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Stefano Arienti
Stefano Arienti (b. 1961) is a leading mid-career Italian artist and Artist-in-Residence at the Gardner Museum in 2004, and has been exhibiting widely since his first solo show at Studio Corrado Levi in 1986. His exhibitions include the Milano Europa 2000 Triennial, the 3rd International Istanbul Biennial, the Hara Museum in Japan. Arienti was the subject of a major retrospective at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and the Maxxi Museum, Rome. Recently selected as Artist-in-Residence at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas, Arienti shows with Studio Guenzani, Milan and the Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York. Arienti currently lives and works in Milan.
Anne Nivat
Anne Nivat is a writer and reporter who works as a French correspondent
to Moscow for the weekly French newspaper, Liberation. Her
book Chienne de Guerre – winner of the Albert Londres
prize – is a war correspondent’s report of the
Chechnyan conflict and a moving story of a young woman’s
struggle and self-discovery. As a visiting Artist-in-Residence,
Nivat will write and think at the Museum, while observing the
Democratic Convention in Boston.
Andrea Anastasio
Andrea Anastasio is a cosmopolitan transcultural soul and artist; part designer, art philosopher , part writer. Born in Rome, Anastasio traveled to India at age18 where he discovered another world – a non Euro-centric world. Now 25 years later, 11 years of which he has spent in India, he has developed a deep and layered knowledge of art, religious studies, music, theater and philosophy. Anastasio obtained a degree in philosophy from the University of Venice and it was his interest in philosophy and history that opened the doors to the Memphis Group. This team of Italian designers and architects created highly influential products in the 1980's by challenging the idea that products had to follow conventional shapes, colors, textures and patterns. More recently Anastasio has been creating objects for domestic spaces utilizing materials originally thought for high tech industrial purposes or found on construction sites as well as rich textiles and garments. Andrea Anastasio came to the Gardner Museum under two roles: one as Artist-in-Residence, and one as exhibition designer and collaborator for the Chairs exhibition (February 11–May 8, 2005). Anastasio spent his residency working on several projects and doing research on the anthropological aspects of the chair and later gave an Eye of the Beholder Lecture on the cultural, economic and political facets of chairs.
Danijel Zezelj
Danijel Zezelj started publishing comics during his first year a the the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and is now the author of more than twenty graphic novels and short comics collections. Originally from Croatia, Danijel lived and worked in the U.K. and Italy before moving to the United States in 1995. Zezelj’s illustrations and comic stories are poetic and examine the darker side of life, reflecting his comfort in a Kafkaesque world. Zezelj’s art speaks in a language easily understood and appreciated by a younger generation. Since 1997 the artist has also created a series of multi-media performances in collaboration with musician/composer Jessica Lurie and writers/pilots Greiner and Dropilak that premiered in Italy, Croatia and the U.S.A. As an Artist-in-Residence at the Gardner Museum, Zezelj presented two performances, The Hunger Artist and Small Hands. |
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