Laura F. Gibellini, "Eclipse"
NFS. Digital print 16 x 19 5/8 inches. 2022.
Artist statement
My art practice is process-based and formalized mostly through drawing, site specific environmental installations, video and writing. I am interested in the idea of the diagram, and how certain pieces can relate to others, or to the materials that created them, establishing relationships beyond the timing of the making, the theme or the initial intention, creating a new mesh of meaning, a form of poetic. My most recent body of work reflects upon the possibilities of representing that which has no stable form and is basic for life (air, water and time) and considers how the difficulties of visualizing the atmospheric conditions of a given site affects our understanding of the world order. I am working now on trying to visualize what goes around the marks of a two-year old (my own daughter)—that testify not a predetermined intention but her willingness to express, an energy that is condensed around a gesture. There is an implicit gap in this type of representations, which can never be made complete. Such gaps testify to how that which remains un-representable becomes unacknowledged, and how the unacknowledged becomes unthinkable. My work is an attempt to explore the gaps and the possibilities of thinking the unthinkable, of creating images of that which has not yet been seen.
Artist bio
Laura F. Gibellini is a process-based artist. She teaches at Complutense University in Madrid and is a faculty member of the the MFA in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts I SVA in NYC. Gibellini’s work has been shown in international venues such as NF / Nieves Fernández (Madrid); Matadero (Madrid); CCCB/Centro de Cultura Contemporánea (Barcelona); el Museo de Los Sures (NYC); la Accademia di Belle Arti (Roma); Carpe Díem. Arte e Pesquisa (Lisbon); ICI (NYC); The Boston Center for the Arts (Boston); Anthology Films Archives (NYC); Artist Space (NYC); La Casa Encendida (Madrid); MAC (A Coruña); BIAM (Amposta); Loop (Barcelona); Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe); AC Institute (NYC); NurtureArt (NYC); Mass Moca (Massachusets); Slowtrack (Madrid); Le Cube (Rabat) or UCCA (Beijing). In 2013 she completed her first permanent public art installation commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit & Urban Design for three subway stations in New York City. Gibellini is the author of books such as Construyendo un Lugar /Constructing a Place p Madrid: Complutense University,2012, Atmospheric Meditations. Before Present (338 U-710 U) edited by Nocapaper Books & More and Slowtrack (Madrid ) in 2016 and by Publication Studio (Hudson) in 2017 or Drawing a Mountain, Hudson: Publication Studio, 2020. Gibellini has been a recent fellow at the Spanish Academy in Rome (2016-2017) and an artist in residence at The Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity (Alberta, Canada, 2017), the ISCP (NYC, 2011),The Aldrich Foundation (Connecticut, 2010) and the Künstlerhaus Glogauer (Berlin, 2007).
NFS. Digital print 16 x 19 5/8 inches. 2022.
Artist statement
My art practice is process-based and formalized mostly through drawing, site specific environmental installations, video and writing. I am interested in the idea of the diagram, and how certain pieces can relate to others, or to the materials that created them, establishing relationships beyond the timing of the making, the theme or the initial intention, creating a new mesh of meaning, a form of poetic. My most recent body of work reflects upon the possibilities of representing that which has no stable form and is basic for life (air, water and time) and considers how the difficulties of visualizing the atmospheric conditions of a given site affects our understanding of the world order. I am working now on trying to visualize what goes around the marks of a two-year old (my own daughter)—that testify not a predetermined intention but her willingness to express, an energy that is condensed around a gesture. There is an implicit gap in this type of representations, which can never be made complete. Such gaps testify to how that which remains un-representable becomes unacknowledged, and how the unacknowledged becomes unthinkable. My work is an attempt to explore the gaps and the possibilities of thinking the unthinkable, of creating images of that which has not yet been seen.
