| ARTS NEWS: February 10, 2006
Top Stories Space Active: Gosia Wlodarczak Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, AU Danica Dakic: Role Taking, Role-Making Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, CZ Czech Republic Richard Solstjarna Represented in the French Artdictionairy LA MER 2006 Marie-José Bouscayrol with Regard Publishing, , FR France Asbjorn Lonvig Wins Award for the Best in Art & Creativity, 2006 World of Art Award, London, UK United Kingdom Give Me Two Times: Art Videos and New Research MLAC Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea, La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, IT Italy
| Space Active: Gosia Wlodarczak Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, AU Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts presents Space Active: Gosia Wlodarczak. Space Active includes a selection of works created between 2003 and 2005 by Polish-born local artist, Gosia Wlodarczak. The artist’s intricate, layered drawings are exhibited at PICA for the first time in tandem with photographic documentation and video footage that reveal her processes in creating these significant works. Gosia Wlodarczak has become a very successful Perth-based artist with dealer representation in Melbourne and Canberra and has just sold a major, large-scale work of 100 panels to BHP Billiton. She was the only Western Australian artist selected as a finalist for Dobell Drawing Prize for the last two years. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Danica Dakic: Role Taking, Role-Making Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, CZ Czech Republic 'Role-taking, Role-making' reflects attitudes to cultural role behaviour within a Europe that is being shaped by political change and fierce collisions between differing cultural codes. At the same time, it involves a variety of media - video, film, theatre and photography - at the interface between documentation and performance. The project focuses on 'gipsy images', which are used to probe the possibilities and impossibilities of 'Role-taking - Role-making' within an intercultural context. Role-taking-Role-making encompasses a series of photos, video works and a film. Each part is a separate work in itself, but diverse levels of reflection and the shifting of motifs and actors mean that they are also condensed into a kaleidoscopic synthesis of the arts. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Richard Solstjarna Represented in the French Artdictionairy LA MER 2006 Marie-José Bouscayrol with Regard Publishing, , FR France Richard Solstjarna, fine artist from Sweden, is represented in the prestigious french artdictionairy 'La Mer', Regards Editions d'Art 2006, complied by Marie-José Bouscayrol. In this edition Richard Solstjarna is represented together with great artists such as Picasso, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and William Turner, and lyrics and poems written by authors like Apollinaire, Proust, Victor Hugo, Rimbaud och Baudelaire. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Asbjorn Lonvig Wins Award for the Best in Art & Creativity, 2006 World of Art Award, London, UK United Kingdom Danish artist Asbjorn Lonvig has been selected to receive 2006 The World of Art Award for the Best in Art & Creativity. The World of Art Award (WAA) is granted to artists, galleries and museums that are pursuing 'best practices' in art and culture. This competition seeks to attract artists, galleries, museums who are redefining standards of art excellence challenging existing trends and tendencies in art and culture. All of the artists participating in the Awards go through a two-step selection process. The competition is judged solely by visuals submitted online. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Give Me Two Times: Art Videos and New Research MLAC Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea, La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, IT Italy On Thursday February 9th, at the Lab Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of Rome will be presented the new group exhibition of Art videos entitled 'Give Me Two Times'. It will be a chance to present ten video artists to the wide audience. All the remarkable artists in exhibition have participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. The show features work by Giorgia Accorsi, Marco Amorini, Ivan Barlafante, Elastic Group of Artistic Research, Marina Ferratto, Richard Journo, César Meneghetti, Claudia Quintieri, and Lino Strangis, curated by Giorgia Calň. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Call for Artists: Grants for Local Art Projects Pro Helvetia Liaison Office South Africa, Cape Town, ZA South Africa The Arts Council of Switzerland is inviting applications for grants for local art projects involving regional exchange between the SADC countries. Application deadline for funding for new projects is on 1 March 2006. Pro Helvetia is the Arts Council of Switzerland. Pro Helvetia Liaison Office South Africa (PHLOSA) acts as a funding body, advisor and coordinator of projects in any of the art disciplines in Southern Africa and Switzerland. In particular it encourages the exchange between Switzerland and Southern Africa, as well as regional exchange between countries within the SADC region. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com | | | ImageWizards.net Our media do not need to be framed, unlike canvas or paper reproductions. Visit our website www.imagewizards.net or call 1.800.849.3390 and we will guarantee that you'll be amazed! |
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Piero appeared early in the morning with fresh sardines, so "I will make Pasta con le sarde!" I blurted out. My cousin Silvia was very happy because she had been to my mother house in Sicily and loved the dish. "all we need is fennel" she said. "surely we can find fennel in the fields around here". And so we went Silvia, my daughter Francesca and I, in search of fennel. The countryside around Pisa ( San Martino Ulmiano) is really not fennel country but we were hoping to come across a bush or two in some back garden, a few pots here and there hidden among the geraniums and artichokes. We were looking for wild fennel, the kind that grows everywere in Spring in the south of Italy. That's the kind needed to make pasta with sardines, an ancient dish which includes, apart with sardines and wild fennel, also currants, pine nuts, saffron, onion and anchovies. A dish where oriental spices marry with the flavours of the Mediterranean. And so we went, looking for fennel. We found in th! e place portrayed below and the owner, a nice old lady, told us we could get as much as we wanted and also told us the story of her life, which I don't remember but I know that she was happy to tell and we were happy to listen. Tuscany is not fennel country and that fennel was a bit tough and stringy, but the morning was lovely and we gathered wild flowers on the way back. Rita Monaco Artist Portfolio (read more...) FEATURED PORTFOLIOS
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