Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Fondazione Edoardo Garrone present Persona in meno from 8 May to 20 June at Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene d’Alba and from 18 September to 18 October at Palazzo Ducale in Genova.The exhibition includes works by Meris Angioletti, Nico Angiuli, Lupo Borgonovo, Chiara Camoni, Canecapovolto, Carloni & Franceschetti, Manuele Cerutti, Andrea Contin, Andrea De Stefani, Nicolò Degiorgis, Federico Del Vecchio, Rä di Martino, Chiara Fumai, Alessandro Gagliardo, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Giuseppe Lana, Renato Leotta, Eva Marisaldi, Andrea Nacciarriti, Linda Fregni Nagler, Nicola Nunziata, Alberto Scodro, Marinella Senatore, Alberto Tadiello and Mauro Vignando.Persona in meno offers “portraiture without portraiture” as a paradoxical framework for considering the diverse works of more than twenty contemporary Italian artists—from an overarching parabola of basil to a bronze cast of the human soul. Punctuated by sound, as well as by moving images and moving objects, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo will be filled with works that elicit absent presences, apparitions, surrogates, private rituals, reappearances, and failed attempts at invisibility. Surveyed together, these works hover between what is visibly absent and absently visible.Persona in meno is curated by Angelique Campens (Belgium), Erica Cooke (USA) and Chris Fitzpatrick (USA), fellows of the fourth edition of the Young Curators’ Residency programme coordinated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol (Italy) and supported by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and Fondazione Edoardo Garrone (Genoa) with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo (Turin).Young Curators Residency ProgrammeFor their annual residency programme, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo first receive a list of candidates put forward by top international art schools and the final three are then selected by an international jury composed of Carlos Basualdo, contemporary art curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Francesco Bonami, artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Jan Debbaut former director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and Teresa Gleadowe, founder of the MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London.Invited by Fondazione SRR to spend three months in Italy, the three curators have the opportunity to explore and develop their knowledge about Italian artists and the Italian contemporary art scene by visiting artists’ studios, museums and galleries and by meeting curators, museum directors, gallerists and critics.Press releaseThe residency programme offers a reflection on contemporary curatorial practice and allows the development and further promotion of the Italian art scene around the world. The residency offers the young curators the chance to explore the country and its art scene and to present their own show with the full support of a professional structure. The curators have a coordinator who is there to advise and guide them throughout the residency, although they are fully independent in their choice of artists, curatorial concept and structure of the final exhibition.2010 EditionLondon based curator and PhD Researcher Stefano Collicelli Cagol has been appointed as coordinator for the 2010 edition and the curators in residence are Brussels based Angelique Campens, New York based Erica Cooke and San Francisco based Chris Fitzpatrick.BiosStefano Collicelli Cagol (b. 1978 Italy) is the co-ordinator of the fourth edition of the Young Curators’ Residency programme organized by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy) and the Fondazione Edoardo Garrone (Genoa, Italy). Collicelli Cagol is a PhD researcher at the Curating Contemporary Art department of the Royal College of Art, London. His research project is related to the transformations of the conditions of exhibition display in Italy after the Second World War. From 2004 to 2006 he received a postgraduate fellowship from the Department of History of Arts at the University Ca’ Foscari, Venice (Italy), researching the Venice Biennale of Visual Art. In 2008, he published the book Venezia e la vitalità del contemporaneo. Paolo Marinotti a Palazzo Grassi (1959-1967). In 2006, he was Research Curator at the Villa Manin - Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, (UD - Italy). He has written several articles on the Venice Biennale and he has collaborated with the magazine Domus. Recently, he curated the exhibition “Seven Little Mistakes” at the Museo Marino Marini, Florence (April 2010).Angelique Campens (b. 1980 Belgium) is an independent Belgian curator and writer, working for non-profit galleries and public spaces. She was a Whitney Museum of American Art ISP fellow in New York in 2007-08. She was assistant curator for the Belgian pavilion with the artist Jef Geys for the Venice Biennale 2009. She curated a section of the Interdisciplinary Art Festival “Verzamelde Verhalen # 1” Watou 2009 with Office (Kersten Geers David Van Severen) and Bureau Bas Smets; co-curated “For Reasons of State” at The Kitchen, New York (2008); and curated an exhibition on the work of Belgian architect Juliaan Lampens with phototgraphs by Jan Kempenaers. Her upcoming work includes a solo exhibition with Kasper Akhoj at Wiels, Brussels (fall 2010). She earned her master’s degree in art history at the University of Ghent and another Master in culture management at University of Antwerp.Erica Cooke (b. 1983 New York City) participated as a curatorial fellow in The Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (2007-08) and worked as a researcher at MoMA, New York on the German Expressionism project in the Prints and Illustrated Book Department (2008-09). She has also worked as an independent writer and curator since 2008. Her most recent shows include “For Reasons of State” at The Kitchen, New York (2008) and “Without” at The New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles (2009). She previously received her M.A .in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London (2005-06), writingPress releaseher dissertation on Lebanese artist Walid Raad, and will return to graduate studies at The University of Chicago this fall, 2010.Since 2007, independent curator Chris Fitzpatrick (b. 1978 New York City) has organized numerous collaborative projects including “The W. in W. Victor Crich” at The Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, “The Secret of the Ninth Planet” at Queen’s Nails Projects, “Punctuation: Four Stops, Two Marks of Movement, One Gap, Some Continuations, and a Stroke, or Expression of the Indefinite or Fragmentary” at Right Window, and “Futurological Retrospection” at The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, California. Until 2009, Fitzpatrick was adjunct curator at Photo Epicenter in San Francisco, where he organized the group exhibitions “Swan Songs”, “Psymulation: Reenactments of the Present”, and “As Above So Below”, each with corresponding catalogs and programming. His writing and interviews have been published in Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, Art in America Online, Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Alternet, and he is a regular contributor to Art Slant. Fitzpatrick is currently working for the Oakland Museum of California as Project Manager on “The Marvelous Museum: Orphans, Curiosities & Treasures”, an exhibition and its corresponding catalog, by the artist Mark Dion. He is also co-curating “SC13”, a series of exhibitions and events in a glass showcase at the San Francisco Antique & Design Mall with an Alternative Exposure grant awarded by Southern Exposure, San Francisco.