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Benjamin Weil: curatorial master 2010

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Beginning in 2008, the Fondazione Banna Spinola per l’Arte, will expand upon its teaching initiatives by inaugurating a series of short project workshops dedicated to young artists who have already taken part in activities at the Fondazione.
Benjamin Weil, art critic and independent curator was invited for a second year to the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte to lead the master curatorial seminar which was held from May 31 to June 4, 2010.

Benjamin Weil is currently chief curator at Laboral, Centro de Arte Y Creacion Industrial in Gijon and in 2009 he was a visiting professor at IUAV Venice, where he was holding a visual arts workshop for students in the Master of Science program for design and production of visual arts.
Since 2006 he has been artistic director of the BOX H project for the Hermès Foundation in Paris, an annual and wide-ranging program of commissions for video artists.
From 2006 to 2008 Weil was director of Artists Space, an influential nonprofit art space in New York and before that, from 2000 to 2006, he was the new media curator for the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.
From 1994 to 1998 Weil was curator for Ada Web, a digital production studio of which he is also a co-founder that has produced artists’ projects for the Web.
His writing has been published widely, with articles in major international art magazines such as Flash Art International, Frieze, Art Monthly, Beaux Arts and Atlantica. He has also authored texts for a range of museum exhibition catalogs.
As an independent curator, Weil organized the program Art}Film for Art Basel 2005 and also 2006, the exhibition “Confluence Zones” at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris in 2004 and a section of Aperto’93 for the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993.
He graduated in 1989 from the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.

History

The Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte was founded by Gianluca and Orsola Spinola on the Banna estate in Poirino (TO) in 2004, with the aim of contributing to the promotion and diffusion of contemporary art in the visual arts and music sectors. Since then it has been dedicated uninterruptedly to the training of young artists by organising seminars, workshops and conferences on contemporary art and music, in order to promote the theoretical study of current artistic practices and the teaching of the most relevant themes in the philosophical debate related to them.

For the VISUAL ARTS, thanks to the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, since 2005 the Foundation has created a postgraduate training programme dedicated to young artists under 35 entering the profession, offering meetings, conferences and intensive workshops by means of its residency programme, with reference to the major European training centres. Among the tutor artists, we might recall Mario Airò, Stefano Arienti, Doug Ashford, Massimo Bartolini, Luca Beatrice, Andrea Caretto, Martin Creed, Jason Dodge, Linus Elmes, Emilio Fantin, Milovan Farronato, Lara Favaretto, Peter Friedl, Alberto Garutti, Piero Gilardi, Marta Kuzma, Leigh Ledare, Raimundas Malasauskas, Eva Marisaldi, Elena Mazzi, Maria Morganti, Liliana Moro, The Otolith Group, Adrian Paci, Jorge Peris, Diego Perrone, Alberto Pesavento, Tobias Rehberger, Tim Rollins & Kos, Raffaella Spagna, Rirkit Tiravanija, Diego Tonus, Francesco Vezzoli, Andrea Viliani, Luca Vitone and Benjamin Weil.

Over the 2016–2019 period, the residency programme has taken on a new physiognomy and has been enlarged thanks to the collaboration with GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Turin, which gave the residency project an extra edge thanks to the involvement of a contemporary art museum audience. Ever since the start of its activities, the Foundation has involved almost 200 young artists and has activated a network of institutions with which it has worked in collaboration, including the Centre International d’Accueil et d’Échanges des Récollets and the Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris; WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain in Brussels, the Università Iuav and the Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa in Venice; Via Farini and NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, and the Turin Polytechnic. What’s more, from 2010 to 2017, the Foundation was part of the international residency programme RESÒ, which emerged from cooperation between the leading institutions that deal with contemporary art and training in Piedmont, and promoted by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, also in this context interweaving relationships with institutions driven by the same intentions in Egypt, Israel, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Ukraine, India and France. In 2015, the Foundation also joined the Comitato promotore per le Fondazioni Italiane d’Arte Contemporanea which, through the projects it developed, maintained constant contact with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MIBAC).

For MUSIC, since 2007 with its Progetto Musica, conceived by Orsola Spinola with the help of Giorgio and Anna Claudia Pestelli, the Foundation has developed a specific branch of training activities, with the aim of encouraging the creation and promotion of new works, enhancing the talent of young composers and giving visibility to their experiences in contemporary music. The project consists of both the commissioning of new compositions and the creation of a unique workshop in which artists and performers, under the guidance of an internationally renowned composer, are brought together – just as was once the case – in the construction of a musical work. The final concert of each project is held at the Foundation’s estate, although over the years it has been replicated in institutional contexts of undisputed importance for the sector such as the Music Biennale in Venice, Milano Musica and IRCAM in Paris. The tutor composers hosted in the past have included: Georges Aperghis, Unsuk Chin, Luis de Pablo, Hugues Dufourt, Ivan Fedele, Luca Francesconi, Toshio Hosokawa, Helmut Lachenmann, Fabio Nieder, Salvatore Sciarrino and Fabio Vacchi. In 2011, the Progetto Musica, as part of the ‘Franco Abbiati’ music critics’ prize awarded by the Associazione Nazionale Critici Musicali, won the Duilio Courir Prize, and in 2013 the Silver Lion of the Venice Music Biennale.

