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The selected artists

The committee - composed by Annie Ratti (President of the Antonio Ratti Foundation and Director of the Advanced Course in Visual Arts), and by the Course curators Luca Cerizza, Anna Daneri, and Cesare Pietroiusti - has selected, among over 400 applications, the 23 Italian and international artists that will attend the 2008 Advanced Course in Visual Arts with the architect and theoretician Visiting Professor Yona Friedman.

The Italian artists

Elia Cantori (24, based in the UK); Ludovica Carbotta (26, Italy); Davide Cascio (31, based in Switzerland); Giovanni De Lazzari (30, Italy); Andrea Dojmi (35, Italy); Marco Lampis (31, Italy); Margherita Moscardini (26, Italy); Massimiliano Nazzi (26, Italy); Alessandro Quaranta (32, Italy); Ciro Vitale (32, Italy).

International artists

Einat Amir (29, from Israel, based in the US, with a grant from the Columbia University, New York); Elena Bajo (34, from Spain, based in Germany); Oppy De Bernardo (38, Switzerland); Mark Durkan (23, Ireland); Audrey Lam (26, Australia); Gabriel Martinez (34, from Mexico, based in the US, with a grant from the Columbia University, New York); Marlie Mul (27, from the Netherlands, based in The Netherlands and Germany); Treasa O'Brien (29, Ireland); Linda Quinlan (31, Ireland); Therese Sunngren (25 Finland, with a grant from the Svenska Konstskolan, Nykarleby); George Warburton (19, Australia, with a grant from the Curtin University of Technology, Perth) and 2 groups: Knowles Eddy Knowles composed by Jon Knowles (27, Canada), Micheal Eddy (27, from Canada, based in Germany) and Robert Knowles (25, UK) and BridA (Sendi Mango, Juri Pavlica e Tom Kersevan), Slovenia, with a grant della Skuc Galerija, Lubiana, Slovenia.