Arts Recipients from Italy 2003
Since 2003 the Alcorso Foundation has provided funding in partnership with Ten Days on the Island to bring Italian artists to Tasmania on a biennial basis.
2003 / ANDREA MORUCCHIO
Andrea Morucchio, our first artist in residence, arrived in Hobart in late December 2002 to begin a three-month residency at the Tasmanian School of Art.
Andrea is a Venetian glass sculptor who lives and works in Venice, Italy.
Andrea took an instant delight to Tasmania's wild spaces that inspired a desire to develop a creative act with a direct spiritual connection with nature and place.
Thus was born Eidetic Bush a video installation at the Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts.
Andrea's work tests and extends our understanding of place and nature exploring mystery and dynamism of the human creative impulse.
Andrea took part in the Ten Days On The Island Festival with an exhibit of his glass points Percer-voir which were spectacularly displayed under lights in the pond of the Royal Botanical Gardens, and he exhibited work at the Despard Gallery.
Andrea made many friends in Hobart sharing much of his time with members of Tasmania's Italian community and meeting with the Italian Consulate General on his visit to Tasmania.