For MUSIC, in 2015 the Foundation also launched the new educational project Compositori in Erba (‘Budding Composers’) which, exploring the world of sound through listening, aims to encourage creativity and musical composition right from primary school, thanks to the innovative teaching method of Maestro Matteo Manzitti. As part of this project, in 2016 the Foundation collaborated with the Teatro Regio of Turin for the staging of Hans Werner Henze’s Pollicino, with the children of the Primary School of Villanova d’Asti who participated in the show.

Finally, we might recall how the Foundation promoted a special commission that, between 2016 and 2018, led to the creation of a multi-modal visual-sound work aimed at the artistic reconversion of an external wall of a building owned by the Metropolitan City of Turin which houses the Primo Liceo Artistico Statale of Turin. The work SEGNI PER LA SPERANZA is an experimental site-specific intervention that draws on various art forms (visual, sound and web) to make up a single and mutually correlated work, thanks to the common intent of the artist Giuseppe Caccavale, the composer Stefano Gervasoni and the computer-music designer Marco Liuni (IRCAM, Paris). For the creation of the work, the Foundation collaborated not only with IRCAM in Paris, but also with prestigious institutions in the area such as the Degree Course in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (University of Turin and Fondazione Centro per la Conservazione e il Restauro dei Beni Culturali ‘La Venaria Reale’), the Polytechnic of Turin and the ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ State Conservatory of Music of Turin, involving young students as well as students of these institutions in the implementation of the work, reflecting their key educational goals.

Luisella Molina, Director

HANKYEOL YOON

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Nato a Daegu, ha studiato composizione alla Yewon School of Arts con Kyu Yung Chin prima di entrare nella Hochschule fur Musik di Monaco di Baviera, dove ha proseguito gli studi con Isabel Mundry. Ha studiato pianoforte con Yuka Imamine e direzione d’orchestra con Bruno Weil, Alexander Liebreich e Marcus Bosch. Come compositore, ha vinto numerosi premi quali 1° Premio all’Eumyoun Competition 2010, 3 ° Premio alla Gunter-Bialas Competition di Monaco di Baviera, 2° premio al Concours de Geneve 2015, 2 ° Premio alla Valer Competition 2016 di Monaco di Baviera, 3° premio, del pubblico, al Concours de Geneve 2017. Le sue opere sono state eseguite a Seoul al 28° Eumyoun Young Music Festival, al SIMEN’S Junge Solisten Stiftung di Monaco di Baviera, al Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival, al Kulturpreis Gasteig e alla Karl-Hartmann-Gesellschaft a Monaco di Baviera. Nel 2017 ha preso parte a una masterclass di Unsuk Chin a Seoul. Come direttore d’orchestra, Hankyeol Yoon e stato assistente di Bruno Weil per la Jeunesse musicale Weikersheim Oper ed e attualmente assistente di Marcus Bosch all’Heidenheim Oper Stuttgarter Philharmoniker. Quest’anno e anche assistente, sempre di Marcus Bosch, allo Staatstheater Nurnberg.

Mariangela Vacatello

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Da oltre vent’anni è riconosciuta per la curiosità e versatilità degli orizzonti esecutivi, per il virtuosismo e passione che si ritrovano in ogni brano che inserisce nel suo repertorio; queste caratteristiche si rispecchiano nelle recensioni ai concerti e alle incisioni discografiche per la casa discografica Brilliant Classics. Si è esibita in alcune tra le più importanti stagioni concertistiche del mondo come il Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Ircam di Parigi, Musica Insieme Bologna, Società dei Concerti di Milano, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Unione Musicale di Torino, Wigmore Hall di Londra, Weill Hall di New York, Walt Disney Hall di Los Angeles, Oriental Centre di Shanghaj, collaborando con l’Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia a Roma, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai di Torino, Filarmonica della Scala, Prague Chamber Orchestra, RSI Lugano, Filarmonica di Stoccarda e direttori quali Krystof Penderecky, Andris Nelsons, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Martin Haselboeck, Gustav Kuhn, Xian Zhang, Christopher Franklin, Oleg Caetani, Michael Tabachnik, Andrès Orozco-Estrada, Roland Boer, Aleksander Slatkovky, Gerard Korsten, Daniel Kawka, Bernard Gueller, Zsolt Hamar, Anton Nanut, Donato Renzetti, Alain Lombard, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Daniel Meyer, Carolyn Kuan e Luigi Piovano. Mariangela è nata a Napoli, ha vissuto a Milano e a Londra, dove ha studiato e si è perfezionata presso l’Accademia Pianistica Internazionale “Incontri col Maestro”di Imola, il Conservatorio di Milano e la Royal Academy of Music. Vive attualmente in Umbria e unisce la sua carriera pianistica con l’attività didattica all’ISSM “G. Briccialdi” di Terni.

