{"id":2815,"date":"2026-08-21T10:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/open-call\/open-call-2019-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:54:59","slug":"open-call-2019","status":"publish","type":"vsa_opencall","link":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/en\/open-call\/open-call-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Call 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-vsa-curatorial is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Video Sound Art returns for the ninth edition of the festival and launches an open call, in collaboration with the Restoration Laboratory of the Regional Gallery of Sicily of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo, aimed at selecting and producing new artworks.The artist-in-residence program will be dedicated to the late seventeenth-century traditional technique of the stucco -which we are only able to recreate by studying the statues\u2019s missing parts- that will put into dialogue the skills of Palazzo Abatellis\u2019s Restoration Laboratory and the selected artists.The activities will take place at the Oratorio dei Bianchi in the heart of Palermo, an historical complex adjacent to Palazzo Abatellis, that today houses the decorative pieces crafted by Giacomo Serpotta (Palermo 1652 \u2013 1732) retrieved from the Church of the Stimmate, which was demolished in the late nineteenth century. During the residency the selected artists will develop a project in direct contact with these works with the support of the restorers of the Laboratory of Palazzo Abatellis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The artists will realize something other, with its own history, which will not merely subsist on its relationship with the location but will feed upon the dialogue with it.<\/em>Evelina De Castro \u2013 Director of the Medieval and Modern Art Gallery of Sicily Palazzo Abatellis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull u-section u-section--alt is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group u-content is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The winning project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Caterina Gobbi<\/strong> with the work <em>Lost in Plain Sight<\/em><strong>Cecilia Mentasti <\/strong>with the work <em>NOTES ON TAKE CARE \u2013 Una storia d\u2019amore<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The material<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although made of poor materials, thanks to the skillful craftmanship that executed the finishing, the brilliance of the surfaces may resemble the one of marble. The material is composed of river sand, lime, lime putty, plaster and marble dust.The traditional technique of the stucco is deeply radicated in Sicily thanks to the decorative interventions made by Giacomo Serpotta (Palermo 1652 \u2013 1732), who by going beyond the traditional plastic architectural decoration gave to the technique of stucco full sculptural autonomy.Unlike the one of marble which consists in removing material, the realization of stucco is based on <em>adding <\/em>new layers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The process -that today we can only retrospectively recover by means of restoration- is composed of the following phases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.Preparation of sketches, detailed drawings followed by the preparation of a model.2. The Armor, that is a structure of vegetal materials such as walnut wood (as it\u2019s resistant to deformation) covered with layers of hemp to hold together the wood pieces previously nailed together to support the jutted out parts. The hemp fiber also favors the material\u2019s carbonation, the chemical process which makes the mortar malleable and spreadable when wet, hard and resistant when dry, also inside the work.3. The mortar is molded by superimposing layers of material on the armor nearly until the completion of the artifact. After applying the first stratum, during a drying period of a few hours, the mortar partially withdraws (small cracks may form). The number of layers depends on the size of the work.4. Finishing. The modeled work is defined with a final layer composed of slaked lime and marble dust to saturate the surface and make it shiny like marble.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>The jury<\/summary>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-vsa-people\">\n\n<li><strong>Evelina De Castro<\/strong> <em>Direttore Galleria Regionale della Sicilia di Palazzo Abatellis di Palermo<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Claudio Gulli<\/strong> <em>Storico dell\u2019arte presso Palazzo Butera, collezione di Francesca e Massimo Valsecchi<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Laura Lamonea<\/strong> <em>Curatrice del progetto Video Sound Art<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Helga Marsala<\/strong> <em>Giornalista e critico d\u2019arte<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Pierfrancesco Palazzotto<\/strong> <em>Professore Associato dell\u2019Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Palermo<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Rischa Paterlini<\/strong> <em>Curatrice della Collezione Giuseppe Iannaccone<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Iolanda Ratti<\/strong> <em>Conservatrice del Museo del Novecento di Milano<\/em><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/details>\n\n\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_acf":""},"vsa_edizione":[],"class_list":["post-2815","vsa_opencall","type-vsa_opencall","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"status":"archiviata","subtitle":"","deadline":null,"prize":"Artist residency in Palermo, at the Oratorio dei Bianchi, with direct access to the works and the support of the restorers of the Palazzo Abatellis laboratory","audience":"Artists","partner_line":"In collaboration with the restoration laboratory of the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia and Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo","intro":"<p>A residency devoted to late seventeenth-century stucco techniques: the selected artists develop their project with the support of the restorers\u2019 expertise, working alongside the works in the laboratory.<\/p>","pdf":null,"apply_url":"","faq":null,"winners":[{"category":"","artist":756,"name":"","work":910,"work_title":""},{"category":"","artist":535,"name":"","work":"","work_title":"NOTES ON TAKE CARE \u2013 Una storia d\u2019amore"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vsa_opencall\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vsa_opencall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vsa_opencall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vsa_edizione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videosoundart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vsa_edizione?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}