AlbumArte presents
Anna Franceschini
AlbumArte | VideoArtForum #4
First screening and discussion on Wednesday March 30th at 7:30pm
Introduced by Ilaria Gianni
Screenings from Thursday 31st March to Saturday 2nd April from 4pm to 9pm
AlbumArte Via Flaminia, 122 Rome
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Anna Franceschini is the protagonist of the fourth appointment of the event AlbumArte | VideoArtForum on Wednesday, March 30th, 2016, with the first screening and debate open to the public at 7:30pm. The video-forum will be introduced by the curator Ilaria Gianni.
Anna Franceschini, differently to the other artists of VideoArtForum, is already known to the Roman public, also because in 2014 she won a residency at Museo MACRO and, in that event and later, she produced exhibitions at MACRO and in other Roman institutions. She already worked with AlbumArte in 2013 with Anteprima#2 project, within the video-screening Il mondo è già filmato, si tratta ora di trasformarlo, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai. We spent with her intense days in Istanbul, together with other artists of the project and we increased knowledge about her poetic. Meanwhile she achieved several other projects, the last one is her residency in Brazil that she just concludes. She joined exhibitions everywhere: Paris, Berlin, Turin, Athens, Brussels, Genoa, Prague, Milan, Lisbon, Zurich, London, São Paulo and Düsseldorf, in prestigious institutions.
To introduce Anna Franceschini we chosen a curator for the first time to AlbumArte, Ilaria Gianni, because she is a respected professional and a deep connoisseur of the artist production, following it since many years and curating various exhibitions of Anna Franceschini.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 30th from 7:30pm
#1 Video screening and introduction by Ilaria Gianni: OUTTAKES INEDITI from BEFORE THEY BREAK, BEFORE THEY DIE, THEY FLY! (16mm film transferred to HD video, color, mute, 5′ 40”, 2014. Produced with the support of MACRO Museum – Rome); UNTITLED (ALMOST LOST) (Super8 film transferred on dvd, color, mute, 49”, looped, shot at 18 and 24 FPS, 2010. Produced with the support of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam – NL); SPLENDID IS THE LIGHT IN THE CITY OF NIGHT (Super8 film transferred to digital, color – mute, 4’16”, 2013); TO KNOW A THING YOU MUST CALL IT BY ITS NAME (16 mm film transferred to digital, 2 channels installation, dimensions variable, color-mute, 2011. Realized with the support of Pietro Torrigiani Malaspina and Maddalena Fossombroni); THE PLAYER MAY NOT CHANGE HIS POSITION (Video, Full HD, color, sound, 17’, 2009. Produced with the support of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam – NL).
#2 NOTHING IS MORE MYSTERIOUS. A FACT THAT IS WELL EXPLAINED (16 mm film transferred on dvd, colour, mute 11’ 45’’, 2010. Produced with the support of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam – NL, Pianola Museum – Amsterdam, Filmmakerfest, Milan – IT).
#3 IT’S ABOUT LIGHT AND DEATH (TO JOSEPH PLATEAU) (16mm film, color-mute, 2′ 40”, 2011. Produced with the support of Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and Fiorucci Art Trust.
Thursday 31st – Friday 1st – Saturday 2nd from 4pm to 9pm, non-stop screenings of:
#1 THE PLAYER MAY NOT CHANGE HIS POSITION (Video, Full HD, color, sound, 17’, 2009. Produced with the support of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam – NL).
#2 NOTHING IS MORE MYSTERIOUS. A FACT THAT IS WELL EXPLAINED (16 mm film transferred on dvd, colour, mute 11’ 45’’, 2010. Produced with the support of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam – NL, Pianola Museum – Amsterdam, Filmmakerfest, Milan – IT).
#3 IT’S ABOUT LIGHT AND DEATH (TO JOSEPH PLATEAU) (Film 16mm, color-mute, 2′ 40”, 2011. Produced with the support of Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and Fiorucci Art Trust).
#4 FRAGMENT (16mm film transferred to digital, color-mute, 00.59”, 2011).
Anna Franceschini | Born in Pavia in 1979, she lives and works in Milano. She studied in Milan where she received a MA in Media Studies. Her work has been presented and awarded in several film festivals like IFFR / Rotterdam Film Festival, 60° Locarno Film Festival (CH) and TFF/Torino Film Festival (IT), MFF/Milano Film Festival. Her last major solo exhibitions include Spike Island, Bristol and Duesseldorf Kunstverein, Duesseldorf. Her work is part of institutional and private collections such as the Museé National d’Art Moderne / Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, MACRO Museum in Rome and Frac Midi – Pyrénées / Les Abbatoirs in Toulouse.
Ilaria Gianni | is a curator and an art critic. After her Master Degree in Art History, at La Sapienza University of Rome, she attained an MFA Curatiing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2009 she is co-director of Nomas Foundation in Rome. In 2015 she designed and curated, together with Paola Capata, Delfo Durante and Federica Schiavo, the great event-exhibition GRANPALAZZO in Zagarolo (Rome). Currently she is Adjunct Professor at John Cabot University and at Master of Art of Luiss Giudo Carli University both in Rome. In 2009 she founded the publishing house IMpress (which worked until 2011) and from 2009 to 2014 she joined the collective “Art at Work”. She has curated several exhibition and independent art projects in collaboration with museums, international galleries and festivals, like MAXXI (Rome), MACRO (Rome), GNAM (Rome), Matadero (Madrid), John Hansard Gallery (Southampton), MOA (Seoul), Loop Gallery (Seoul), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea a Villa Croce (Genoa), Micamoca (Berlin), Fondazione Pastificio Cerere (Rome), Monitor (Rome), Maze Gallery (Turin), Galleria Spazio A (Pistoia), Furini Arte Contemporanea (Arezzo), Icastica (Arezzo), Kelmm’s Galerie (Berlin), Galere Opdhal (Berlin), Frutta Gallery (Rome), Fondazione Adriano Olivetti (Rome). She also joined the selection committee of Art Situaction (2015-2016), Premio Celeste 2014, Icastica 2014 (Arezzo), Premio MAXXI 2014, IX Premio Furla, (2013), Lo schermo dell’arte (2011) and Premio Ettore Fico (2010). Moreover she is Italian correspondent for «artforum.com» and she has contributed to several monographic catalogues and published articles and essays for magazines like «NERO», «Lo Specchio+», «Circa», «Flash Art», «Arte e Critica», «Psiche».
Image: Anna Franceschini, Splendid is the light in the city of night, 2013, 4’16”
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