位于北京798厂的意中艺术工作室是一个以组织和策划
视觉艺术项目为主要实践的意大利艺术空间,由罗萨利欧(Rosario Scarpato) 和莫
妮卡(Monica Piccioni)创立。自2002年以来,一直积极致力于推广中国和国际的当
代艺术。意中艺术工作室的意大利语名称是offiCina,字面上是 “车间、工房
”的意思,此外它还有一个引申义,即一个艺术与文化的孕育之地。而且在意
大利语中Cina是“中国”,所以在offiCina中“C”被大写了
。我们与国际艺术家和策展人、公共团体和私人机构合作,策划艺术展览,组织文化
活动、研讨会以及影片、影像展映活动,并联络相关艺术媒体及大发行量的综合类报
纸对此进行报导和评论。我们也为艺术品收藏充当顾问。
意中艺术工作室与北京地区内的众多国际机构(它们有意
大利使馆文化处、歌德学院、英国文化协会,以及荷兰使馆文化处等)、意大利国内
的一些重要机构(如:那不勒斯省政府、特尔尼、罗马、米兰、维泰博市政府等),
以及中国及海外的多家博物馆有密切的合作。在过去的几年里,开始与独立策展人布
鲁诺•迪•马里诺(Bruno Di Marino)、基焦托•德尔•维基奥
(Gigiotto Del Vecchio),以及冯博一等合作组织项目。2003年,开始参与一些国
际短片及影像电影节,如罗马群岛国际电影节(Arcipelago)和米兰Invideo影像电
影节,向世界推广中国新兴艺术家的作品。2003至2004年,策划了展览《光阴》,第
一次在意大利展出了中国先锋艺术中具有代表性的影像和摄影作品(其中包括陈羚羊
的《十二花月》、海波的《黄昏》,以及尹秀珍的《尹秀珍》等);2006年,在北京
和广州展出《触电》,一个关于意大利影像艺术在30年间(1973-2006)的回顾,展
示了80多个艺术家的90件作品;接下来的一年,我们展出了保罗•治奥利
(Paolo Gioli,意大利实验摄影家及电影人)的一批50X60厘米波拉照片和影片。这
次在北京展出的其一部分 印放在纸张上的针孔摄影作品是他在1983年于巴黎蓬皮杜
国家艺术与文化中心的展览中的创作。早在1993年,评论家阮义忠就在权威刊物《摄
影家》的第九期上向中国的观众介绍了保罗•治奥利,但在意中艺术工作室的这
次个展是第一次在中国展示这位意大利艺术家独一无二的艺术作品;2005至2009年,
我们参与策划了展览《地图游戏:变化动力》,由24位中国和国际艺术家、建筑师参
展,其中的许多作品是专门为这次展览特别创作的。展览陆续在北京、伯明翰和特尔
尼3个城市进行,探索了“地图”在飞速发展的中国大都市里的角色。
意大利艺术评论家Marcello
Smarrelli、Andrea Bellini,以及中国的方振宁等,对意中艺术工作室的活动发表
过评论并写作有文章。意大利以及国际多家重要媒体,如Flash Art国际版、Exibart
、艺术家、中国当代艺术新闻、艺术地图、Domus中国、艺术财经、意大利24小时太
阳报(Il Sole24 ore)、安莎通讯社、Diario、L’Espresso、Alias、
Liberazione、意大利电视台RAI TG1早间新闻报道、北京青年周刊、周末画报、中国
日报、雅昌艺术网、中国艺术新闻网、搜狐文化频道等都对意中艺术工作室的展览和
活动进行过报道。
主要活动:
“地图游戏:变化动力
”,国际视觉艺术暨建筑项,冯博一、莫妮卡、罗萨利欧、沙妩诺联合策展[艺
术家:艾未未、Sarah Beddington、Anna Boggon、陈劭雄、David Cotterrell、
Andrea Gotti、关矢、李巨川、林一林、Michael Najjar、白双全、Perino &
Vele、沙妩诺(Varvara Shavrova)、唐晖、Hugo Tillman、汪建伟、吴文光、尹秀
珍、袁顺;建筑师:(马切拉Marcella Campa、思凡诺Stefano Avesani)/
instanthutong.com、马清运/ MADA s.p.a.m.、马岩松/ MAD、王辉/ URBANUS、Winy
Maas / MVRDV](北京今日美术馆、英国伯明翰博物馆和艺术画廊、意大利特尔尼
Siri工业区艺术中心(CAOS),2008-2009)
“轻声”:摄影、绘画、影像展,莫妮卡策展
[艺术家:崔秉宽(Choi Byungkwan)、方振宁、法比奥•马西莫•雅廓内
(Fabio Massimo Iaquone)、完圭(Oan Kyu)、谭平](意中艺术工作室,北京,
2008-2009)
“全景罗马|
全景博洛尼亚”(意大利多媒体艺术团体ZimmerFrei制作):讲述及放映,与
布鲁诺•迪•马里诺合作(意大利使馆文化处,北京,2008)
“咖啡机与茶杯”:吉罗拉莫
•马里装置展(意中艺术工作室,北京,2008)
“走遍那不勒斯日+ 意大利电影导演 Pappi
Corsicato艺术短片放映”,与那不勒斯省旅游局合作(东京画廊,北京,2008
)
“Private View”
: 摄影、影像展,莫妮卡策展 [艺术家:梁玥, 黛博拉•威利齐(Debora
Vrizzi),汪建伟,邢丹文,杨勇、庄辉](意中艺术工作室,北京,2008)
“蓝色工房—— 手上
时光,影像中的地中海”,讲述及放映,莫妮卡、罗萨利欧策展(意大利使馆
文化处,北京,2007)
“
保罗•治奥利——三十幅50 X 60厘米波拉照片和他的五部电影
”,与Paolo Vampa合(意中艺术工作室、意大利使馆文化处,北京,2007)
“敏感的环境 – 互
动参与作品:关于蓝色工房的历史及创作学术研讨会”,“设计之都、米
兰制造”设计展 ,与米兰市政府、省政府及米兰商会合作(北京今日美术馆,
2007)
“第6届罗马国际纪
录片电影节–中国当代单元”:莫妮卡、罗萨利欧、张献民策展[导演:
赵亮、于广义、仲华、周浩-吉江红](Trevi电影院,罗马国家电影资料馆Cineteca
Nazionale,罗马,2007)
“潜在的信息”:完圭个展,莫妮卡策展(意中艺术工作室,北京,2007
)
“冰/火,省略”:
保罗•迪•卡普个展,罗萨利欧策展(意中艺术工作室,北京,2006)
“维苏威火山”:那不勒
斯艺术家的影像作品”,与那不勒斯省文化局合作,基焦托•德尔•
维基奥策展[艺术家:戈布里艾莱•迪•玛泰奥 (Gabriele di Matteo)、皮
耶罗•高利亚 (Piero Golia)、玛丽内拉•塞纳托莱 (Marinella
Senatore)、劳伦佐•斯科托•迪•卢奇奥 (Lorenzo Scotto di
Luzio)、卢卡•玛泰 (Luca Mattei)、马斯/比安科-瓦兰特
(Mass/Biancovalente)、卢奇奥•隆高/普蓝克 (Lucio Luongo/Plank)](798时
