Angel Orensanz Foundation proudly present its second Film Series: NorfolkFilmSeries (Young Directors in NYC) starting on Monday 20th February 2012 at 6:30pm

Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine will open this Film Series with the screening of their documentary “Good Fortune” awarded with an Emmy in the year 2011.

After the screening there will be a Q&A and also some wine and a good concert performed by the cuban songwriter Roberto Poveda.

We welcome you all to enjoy it!

Moreover, in this #15 report, we will take you through a discovery of the secrets of the new cuisine: The Molecular Gastronomy. We will also invite you to discover some information about restaurants where you can taste it for a reasonable price in the city of NY.

In the cultural section we can enjoy the new performance created by the artist Angel Orensanz immersing us in the new economic era and its perversion in the actual society.

On the other hand Zurab Tsereteli is discovering us once more our stretch relation to the russian arts. We discover in this man not just a great sculptor but also a great and talented painter.

So get ready and enjoy the reading here

see you again on newsletter #16!

ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER #14

Our Newsletter #14 starts with an overview from Angel Orensanz exhibition at the “Museo del Traje” and his other two projects Mountains Skins and Floating Skies. The projects go from chunks of earth which still retains energy and vitality (Mountains Skins) to flying concepts which were developed with the help of the “Circo Mundial”.

On the other hand you can read about the mixture we find these days between arts and HCI (Human Computer Interaction) focusing on the multimedia theatre understood as the theatre of the future; followed by a review from the Economist Magazine event that took place at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, were you can discover a huge amount of personalities involved in this meeting that had as main issue the economic situation for the 2012.

Moreover there is an article for the LES On The Screen Film Series #3, the last screening from this Film Series. Rachel Amodeo presented us her movie “What About Me”, accompanied by cinematographers M. Henry Jonas and Mark Brady.

To end up, our “On TV” section addresses the exchange between the Russian Arts and the Angel Orensanz Foundation.

We assure you it’s a fantastic reading. Enjoy all the articles here.

ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER # 13

Our Newsletter #13 starts with an overview of artist Angel Orensanz’s foray into space and universe explorations during the last decade. The artistic outcome of this inspiration resulted in original, absorbing installations. Read about it in our Hot From the Archives section. If you would rather watch it on TV, don’t miss November’s program of ‘Arts from the Orensanz’ on MNN – Channel 67.

Elsewhere in the vibrant cultural life of New York City, we spotted two noteworthy events, namely, the IFPDA Print Fair at the stunning venue of Park Avenue Armory, and the highly anticipated Margaret Mead Film Festival, held last weekend at The Museum of Natural History. Enjoy the reading and photographic features.  

Finally, there’s a sneak peek at the past Edible Escape Tasting Party that took place at the Angel Orensanz Foundation. Peruse through our recap of the event and enjoy the exotic gourmet pictures.

We assure you it’s a fantastic read. See all the stories here.

The Angel Orensanz Foundation and the Russian Academy of Arts proudly present the Russian Arts Festival, 2011.

As a cultural institution, Orensanz Foundation is proud to host this year again a festival celebrating Russian arts and culture in all its expressions. Our organization has established numerous links with Russia for the last twenty years, well promoting its artists, well bringing Angel Orensanz’s artwork to several Russian institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the Hermitage Museum or the Alexander Pushkin Museum, among others.

In this occasion, The Russian Arts Festival will pay special tribute to the Russian New Yorkers killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11, as well as to the artistic contribution of Zurab Tsereteli, director of the Russian Academy of Fine Art and a prolific artist with numerous pieces around the world. For this reason, and as a remembrance of the ones disappeared on those tragic events, the festival will present the exhibition “Photos of the WTC” by Anatoly Pronin and Angel Orensanz’s video for 9/11.

Other artists included in our program are Grigory Gurevich, Andrey Bogoslowsky, Alexander Kedrin, Serge Sinitsyn and Natalia Nordman.

