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.
Exhibitionist: The week’s art shows in pictures on the Guardian Guide
Exhibitionist: The week’s art shows in pictures
From Fernando García-Dory and Radovan Kraguly’s study of dairy farming in Llandudno to existential photography in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the country.
Fernando García-Dory And Radovan Kraguly, Llandudno
It’s about time the 76-year-old Yugoslavia-born Radovan Kraguly’s aesthetically subtle and thematically powerful art gained wider recognition, and these two shows might just do the job. Kraguly’s The Milky Way (starts 20 Oct) is an installation that tackles ecological concerns by focusing on dairy farming. Kraguly intensifies the focus to such an extent that the theme seems as vital and primal as humankind’s dysfunctional relationship with all of nature. In tribute, Fernando García-Dory, who is less than half Kraguly’s age, has built a dairy museum scaled-up from the master’s drawing and members of the local young farmers clubs have been invited to contribute their experiences.
Oriel Mostyn, to 6 Jan
RC
A Dairy Museum, by Fernando Garcia-Dory
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
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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
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
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:
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