态空间,北京,2006)
“
触电”:70年代至今的意大利影像艺术”,布鲁诺•迪•马里诺
策展(1973-2006)
(中央美术学院,北京;广东美术馆,广州,2006)
“光阴”:装置、摄
影、影像展,莫妮卡策展[艺术家:陈羚羊、崔岫闻、海波、韩磊、邢丹文、尹秀珍
、王宁](维泰博、罗马,2003-2004)
Located in Beijing Factory 798, offiCina beijing
is an Italian exhibiting space and a curatorial practice focusing on
visual art projects. Founded by Rosario Scarpato and Monica Piccioni,
since 2002 it actively promotes Chinese and international contemporary
art. Its name translates the Italian word for ‘workshop,
atelier’ and also alludes in a figurative way to a place where art
and culture are fostered. We curate art exhibitions, organize cultural
events, seminars, film and video screenings in cooperation with
international artists and curators, public and private bodies, involving
art related media and wide circulation papers. We also act as consultants
for the purchase of artworks.
offiCina worked closely with international
organizations in Beijing [among them, the Cultural Office of the Italian
Embassy, Goethe Institut, British Council, the Cultural Section of the
Dutch Embassy], Italian institutions [such as Naples Provincial
Government, the City Council of Terni, Rome, Milan, Viterbo] as well as
museums in China and abroad. In the last few years collaborated with
independent curators Bruno Di Marino, Gigiotto Del Vecchio and Feng Boyi.
In 2003 participated to international short film and video festival such
as Arcipelago [Rome] and Invideo [Milan] promoting works of emerging
Chinese artists. In 2003-2004 curated the exhibition guangYIN exhibiting
for the first time in Italy some fundamental video and photographic works
of the Chinese avant-garde [among them, Chen Lingyang’s 12 Flower
Months, Hai Bo’s Dusk, Yin Xiuzhen’s Yin Xiuzhen]. In 2006, we
presented in Beijing and Guangzhou Elettroshock, an overview of 30 years
of Italian video (1973-2006) showcasing more than 80 authors and 90 works.
The following year, we exhibited a group of 50x60 polaroids and films by
Italian experimental photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli. A portion of
the pinhole works on paper presented in Beijing was created by the author
for his 1983’s show at the Musée National d’Art
Moderne, Centre George Pompidou in Paris. Back in 1993, the critic Ruan
Yizhong had introduced Paolo Gioli to Chinese audience in the prestigious
Chinese magazine Photographers International (issue no. 9) but the solo
show at offiCina was the first occasion to see in China the Italian
author’s unique artistic production. From 2005 to 2009, we curated
Map Games: Dynamics of Change, a show combining works – many of
which were especially commissioned for the exhibition – by 24
Chinese and international artists and architects. Presented in three
cities [Beijing, Birmingham and Terni] this show explores the role of the
map within the rapidly expanding urban metropolis of China.