Photography, sculpture, video and painting will be presented in our “Russian Month”.

We welcome you all to enjoy it!

Russian Arts Festival, 2011

November 14 – December 14

Angel Orensanz Foundation, Inc. (Basement gallery)

172 Norfolk Street, New York NY – 10002.

T. 212 529 7194

www.orensanz.org 

foundation@orensanz.org

Check the complete exhibitions program here.

ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER #12

A wintry end to October sends you the 12th Newsletter from The Angel Orensanz Foundation. 

We are very excited to announce the 2011 Russian Arts Festival that will take place at the Orensanz Foundation from, November 14 through December 14.  This year’s festival will pay tribute to the Russian New Yorkers who were killed on 9/11 at the World Trade Center.  The featured artists include: A. Pronin, G. Gurevich, A. Bogoslowsky, A. Kedrin, S. Sinitsyn, N. Nordman, Angel Orensanz and more. 

On October 20th, the 2011 Contact Summit took place at the Foundation. It was an inspiring and innovative convention hosted by Douglas Rushkoff.  Feel free to read our re-cap of the day’s events, view our photographic report and find out how you can stay “Connected”.

We encourage you to read about the highly anticipated PERFORMA 11 that will be taking place all throughout New York City (November 1-21). You will sure not want to miss out on this cultural event!

Finally, the television program ‘Arts from the Orensanz’ will be broadcasting, Benjamin Bagby’s “Beowulf”.

Click here to read the Newsletter. Enjoy it!

THE ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION AND THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE

Present The Film Series:

-LOWER EAST SIDE ON THE SCREEN | EVOLVING URBAN IDENTITY-

#3  |  RACHEL AMODEO, What About Me (1993)

Monday, November 7th, 2001

The Angel Orensanz Foundation is thrilled to host the third screening evening of this collaborative cinematic project, conceived and curated by two nonprofit organizations.

LES The Screen – Evolving Urban Identity intends to showcase independent, underground films spanning the decades from the 1970’s to the 1990’s that touch upon the subject of the urban fabric of the Lower East Side and the Downtown counter-culture scene.  The Series program offers the audience the opportunity to rediscover filmmakers and artists that hail from different generations, usually associated with the past cultural golden age of Downtown Manhattan. Together and through audiovisual storytelling, we will explore and reconsider unconventional ways of looking at the city, its buildings and people’s lives.

For “LES On the Screen” #3 screening , on Monday, November 7, we are very proud to welcome and feature:

RACHEL AMODEO with What About Me (1993)

Her admired, iconic film will be screened in 16mm. Started in 1989 with the help of cinematographers M. Henry Jones and Mark Brady, Amodeo wrote, produced, directed and starred in the film. Its unusual ensemble of cast and characters, in addition to the cinema verité portrait of the East Village in the late 80’s, made it a cult classic. It traveled the festival circuit and was featured at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts.

It tells the story of Lisa (Rachel Amodeo), a woman drifting around the streets of New York City’s Lower East Side, where she encounters a diverse group of lost souls among the transient population, including Vietnam veteran Nick (Richard Edson), outspoken Tom (Nick Zedd) and kindhearted Paul (Richard Hell); Gregory Corso, Judy Carne, Dee Dee Ramone, and actual homeless residents of Tompkins Square Park co-star in this unique film, which features a soundtrack by Johnny Thunders.

BIO

Rachel Amodeo was born in Terravecchia, Italy, but came to the United States as a child. After graduating from high school, Rachel moved to Santa Barbara, California, where she attended Santa Barbara College and majored in Photography. During this period she became a rock drummer and performed in various clubs. In 1982 Rachel moved to New York City to pursue her career as a rock drummer. She started her own band and later joined Das Furlines, the flamboyant all girl band. During this period, she also suited acting with Bull Hickey and Herbert Berghof in the West Village.

