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The Royal Drawing School and the Archivio Luigi Pericle (Switzerland), offer for the first time an Artistic Residency in Ascona, on the hill of the mythical Monte Verità (Mount of Truth). The residency offers one Royal Drawing School Drawing Year Alumni or one Royal Drawing School faculty member a 2-month residency (May – June 2024) at the Hotel Ascona, home of the Archivio Luigi Pericle. 

As part of the residency the artists will have access to the work, studies and thought of Luigi Pericle and the artistic-intellectual movements linked to Theosophy, Monte Verità and Eranos as decisive places and movements for the development of modern arts. The artists will also have access to Luigi Pericle’s paintings and graphics, the esoteric library and the archives of the Archivio Luigi Pericle. The artists in residence will visit the Monte Verità Foundation, the Municipal Museum of Modern Art, the San Materno Theatre, the Eranos Foundation, the Marguerite Arp Foundation, the Remo Rossi Foundation and much more. The stay will be enriched by the collaboration with the Research Centre of the Swiss Theosophical Society. 

The Monte Verità is a place of extraordinary cultural value. Built on the remains of the project of the lay theosophical convent Fraternitas (1889) conceived by Alfredo Pioda (1848-1909), Franz Hartmann (1838-1912) and Constance Wachtmeister (1838-1910) – Hartmann and Wachtmeister were close collaborators of H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) – from 1900 onwards it welcomed a utopian community. During the 20th century, few other venues hosted as many innovative personalities as, for example, Rudolf von Laban, a leading figure in modern dance and one of the main exponents of ‘free dance’. Artists, writers, philosophers, dancers, all attracted by the desire to find like-minded individuals with whom to share a path of artistic and spiritual research.

This is a unique opportunity for an artist to be immersed in the works of Luigi Pericle. It is required that the artist in residence is interested in the work of Luigi Pericle and to create work in response to the archive. To conclude the residency the artist will create an artwork in dialogue with the oeuvre of Luigi Pericle; the artwork will be gifted to the permanent collection of the Archivio Luigi Pericle.

The artists in residence will be provided with accommodation at the Hotel Ascona, full board (all meals), a studio space (as the studio is based in a hotel, dry materials can only be used inside). Artists will be required to pay for their own travel and any additional costs. 

Applications are now open for the Archivio Luigi Percile Residency, May – June 2024. 

Application deadline is 5pm GMT Monday 11 December 2023.

Submitted applications will be reviewed by a Jury of distinguished artists, curators and art collections in December 2023. The residency is only open to alumni of the Royal Drawing School’s postgraduate programme, The Drawing Year and faculty of the Royal Drawing School. 

This residency is generously supported by The Archivio Luigi Percile. 

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