XI Advanced Course in Visual Arts at Fondazione Antonio Ratti

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      XI Advanced Course in Visual Arts 
      Fondazione Antonio Ratti

      30 June - 21 July 2005 

      VISITING PROFESSOR ALFREDO JAAR
      Applications for the course close 15 April 2005

      The Advanced Course in Visual Arts is an intensive specialisation course 
for young artists from around the world. Directed by Annie Ratti since 1995, it 
is conceived as a workshop for artistic and theoretical experimentation led by 
internationally prominent artists. 
      Curator of the The Advanced Course in Visual Arts 2005 is Roberto Pinto 
and the coordinator is Anna Daneri.

      The Visiting Professor for this eleventh edition of the course will be 
Alfredo Jaar. The artist, architect and film-maker was born in Santiago in 
Chile in 1956, he has lived in New York since 1982 and his work faces themes 
which are of great urgency and relevance and which are normally excluded from 
publicly available information.

      The course will be held between June 30th and July 21st 2005 in the 
ex-Ticosa in Como, with the support of the Comune di Como.

      The program is for 25 young artists, who will be selected by a panel of 
experts on the basis of the applications received. The course will consist of 
daily workshop activity with Alfredo Jaar, theoretical study with the internal 
curator Roberto Pinto and seminars with some of the key players of the 
international cultural scene.

      Alfredo Jaar has always maintained his commitment as an artist in a 
social context, proposing a comparison of the profound contradictions of our 
world. During the workshop 'The aesthetics of resistance' he will explore the 
methods through which artistic practice can approach and connect itself to 
contemporary realities in new and creative ways. New strategies of presentation 
and re-presentation will be investigated, trying to create new models for 
intervention, particularly in public spaces.

      The course will conclude with two shows - one by the artist and one by 
the young participants of the course- to be held in Como from June 21st to 
September 4th 2005 and will be documented in a bilingual catalogue published by 
Charta.

      The Advanced Course in Visual Arts is free. Participants must cover the 
costs of their stay in Como. The application, together with documentation of 
the applicant's work must be sent to the Fondazione Antonio Ratti by April 15th 
2005 (date of posting).

      Visiting Professors of the past editions have been: 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).

      Between 1994 and 1998 Alfredo Jaar worked on a project on the genocide in 
Rwanda and has addressed situations of political oppression and social 
marginalisation through his photographic and installation work.

      Recently he has been involved in the creation of a series of public 
projects for the planning and construction of art spaces underlining their 
absence and their necessity in our lives. His works always take a strongly 
critical position in relation to the overwhelming presence of images and of the 
anaesthesia caused by an excess of communication.

      The artist's works are shown in some of the most important international 
museums of contemporary art and at major exhibiting events such as the 
biennials of Paris (1982), Venice (1986), Sao Paulo (1987), Johannesburg, 
Sydney (1990), Istanbul and Kwangju (1995), Documenta 8 (1987) and Documenta 11 
(2002) in Kassel.

      Address: Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Lungo Lario Trento 9, 22100 Como, 
Italy 
      For application forms: Visit our web site: http://www.fondazioneratti.org 
or contact Anna Daneri, tel +39 031233213 e-mail 
annadaneri-c+qY6Lxc0PlyZ7npZSVCIEB+6BGkLq7r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      Press Office: Ilaria Gianoli, mob. +39-3336317344, e-mail 
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      image: Alfredo Jaar, Valle del Matador, Tijuana - San Diego, Mexixo USA 
border, October 14, 2000 

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