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Memories: From the Experience to the Construction of the Past
LoosenArt | MILLEPIANI Art Space
Rome, Italy

CATALOGUE Memories: From the Experience to the Construction of the Past



EXHIBITION: VISUAL CULTURE 2020
CICA MUSEUM | Seoul, South Korea
March 2020
Featured Artists: William A. Brown, Minyoung Kang /강민영, Agatha Park, Sigal Ben-David & Les St. Leon, Jennifer Sova & Jeanne Donegan
[Important Update] ISVC 2020 has been postponed until September 19th, 2020 due to
concerns about the spread of COVID-19.




INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM FOR
VISUAL CULTURE
3255 K ST NW,
Georgetown, Washington, D.C. 20007
September 19th, 2020
Featuring
Sigal Ben-David & Les St. Leon
William A. Brown
Min young Kang
Eliseo Ortiz
Agatha Park
Jennifer Sova & Jeanne Donegan
organized by CICA Museum
We invites artists, scholars, and researchers worldwide and local communities to participate in the International Symposium for Visual Culture (ISVC). The community of artists, researchers and academics meets in the international symposium and participates in the exhibition.
ISVC is an international platform for diverse and critical perspectives on visual culture. Through ISVC, we aims to create a global network of researchers/artists and consumers/makers of visual culture, and foster critical thoughts and in-depth understanding of visual culture on a global scale.
Schedule
March 14, 2020 10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Registration
March 14, 2020 10:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. ISVC Sessions
-Sigal Ben-David & Les St. Leon
-William A. Brown
-Min young Kang
-Eliseo Ortiz
-Agatha Park
-Jennifer Sova & Jeanne Donegan
March 14 , 2020 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. ISVC Pop-up Show & Party
-Art show & presentations, VR and art book showcase, wine and light refreshments. Single Event Pass available. (more info)
March 14 , 2020 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. After Party
***The schedule is subject to change.

ISVC 2020 | CICA MUSEUM | Presenters

ISVC 2020 | CICA MUSEUM | Presenters

ISVC 2020 | CICA MUSEUM | Presenters
Foot-Print-Free City
Washington Square Park / New York City
July 12, 2019


Eclectic Collective
by Paul Smart / November 23, 2018
Ever so quietly, a fairly new Woodstock gallery — Collective — has been gaining audience and buzz around town through enterprising exhibitions and events, and a keen sense of purpose that fits the shifting ethos of our times like a glove.
On the morning after an experimental film screening and arts happening this past Saturday, and the eve of a pop up show featuring a new photo series from Marainna Rothen set for this coming Saturday, November 24, Collective founder and curator Jicky Schnee talked about what got her started as a gallerist, and keeps what she’s created singular, yet also hyper-relevant.
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Collective’s shows over the past year have included curated groupings entitled “Into the Woods,” Red Thread: Good Grief,” The Fusion of Identity and Idolatry,” Shaking the Dreamland Tree,” and “Seen and Unseen.” For each, Schnee writes a conjoining statement that’s far from artspeak, and designed to engage and spark.
…Seen and Unseen is an examination from all angles, political, global, personal, conceptual, and theoretical, of that which is perceived and that which is unobserved or even invisible.”
Names of artists who’ve shown at Collective’s innovatively hung and truly contemporary exhibits are both new and treasured. Among them: Melissa Dadourian, Sigal Ben-David, Les St. Leon, Eddy Martelly, Anne Mailey, Terry Jones, Nin Brudermann, Janine Iversen, Robert Ohnigian, Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Alice Schavoir, Jessie Kolter, Raina Hamner, Luis Robayo, Emily Roberts-Negron, Chris Victor, Alex Hoerner, Erik Brunetti, Fionn Reilly, Nadja Petrov, Will Lytle, and Schnee herself.
By Paul Smart / HV1 / November 23, 2018

Sigal Ben-David & Les St. Leon, Gathering | My Playground of Others’ Memories, 2017 │ Buy it
Memories: From the Experience to the Construction of the Past
ITALY
2018 October
Gathering | My Playground of Others’ Memories
2014-2017 | Archival pigment print on FineArt cotton paper
120 mm color | 28.5x28.5in (72x72cm)
appears in exhibition in Rome.
Author Silvia Colombo
Memories │ 5th October - 1st November 2018
The exhibition season at the Space Millepiani in Rome starts again with Memories, open to public from the 5th of October to the 1st of November 2018. Memory - as already suggested by the title - is the main theme of this collective exhibition showing photographic and digital artworks made by a group of artists coming from all over the world.
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Public and private, personal and collective are the two conflicting protagonists of the exhibition. Those who worked on the first aspect were able to create pictures centred on roots, families, grief (for a loss) or hope (for the future). The result is a personal diary built on images potentially causing a visual ‘madeleine effect’: hit by those visual fragments, the public is immediately involved in other people’s story, in other people’s life.
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It is not important whether they represent details, portraits or still lifes: either poetic compositions, old family pictures as well as unfamiliar scenes can suddenly become our stories too.
All in all, Memories can be considered as an exhibition on our world, as captured by the artist’s eye and then graphically reinterpreted, consciously corrupted, otherwise reproduced.