Saatchi Gallery’s 100 Curators Collection: Alfredo Cramerotti
100 Curators Collection – Guest Curator:
Alfredo Cramerotti
Director, MOSTYN
Artists featured:
Elisa Magnini Milan, Italy / London, United Kingdom
Marine Nyiri and Audrey Anastasy Paris, France / London, United Kingdom
Stuart Robinson Penzance, United Kingdom
Tom Pope London, United Kingdom
Iavor Lubomirov London, United Kingdom
Inger Kolff Amsterdam, Netherlands
Patrick Mifsud London, United Kingdom
Candice Jacobs Nottingham, United Kingdom Seoul, South Korea
Seyoung Yoon Seoul, South Korea
Edgar Martins London, United Kingdom
100 Curators 100 Days’ is a major initiative that recognizes talented emerging artists from around the world. It was developed by Rebecca Wilson, Director of the Saatchi Gallery, London and is the inaugural exhibit under the helm of Saatchi Online’s new CEO, Margo Spiritus. Each day for 100 days, work selected by curators from the world’s most prestigious museums and galleries will be revealed.
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Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator, editor and artist working across a variety of media such as TV, radio, publishing, internet, media festivals, photography, writing and exhibition curating. He directs MOSTYN, Wales’ leading contemporary art centre, co-directs AGM Culture, roaming curatorial agency and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets, media & art production unit (co-curator of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia, Spain, 2010).
He is Research Scholar at the European Centre for Photography Research, University of Wales, Newport, Visiting Lecturer in various European Universities, among others NTU Nottingham Trent University, University of Westminster, HEAD Geneva and DAI Dutch Arts Institute, and Editor of the Critical Photography book series by Intellect Books. His own publications include the book Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009) and Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness (2010).
Art Fund: Top ten coastal galleries and museums
Art Fund Newsletter
29 June 2011
This summer, why not beat the beach crowds and visit some of our favourite cultural attractions on the coast? From dazzling modern architecture and world-class contemporary art collections to captivating maritime history and a fantasy castle packed to the brim with spellbinding objects, using your National Art Pass has never been so inspired:
Mostyn Gallery, Wales
(free to all)
You may not expect to find Wales’ leading contemporary museum in the beautiful seaside town of Llandudno in Wales, nor may you expect to find the stunning new architecture that lay behind the gallery’s impressive 1901 terracotta façade. Wales’s leading contemporary museum is set in the beautiful seaside town of Llandudno: a striking gallery set in a striking landscape, where old and new buildings have been merged into one harmonious design by architect Dominic Williams.
Don’t miss it! Although Mostyn does not have a permanent collection, the venue’s five galleries aim to showcase the best contemporary art produced in Wales and in turn bring to Wales some of the most exciting international art. Exhibitions change every couple of months and vary from large-scale shows to small projects and video projections.
Visitor information
MOSTYN Café ramps up the offering with a sea-view and light installation by Gavin Fraser of the noted lighting architects foto-ma. The licensed café offers dishes based on locally-sourced produce including home-made cakes. No modern gallery would be complete without a shop, and MOSTYN displays contemporary craft from around the United Kingdom, as well as books and cards. Don’t forget to explore the superb seaside town of Landudno and the famous Great Orme Tramway which takes you to the top of the Great Orme and dates right back to 1902.
Entry details
Free to all
Open daily, 10.30am – 5pm
Other Spaces: Jo Longhurst’s stunning shots of gymnasts are a joy to behold
Published on
by James Cartwright, Monday 23 July 2012
jo longhurst’s hero
Jo Longhurst has a CV longer than my arm (which is long) that includes seemingly hundreds of group and solo shows across the world, reproductions in numerous books and even a cheeky PhD from the Royal College of Art. All of which leads us to believe she’s an incredibly talented woman and this suspicion is confirmed by the sheer beauty of her work and the meticulous attitude she takes towards her practice.
Her most recent body of photographs Other Spaces focusses its lens on the Heathrow Gymnastic Club and the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, admiringly documenting the toned physiques and aerial prowess of the young gymnasts on display in an effort to “…explore the physical and emotional experiences of elite gymnasts through classic portraiture, appropriated photographs, performance and installation.” The resulting body of work is incredibly striking and delicately highlights the mental and physical conditioning experienced by these young athletes with incredible finesse.
Other Spaces is now open at MOSTYN, Llandudno, and runs till 30 September.
MOSTYN OPEN 18: Last 5 days to register!
