Giada Crispiels
Giada Crispiels is a multimedia artist who has been honored with fellowships and residencies from New York Foundation for the Arts, Van Lier Fellowship, Figment Festival, the Wassaic Project, Artspace New Haven, among numerous others.
“Climbing ivy, Peoria”
Site-specific Installation completed during a residency at “Prairie Art Center”
Size: 4m x 3.5m x 0.3m (materials: local newspapers, iron wire, masking tape),
2013.
Trained at LABA Academy of Art (Brescia, Italy), her practice includes drawing, photography, and site-specific installations focusing on her work concerning nature in the urban environment. Her illustrated coloring book “Wildlife of New York” published by Abbeville Press,
was launched at the Brooklyn Museum last April 2016 and is currently on sale at Barnes&Noble, the Strand, amazon.com and many other book stores in NYC and in the United States. After few years living in Brooklyn she recently returned to Sirmione (northern Italy), where she runs the residency program Benaco Arte.
“Jane #urbanshadowsofnature”
Mural painting for NeighborWorks New Horizons, and Yale School of Architecture
“First Year Building Project” in collaboration with Artspace New Haven, CT,
Size: 4m x 2m, 2013.
During Berlin Sessions Residency Crispiels conducts a research on her on-going dialog between plants and urban life in our metropolitan areas, with the project #urbanshadowsofnature. The idea of disconnection from Nature and perception of the traces that are left to us to see in cities, translates into drawings, photographs and installations. Invasive plants creeping onto buildings (#climbingivy), shadows of trees on our sidewalks (#urbanshadowsofnature), the power of nature against the human body (#backintonature).
“Peoria #urbanshadowsofnature”
Mural Painting for urban requalification on an abandoned building in Peoria
(Illinois, US), Size: 6m x 2.4m, 2013.
Her creation process usually begins with exploration of the area and then continues trough a series of steps that translates methodically the images collected into visual works, whose intervals in the creation process, are essential to the completion of the wider vision of the concept. The final work is just a part of the whole narrative, where Nature becomes again back protagonist in our lives.
“Interrupted”
Drawing on paper of the series #urbanshadowsofpaper, 2016.
“Climbing ivy, Wassaic”
Site-specific Installation, completed during a residency at the Wassaic Project,
Size: 7’ W. x 13’ hgt. x 7’ depth (materials: local newspapers, iron wire, masking
tape), 2013.
“Sleeping under an ivy blanket”
Performance: Photography Documentation, 2013.
