{"id":131578,"date":"2022-10-31T11:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/docenti\/prof-riccardo-ajossa\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:58:24","slug":"prof-riccardo-ajossa","status":"publish","type":"docenti","link":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/docenti\/prof-riccardo-ajossa\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Riccardo Ajossa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairholder and Senior Lecturer in Paper Technologies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.<br \/>\nShe studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and was a scholarship holder at Loughborough College of Art and Design, where she specialised in Paper Making. He obtained a Master\u2019s Certificate in the History of Modern Art from the University of Amsterdam. He attended communication seminars at the Landmark School in New York.<br \/>\nHe has been invited to present his research on paper as a medium for the production of contemporary art at the Marmara University Fine Arts Academy in Istanbul, the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, the FBAUL in Lisbon, Cornell University and the Faculty of Art in Halle, culminating in an invitation from the Venice Biennale, which invited him to undertake a residency at the Ca\u2019 Foscari venue to curate the second masterclass in the institution\u2019s history, \u2018Segni d\u2019acqua\u2019. The work carried out was video-documented and produced by the Biennale, and is preserved in its historical archive.<br \/>\nHis idea of producing oriental paper using Western methods attracted the interest of institutions such as the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Italy and the Korean Cultural Institute in Italy, which invited him to Seoul for a university research project aimed at expanding his knowledge of the techniques used to produce traditional Hanji paper.<br \/>\nThe work carried out in Morocco from 2011 onwards to establish a paper mill in collaboration with the Lalla Amina orphanage, as part of an international cooperation exchange supported by the Italian Embassy and with a social purpose and focus, is fully documented in the 2013 art publication \u2018Paper beyond surfaces\u2019 by the Il Cigno publishing house, presented by the writer Tahar Ben Jellun on the occasion of the exhibition summarising the artist\u2019s ten years of experimentation with handmade paper, held at the San Salvatore in Lauro Museums in Rome.<br \/>\nHis works of art can be found in the collections of museums such as the Venice Biennale, the Carlo Bilotti Museum Collection in Rome, the Castro Pretorio National Library in the Vatican City, the Pontifical Council for Culture in Athens, the Benaki Museum, and the S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial Institute in Brazil.<br \/>\nHis most notable exhibitions include: Incerticonfini in 2017 and Trame Lontane in 2019 at Spazio Nuovo Contemporary in Rome; the United Nations Headquarters in New York in 2013; the Hush Gallery in Istanbul in 2014; the Tonspur Museum in Vienna in 2014, under the patronage of the Italian Embassy; the AICA Foundation in Milan in 2015; the MAT Museum in Rome in 2015; the CAMUSAC Museum of Contemporary Art in Cassino, Italy, in 2017; and the Espa\u00e7o 321 Gallery in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, in 2017, under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":118317,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-131578","docenti","type-docenti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti\/131578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docenti"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}