In 1989, Rachel started the production of the film, What About Me. She wrote, produced, directed and starred in the film. In 1998 she wrote, produced and directed her second film, Rest in Peace, set in the 1800’s and a tribute to the silent film era with double exposure special effects. She plays the lead role as Mable Dibble, a ghost who haunts her sister. She also made a film called Pierre Paolo, set in her hometown of Terravecchia, Italy. Amodeo plays the lead role of the young Philimina. In 1998 she gave birth to her son Atticus and dedicated her time to being a mother full time. During this period she wrote a new screenplay, titled Rock N Roll Gangster based on her experiences in New York.

Rachel Amodeo has co-produced eleven animated television commercials. As a musician, she was the drummer for Vacuum Bag and Das Furlines, who appeared on Entertainment Tonight, MTV’s Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes, and were featured in People Magazine.

LES On The Screen – Evolving Urban Identity

Rachel Amodeo  |  What About Me  (1993)

November 7, 2011  |  7:30 PM

$ 8.00 (cash only)  |  No RSVP required

Angel Orensanz Foundation, Gallery Space

172 Norfolk Street, New York, NY 10002

www.orensanz.org  |  foundation@orensanz.org

www.film-makerscoop.com  |  filmmakerscoop@gmail.com

 ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER #11

As the leaves change color for the autumn season, ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION welcomes you with its Newsletter #11. 

Please join us in reading our featured article on Angel Orensanz’s latest project— Faces in Nature.  Learn more about his photography work, which he executed in the Guadarrama Sierra, nearby Madrid city, and the Pyrenees mountain range.

A special article on an Angel Orensanz Foundation veteran — Tyne Daly, graces our 11^th Newsletter, as we go back into the archives to celebrate her 1998, Mystery School debut, and find out her latest endeavors in theater. 

In lieu of the protests at Wall Street—“American’s first true Internet-era movement,” Douglas Rushkoff — who is by no means a stranger to the Foundation, will be hosting Contact Summit 2011 here at our premises, as part of New York’s Social Week.  Read more about this “working festival of innovation” in our Newsletter, and maybe you will be inspired to join in on the technological revolution of our generation.

Already behind of the LES On the Screen Film Series #1, yet highly proud of the opening night screening, this edition of our Newsletter celebrates its success featuring an illustrated report for your viewing pleasure.

Enjoy the Newsletter!

Click here to read it

At Angel Orensanz Foundation, October 20, 2011

The Angel Orensanz Foundation is thrilled to host and welcome the up-coming Contact Summit 2011, to be celebrated on October 20.

The brainchild of media theorist, writer, professor and graphic novelist Douglas Rushkoff, Contact Summit is conceived as a MeetUpEverywhere event, in participation of NY Social Week.

Centered at our 160-year-old building in the heart of the Lower East Side, this innovative, ambitious festival, summons up a wide audience’s participation, to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity.

The core of the summit is composed of several meetings, “provocations” on stage by featured participants, and a Bazaar or ad-hoc marketplace to share exchange everything, from demos to all kind of wares. 

Don’t lose out on the opportunity to attend this one of a kind event; come and join us with your ideas and actions; share your experience, insight and connections to help bring ideas into reality.

“Let’s connect, conceive, and conspire.”  –Douglas Rushkoff

For more information about Contact Summit 2011 and about how to purchase tickets please visit the Contact Summit website: http://contactcon.com/

ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER #10

The 10^th Newsletter has finally arrived at the Angel Orensanz Foundation!

A very special and fascinating interview of Judith Malina (actress, playwright, diarist, activist) with Al OrensnazAl Orensanz will be featured in this week’s newsletter.  This interview, delves into the exciting and marvelous life of Judith Malina and her Living Theater.

An article by Al Orensanz on the biannual Angel Orensanz International Sculpture Award will also be featured, which includes a historical background of the formation of the Angel Orensanz and Arts of the Serrablo Museum.  

