CSAV – Artists’ Research Laboratory

Date:

July 13, 2023

Location:

Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy

Fondazione Antonio Ratti and CSAV – Artists’ Research Laboratory.

Gavin has been invited by Annie Ratti to be a guest speaker at the Artists’ Research Laboratory (CSAV) – former Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Como, Italy – run this year by artist Hilary Lloyd. He will give a public lecture on July 13 and will spend time with the students for a couple of days afterwards.

This ‘laboratory’ is at the core of the didactic activity of the Fondazione Antonio Ratti and has been running since 1995. The lab aims at expanding the practical and theoretical knowledge of visual arts, encouraging young artists from across the world to push the boundaries of art-making through an experimental approach.

Approximately 20 artists of all nationalities are carefully selected by a jury every year and invited to reside in Como for about 3/4 weeks in July. Together with the guest artist, Hilary Lloyd who has been selected to lead the program, the artists create and set-up an experimental workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to enable a dialogue between the participants and the surrounding environment, whilst broadening and deepening their knowledge of visual arts. This experience includes conferences and meetings with artists, critics and experts in a variety of disciplines, along with theoretical debates with the curators of the workshop.

All the activities of the CSAV are documented in bilingual publications.

Previous artists invited to participate at CSAV were:
Joseph Kosuth (1995), John Armleder (1996), Allan Kaprow (1997), Hamish Fulton (1998), Haim Steinbach (1999), Ilya Kabakov (2000), Marina Abramović (2001), Giulio Paolini (2002), Richard Nonas (2003), Jimmie Durham (2004), Alfredo Jaar (2005), Marjetica Potrč (2006), Joan Jonas (2007), Yona Friedman (2008), Walid Raad (2009), Hans Haacke (2010), Susan Hiller (2011), Liliana Moro (2012), Matt Mullican (2013), Tacita Dean (2014), Yvonne Rainer and Andrea Kleine (2015), Renée Green (2016), Hannah Black, Michael Dean, Russell Haswell and Karl Holmqvist (2017), Christina Mackie (2018), Ei Arakawa and Nora Schultz (2019), John Knight (2022).

Curators of the programme to date:
Kasper König (2019), Lorenzo Benedetti (2016), Emanuela De Cecco (2015), Simone Menegoi (2013–2014), Andrea Lissoni (2011–2012), Cesare Pietroiusti (2007–2011), Anna Daneri (2006–2010; assistant and coordinator from 1995 to 2011), Luca Cerizza (2008), Roberto Pinto (2004–2007), Giacinto di Pietrantonio (1995–2004), and Angela Vettese (1995–2003).

Associate directors of the programme until the present moment:
Gregorio Magnani (2017–2022), Lorenzo Benedetti (2017–2022).

Gavin Bryars