The city of Nuoro hosts from Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 July 2019 a special initiative: the workshop Q rated, training program for Italian artists and curators aged between 23 and 35, promoted by Rome Quadrennial Foundation, cultural institution chaired by manager Franco Bernabé (interviewed by FIRST Arte), which makes use of international tutors and the support of the major Italian museums. The objective of Q-Rated is the deepening and sharing of the best practices of contemporary research in the visual arts sector as well as a mapping of artistic and curatorial talents present on the national scene today.
After the stops in Lecce, Rome, Turin and Milan, Q-Rated Nuoro 2019 is organized in partnership with local institutions: MAN Provincial Art Museum of Nuoro, Sardinia Film Commission Foundation and ISRE - Higher Regional Ethnographic Institute of Sardinia. The Nuoro edition will have a specific focus on painting, approached through didactic, practical and landscape narration activities conducted by 3 international tutors: Henry David, artist, Bart van der Heide, exhibition maker and art historian, e Marcello Fois, writer, poet, playwright, essayist of Nuoro origin.
Selected artists and curators
A jury made up of Sarah Cosulich and Stefano Collicelli Cagol, respectively artistic director and curator of La Quadriennale di Roma, together with the workshop's international tutors, selected the 15 participants in the Q-Rated Nuoro 2019 workshop: the artists Andrea Barzaghi (Monza, 1988 Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany), Alessandro Carano (Gallarate, 1984. Lives and works in Milan), Gaia Di Lorenzo (Rome, 1991. Lives and works in Rome), Corinna Gosmaro (Savigliano, 1987. Lives and works between Rome and Paris), Diego Gualandris (Alzano Lombardo, 1993), Viola Leddi (Milan, 1993. Lives and works in Milan), Daniele Milvio (Genoa, 1988. Lives and works between Milan and Ansedonia), Valerio Nicolai (Gorizia, 1988 Lives and works in Milan), Francis Offman (Butare, Rwanda, 1987. Lives and works in Bologna), Amedeo Fedele Polazzo (Starnberg, Germany 1988), Gianmarco Porru (Oristano, 1989. Lives and works in Milan), Marta Ravasi (Merate, 1987. Lives and works in Locarno, Switzerland), Sofia Silva (Padua, 1990), and the curators Carolina Gestri (Florence, 1989) and Valentina Lacinio (Como, 1989. Lives and works in Turin).
The workshop programme
The workshop will take place behind closed doors: the day of 3 July 2019 will be dedicated to Location Scouting of the island through an immersive itinerary in the Sardinian landscape with the special guide of Marcello Fois. The days of 4 and 5 July 2019 will take place at the headquarters of ISRE - Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico della Sardegna making use of Enrico David's unique ability to rework different genres and themes in his canvases - from the landscape dimension to the more performative one of the body - and the research carried out by Bart van der Heide on the value of painting today, also in relation to the historic-artistic tradition. During the evening of Thursday 4 July 2019, the organizers and participants of the workshop will be in Gavoi on the occasion of the inauguration of the L'Isola delle Storie Literary Festival to meet various operators of the regional artistic and cultural scene and deepen mutual knowledge.
“We are thrilled by the possibility of hosting the fifth stage of the Q-Rated project in Sardinia, guests of an authoritative and at the same time dynamic museum like the MAN in Nuoro” explains Sarah Cosulich, artistic director of La Quadriennale di Roma. “The Q-Rated workshops, held each time in a different Italian city, represent an important moment of intellectual dialogue and international exchange for the young generation of artists and curators in our country. Interest in this project continues to grow and the number of applications to participate confirms that it is a special opportunity for the participants. The collaboration with the Sardinia Film Commission and the ISRE enriches this edition of the workshop with a unique experience: the exploration and interaction with an extraordinary territory that becomes a point of reflection in the investigation of the pictorial medium”.
With this initiative, the MAN Museum of Nuoro renews its support for Italian contemporary art by identifying itself as an attractor and incubator of new research and productions on the Sardinian regional territory, and strengthens its commitment to creating a solid network with prestigious national and international institutions. international. Says Luigi Fassi, director of MAN: “MAN strongly wanted to bring the QRated project to Nuoro, in the belief that the museum's current research and experimentation program coincides with the innovation and training objectives pursued by La Quadriennale. Workshops and territorial explorations in the field will form the fulcrum of the Q-Rated week, the result of a co-production between La Quadriennale di Roma, MAN, the Sardinian Film Commission and the Nuoro Regional Ethnographic Institute. It is an extraordinary opportunity for territorial collaboration and development of planning for the future, which once again affirms Nuoro as a center of cultural experimentation in Sardinia and as a city of artistic production on a national level”.
Nevina Satta, director of the Sardinia Film Commission Foundation, partner of Q-Rated Nuoro 2019, says: “We are happy to let the talents of Q-Rated Nuoro 2019 discover the potential of Sardinia by participating in the realization of the workshop together with the MAN Museum and ISRE. For the Sardinia Film Commission, the training of new generations of Italian and international creatives starting from our territory is an essential investment. By designing experiential location scouting together with Barbagia experts, we place ourselves at the service of the imagination to stimulate new aesthetics and ideas for original visual research, facilitating dialogue with our internal communities”.
INFORMATION FOR THE PUBLIC MAN Provincial Art Museum of Nuoro via Sebastiano Satta 27, Nuoro www.museoman.it | info@museoman.it | Phone +39 0784 252110
Workshop tutors: Henry David, artist Bart van der Heide, exhibition maker and art historian Marcello Fois, writer, poet, playwright, essayist from Nuoro
MAN | Provincial Art Museum of Nuoro The MAN opened to the public in 1999 in a building from the 2004s, formerly the seat of the provincial institution, located between the arteries of the historic center of Nuoro. The first nucleus of the collection arises from the unification of some public collections (Province, Municipality, Provincial Tourist Board, Chamber of Commerce). The idea of a provincial art gallery soon finds development in an updated museum project in which research and conservation work is accompanied by intense exhibition and laboratory activity. The collection is enriched with new acquisitions and the activity extends to the local context. In 2013 the museum acquired management autonomy, structuring itself as an institution without legal personality, and became a member – the only one in Sardinia – of Amaci, the National Association of Contemporary Art Museums. In XNUMX the MAN obtained regional recognition as a museum of excellence. The development plan currently in progress provides for the opening of a new exhibition complex, born from the recovery of two historic buildings located in Piazza Sebastiano Satta, and the destination of the current location as home to the permanent collection.
Quadrennial Foundation of Rome The Quadrennial Foundation of Rome is the institution for Italian art linked to the historic exhibition of the Quadriennale d'Arte. The Quadriennale is a Foundation owned by the State through the MiBAC, the Lazio Region and Rome Capital. In addition to the large exhibition which, since 1931, has been held every four years in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni headquarters and the archive open to the public at the Villa Carpegna headquarters, the institution has expanded its mission of promoting Italian art to two new functions carried out on a regular and constant basis during the course of the year and focused on the promotion and circulation of Italian art inside and outside national borders: the Q-RATED itinerant workshops and the QINTERNATIONAL fund, calls for support for foreign institutions exhibiting Italian artists. The artistic director Sarah Cosulich is supported by the curator Stefano Collicelli Cagol, co-head of projects and co-curator of the Quadriennale d'Arte. The 17th Exhibition of the Quadriennale d'Arte will open in Rome on 1 October 2020.