The Italian art critics Marcello
Smarrelli, Andrea Bellini and in China Fang Zhenning wrote reviews and
articles on offiCina’s projects; Italian and foreign magazines and
papers [such as Flash Art International, Exibart, Artist, Chinese
Contemporary Art News, Art Map, Domus China, Art Value, Il Sole24 ore,
ANSA News Agency, Diario, L’Espresso, Alias, Liberazione, Italian
Television RAI TG1 morning news service, Beijing Youth Weekly, Spaces,
Modern Weekly, China Daily, Artron Net, Art News, Cul.sohu.com
etc…] extensively covered our exhibition and events.
Selected projects:
Map Games: Dynamics of Change.
Visual art and architecture project 2005-2008. curated by Feng Boyi,
Monica Piccioni, Rosario Scarpato, Varvara Shavrova [artists: Ai Weiwei,
Sarah Beddington, Anna Boggon, Chen Shaoxiong, David Cotterrell, Andrea
Gotti, Guan Shi, Li Juchuan, Lin Yilin, Michael Najjar, Pak Sheung Chuen,
Perino & Vele, Varvara Shavrova, Tang Hui, Hugo Tillman, Wang Jianwei,
Wu Wenguang, Yin Xiuzhen, Yuan Shun; architects: Marcella Campa, Stefano
Avesani / instanthutong.com), Ma Qingyun / MADA s.p.a.m, Ma Yansong / MAD,
Wang Hui / URBANUS, Winy Maas / MVRDV], [Beijing Today Art Museum,
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, CAOS (Centro per le Arti Opificio
Siri), Terni, 2008-2009];
Sottovoce: photography, painting,
video exhibition curated by Monica Piccioni [artists: Choi Byungkwan, Fang
Zhenning, Fabio Massimo Iaquone, Oan Kyu, Tan Ping], [offiCina, Beijing,
2008-2009];
Panorama Roma | Panorama Bologna by Italian
multimedia group ZimmerFrei: presentation and projection in collaboration
with Bruno Di Marino [Italian Embassy Cultural Office, Beijing, 2008];
Coffee Machines and Tea Cups: Girolamo Marri’s
installations [offiCina, Beijing, 2008];
Nonsolonapoli day +
projection of short films on art by Italian film director Pappi Corsicato
[Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, 2008];
Private View:
photography and video exhibition curated by Monica Piccioni [artists:
Liang Yue, Debora Vrizzi, Wang Jianwei, Xing Danwen, Yang Yong, Zhuang
Hui], [offiCina, Beijing, 2008];
Studio Azzurro: The gesture
in harmony with time - A visual itinerary through the Mediterranean,
presentation and projection curated by Monica Piccioni and Rosario
Scarpato (Italian Embassy Cultural Office, Beijing, 2007);
Paolo Gioli: Thirty 50 x 60 Polaroids and Five Films, in collaboration
with Paolo Vampa [offiCina and Italian Embassy Cultural Office, Beijing,
2007];
Sensitive Environments - Interactive and Participative
Works: Seminar about Studio Azzurro history and production. Within the
framework of the exhibition Milano Made in Design [Beijing Today Art
Museum, 2007];
VI Edition Romadocfest, programme of
documentaries on Contemporary China curated by Monica Piccioni, Rosario
Scarpato, Zhang Xianmin [directors: Zhao Liang, Yu Guangyi, Zhong Hua,
Zhou Hao-Ji Jianghong], [Cinema Sala Trevi Cineteca Nazionale, Rome,
2007];
Subliminal messages: Oan Kyu’s solo exhibition
curated by Monica Piccioni [offiCina, Beijing, 2007];
Ice /
fire, omissis: Paolo Di Capua’s solo exhibition curated by Rosario
Scarpato [offiCina and Italian Embassy Cultural Office, Beijing, 2006]
;
Vesuvius: video works of Neapolitan artists curated by
Gigiotto Del Vecchio [artists: Gabriele di Matteo, Piero Golia, Marinella
Senatore, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Luca Mattei, Mass / Biancovalente,
Lucio Luongo/Plank], [798 Space, Beijing, 2006];
Elettroshock: video in Italy since the 1970s’ curated by Bruno Di
Marino (1973-2006) [Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Guangdong
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2006];
guangYIN: installations,
photography, video exhibition curated by Monica Piccioni [artists: Chen
Lingyang, Cui Xiuwen, Hai Bo, Han Lei, Xing Danwen, Yin XiuZhen, Wang
Ning], [Viterbo, Rome, 2003-04].