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18/4/2007

Rossella Biscotti and Nico Vascellari

The Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York

Premio New York Spring 2007

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, together with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Directorate General for Cultural Promotion and Cooperation) and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, sponsor the Premio New York (New York Prize), a residency program for emerging Italian artists. The artists in residence for the spring semester of the fifth year of the Premio New York are Rossella Biscotti whose work is currently on exhibition in Amsterdam, India and Cyprus, and Nico Vascellari, a featured artist at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

ROSSELLA BISCOTTI presents The Sun Shines in Kiev, a video on the life of Vladimir Shevchenko, one of the first filmmakers who was allowed access to the ''red zone'' after the meltdown of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl in 1986. Since the Chernobyl disaster, official information has been modified to serve the interests of the government of the former Soviet Union. Biscotti's video includes interviews with a number of people on the life of Vladimir Shevchenko, some of which are contradictory. The varying interpretations and personal opinions give a multitude of perspectives of the same reality. The artist uses these contradictions to reconstruct the biography of Shevchenko, exploring the ways in which history shapes individual memories. Biscotti's videos reveal the impossibility of establishing a consistent truth in the reconstruction of a historical event. The sound track for the video was composed by the Italian electronic musician FRAME.

Biscotti's videos have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Italy and Europe including the National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi), Fonds BKVB (Amsterdam), TENT (Rotterdam), American Academy in Rome (Rome), Galleria Paolo Boselli (Brussels), GAM Castel San Pietro Terme (Bologna), Viafarini (Milan), Smart Project Space (Amsterdam), Prodajna Galerija (Belgrade), Trevi Flash Art Museum (Trevi), Fondazione Olivetti (Rome).

NICO VASCELLARI: The intensity of performance is one of the starting points of Nico Vascellari's artistic research. His projects are most often performances, but his work also includes sculpture, photography, video and installation. His performances were recently defined as ''storms of feedback between the performer, the audience and the space'' (Andrea Lissoni in ''Tema Celeste''). Vascellari was born in Vittorio Veneto in 1976. He left the university to focus on his singing for ''With Love,'' a punk/noise band with which he has produced several albums and toured throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. In 2006 the IPG (Independent Performance Group) awarded Vascellari the First International Prize for Performance for his project ''Nico & The Vascellari''; the committee was headed by Marina Abramovic, who invited him to join her group, IPG. Vascellari's work has been shown throughout Europe in many contemporary art institutions and may be seen in the 2007 Venice Biennale.

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