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A Painting Cycle – Jessica Warboys

Jessica Warboys, Sea Painting, Stromboli, 2011. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori Jessica Warboys, Sea Painting, Stromboli (detail), 2011. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori Jessica Warboys, Motion Motif, 2012. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori Jessica Warboys, Stone Throat, 2011. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori Jessica Warboys, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori Jessica Warboys, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori Jessica Warboys, Stone Throat, 2011. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori Jessica Warboys, Stone Throat, 2011. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori Jessica Warboys, Stone Throat, 2011. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori Jessica Warboys, Stone Throat, 2011. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori

Curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni

March 8th - 20th, 2012
Opening: March 8th, 2012 from 18.30
Nomas Foundation, viale Somalia 33, Rome

After A Performance Cycle (2010) and A Film Cycle (2011), again this spring Nomas Foundation's programme will be marked by a project taking the form of a cycle as a mode of presentation that aims to explore specific languages within art declined in their different nuances and forms.
A Painting Cycle reflects on painting, a language that the public tipically identifies as art tout court and that is today, increasingly gaining space, attention and momentum.
What does painting mean today? How did it change - if it has - in dialogue with the variety of media that in the past century artists have adopted? Is it still possible to speak about style, technique or use the term ‘representation’? With which awareness is painting addressed at the present moment?
These and many more are the themes of A Painting Cycle, which aims to confront the public with a dialectic of positions on a specific language rather than with a solution.
Every two weeks from March 8, chapter after chapter, Nomas Foundation becomes a picture gallery hosting conversations, workshops and a thematic library open to the public.
Through a selection of works, the five invited artists, offer different positions of the interpretation of painting, addressing specific aspects and key terms that will be discussed in a public conversation with an art critic invited by them.
As part of their presentation, the artists have been asked to indicate an art work /monument of the city that has had a particular influence within her or his artistic research, all of them together drawing a virtual map of the cultural heritage inscribed in the city of Rome.
In addition to this, A Painting Cycle is accompanied by a workshop lead by artist Alessandro Sarra, which intertwines with the exhibition programme and constitutes yet another point of view on what painting means today. The workshop Progettare un cielo offers a visionary approach through which to consider the very fabric of painting, and is organized in ten weekly appointments abridging Nomas Foundation, the artist’s studio, and some museums of Rome. The material produced during the workshop will be posted regularly on Nomas’ website.

Jessica Warboys inaugurates A Painting Cycle on the 8th of March with a selection of works from the series ‘Sea Paintings’ developed in Stromboli, along with a preview of the film Stone Throat (2011), shot on the island over the fall. Jessica Warboys, will be in conversation with Rita Selvaggio, Managing Director at Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris.

Jessica Warboys, born in 1977, lives and works in London and in Paris.
She studied art at the Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall and attended a Sculpture Master in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art of London
Solo exhibitions (selected): Victory Park Tree Painting, Cell Project Space, London; No more summer of incompleteness, Sutton Lane, London; Land & Sea, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine; A l’étage, Satellite 4, Jeu de Paume, Maison d’art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur-Marne; Te Motutapu a Taikehu, BF 15, Lion (2011); Ballad of the Green Hoop, Live/Film event, South London Gallery, London (2010); Parasol, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris (2009); Le Chant du Rossignol, Foundry Darling, Quartier Ephémère, Montrél, Canada (2008).
Group exhibition (selected): Au loin une île!, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris; Into the woods, Galerie des Galeries, Galerie Lafayette, Paris (2012); Au loin une île!, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux; Tableaux, Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble; Madam Realism, Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (2011); Les Vagues, Frac Carquefou, Nantes, Monsieur Mirroir, Selected for the12th Ricard Foundation Price, Espace Ricard,Paris The old sow sent them out to... they got into it and rolled down the hill. Wiels Project Room, Brussels; Solar skill, Fluxia Gallery, Milan; Poldhu, 7ème Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multimédia, Buy-Sellf Art Club, Marseille (2010).

Media partner: CURA


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