Featuring: Claudia Losi, Elisabeth Hoelzl, Greta Frau, Emilio Fantin, Gea Casolaro, Lorenza Lucchi Basili, Sabrina Mezzaqui and Cesare Pietroiusti.
Bringing the work of eight Italian artists to Los Angeles for the first time, Raid Projects is proud to present Ti Voglio Bene Each of these artists has exhibited extensively in prestigious international venues – the Venice Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, and P.S.1 to name drop a few - but not yet here in Southern California.
Curated by Gabi Scardi, the exhibition represents a range of media and modes of inquiry - Losi's hand stitched and embroidered sculptures, Frau's psychic companions, the architectural photographs of Lucchi Basili, Pietroiusti's elusive installations, Mezzaqui's amorphous videos, Hoelzl's images of the traces left by an encounter, and Fantin inflatable spaces.
Speaking to the interstices
between engagement and disappearance, the tangible and the evanescent, Ti
Voglio Bene engages issues of contextualization and its relationship to
reality. Encompassing both analytic and poetic approaches the works
presented explore the subtle dynamics of economics (Pietroiusti), social
and architectural relationships (Fantin, Hoelzl & Lucchi Basili),
history (Casolaro), site(Losi), time (Mezzaqui), and memory (Frau). Ti
Voglio Bene is presented with the support of The Italian Cultural
Institute.
Sabrina
Mezzaqui, courtesy of Galleria Continua,
and Gea Casolaro, courtesy of The Gallery Apart.
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Bruce Colbert
Vineta Kaulaca
Bruce Colbert (US)
 Born and raised in the eastern Pennsylvania coal regions, Bruce Colbert trained as a newspaper and TV journalist and, having developed a parallel career in advertising, created political television nationally for the GOP. He subsequently studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago. Most recently his large scale abstract paintings have been exhibited in ‘The Picture Show’, G & G Gallery, Chicago; the Byrdcliffe Art Colony, Woodstock, NY; and Hidden Valley Gallery, Escondido, CA.
Vineta Kaulaca (Latvia)
 Layering time and imagination onto momentary realities, the paintings of Latvian artist Vineta Kaulaca are developed through a careful scrutiny of photographic sources - captured glimpses that document the trajectory of the observing eye. They have been presented in over 40 international group exhibitions and in solo shows at Access Aspex (UK), Cite Internationle des Arts (France), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland). Among other awards Kaulaca has received an Arts Council of England International Fellowship, a European Cultural Foundation Grant and a Latvian State Foundation of Cultural Capital Scholarship.
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