Visual arts exhibition by RUFA and Temple University Rome students.
Artists: Antifigure, Deejay Bosca, Emma Brunelli, Davide Miceli, Olivia Musselman, Daphne Philippoussis, Gianluca Ricco, Henry David Rosenberg and Hallel A. Shapiro-Franklin.
Curated by Davide Dormino and Shara Wasserman. Curatorial assistant Tully Worron.
With Darby Buchanan.
Opening Tuesday, Nov. 8 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Temple University Rome, in via Lungotevere Arnaldo da Brescia, 15
The Gallery of Art of the Temple University Rome is proud to present the exhibition “Where the Future Lies“, viewable at the Gallery of Art at Temple University Rome from Tuesday, November 8 to Sunday, November 30, 2022.
The exhibition presents a selection of works by four RUFA students – Antifigure, Emma Brunelli, Davide Miceli and Gianluca Ricco – and five Temple University Rome students – Deejay Bosca, Olivia Musselman, Daphne Philippoussis, Henry David Rosenberg and Hallel A. Shapiro-Franklin.
The exhibition aims to explore and showcase the talent of emerging artists, visual arts students at both Temple University Rome and Rome University of Fine Arts. An exhibition in which each of the artists is called upon to exhibit together with the others, bringing together talent regardless of their home academy, major or medium. The title of the exhibition, Where the Future Lies, is both an overview of the themes addressed by the works and a focus on individual artists, being not only the future of their generation, but of the entire art world. Each, in their own way, approaches the exhibition with this awareness as well as through their own research, which becomes the foundation of the work, both personal and cohesive.
The protagonists
Antifigure (1999), bachelor’s degree program in Painting, is a student at RUFA and researcher of “contemporary fossils of the urban environment, changing surfaces, evidence of actions.”
Dorothea (Deejay) Bosca (1999), graduate program in Graphic Art, at the Tyler School of Art
and Architecture, Temple University. He creates prints embracing a process driven by a strong belief in constant change. Her prints are “less concerned with image-making than with continuous experimentation.”
Emma Brunelli (2000), a three-year degree program in Sculpture, is a student at RUFA.
Her work stems from the need to “remove every artificial barrier that man places between himself and the world.”
Davide Miceli (1999), a master’s degree program in Graphic Art, is an RUFA student and his practice focuses on “the need to liberate the viewer’s perception through the use of images that are highly ambiguous and difficult to interpret.”
Olivia Mus selman (2001), graduate course in Graphic Art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. She is a printmaker and illustrator who “primarily explores the manipulation of the human figure.”
Daphne Philippoussis (2001), graduate course in Painting at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. The artist uses “playful, bright colors and stylized figures in her own exploration of Greek culture.”
Gianluca Ricco (2000), bachelor’s degree program in Sculpture, is an RUFA student and his works, he says, are “questions whispered in the wind.”
Henry Rosenberg (1997), candidate in the graduate program in Graphic Art at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. Her work is about connecting public and personal memory, using fragments of artifactual stories or incomplete narratives to try to evoke emotions such as a sense of the fantastic, curiosity or nostalgia.”
Hallel Shapiro-Franklin (2000), graduate course in Graphic Art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. She attempts to unify the visual principles of repetition and sequence through prints and papercuts to “create a space for the viewer to breathe within the work.”
See the works on display
