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Cross-pollination between Art, Technology and Nature

until April 7,2019

courtyard of the Ca’ Foscari University (Venice)

VENINI presents Sowers, the large-scale work bearing the signatures of artist Maria Rebecca Ballestra and architects Lino and Elia Barone, realized by the historical glassworks’ master craftsmen. Mounted in the courtyard of Ca’ Foscari University , the installation bears witness to VENINI ‘s sensitivity to environmental.

Cross pollination between art, technology and nature is the subtitle of the large-scale architectural installation which will remain on display from December 2, 2018 to April 7, 2019.

Made of some 800 glass

Artist selected for Resonances Summer School Workshop
Ispra, from 27 June to 29 June 2018
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission intends to activate rapprochement between the arts and the sciences of the last decades in its daily practice.  To that end it established a project in art and science: SciArt. SciArt investigates this growing movement and to map these changes on a philosophical, scientific and artistic level.  The flagship initiative of the project is the Resonances Festival, which brings together artists, scientists and policymakers around themes central to

Labrys è un progetto di arte contemporanea ideato e realizzato dell’artista visiva Maria Rebecca Ballestra che, come suggerisce il titolo stesso, indaga il tema – simbolico e visivo – del labirinto, prendendo spunto dalla lettura dei testi di Julien Friedler The Truth of the Labyrinth. Il progetto si è sviluppato durante due anni attraverso nove tappe, ciascuna delle quali si è concretizzata nella realizzazione di una o più opere d’arte, frutto di collaborazioni con altri protagonisti del mondo del contemporaneo (artisti, coreografi, attori, scrittori, e così via…), e

Curated by Camilla Boemio
7th – 28 April 2018
Durden and Ray Gallery – Los Angeles (USA)

Artists: Maria Rebecca Ballestra, Giulio Lacchini, Ryts Monet and Maria Antonietta Scarpari

In April, Durden and Ray will present “Fragments,” a group show highlighting Italian artists and curated by Camilla Boemio of Rome, who has curated several exhibitions at the Venice Biennale. In 2013, Boemio was deputy curator of “Portable Nation,” in the Maldives Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition La Biennale of Venice. In 2016, she was the curator of “Diminished Capacity,” the first Nigerian Pavilion at

curated by Maria Eugenia Cordero
6th April – 3 June 2018 
MNBA (Museo National de Bellas Artes) – Neuquem Argentina 
The Artist Residence Program Barda del Desierto is a project that aims to resignify the space / concept of  “desert” with its geographical, cultural, natural, social and historical features, opening the possibility of multiple processes of reflections. The works presented in this exhibition, although they belong to a non-linear cut of the artists’ production, resonates in the common experiences. LANDSCAPE / DESERT / PHYSICAL / AFFECTIVE / TEMPORARY -IDENTITY MAPS / COLLECTIVE MEMORIES / TERRITORIAL

I have the pleasure to present my project Festival for the Earth in a roundtable discussion during the TransCultural Exchange’s 2018 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Exploring New Horizons from February 22 – 24, 2018 in Québec City, Canada. TransCultural Exchange’s Conferences are the place for artists around the world to meet with their international peers and those who support their work. They provide artists with the networks, inspiration, tools and resources to pursue their dreams. Introduce artists to critics, curators, funders and artist-in-residency directors.

L’indagine sulla relazione tra uomo e natura, archetipo ed eterno mistero da esplorare per artisti, scienziati, scrittori e filosofi sulle origini della vita. La mostra ‘Morphosis, a tension between man and nature’ di Maria Rebecca Ballestra e curata da Clive Adams presso la Green Lounge di Galleria Cavour, è realizzata in collaborazione con Galleria Spazio Testoni (Bologna), Unimediamodern (Genova) e nm>contemporary (Principato di Monaco) e con il patrocinio del CCANW (Center for Contemporary Art and Natural World) e del CREA (Consiglio per la

Euvres concues pendant le résidence de l’artiste entre 2016 et 2017

“Ifana” est un projet artistique inspiré à un de lieu le plus emblematique du desert des Agriates, Ifana. Construite au 17e siècle pour répondre à la politique génoise de développement de l’agriculture, la ferme d’Ifana sera tout d’abord gérée par la famille aristocratique génoise des Spinola. L’histoire du domaine suit l’histoire de la Corse: après 1769, confisqué sous l’Ancien Régime, ballotté entre bien national (sous la Révolution) et propriété privée, il finit par être acquis par

Labrys è un progetto di arte contemporanea dell’artista visiva Maria Rebecca Ballestra che, come suggerisce il titolo stesso, indaga il tema – simbolico e visivo – del labirinto, prendendo spunto dalla lettura dei testi di Julien Friedler The Truth of the Labyrinth. Il progetto, a cura di Giorgia Gastaldon, si è sviluppato negli ultimi due anni attraverso nove tappe, ciascuna delle quali si è concretizzata nella realizzazione di una o più opere d’arte, frutto di collaborazioni con altri soggetti del mondo del contemporaneo (artisti, coreografi, attori, scrittori, e

Al Salone della CSR e dell’innovazione sociale che si svolge a Milano, Università Bocconi il 3 e il 4 ottobre, l’arte della sostenibilità si mette in mostra. Al Salone si potranno infatti ammirare 4 installazioni di artisti che si confrontano con il tema della sostenibilità ambientale e sociale:

Francesco Arecco (legno)
Marco Cordero (ferro)
Caterina Crepax (carta)
Arlette Vermerein (plastica)

Il giorno 5 ottobre si avvia poi una mostra, nello spazio espositivo della Società di Progettazione Lombardini22, dove ai primi artisti citati si aggiungeranno altri colleghi, per declinare il medesimo tema con opere in dialogo

Anthropology of the Anthropocene: Structures, Theories, Practices is a workshop organized by the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) that brings together anthropologists and leading thinkers in policy, theory, philosophy, science, art, humanities, urban planning, and law who have been tackling the sociocultural frameworks and experiences of the Anthropocene. The goal of this workshop is to tackle large multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary questions about anthropology’s role in the Anthropocene as we collectively examine how new research methods might advance current theoretical and applied frameworks. This workshop is a project of Rivers

One week creative project on “Water, Art, Anthropology, and the

Anthropocene” in collaboration with the anthropologist Fiona McDonald, as a 2017 Visiting Researcher at the SFAI. A collaborative project that advances understandings between art and anthropology relating to the environment and relation between deserts and water.