Tuesday, October 10, 2006, marks the opening of Fragmented Show, the exhibition of students from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts held annually by the Fondazione Antonio Ratti, directed by Annie Ratti. The exhibition is curated by Anna Daneri, Roberto Pinto, and Cesare Pietroiusti and is organized in collaboration with the associations Artegiovane Milano, Careof, neon>fdv, and Viafarini, with the patronage of the Comune di Milano.

During the opening of the exhibition, held at the exhibition space of Fabbrica del Vapore managed by the Youth Department of the Comune di Milano, at 8:00 PM the three winners of the Premio Epson FAR for artistic research will be announced. Established this year thanks to the contribution of Epson Italia, the award aims to support young artists by recognizing works of greatest interest from the perspective of visual experimentation. The three students selected for the prize will be chosen by a jury composed of a representative from the Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Giorgio Verzotti, curator and member of the FAR scientific committee), one from Epson (Carla Conca, Video Projector Business Manager Epson Italia), and Milena Kalinovska (curator at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington). Each winner will receive a high-tech product from Epson.

The 20 artists participating in Fragmented Show, coming from all over Italy and the world, are: aiPotu (Norway), Giorgio Andreotta Calò (Italy), and Timea Anita Oravecz (Hungary), Dafne Boggeri (Italy), Vesna Bukovec (Slovenia), Candice Jee (Australia), Alice Cattaneo (Italy), Ulrika Ferm (Finland), Gunndís Ýr Finnbogadóttir (Iceland/Netherlands), Michael Fliri (Italy), Emma Houlihan (Ireland), Tara Kennedy (Ireland), Inmi Lee (Korea), Emanuel Licha (Canada), Jonatah Manno (Italy), Alli Miller (USA), Jennie Moran (Ireland), neuroTransmitter (USA), Gastón Ramírez Feltrín (Mexico/Italy), Matteo Rubbi (Italy), Eugenio Tibaldi (Italy), Nicola Toffolini (Italy).

On display are sculptures, drawings, videos, and installations: completed works alongside open works and projects in progress, from which new reflections and new working practices arise. These were developed to integrate with the Milanese spaces of Careof, Fabbrica del Vapore, Neon, and Viafarini. The works were created by the artists in light of the reflections developed during the artistic and theoretical experimentation workshop Fragmented City, held in July in Como at the former Ticosa, with Marjetica Potrc, artist and architect from Ljubljana.

The four different exhibition venues emphasize, also from a logistical point of view, the concepts and topics addressed this year: starting from a reflection on the transformation of contemporary cities, the course has in fact interpreted the concept of fragmentation in an open way, following the individual inclinations of the young participating artists, now reflected in the exhibited works. One will therefore see surveys of the territory and context encountered during the seminar, up to comparisons of places on a global scale; climbs on mountains at improbable altitudes or simple ascents on roofs or hills. The experimented modes, moreover, are articulated and very different from each other, including taxonomies of places made through images, up to rarefied evocations of spaces and forms; practices of sharing and exchange triggered by the course, or actions involving the public. During the evening of the inauguration, it is possible to attend some performances, specially designed for this occasion.

The School of Art - Faculty of Built Environment Art & Design of Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, the Galleria Sku? of Ljubljana (Slovenia), the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam (Netherlands), The office for contemporary Art Norway (OCA), the Svenska Konstskolans i Nykarleby Vänner r.f. (SKV) (Finland), the TU-Delft Faculty of Architecture with Spacelab: (Research Laboratory of the Contemporary City) and The Arts Council of Ireland have made scholarships available to students from their countries.

10 October 2006 at 8.00 pm awarding of the Premio EPSON FAR for artistic research

Exhibition venues

Fabbrica del Vapore, Via Procaccini, 4 Milan

Careof, Via Luigi IX 7, Milan, tel/fax +39 02 3315800

neon>fdv, via Procaccini 4 Milan tel/fax +39 02 45486367

Viafarini, Via Farini 35, tel/fax +39 02 66804473

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