MOSTYN OPEN 18: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
REGISTRATION CLOSES ON 30TH JULY
MOSTYN 18 logo
SELECTING JURY for £10,000 PRIZE: Maria Lind, Director of Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Ryan Gander, Artist; Adam Carr, Curator of MOSTYN; Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN.
SELECTING JURY FOR THE £1,000 PRIZE: You, MOSTYN visiting audience for the ‘People’s Choice’.
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KEY DATES AND SUBMISSION PROCESS:
30th July 2012 – Deadline for payment of £25 entry fee and receipt of completed registration form.
6th August 2012 – Closing date for submission form together with images of artwork by email.
Exhibition dates: 18th January – 14th April 2013
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Download PDF information here: MOSTYN OPEN 18
Please visit www.mostyn.org for full details and terms and conditions.
Please email your completed Registration Form to open@mostyn.org
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Since its inception in 1989, the Open has functioned as a call-out to artists of any age, geographical background and residing place to enter, with an exhibition of the selected artworks taking place at MOSTYN, and a prize of £10,000 awarded to a single artist or collective. While continuing in this tradition, the 18th edition will also bring a fundamental addition. A prize of £1000 will be given to the ‘People’s Choice’, which will be determined by the artist or collective who receives the most votes from the visiting public during the exhibition’s run. In doing so, the questions that will be raised, and central to this renewed edition, are: How do we examine and judge works of art? What criteria do we bring to perceiving, interpreting and understanding artwork? What really makes our favourite?
Interview with Alfredo Cramerotti: Wales in Venice 2013
06.07.2012
AMA Art Media Agency Newsletter N.59
by Tanja Schreiner
Interview with Alfredo Cramerotti: Wales in Venice 2013
The artist Bedwyr Williams will represent Wales on 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN | Wales contemporary art centre and Amanda Farr from Oriel Davies Gallery will curate the project together.
Art Media Agency spoke to Alfredo Cramerotti, writer, curator, editor, artist, and since September 2011 Director of MOSTYN. The latter is the largest publicly funded contemporary art institution in Wales and renown as a flagship for art in the whole UK.
Read here
Cramerotti / Farr/ Williams @ Wales in Venice 2013
WALES IN VENICE 2013
wooloo.org newsletter
04 July 2012
We are happy to learn that Wooloo collaborator Alfredo Cramerotti will be curating the pavilion of Wales at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 together with curator Amanda Farr.
37 year old artist Bedwyr Williams will be representing Wales at the Biennale.
MOSTYN OPEN 18: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
MOSTYN OPEN 18: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Exhibition dates: 18th January – 14th April 2013
MOSTYN | Wales is delighted to announce MOSTYN Open 18.
Since its inception in 1989, the Open has functioned as a call-out to artists of any age, geographical background and residing place to enter, with an exhibition of the selected artworks taking place at MOSTYN, and a prize of £10,000 awarded to a single artist or collective.
While continuing in this tradition, the 18th edition will also bring a fundamental addition. A prize of £1000 will be given to the ‘People’s Choice’, which will be determined by the artist or collective who receives the most votes from the visiting public during the exhibition’s run. In doing so, the questions that will be raised, and central to this renewed edition, are: How do we examine and judge works of art? What criteria do we bring to perceiving, interpreting and understanding artwork? What really makes our favourite?
The selectors for Mostyn Open 18 are, Adam Carr, Curator of MOSTYN; Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN; Ryan Gander, Artist; and Maria Lind, Director of Tensta Konsthall. And you, the visiting audience, for the ‘People’s Choice’.
KEY DATES AND SUBMISSION PROCESS
16th July 2012 – Deadline for payment of £25 entry fee and receipt of completed registration form.
6th August 2012 – Closing date for submission form together with images of artwork by email.
Download PDF information here: MOSTYN OPEN 18
Please visit www.mostyn.org for full details and terms and conditions.
Please email your completed Registration Form to open@mostyn.org
Cramerotti & Wales in Venice 2013 (newspapers articles) / Cramerotti e il Padiglione del Galles alla Biennale di Venezia 2013 (articoli giornali)
by / di Mariella Rossi
Corriere del Trentino
Friday 22 June / venerdi’ 22 giugno 2012
L’Adige newspaper
Sunday 24 June / domenica 24 giugno 2012
Alfredo Cramerotti curerà il padiglione del Galles alla Biennale d’Arte del 2013.