Artissima Fair 2013

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Once again this year, thanks to its commitment and its activities in the field of training for young artists, the Fondazione Spinola will take part in Artissima from 8th to 10th November 2013 in the Musei in Mostra section, that given over to public and museums, foundations and artistic institutions throughout the territory.

This year, the special guest of the Foundation will be the young artist Renato Leotta, who will present two works: ‘Museo Archeologico Nazionale’ and ‘Luigi Cosenza’.

As well as training, the mission of the Fondazione Spinola also includes the promotion of the young artists who have participated in the workshops, and who have contributed with interesting and courageous cultural experiments. The Sicilian artist took part in the intensive workshop with Adrian Paci in 2008, as well as the curating workshops with Benjamin Weil in 2009/2010. Together with Elisa Troiano and Alex Tripodi, he is a founder and co-curator of Cripta747, the Cultural Centre dedicated to the study and hybridisation of various languages. This research has also been one of the keystones of the training programme of the Fondazione Spinola throughout 2012 and 2013. Furthermore, the works of Renato Leotta  are part of a series of works investigating the meeting point between architecture and landscape, a research project in line with the theme dealt with by the relational artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, visiting professor at the international workshop in October which, as well as the eight artists in residence, will also be frequented by three students from the specialisation course in architecture and design at Turin Polytechnic.
A talk is also planned, titled ‘Migrations between nature and the city: alternative practices in living the changing city, pioneering artistic projects and new forms of relating’, in which the Fondazione Spinola Banna will be called upon to share its own experience with the intervention of Gail Cochrane, the artistic director, on Sunday 10 November from 12.30pm until 2pm in the Musei in Mostra Space.
Indeed, also in the 2013 Edition, continuing the research undertaken over the years, Zonarte (the network of education departments of Turinese museums) proposes the investigation of the themes and values of knowledge, of experience and inclusion – all in relation to artworks – this year paying particular attention to the notion of landscape.
There will be a great number of artists who have taken part as the masters and students of workshops organised by the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte present in the events dedicated to contemporary art in Turin in the month of November.

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Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa and Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte

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Two institutions working for young artists 2010 – 2012
“That which binds us is an almost entirely common range of emotional tones, a way of creating the most suitable conditions for reflection, a political management of spaces, both of everyday life and of the mind” (Gail Cochrane and Guido Costa).
A volume edited by: Gail Cochrane and Angela Vettese with contributions by: Gail Cochrane, Mario Airò, Guido Costa, Stefano Coletto and Angela Vettese.

The history of the collaboration between the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte of Poirino and the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa of Venice is traced in the volume Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,Venezia e Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte, Poirino. Due istituzioni per i giovani artisti 2010 – 2012, presented to the general public at the closing of the exhibition Mostra. Workshop 2010-2011.

The publication, with images depicting the various shared projects and the workshops, with texts in both Italian and English, testifies to the collaboration work undertaken by the two institutions in their constant efforts to foster and promote contemporary art, and documents their commitment in the training of young Italian artists through both workshops and shared events held by the two institutions, which have both featured artists’ residency programmes ever since their foundation.

The mission of the two foundations is ultimately to train young artists, providing them with spaces and the stimuli for professional growth. The contents, which reflect on the value and the means of artistic training, are introduced and commented in the contributions by Gail Cochrane, Guido Costa, Angela Vettese, Stefano Coletto and Mario Airò.

Below is the documentation of the four events arising from their collaboration: the Annual Show 2010 curated by Benjamin Weil; Opera 2010, the final show of the Bevilacqua La Masa 2010 Atelier programme; the Mostra. Workshop 2010-2011 and the Workshop event held from 16th – 22nd April 2012 at the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte dedicated specially to the artists of the Bevilacqua La Masa Ateliers in 2012. The publication comes to a close with two brief biographies of the 32 artists involved in the initiatives.

The contemporary and creative slant of the volume is further underlined by the graphic imagery provided by Friend Make Books.

The volume has been made possible thanks to the contribution of the Compagnia di San Paolo.