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28/11/2007

Ettore Favini e Linda Fregni Nagler

The Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York

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, are proud to sponsor the Premio New York (New York Prize), a residency program for emerging Italian artists. The artists in residence for the fall semester of the Sixth Edition of the Premio New York are Linda Fregni Nagler and Ettore Favini.

Ettore Favini presents Private View. As the artist says, the exhibition is “a view, a personal look at a fleeting image. The idea of time passing; the idea that what is around us disappears, illustrating the fragility and instability of the present. This is the starting point for the research that I wanted to conduct for the Premio New York; a project that links the idea of time with the idea of landscape - the precarious gardens of the Lower East Side, the advance of real estate that slowly removes patches of green (emptiness) to add cement (filled in). Simply, I would like to offer viewers the chance to make use of an impalpable work, the emotion of a glance. I want to create and donate to some community garden a bench or chair that the user can pick up and shift in order to enjoy his own private view, to record in his mind a pleasurable memory of a green space that might not exist tomorrow.”

Born in Cremona, Italy, in 1974, Favini received his BFA at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Alberto Garutti. The book which most exemplifies his artistic concerns is “The Third Landscape” by Gilles Clement, landscape architect and gardener. Favini has exhibited at Fuori Uso, Mercato Globale (Montesilvano 1997, Former Stellamare Colony), La Ville, la Memoire le Jardin (Rome 1998, Villa Medici), Rough End (Milan 2005, Alessandro de March Gallery), Il mio Papà (Rome 2006, Adriano Olivetti Foundation), and Ettore Favini (Milan 2007, Alessandro de March Gallery).

Linda Fregni Nagler presents Playgrounds. The Playgrounds series (2006-ongoing) consists of night shots of deserted playground areas, taken in difficult conditions of climate and light, using a very long exposure time. The details and the exact outline of the subjects are revealed only after the negative is developed, as the pictures are often shot in almost total darkness. This attempt to bring a new appearance to objects which are hidden behind the coat of obviousness represents the artist s personal vision of the forms and places of the city that lose their function during the night, remaining solitary and without purpose. The subject, no longer immediately recognizable, appears without context --or dead. The pictures presented for the show at the Italian Academy have all been shot during the artist s residence in New York City.

Photographer and videomaker, Linda Fregni Nagler was born in Stockholm on October 21,1976, and now lives and works in Milan, Italy. After earning a BFA in painting at the Academy of fine Arts of Brera, Milan, in 2000, she completed the advanced course in Visual Arts with Jimmie Durham at the Ratti Foundation, in Como in 2004. In 2006 she received a diploma in Cinematographic Photography at the Escuela International de Cine y Television (EICTV), in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. She has exhibited her photographs and videos in solo shows at Viafarini Gallery in Milan (2003) and at Olivetti Foundation in Rome (2006). In 2003 she participated in “Progetto Casina”, an artistic project in the womens section of the Prison of San Vittore, Milan. In 2007 she exhibited the related photographic work in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, home of Leonardo da Vinci s “Last Supper”.

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