GROUNDBREAKING ARTS AWARD FOR MOSTYN
MOSTYN in Llandudno has been selected, along with four other UK art galleries, to receive major funding to initiate a far reaching and ambitious programme for young people in North Wales. This welcome funding will allow the gallery to develop a sustainable plan to engage with and involve young people across the region over the next four years.
The award, announced last week at Tate Modern in London, is part of a £5m national arts programme for the under 25s entitled ‘Circuit’- funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and will be rolled out through selected galleries in the ‘Plus Tate’ network. Circuit aims to reach 80,000 young people aged 15-25, over four years. It will provide opportunities for young people, particularly those with least access to the arts – such as those living in rural areas – to participate and shape their own cultural experiences.
At MOSTYN the programme will enable young people to actively design, develop and deliver a range of innovative projects, using the arts as a catalyst for their own learning and that of their peers. These projects will encourage participation, develop excellence and build confidence in young people from a wide range of social, economic and cultural backgrounds.
Made up of four strands, the programme will include:
- Peer-led programme for young people;
- Sustained work with local youth organisations;
- Online and digital engagement;
- Young people’s arts festival in North Wales
Director of MOSTYN, Alfredo Cramerotti, said:
“I’m really excited about the prospect of bringing young people closer to the possibilities of contemporary art. Our goal is to open up many debates on contemporary life, and art is a fantastic channel through which to do this, especially with younger generations. The place of contemporary art is to help make sense of everyday life so full marks to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Tate for providing this opportunity.”
The award builds upon existing work done at MOSTYN with the MOSTYN Ninjas – an art programme for young people aged 11-13, and funded by Plus Tate. The group meets on a regular basis to plan activities and arrange exciting events for other young people inspired by the exhibitions at MOSTYN.
Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate said: “Cultural organisations play a vital role in encouraging young people to use their imaginations and to express themselves. We can achieve much more working collectively than we can in isolation. The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has made an extraordinary gesture by giving £5M to support this national network of galleries and young people. Circuit will spark a long-term transformation in the way young people engage with art.”
Jane Hamlyn, Chair of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, said: “As part of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s 25th anniversary, we are making some significant gifts to organisations we know well, and that we know are able to deliver impact through the work that they do. We are delighted to be supporting Circuit, as a national youth initiative, working through a group of fantastic organisations including Tate, with high ambitions for reaching and opening up the arts to so many young people in the UK.”
Six organisations are involved in Circuit. Alongside Tate are five national partners selected from the Plus Tate network: firstsite, Colchester; MOSTYN, Llandudno North Wales; Nottingham Contemporary; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; and Wysing Arts Centre in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard, Cambridgeshire. All four Tate galleries will be involved: Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives (working closely with Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange).
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION & BOOK LAUNCH: Radovan Kraguly / Fernando Garcia-Dory
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION & BOOK LAUNCH
Thursday 13.12.2012 – 7.15pm
Radovan Kraguly / Fernando Garcia-Dory
Join me to hear Radovan Kraguly discussing his work with fellow artist Fernando García-Dory on the occasion of the launch of the publication of his important survey exhibition at MOSTYN entitled The Milky Way. With essays by Alfredo Cramerotti, Ian Hunter, Aleksander Bassin and Fernando García-Dory himself, the book draws attention to Kraguly’s important work depicting the estrangement of man from nature.
Everybody welcome.
The publication, The Milky Way, published by MOSTYN will be available at a special reduced price on the evening.
RADOVAN KRAGULY
THE MILKY WAY
>> 06/01/2013
FERNANDO GARCIA-DORY
A DAIRY MUSEUM
>> 06/01/2013
CHRISTMAS OPENING TIMES
Late night opening
6th, 13th, 20th Dec until 8pm
Christmas Eve | 10.30am – 5pm
Christmas Day | CLOSED
Boxing Day | CLOSED
New Years Eve | 10.30am – 5pm
New Years Day | CLOSED
La curatela in tre mosse. Answer Time, I (Italian only)
di Alfredo Cramerotti
giovedì, 1 novembre 2012
artribune.com
Reviews of Fernando Garcia-Dory’s exhibition in MOSTYN on Art Monthly & Daily Post
Art Monthy
November 2012
by Chris Fite-Wassilak
Daily Post
November 2012
Andrew Forgrave
Giant Step 4 – Critical Regionalism: Eindhoven as a Common Ground
Saturday 3rd November
16.30 – 17.00
Alfredo Cramerotti – Director MOSTYN – Closing Remarks on the Concept of Model
The Giant Step project aims to discover the place of institutions within contemporary culture. It involves two internationally established institutions, Van Abbemuseum and MOSTYN I Wales, and two that are less rigidly institutional, vessel (Italy) and Galeria Labirynt (Poland). The goal of the project is to establish what roles institutions can play in the cultural production of a specific area that responds to the needs of the area itself. This fourth and final workshop will be held at the Van Abbemuseum.
Alfredo Cramerotti’s “Closing Remarks on the Concept of Model” for Giant Step 4 will consider the Van Abbemuseum’s location in Eindhoven, in the North Brabant region of the Netherlands as the starting point of Giant Step 4: Critical Regionalism – Exploring the Gap Between the Local and the International.
Aiming to expose the diverse network of cultural producers working in the area, the conference will investigate the relationship between the local arts community and the international contemporary art museum.