Artribune.com
24 June 2012
Text by Mariella Rossi
(Italian only)
È ufficiale: Alfredo Cramerotti, classe 1967, sarà il curatore del padiglione gallese alla prossima Biennale d’Arte di Venezia. Ed è ufficiale, concedetecelo, anche che Artribune porta buono, e comunque ci azzecca sempre: era accaduto per Vincenzo de Bellis alla direzione di MiArt, accade ora con Cramerotti, che noi davamo per favorito nell’incarico già un paio di settimane fa.
Da un anno è il direttore del centro d’arte contemporanea più importante del Galles – il Mostyn –, e lo abbiamo raggiunto telefonicamente nella città dove vive e dove si trova il centro che dirige: Llandudno. Non ha avuto dubbi la commissione dell’Art Council of Wales, che ha decretato la sua proposta (con Amanda Farr della Oriel Davies Gallery, presentando un progetto di Bedwyr Williams) vincitrice del concorso indetto per il padiglione a Venezia (“Qui si fa così: viene lanciata una open call per trovare il curatore”, spiega). Facile capire subito anche come fuori dall’Italia sia possibile farsi valere per il proprio merito, malgrado lui neghi di essere scappato definitivamente: “Tornerei anche in Italia, se ci fosse una buona occasione”.
L’ha portato fuori dall’Italia la continua sensazione di incompletezza, una necessità di continuare a imparare. Ha lasciato Trento per la prima volta per frequentare in Toscana la facoltà di architettura. Non l’ha finita, ma ha aperto una galleria: “In tre anni ho fatto cinquantaquattro mostre, secondo un ritmo intensissimo, quasi folle, che riuscivo a tenere solo perché ero giovane”, scherza. Del resto l’arte è nel suo DNA, visto che il fratello è pittore.
Lui stesso ama definirsi artista, piuttosto che curatore, perché “quando fai un lavoro curatoriale, approfondisci una ricerca e la presenti al pubblico in modo discorsivo, anche questo è fare arte”. E a Londra è giunto come artista in residenza al Florence Trust Studio, poi la sua eclettica formazione è passata nel 2000 per Berlino, per un master universitario triennale di “arte nel contesto”, poi studi critico-teorici a Malmö in Svezia. “Vivevo a Copenhagen, dove lavoravo anche in TV. A Berlino lavoravo in radio: mi è sempre piaciuto avere un piede nell’arte e uno altrove, ad esempio nei media o nel commercio”. Nel 2008 è a Derby, incaricato di inaugurare come curatore capo un nuovo spazio espositivo: il QUAD. Il resto è storia nota: “Non posso anticipare nulla per contratto –, oppone alle domande sulla Biennale -. La mostra di Bedwyr Williams sarà un percorso attraverso stanze diverse all’interno della Ludoteca tra i Giardini e l’Arsenale. Qui lo spettatore sarà coinvolto in una sfida della percezione fisica di quanto lo circonda”.
Meeting with Curators: Presentation and Networking event @ ICA London
The Culture Capital Exchange in partnership with the ICA presents
Meeting with Curators: Presentation and Networking event
Time: 2pm-4.30pm followed by networking drinks
ICA Theatre, ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Price: Free, £30 no-show fee applicable
We are pleased to invite you to our forthcoming Meeting with Curators event in partnership with the ICA.
Collaborations between academics and those working in contemporary arts fields are by no means new. They would also appear to be increasingly sought after by both sectors. On the one hand, the research community seems progressively interested in finding opportunities to connect with the contemporary arts landscape. This is at least in part due to the growth of agendas such as ‘impact’ and public engagement, as well as there being more institutional support for knowledge exchange activities.
At the same time, many contemporary arts organisations, regardless of scale or location, are exploring how they might better work with Higher Education to access research and academic input into exhibition and education programmes, as well as related areas such as publishing, archives and social media.
This event will present a range of perspectives from curators working in diverse contemporary arts contexts who are currently working with academia now or who are planning to do so in future. There will also be a short co-presented case-study from several of those involved in the ongoing Her Noise project and archive. This most recently manifested in the Her Noise: Feminisms and the Sonic three day programme at Tate this May. The presentations will be followed by a gallery tour and networking drinks.
Presenters will include: Anna Gritz (ICA), Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, MOSTYN), Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield), Prof Cathryn Lane (CRISAP, LCC) and Madeleine Keep (Tate Britain).
We hope you can join us. This event is free to TCCE members and to curators or cultural sector professionals. Booking is essential and a cancellation fee of £30 will be applied to those who have booked but don’t attend.
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