Selected for Academy Now 2012, 13-20 January 2013
30 Maple Street London W1
Artists selected:
Fatma Bucak, Maarten van den Bos, Molly Clare O’Donnell, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Dominic Harris, Hirofumi Isoya, Jamie Lau, Nadege Meriau, Andrea C Morley, Atsuko Nakamura, Sarah Pager, Jess Piddock, Fabio Romano, James Smith, Inbal Strauss, Poppy Whatmore, David Ben White.
Academy Now is an independent annual survey of students recently graduated in fine art to offer them an opportunity to be seen in a non commercial environment following the completion of their art degree.
What differentiates Academy Now from the existing mentoring exhibitions and awards, is that by selecting artists from the UK and other European art colleges, it activates stimulating dialogues between the art capitals offering to the students the opportunity to establish and develop relationships beyond the UK.
Academy Now 2012 in its first edition, includes 17 artists selected in the past 2 years: they represent varied nationality, from the UK, Europe, Middle and Far East.
The 17 artists have been invited to respond to the venue that will host the exhibition: a skeleton of a 1930s six floor building in Fitzrovia where installation, photography, video, painting and sculpture will be displayed for one week only. The building will soon become the headquarter of Heashin Kwak, curator and gallerist, founder of Hanmi Gallery who has generously provided academy noW 2012 with spectacular premises.
At the end of the exhibition an artist will be nominated by the committee members and will be awarded with the Damiani/academy noW Prize consisting in a monographic publication.
Academy Now 2012’s catalogue will be available at the end of the exhibition.
Committee members:
David Bate, photographer and writer.
Ruth Dupre, artist and lecturer at Camberwell and the Royal College of Art.
Dr Silvia Evangelisti, Bologna Art Fair’s director and professor of Art Theory, University of Bologna
Dr Małgorzata Ludwisiak, Deputy director of the Muzeum Sztuki, curator and writer.
Laura Petrillo, Academy Now founder, IKT independent curator, Liechtenstain and lecturer, Bologna.
Ian Rosenfeld, gallery founder and curator, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London.
Dr Margerita Sprio, writer and professor of Film Theory at Westminster University.
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Nadege Meriau, Jardin des Hesperides, 2013
Chrysalis , cardboard paper and latex, 2013.
Academy Now Exhibition, Hanmi Gallery, London, January 2013.
Academy Now Exhibition, Hanmi Gallery, London, January 2013.
Artists selected:
Fatma Bucak, Maarten van den Bos, Molly Clare O’Donnell, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Dominic Harris, Hirofumi Isoya, Jamie Lau, Nadege Meriau, Andrea C Morley, Atsuko Nakamura, Sarah Pager, Jess Piddock, Fabio Romano, James Smith, Inbal Strauss, Poppy Whatmore, David Ben White.
Academy Now is an independent annual survey of students recently graduated in fine art to offer them an opportunity to be seen in a non commercial environment following the completion of their art degree.
What differentiates Academy Now from the existing mentoring exhibitions and awards, is that by selecting artists from the UK and other European art colleges, it activates stimulating dialogues between the art capitals offering to the students the opportunity to establish and develop relationships beyond the UK.
Academy Now 2012 in its first edition, includes 17 artists selected in the past 2 years: they represent varied nationality, from the UK, Europe, Middle and Far East.
The 17 artists have been invited to respond to the venue that will host the exhibition: a skeleton of a 1930s six floor building in Fitzrovia where installation, photography, video, painting and sculpture will be displayed for one week only. The building will soon become the headquarter of Heashin Kwak, curator and gallerist, founder of Hanmi Gallery who has generously provided academy noW 2012 with spectacular premises.
At the end of the exhibition an artist will be nominated by the committee members and will be awarded with the Damiani/academy noW Prize consisting in a monographic publication.
Academy Now 2012’s catalogue will be available at the end of the exhibition.
Committee members:
David Bate, photographer and writer.
Ruth Dupre, artist and lecturer at Camberwell and the Royal College of Art.
Dr Silvia Evangelisti, Bologna Art Fair’s director and professor of Art Theory, University of Bologna
Dr Małgorzata Ludwisiak, Deputy director of the Muzeum Sztuki, curator and writer.
Laura Petrillo, Academy Now founder, IKT independent curator, Liechtenstain and lecturer, Bologna.
Ian Rosenfeld, gallery founder and curator, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London.
Dr Margerita Sprio, writer and professor of Film Theory at Westminster University.
www.academynow.org
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a…