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17/4/2006

Premio New York spring 2006

The Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York are pleased to present the

ANTONIO ROVALDI
I Was Fine Before You Came

MARCELLA VANZO
An Impossible Tour

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 scholarship program for emerging Italian artists. The artists in residence for the spring semester of the Fourth Edition of the Premio New York are Antonio Rovaldi and Marcella Vanzo.

ANTONIO ROVALDI will show the video “I Was Fine Before You Came," made in New York this year in collaboration with the Italian band “Fine Before You Came," for the release of their latest album. The thirteen-minute video is made of a series of still and moving images set to music: the city of New York is the protagonist of a musical score in development. The video will be projected on opening night in the Teatro of the Italian Academy.

MARCELLA VANZO will feature “An Impossible Tour," a site-specific performance and surreal guide to the Italian Academy. On the opening night, the Fellows at the Italian Academy will conduct guests on a fantastic tour of the Academy, on each floor of the building. Maps will be available at the entrance.

ANTONIO ROVALDI was born in Parma, Italy, in 1975.
He lives in Milan, Italy, where he graduated from the NABA Academy of Fine Arts. He teaches the Master class for Art and Landscape Architecture, “Paesaggi straordinari," at the Santa Giulia Academy of Fine Art in Brescia, Italy. Since 2000, Rovaldi has been primarily occupied with landscapes as they relate to physical and mental movement. The tools Rovaldi uses to represent landscapes - photography, video, sculpture, and drawing - are woven into new personal narratives. He has taken part in several solo and group show in Italy and abroad, including: “Notes from the City, Notes from the Land," LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, 2006; “Marcamenti," Museo dell’arredo contemoporaneo of Ravenna, Italy, 2005; “Cari signori," MONITOR, Rome, Italy, 2005; “Sopra il luogo," Alessandro De March Gallery, Milan, 2004; “Videovillage," Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, 2004; “Junge kunst aus italien," Documenta Halle Kassel, Germany, 2000; “Homo luden" Video Italiano, Centro Cultural Parque de Espana, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2001; “Transart 2000," Labin, Croatia, 2000; “Viasatellite," First International Festival of Photography, Rome, 2002; “Art space 2000," Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000. Recently he published his first artist’s book, titled “Marcamenti," printed in Italy by “essegi," with critical text by Emanuela De Cecco and Davide Ferri.

MARCELLA VANZO was born in 1973 in Milan, Italy, where she lives and works. After obtaining a degree in anthropology, she graduated from the Accademia di Brera in Milan. Her work focuses on video installations, performance and photography. Her selected group shows include: “Exit," Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2002; “Private Architectures," Galleria Continua (S. Gimignano), 2003; “Assab One," Milan, 2004; “Aperto per lavori in corso," Pavilion for Contemporary Art in Milan, 2005; and “Ecce Uomo," now showing at Spazio Oberdan, Milan. “Limbo," her second solo show, is currently on at Studio Guenzani, Milan. She won the Emerging Artist Prize awarded by ACACIA (the Italian Association of Friends of Contemporary Art) in 2004. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Pavilion for Contemporary Art in Milan, of the Castello di Ama per l’arte contemporanea in Siena, Italy, and the ACACIA fund.

CONTACT: Allison Jeffrey, 212 854-8942, aj211@columbia.edu

Opening: Tuesday, April 18, 2005, 6-8 pm

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue (just south of 118th Street), New York, NY 10027
Monday to Friday, 10 am to 4:30 pm.

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