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.
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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.
La curatela in tre mosse [Italian only]
di Alfredo Cramerotti
17 luglio 2012
Ai Weiwei documenta 12
E’ iniziato sullo scorso numero di Artribune Magazine un “convegno a puntate”. Per discutere dell’attività curatoriale odierna e futura, e della sua trasformazione. Un confronto coordinato da Alfredo Cramerotti, che apre le danze con tre parole-chiave. Nelle prossime tappe transiteranno in questa inchiesta interventi di curatori, editori, artisti, educatori: Blanca de la Torre, Cathy Haynes, Christine Eyene, Cristiana Tejo, Fay Nicolson, Kari Conte, Reloading Images, Saskia van der Kroef… Ognuno con la propria tripletta di spunti. Obiettivo: facilitare e sviluppare forme di cittadinanza attiva.
Continua qui: La curatela in tre mosse.
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.
The Plowman’s Lunch @ Beacon Art Project, Friday 22 June 2012
Visibility and Invisibility: Audience, Artist and Curator
Reading Room & Chapel, High Street, Wellingore, Lincoln LN5 0HW
Food, conversation and debate were shared with guest speakers Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain and Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of Mostyn, Wales. The programme for the day was structured around the lunch with questions before and answers after, incorporating contributions from two artists previously commissioned by Beacon, Doug Fishbone and Kelly Large.
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’ largest and 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).
Penelope Curtis In 1988 Penelope Curtis joined the new Tate Gallery Liverpool as Exhibitions Curator. In 1994 she moved to the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, where as Curator, she was responsible for a programme of historical and contemporary sculpture exhibitions, collections building in sculpture and archive, and research activity including events, fellowships and publications. She has written widely on 20th-century British sculpture, on European art and architecture of the inter-war years, and on many contemporary sculptors including Thomas Schűtte, Gerard Byrne and Isa Genzken. She is author of Sculpture 1900-1945: After Rodin (OUP, 1999) and Patio and Pavilion: The place of sculpture in Modern Architecture (Ridinghouse, 2007) and has recently curated Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London. Penelope Curtis became Director of Tate Britain in April 2010.
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The Plowman’s Lunch aim is to develop and lead on new and fresh ways of thinking about curatorial and artistic practices. Practices that acknowledge the particularities of the rural contexts within which Beacon’s operates but at the same time also acknowledge their relevance to mainstream practices.
Each Plowman’s Lunch is ticketed with a maximum number of 35 attendees. The target audience are artists, academics, curators and other curious people in the East Midlands region and beyond. All participants will have the opportunity to contribute to, discuss and debate the theme of the Plowman’s Lunch. Each event is recorded and an edited transcript will be disseminated on Beacon’s website via podcasts and a pdf download.
More info here:
franzmagazine: Alfredo Cramerotti e ciò che tutti sanno ma di cui nessuno parla (Italian)
Video interview for franz magazine, Italy
Adam Carr Appointed Curator of Mostyn
Adam Carr Appointed Curator of Mostyn
ARTFORUM, 05.22.12
Adam Carr has been named curator of visual arts at Mostyn in North Wales.
Over the past decade Carr has organized exhibitions for museums and institutions around the world, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Castello di Rivoli in Turin, and the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, as well as worked with artists like Claire Fontaine, Ryan Gander, Simon Fujiwara, and Dan Rees. In addition to his work as a curator, he is a regular contributor to publications like Flash Art, Mousse, and Spike Art Quarterly.
Said the British-born curator of his appointment: “Having visited Mostyn since I was a child, it has played a strong influence in the formation of my work as a curator. I look forward to contributing to Mostyn’s vision at an exciting time in its evolution, with the recent expansion and redevelopment, and with the appointment of Alfredo Cramerotti as its new director.”
ARTFORUM link here
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