Newsletter #9, 2022

Casa Regis - center for culture and contemporary art

English version 

April 17 (Easter) OPENING RECEPTION 3-6 PM

Wine tasting offered by Lorenzo Rovero vinyards

R.S.V.P.

One month residency and solo exhibition by

Alice Sheppard Fidler

 

Imagining The Fluidity Of Permanence (an exchange between a 21st Century artist and a 17th Century building)

 

Curated by L. Mikelle Standbridge

 

Casa Regis - Center For Culture And Contemporary Art, Italy

April 18th - May 30, 2022

For  those readers with stamina for

critical texts...

 

In preparation for Alice Sheppard Fidler's solo exhibition at Casa Regis - Center For Culture And Contemporary Art, the artist will first be doing a month long residency. In part she will be producing site-specific installations that are generated from local and found materials connected to the building. In part she will be installing work that travels from one repurposed location to another in search of altered meanings and narratives inherent to new contexts.

 

A central theme throughout her work is architecture as a metaphor for an enduring presence, shifting under time and pressure. Not dissimilar to other buildings that Alice has worked in, Casa Regis was once a nobleman's house, then a nun's convent, then a place of abandonment and loss, and now an artist's venue.

 

Sliding into the area between disuse and reuse of a building, the artist highlights the human experience. Alice identifies a rigid thing, be it conceptual (a rule, a law, a social code, an idea) or be it physical (a structure, a hard surface, a wall) and then she starts working on the soft space that runs around and over the rigidity, like skin over bone. Her soft spaces are often materialized in the form of cloth or underscored by the movement and presence of the human body as she assembles. The artist also collaborates with sound artists or improv performance artists to explore the blockages or available openings in the space before concluding per pieces.

 

Permanent structures are "the pillars of society" and Alice's work, in response, depicts a thoughtful entanglement of obligation, expectation, conformity, vulnerability, struggle, and resistance.

 

However, these concepts are significant in so far as you first hear her ode to the materials. The bricks, the velvet, the sand, the galvanized steel buckets...the irony of surfaces and the uneasy placement of elements, that is how the work is expressing content.  We might even borrow a thought from Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation" where she warns that over intellectualization and interpretation is "at the expense of energy and sensual capability". The idea being to experience more immediately what is in front of us. A viewer must truly sense and feel the pressure, the humanness, the question mark in the work. The visceral reaction generates but simultaneously outweighs the concept and it is precisely this development and negation that renders the work profound.

HOW TO VISIT THE SHOW...

 

I am just loving witnessing the work-in-progress going on as Alice goes about her installations, adapting to the building and generating pieces from found materials.

 

The opening reception is Easter day, April 17 from 3-6 PM. Please reserve. The artist and her family would love to meet you.

The show will also be open on April 18 from 3-6 PM but we might have drunk up all the wine by then. The show remains open until May 30, by appointment, with a tendancy to organize visits on Saturday afternoons, but we will always find a way to accomodate any interested party.

PLease call to reserve +39 333 1995 123 / infocasaregis@gmail.com

SOME BIG THANK YOUS ARE IN ORDER!

LORENZO ROVERO WINES

 

I would like to say a few words about Lorenzo Rovero who is generously offering tastings at the opening reception. Last Fall, Lorenzo for agriculture, (along side Casa Regis for a building), won the Rotary recognition for rivitalizing an abandoned area. He is dedicated to historic techniques for taste and bio dynamics for cultivation. I invite you to visit his site!

www.LorenzoRovero.it

 

 

 

R.A.I. news interviewed

Casa Regis

 
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F.A.I.

The Springtime event hosted by F.A.I. brought unprecedented numbers of visitors to Casa Regis!

INTERNATIONAL SLOW ART DAY

 

We had a wonderfully committed group of art die hards who withstood the cold to discuss at length the work in the current show. The event was moderated by Milan curator, Art

Writer, and ex-gallery owner Erika Lacava, who brought to the table her experience from her degree in the Philosophy of Aesthetics and her current studies in Curatorial Practices.

 

Besides thanking Barbara Pavan from Arte Morbida for publishing an interview with me, I wanted to share with the world how helpful she has been in sharing information and helping artists promote themselves. Yeah Barbara!

 
INTERVIEW
 

The magazine covers national and international events.

 
www.artemorbida.com

A CREATIVE DONATION PLAN

 

Manuel Pérez de Algaba Cuenca from Las Palmas (Cannary Islands) Spain, wins the honorary title for most crative donator and he hopes to set a trend for like minded contributors. Manuel donated funds for his ideal moment : "The smell of the grass at Casa Regis at sunset, on June 24th (his birthday), while enjoying a glass of wine in Spain". He encourages, even from a distance, other folks to sponsor their own invented concepts, or adopt pieces of Casa Regis, like a door or a window, or even the view from the window! 

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Thank you for not just following our news but being part of our news.

 

L. Mikelle Standbridge

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