fine ARTS 2010-2011 - The British School at Rome

I NTRODUCTIONThe new academic year started in earnest in October 2010 with the first of three informal presentations by Fine Arts andHumanities scholars at the School, as well as the participation of resident architects Alison Crawshaw and Léa-CatherineSzacka (invited by Lorenzo Pignatti, Director of the Rome Programme of University of Waterloo School of Architecture)as guest tutors, alongside colleagues from the American Academy and two Rome based practices, IAN+ and Insula, in theinternational design workshop The Re-thinking of a Section of Via dei Fori Imperiali, organized by AACUPI and held at theTestaccio branch of the School of Architecture of University Roma Tre.Visits to twentieth-century sites in Rome this year included the film studios at Cinecittà; a walk through EURencompassing visits to Adalberto Libera’s Palazzo dei Congressi, Gaetano Minnucci’s Palazzo degli Uffici and, for thefirst time, a glimpse of the newly restored Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana; and Garbatella’s council housing estates. Theyearly informal programme of film screenings ‘Contemporary Rome in Postwar Cinema’ included Rossellini’s RomeOpen City, De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, the omnibus film L’amore in città, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, Pasolini’s Accattone,Antonioni’s L’eclisse.The first Fine Arts scholars’ exhibition of the academic year, titled Meet Me at the Cemetery Gates, opened on 10December. The exhibition presented works by artists Joanna Bryniarska, Richard Gasper, Martin Sims, David Smith, EmmaStibbon, and architects Alison Crawshaw and Léa-Catherine Szacka. On Friday 18 December Léa-Catherine gave a lectureon her research subject, the groundbreaking exhibition Roma interrotta held at Trajan’s Markets in 1978.The second Fine Arts exhibition of the academic year, The Producers, opened on 11 March 2011. The works on displaywere created by artists Janet Haslett, Mick Finch, Richard Gasper, Barbie Kjar, Annee Miron, Elizabeth Price, DianaTaylor, and architect Alison Crawshaw. The public praised the exhibition’s installational character, including AlisonCrawshaw’s work The Big Balcony, involving the entire façade of the BSR, with a video projection and a documentarydisplay, related to her research on illegal building activities in Rome; Janet Haslett’s and Diana Taylor’s installation IsolaSacra in the atrium; and a wall painting by Diana Taylor.On 12 April, Léa-Catherine Szacka came back to Rome to present a paper on Roma interrotta at the international dayconference Grand Tour del Terzo Millennio, organized yearly by professor Claudia Conforti at the Department of Civil1-3. Alison Crawshaw, Léa-Catherine Szacka, and their students’ presentation at the AACUPI workshop, University Roma Tre, October 20101326Fine Arts 2010-2011