grant given by Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Museo
Marca of Catanzaro. His work turns around painting, sculpture and installation, without limits of medium or definition of styles, with certain pretention to the identity and contemporary precariousness.
ROSIE LEVENTON
BIO
Rosie Leventon makes sculptural installations, for indoors and environmental art in the landscape. She is always experimenting with new materials and using them in innovative ways, such as Celotex Insulation, central heating pipes, recycled mobile phones and paperbacks, as well as more durable stone, water and earth.
Some of Leventon’s installations comprise radical interventions into the interior architecture of a building. She has constructed false floors that float on water and which shift under foot. Her outdoor installations sometimes highly ambitious in scale often have a functional, regional element, providing water for animals, for example, or promoting biodiversity and regeneration. Her work is grounded in a sensitive concern for the natural environment and how we use it. Leventon sees her work as interweaving a kind of personal archaeology with the archaeology of contemporary society and the physical archaeology of places.
She works internationally including Poland, Russia, Italy Czech Republic, Switzerland, USA, Spain, Germany, France, Japan and Denmark.
HUI-YING TSAI
BIO
Hui-Ying Tsai is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. She comes from a family which values Taiwanese heritage with strong aesthetic practice in art and music. Her mother played an important rule of developing her love of literature. Her technical skills started from clay hand building, and later still life drawing, though the early conceptual and aesthetic development is self taught. Her academic fine arts training started from National Kaohsiung Normal University. When she became a licensed High School Art teacher in Taiwan, she wanted to push her art internationally. At the age of 24 she came to the US pursuing her MFA degree in San Francisco Art Institute majoring in New Genres. She has been exhibiting internationally in Taiwan, USA, Korea, and Ireland over a decade. A series of digital work was collected by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in 2010. The same year she also collaborated with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the San Francisco Arts Commission developed community based project.
EMMANUELE PANZARINI
BIO
Emmanuele Panzarini was born in Padua in 1984.
His research encompasses photography, sculpture, digital art and installation, with special attention to the site-specific interventions. He graduated of the three-year and a specialist DAMS in Padua, he spent a year as an Erasmus student in Bilbao: these experiences have influenced his beginnings as a photographer. The early works are characterized by the use of architecture as a language to interpret the space around us, using different techniques and devices based on the specific project. He later developed a collection of photographic works that increasingly found an installation as a strong medium of expression. Using Google Maps and Google Street View as tools of investigation, he analyzed the many changes of the territory made by humans to meet their own needs. In the last period, the installation has become his predominant art field. To stimulate the audience, making the subject involved, is one of the requirements of his research, especially for environmental installations of important dimensions.
He has exhibited in several cities, in Italy and abroad, including: Ancona, Annecy (FR), Belfast (UK), Bologna, Como, Genoa, Hamburg (DE), Mantua, Marseille (FR), Milan, Padua, Rome, Thessaloniki (GR), Trieste, Verona and Vicenza.
SEILA FERNÁNDEZ
BIO
Seila Fernández Arconada is a multidisciplinary artist-researcher based in Bristol (UK). She has an BA-MA Fine Art, distinction 2009) from the University of the Basque Country and an MA Fine Art from UWE, Bristol (distinction, 2012).
She has co-directed The Land of the Summer People, a multidisciplinary collaborative project with the Water Engineering Department, Bristol University, funded by EPSRC. She has been working on Some:When, celebrating cohesion through the watery heritage of the Somerset Levels and Moors, a collaborative-socially engaged project with the artist Jethro Brice. Both projects focus on climate change looking at flooding in Somerset and receive funding from the Somerset Community Foundation. In addition, she has been invited to work in the field of art and post-conflict communities, a current socially engaged art project in the Donetsk Oblast (Ukraine).
She has delivered numerous cross-disciplinary workshops and interventions, recent examples include: AGU International Conference on Resilience in place?: Just do it?! Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places, Groningen, and On Earth, Plymouth.
Seila also co-directs the collective Functional Collaborative Futures and Mixing Fields, an interdisciplinary collaborative platform with art and non-art specialists and has been an artist selected at Transnational Dialogues, an International cross-media platform. She has received grants from European Alternatives and the Artists’ International Fund of the British Council and Arts Council England for 2014.
She has exhibited internationally, recently exhibiting at Imagined Landscapes at the Royal West of England Academy (Bristol, UK) and currently at the B-SIDE Festival (Dorset, UK). She is currently working in the project “Mūsu? Pasaules koks” a socially engaged art project in Aizpute (Latvia).