MEDIA, REVOLT AND CRITICISM: Encounter of 3rd degree between art and media
November 2, 2012
Auditorium of the SCHOOL OF MEDIA ART, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Schools of Visual Arts, Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN, Wales’ Contemporary art Centre and writer of the book Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing on how the artist can find ways not only to ‘import’ journalism into art, but also re-insert an artistic approach into the information industry.
Alfredo will reflect on the concept of public opinion. Does it work as an aggregate and is it open to critical understanding?
Further contributions by Jasmina Metwaly artist and member of Mosireen collective in Cairo, and Truls Lie, documentary filmmaker, editor-in-chief of DOX European Documentary Magazine and a film critic at Le Monde Diplomatique, Scandinavian edition. Final discussion
lead by the hosts: Carsten Juhl, Head of Department for Art and Theory and Tijana Mišković, Academic Research Project Coordinator.
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About the seminar MEDIA, REVOLT AND CRITICISM: Globally we are being confronted with new encounters between visual art and information practices. In urgent and tense situations like the Arab Spring the moving images become important means of communication, especially because of their manipulative nature.
This seminar is the 2nd part of Arab Spring art seminar at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, that started in October 2011. The next seminar will take place December 14, 2012 including presentations by: Seamus Kealy, museum director at The Model, Aida Eltorie from Finding Projects Association and visual artist Rabih Mroue.
For more information, please send an email to:
tijana.miskovic@kunstakademiet.dk
Wales in Venice: “Bedwyr Williams one of the artists of the moment”
a-n Magazine
16 Oct 2012
by Stephen Palmer
The countdown to Wales in Venice/Cymru yn Fenis at next year’s 55th Venice Biennale of Art notched up a gear during a preview for Bedwyr William’s new show Dear Both at Ceri Hand Gallery in London.
The opening was attended by the artist along with Wales in Venice curators Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN, and Amanda Farr, Director of Oriel Davies Gallery, as well as David Alston, Director of Arts at Arts Council of Wales, which is supporting the project.
The artist introduced his presentation for Wales in Venice via a performance titled The Astronomer that took the audience – who were asked to imagine themselves as moles – on a journey from the gallery to the house and garden of an amateur astronomer in Suffolk.
Williams said: “The performance introduces parts of the work, but I’m not giving too much away! [The work for Venice] is going to be quite site specific. In the performance I mentioned astronomy and the telescope – which although not invented there was first premiered in Venice – and terrazzo flooring, which was invented in Venice and through its pattern might be seen to reflect the structure of the universe; it’s also something I noticed at the former convent (Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice) where the show will be held. The performance was quite humorous, but probably the work for Venice isn’t going to be that funny.”
Williams, who is based in Caernarfon, North Wales is best known for his comedic and poetic live performances and installations that deal with Welshness, otherness and difference. In the past he has assumed different personas in his work – a one-eyed preacher, a Grimm Reaper and Count Pollen.
Curator Amanda Farr said: “Bedwyr truly epitomizes that very rare being – an artist whose vision and clarity of thought forces us to look at the world differently. I can think of no better artist at this moment and of our particular time to represent Wales at the Venice Biennale.”
Alfredo Cramerotti added: “Bedwyr is one of the artists of the moment – not only of Wales, but of the UK art scene as a whole.”
Farr went on to discuss the importance of Wales in Venice for artists and audiences: “Since first taking part in the Venice Biennale in 2003, to my mind Wales’ presentation has always been a game changer in terms of the effect it’s had upon the contemporary visual arts in the country. I believe that it has been an important catalyst for a vital strengthening and growth in confidence for artists, curators and audiences, and almost a coming of age for Welsh contemporary art.
“The ‘collateral exhibitions’ – of which Wales in Venice is part – present an increasingly distinctive and edgy presence at the Biennale, which frequently trumps the official national pavilions at the Giardini.”
Williams’ exhibition at Ceri Hand Gallery features sculpture, video and sound installations and drawing. While the downstairs gallery space is inhabited by a series of works that feature customised garden furniture – a shell encrusted barbecue, a plastic patio set riddled with drilled holes, and a giant black parasol – upstairs there are works that reflect on what it is to be an artist including Research Fellow, an institutional looking door with attached name plaque, and Artist/Artist, a sound work that questions the public’s perception of the artist.
Dear Both continues at Ceri Hand Gallery Project Space, London until 3 November.
Wales in Venice/Cymru yn Fenis at the 55th Venice Biennale of Art will open in June 2013.
Alfredo Cramerotti: curating across disciplines
Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of Mostyn, Wales, and next co-curator of the Wales in Venice Pavilion 2013 will give a talk about his curatorial work across different disciplines, and will revisit his endeavour of art & media curating for Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art which took place in the region of Murcia, Spain, in 2010.
2pm, Tuesday 16 October 2012
H6, Rathmell Building,
Caerleon Campus
Newport
NP18 3QT
Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator and artist based in the UK. His cultural practice explores the relationship between reality and representation across a variety of media and collaborations such as TV, radio, publishing, internet, media festivals, photography, writing and exhibition curating. Cramerotti is Director of Mostyn, the leading publicly funded contemporary art gallery in Wales, and was co-curator of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009-2010) and Senior Curator, QUAD Derby (2008-2011). He co-directs AGM Culture, roaming curatorial agency; CPS Chamber of Public Secrets, media and art production unit and is Visiting Lecturer in various European universities among others NTU Nottingham Trent University, University of Westminster and DAI Dutch Arts Institute. Cramerotti is also Editor of the Critical Photography book series by Intellect Books, and his own recent publications include Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009) and Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness (2010).
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