This week’s newsletter will also include a series of photos from 3,000 Pebbles in Memoriam and Paradigma show. The former was a tribute event and installation, held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on September 11, 2011, commemorating the 10^th anniversary of 9/11.  Images from Angel Orensanz’s Paradigma exhibition are also available, which opened at the Museo del Traje in Spain this summer.

Enjoy this week’s Newsletter!  Click here

THE ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION AND THE FILM-MAKERS’ COOPERATIVE

PRESENTS THE FILM SERIES

- LOWER EAST SIDE ON THE SCREEN | EVOLVING URBAN IDENTITY -

We are thrilled to host the second screening evening of this collaborative cinematic project, conceived and curated by two nonprofit organizations. 

Lower East Side On The Screen – Evolving Urban Identity intends to showcase independent, underground films spanning the decades from the 1970’s to the 1990’s that touch upon the subject of the urban fabric of the Lower East Side and the Downtown counter-culture scene.

The up-coming screening date of LES On the Screen – Evolving Urban Identity is October 3, 7:30 pm, at the Angel Orensanz Foundation

 The film screenings will be introduced by Anne Hannavan (Film-makers’ Coop’s President, Board of Directors) and Katherine Bauer (Web Committee Correspondence Officer).

We are very proud to welcome and feature filmmakers Colleen Fitzgibbon and Stephanie Gray. The program for Monday, October 3 is at follows:

COLEEN FITZGIBBON

 L.E.S. | 1976/2011 |  USA | 16:22 min. | digital, color, sound

A fable about a parallel Manhattan and its mammon-worshiping inhabitants.

 Ludlow |1980 | USA | 7min. | video, sound

 LM Ludlow | 2011| USA | 5 min.

 + other short films

 STEPHANIE GRAY

 Storefronts Before Other Storefronts | 2008 | USA | 9 min. | color, Super 8

 Gertel’s galore lore ore | 2007 | USA | 7 min. | b/w, Super 8

 Hearts in New York | 2006 | USA | 3 min. | color, Super 8

 Next to last day of Five Roses Pizza | 2009 | USA | 7 min. | color, Super 8

Ballons Tied Up to Your Sky | 2011 | USA | 7 min. | b/w, Super 8

Also Known As | 2011 | USA | 3 min. | color, Super 8

With live reading and poetry by Gray. Q&A with both film directors will follow the screening.

Bios:

Coleen Fitzgibbon is an active experimental film artist, she currently resides in New York City and Montana. A graduate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Independent Study Program, she studied with the likes of Owen Land, Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann and Vito Acconci; she has worked on film and sound projects for Dennis Oppenheim, Gordon Matta-Clark and Les Levine. Fitzgibbon formed the collaborative X&Y with Robin Winters in 1976 and is best known for co-founding the New York based Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab) in 1977 through 1981, along with forty plus artists.  Fitzgibbon has screened her work at numerous international film festivals, museums and galleries, including The Toronto International Film Festival; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Anthology Film Archives, NYC; De Appel, Amsterdam; Exit Art, NYC; Subliminal Projects Gallery, LA. 

NYC-based filmmaker Stephanie Gray will present a selection of super 8 films made between the mid-00s and now, of those vanishing or hidden, over-familiar but not always ‘seen’ parts of the Lower East Side/East Village. Some films include last days of Gertel’s Bakery and Five Roses Pizza, as well as now disappeared (and still hanging on) signs on 2nd Ave and pockets of character on walls, storefronts and elsewhere that continually seem to vanish by the ‘condo-fication’ of the city.

SAVE THE DATE! 

LES On The Screen – Evolving Urban Identity

Coleen Fitzgibbon and Stephanie Grey

October 3, 2011

7:30 PM – $ 8.00 (cash only)

Angel Orensanz Foundation, Gallery Space

172 Norfolk Street, New York, NY 10002

www.orensanz.org  |  foundation@orensanz.org

www.film-makerscoop.com  |  filmmakerscoop@gmail.com

Upcoming date: Novermber 7, 2001

Rachel Amodeo, What About Me (1993)