Iespeja lidz 2010. g. 28. februarim pieteikties vizualas makslas
makslinieku razidencei Le Ville Matte, kas notiks no 2010. g. 14.
aprila lidz 15. maijam Vilasora Sardinija.

Vairak info: www.levillematte.it



Call for entries
Deadline: 28 February 2010

The Province of Cagliari promotes International call for the residency
program LE VILLE MATTE -visual arts -first edition Villasor, Cagliari,
Italy
14 April-15 May 2010


The program is part of
LE VILLE MATTE - artist residencies

The international call for the first edition of the residency program
LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts is open; the program will take place in
Sardinia from 14 April to 15 May 2010 in Villasor, a town a few
kilometers from Cagliari. This edition’s visiting professor will be
Giancarlo Norese, with Chiara Agnello as guest curator.

This initiative is part of LE VILLE MATTE - artist residencies, a
wider project promoted by the Province of Cagliari, through the
Cultural Policy Office, with the purpose of offering artistic study
and research residencies in Sardinia, stimulating new productions in
the field of music, writing and visual arts. An actual network of
residencies, located in small centers of the highest environmental and
landscape value, that may provide a profitable exchange between the
local community and the artists of the national and international art
scene.
The main goals of LE VILLE MATTE are: to involve the cultural
institutions of the Region, create occasions of exchange through a
program of conferences and meetings with the local cultural scene and
the professionals in this field, activate fruitful collaboration with
the artists in residency and offer them visibility, stimulate
innovative and stimulating centers of artistic production in Sardinia
that may contribute to improving the Region’s image and foster
cultural and sustainable tourism.

The call is open to artists from all over the world, with no age limit
(but the applicants must be over eighteen); the ten participants will
be selected from the applications by a commission whose members are
Giancarlo Norese, Chiara Agnello and Francesca Sassu.

The project designed by Giancarlo Norese - Supercalifragilistic
(Mistaken Landscapes) - addresses the theme of architecture and
landscape, reflecting on the contradictions between the spaces that
have been transformed by man and those that have been self generated
by chance and necessity. Architectural erratums - explains the
visiting professor -are anomalies that bear a symbolic value capable
of resisting homologation, question our certainties, but at the same
time generate warmth, closeness and sense of belonging to the
community.
Besides the daily activity of study and experimentation, the residency
program schedules workshops and laboratories with guest artists
invited by Giancarlo Norese: Jiri Kovanda (Prague), Luigi Negro
(Lecce), Umberto Cavenago (Milan), Luca Scarabelli (Como) and Mauro
Cossu (Cagliari); with them the participants will investigate the
themes of space, the relations between environments, the true nature
of debris, the influence of urban action on our daily existence and
the sounds that dwell and shape a place.

Chiara Agnello - artistic director of the contemporary art
organization Careof, and curator of DOCVA, Documentation Center for
Visual Arts of Milan – has been invited to follow the project, by
supporting the training activity of the artists in residency and
organizing moments of exchange with the local art scene (studio
visits, meetings with collectors, etc.).
The goal of the project is not only to offer the participants a chance
of professional growth, but also to put forward an occasion to address
the theme of social practices in contemporary art: through the use of
different media, social practice puts relations between people, idea
exchange, and interaction between artist and the audience at the
centre of the artistic process. By giving creativity total freedom
from any structured aesthetic theory, social practice in art fosters
the development of collaborative projects.

At the end of the residency program in May 2010, the works produced by
the artists in Villasor will be exhibited in a show set up in the
former Convent of the Capuchins of Villasor (opening 15 May 2010). The
exhibition will be documented by a bilingual Italian and English
catalogue.

Participation in the residency program is free, and includes the
following services: a studio with internet connection; open space area
for group activity; town library and multimedia library for
documentation; production expenses managed by the visiting professor
on the basis of each artist’s requirements. Travel expenses are to be
covered by the participants that are also required to bring their own
personal equipment such as camera, video camera, laptop etc.

Applicants must be over eighteen, have at least three years -
professional experience in contemporary art, a good knowledge of
English and attitude towards collaborative projects/social practices.
The selected artists will include one from Sardinia.

Applications can be sent in from 11 January 2010 from the website
www.levillematte.it
Applications must be filled in online in the specific area of the
website by 28 February 2010 and must be accompanied by the following
material:

- digital ID
- filled in application form
- pdf portfolio including a cv, images of one’s work and texts
- 5 images of past works
- up to 3 audio files for sound artists
- up to 3 videos or excerpts (with links to youtube, vimeo, google
video etc.) for video artists

LE VILLE MATTE includes other two residencies: one dedicated to music,
from 25 June to 24 July 2010, and one dedicated to writing, scheduled
between September and October 2010. At the end of the entire project a
final publication will be released.

Title: International call for the residency program LE VILLE MATTE - visual arts
Visiting professor: Giancarlo Norese
Guest curator: Chiara Agnello
Promoted by: The Province of Cagliari - Cultural and Sport Policy Office
In collaboration with: Careof DOCVA
Coordinators: Giorgio Murtas, Francesca Sassu
Opening of the call: 11 January 2010
End of the call: 28 February 2010
Dates of the residency: 14 April - 15 May 2010
Exhibition opening: 15 May 2010
Where: Villasor, Cagliari, Italy
Info: tel.+39 070 4092329, fax +39 070 4092312
[email protected]
www.levillematte.it

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[email protected];
Regional press office: Stefania Giganti +39 329 3604710
[email protected]

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