The Davidoff Art Residency opened in Altos de Chavón in January of this year and now halfway through their time in Altos de Chavón, each Artist in Residence will be hosting a talk on their art and their experiences.
The schedule of “Davidoff Talks” will start from tomorrow (February 25th) and run through to the end of March, each one will take place at classroom #1 of the Altos de Chavón School of Design.
The Davidoff Art Initiative and the Davidoff Art Residency was officially inaugurated in Casa de Campo recently with the 2nd annual Davidoff Art Weekend which included a welcome cocktail at the Dye Fore terrace (click here for photos) and the ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Artist in Residency studio (click here for photos).
Davidoff Talks
When:
February 25th, Soledad Salamé
March 4th, Cathleen Mooses
March 11th, Mathilde Rosier
March 18th, Alia Farid
March 25th, Nuria Montiel
Time: 7pm
Where: Classroom #1 of the Altos de Chavón School of Design, Casa de Campo
The five artists are:
Soledad Salamé (b. 1954, Santiago, Chile)
Is an interdisciplinary artist who works with printmaking, installations, painting, and sculpture. Through her work, Soledad explores the intersections between technology and the environment. Soledad holds a Bachelors of Arts from Santiago College, Santiago, Chile. In 1973, she studied Industrial and Graphic Design at the Technological Sucre, Caracas, Venezuela and in 1979 she received her M.A. for Graphic Arts Instruction for Graphic Instruction at the Consejo Nacional de la Cultura (CONAC) in Caracas, Venezuela. Soledad Salomé’s work is represented in private and public international collections such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; The Baltimore Museum of Art, in Baltimore, MD; and the University of Essex, UK. Soledad lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
Cathleen Mooses (b. 1982, Chicago, IL)
Is interested in the regulation of landscapes, people and objects within specific geographic contexts. From 2004-2009 Mooses co- founded various community art initiatives in Latin America. These projects created a platform for over forty New York City-based artists to make their work and teach art in low- income communities. In 2005, Mooses received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, New York City, NY. In 2014, Mooses finished her Masters of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art, Painting & Printmaking, New Heaven, CT. Cathleen Mooses lives and works in New York City.
Mathilde Rosier (b. 1973, Paris, France)
Works across a range of media including painting, music, performance and film. Rosier holds a Bachelor of Economic Sciences at Dauphine University, Paris. In 1994, she received a Master degree in Economic Sciences. From 1997 to 1999 Rosier studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris and in 2000, she received a diploma from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts. Her work is inspired by the aesthetics of rituals in traditional societies. In 2012, Mathilde Rosier received a Fellowship from the French Ministry Foreign Affairs ministry, where she did an anthropologic research about the groups who practice magic in present day western society. She is currently working on a performance for a theatre in Warsaw and a series of paintings for a gallery show in Milan. Mathilde Rosier currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Alia Farid (b. 1985, Kuwait/Puerto Rico)
Alia Farid is a contemporary artist who works at the intersection of art and education through the activation of spaces for critical thinking and action. Alia holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from La Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, USA; a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Visual Arts Program at MIT, Cambridge, MA; and a Masters in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain. She has completed residencies at Beta Alia Farid and Esteban Gabriel, El Monstruo Marino, 2007, Mixed media (workshop and public intervention) Local in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Casa Árabe. Córdoba, Spain; the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; and Mathaf, Doha, Qatar. She currently works at Kuwait’s Heritage and Museums Department of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters in developing public programs and enhancing cross-institutional relationships. Farid is also a curator and she recently curated the Kuwait Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for Architecture 2014. For her International Davidoff Art Residency program she will be researching pre-colonial culture and the relationship between various cultures between the Caribbean Islands.
Nuria Montiel (b. 1982, Mexico City, Mexico)
Is interested in public art as it allows a space for dialogue and collective expression. Her work has been shown in various group exhibitions including Panamericana at Kurimazutto Gallery in Mexico City, Antena at Baffler Art Museum in Houston and The New York Art Book Fair 2012, Mx Editions at MoMA PS1 in New York City, among others. She is also a member of La Galería de Comercio, a non-profit arts organization that creates public art projects in Mexico City. She studied Visual Arts at La Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (ENAP-UNAM) and attended a contemporary art class at Soma, an artist organization dedicated to cultural exchange and arts pedagogy in Mexico City. Nuria is currently in a Jackman Goldwasser residency program at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.
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Soledad Salamé (b. 1954, Santiago, Chile)
