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Subject: Fondazione Antonio Ratti Accepting Applications
From:    "Art&Education" <edu-news la mailer.e-flux.com>
Date:    Thu, March 6, 2008 23:55
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Fondazione Antonio Ratti
XIV Advanced Course in Visual Arts

Visiting professor Yona Friedman
Public Improvisations

Como, 1 - 23 July 2008

Application deadline 3 April 2008

http://www.fondazioneratti.org



Yona Friedman (Budapest, 1923), French architect and theorist, is the
Visiting Professor of the 2008 Advanced Course in Visual Arts, taking
place in July in Como, Italy. The Course, directed by Annie Ratti since
1995, and curated by Anna Daneri, Cesare Pietroiusti and Luca Cerizza, is
a workshop of artistic and theoretical experimentation led by important
international artists.

The XIV edition of the CSAV takes place 1 – 23 July 2008, at the Spazio
San Francesco in Como, Italy, and is open to 20 young international artist
selected by the Course commission. During the Course students will be
involved in daily workshop activity with Yona Friedman, in in-depth
theoretical studies with the curators, and participate in seminars held by
distinguished protagonists of the world of culture. Classes take place
from Mondays to Saturdays.

In Friedman’s words: “During the Public Improvisations seminar we will
explore improvisation and simple techniques, which do not need complicated
instructions, drawings or plans. To be accessible to the general public,
art has to employ simple techniques, easy to implement. Improvised public
art can be explored anywhere in public spaces: in streets, in woods, in a
hall or on a lake. The site itself is part of the work of art.”

Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1923, Yona Friedman has been living in Paris
since 1957. Architect and a theoretician, he studied in Budapest and at
the Technion in Haifa. In 1956, at the 10th International Congress of
Modern Architecture (ICMA) in Dubrovnik, the rational planning typical of
the Modern Movement was called into question by his “universalist”
approach and his belief in the role of the individual. In December, 1958,
Friedman founded the Groupe d’Études d’Architecture Mobile (GEAM)
whose focus was adapting architecture to the changes occurring in modern
life. He would rise to prominence with the publication of L’Architecture
Mobile (1958) and his idea of Ville spatiale. With his concept of
“superstructures” to be built over existing cities and locations, he
has always sought to provide people with the knowledge and tools to
determine their own living environment. Friedman advocates a combined
analytic and holistic approach. Among his texts are Towards
 a Scientific Architecture (1975), A Better Life in Towns (1980), Pro Domo
(2006). He took part in several international exhibitions such as the
Venice Biennale and Documenta, and belong to collections of some of the
most important international museums. Among his most recent works is the
project for the Contemporary and Modern Art Museum of Rovereto (2006),
and 2008 will be the year of Friedman’s solo shows in Bordeaux - at the
arc en rêve and at the CAPC - and in Frankfurt,
at Portikus.

The XIV Advanced Course in Visual Arts features a series of events among
which a conference on 3 July 2008, at the Fondazione Antonio Ratti,
entitled Intelligence starts with improvisation  with Yona Friedman
explaining his works and the site-specific project – on display from
July – designed and realized for public spaces of the city of Como.

The end-of-course exhibition and the publication related to the course
will be presented in Milan (November 2008) in collaboration with C/O
Careof,  Neon, Viafarini, Artegiovane Milano. On this occasion a jury will
select the winners of the third edition of  the Epson FAR Award for
artistic research.

The Advanced Course in Visual Arts is free; board and lodging costs are
not covered. The application form can be downloaded from the website
http://www.fondazioneratti.org . It should be completed and sent both
online and via post by April 3rd, 2008, together with a portfolio of
previous works (preferably printed portfolios - CDs and DVDs only for
video material). Selected applicants will be notified by the 15th of May. 
All the documentation will be returned only by request.

Visiting Professors of the previous CSAV editions: Joseph Kosuth (1995),
John Armleder (1996), Allan Kaprow (1997), Hamish Fulton (1998), Haim
Steinbach (1999), Ilya Kabakov (2000), Marina Abramovic (2001), Giulio
Paolini (2002), Richard Nonas (2003), Jimmie Durham (2004), Alfredo Jaar
(2005), Marjetica Potrc (2006) and Joan Jonas (2007).

Info: http://www.fondazioneratti.org and Anna Daneri tel. + 39 031 233213,
annadaneri la fondazioneratti.org
Press office: Ilaria Gianoli, mob. + 39 333 6317344 e-mail
ufficiostampa la fondazioneratti.org


Image above:
Yona Friedman, Ville Spatiale, project, 1958 62, courtesy Yona Friedman


For more information go to: http://www.fondazioneratti.org
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