Artist bio
Laura F. Gibellini is a process-based artist. She teaches at Complutense University in Madrid and is a faculty member of the the MFA in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts I SVA in NYC. Gibellini’s work has been shown in international venues such as NF / Nieves Fernández (Madrid); Matadero (Madrid); CCCB/Centro de Cultura Contemporánea (Barcelona); el Museo de Los Sures (NYC); la Accademia di Belle Arti (Roma); Carpe Díem. Arte e Pesquisa (Lisbon); ICI (NYC); The Boston Center for the Arts (Boston); Anthology Films Archives (NYC); Artist Space (NYC); La Casa Encendida (Madrid); MAC (A Coruña); BIAM (Amposta); Loop (Barcelona); Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe); AC Institute (NYC); NurtureArt (NYC); Mass Moca (Massachusets); Slowtrack (Madrid); Le Cube (Rabat) or UCCA (Beijing). In 2013 she completed her first permanent public art installation commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit & Urban Design for three subway stations in New York City. Gibellini is the author of books such as Construyendo un Lugar /Constructing a Place p Madrid: Complutense University,2012, Atmospheric Meditations. Before Present (338 U-710 U) edited by Nocapaper Books & More and Slowtrack (Madrid ) in 2016 and by Publication Studio (Hudson) in 2017 or Drawing a Mountain, Hudson: Publication Studio, 2020. Gibellini has been a recent fellow at the Spanish Academy in Rome (2016-2017) and an artist in residence at The Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity (Alberta, Canada, 2017), the ISCP (NYC, 2011),The Aldrich Foundation (Connecticut, 2010) and the Künstlerhaus Glogauer (Berlin, 2007).
NFS. Digital print 16 x 19 5/8 inches. 2022.
Artist statement
My art practice is process-based and formalized mostly through drawing, site specific environmental installations, video and writing. I am interested in the idea of the diagram, and how certain pieces can relate to others, or to the materials that created them, establishing relationships beyond the timing of the making, the theme or the initial intention, creating a new mesh of meaning, a form of poetic. My most recent body of work reflects upon the possibilities of representing that which has no stable form and is basic for life (air, water and time) and considers how the difficulties of visualizing the atmospheric conditions of a given site affects our understanding of the world order. I am working now on trying to visualize what goes around the marks of a two-year old (my own daughter)—that testify not a predetermined intention but her willingness to express, an energy that is condensed around a gesture. There is an implicit gap in this type of representations, which can never be made complete. Such gaps testify to how that which remains un-representable becomes unacknowledged, and how the unacknowledged becomes unthinkable. My work is an attempt to explore the gaps and the possibilities of thinking the unthinkable, of creating images of that which has not yet been seen.
Artist bio
Laura F. Gibellini is a process-based artist. She teaches at Complutense University in Madrid and is a faculty member of the the MFA in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts I SVA in NYC. Gibellini’s work has been shown in international venues such as NF / Nieves Fernández (Madrid); Matadero (Madrid); CCCB/Centro de Cultura Contemporánea (Barcelona); el Museo de Los Sures (NYC); la Accademia di Belle Arti (Roma); Carpe Díem. Arte e Pesquisa (Lisbon); ICI (NYC); The Boston Center for the Arts (Boston); Anthology Films Archives (NYC); Artist Space (NYC); La Casa Encendida (Madrid); MAC (A Coruña); BIAM (Amposta); Loop (Barcelona); Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe); AC Institute (NYC); NurtureArt (NYC); Mass Moca (Massachusets); Slowtrack (Madrid); Le Cube (Rabat) or UCCA (Beijing). In 2013 she completed her first permanent public art installation commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit & Urban Design for three subway stations in New York City. Gibellini is the author of books such as Construyendo un Lugar /Constructing a Place p Madrid: Complutense University,2012, Atmospheric Meditations. Before Present (338 U-710 U) edited by Nocapaper Books & More and Slowtrack (Madrid ) in 2016 and by Publication Studio (Hudson) in 2017 or Drawing a Mountain, Hudson: Publication Studio, 2020. Gibellini has been a recent fellow at the Spanish Academy in Rome (2016-2017) and an artist in residence at The Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity (Alberta, Canada, 2017), the ISCP (NYC, 2011),The Aldrich Foundation (Connecticut, 2010) and the Künstlerhaus Glogauer (Berlin, 2007).