XVI Advanced Course in Visual Arts. 2010. Give and take

The exhibition, staged in three different venues at Fabbrica del Vapore, gives the opportunity to know the work of the international artists selected for the course, whose projects were carried out during the seminar conducted by Hans Haacke.
Give and take will present installations, performances, videos, photographs and drawings that tackle in a variety of ways the theme developed together with the Visiting Professor.
During the workshop, Hans Haacke analysed with the young selected artists the different existing relationships between themselves and their place of origin; a similar modality of research was conducted towards Como and towards the context in which the artists worked during the period of the course, which introduced significant elements to the whole project.
The course created an occasion to reflect upon the concept of ‘site-specificity’ and of ‘significance’ of a particular object, image, practice or action.

On display the works of the nineteen artists who attended the workshop held in Como during the month of July: Julia Brown (USA), Antonia Carrara (ITALY), Danilo Correale (ITALY), Abbey Shaine Dubin (USA), Laura Duran (COLOMBIA), Birte Endrejat (GERMANY), Fausto Falchi (ITALY), Till Gathmann (GERMANY), Adelita Husni-Bey (ITALY), Kentaro Ikegami (JAPAN), François Lemieux (CANADA), Eric Martijn (NETHERLANDS), Ludovic Méhauté (FRANCE), Emily Morant (AUSTRALIA), Elaine Marianne Reynolds (IRELAND), Fabrizio Sartori (ITALY), Walter Benjamin Smith (USA), Elisa Strinna (ITALY), Oriol Vilanova (SPAIN).