Simone Montemurno

𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘀 🖊️🎈 Writing Center @ LACA: Join a tri-weekly in-person writing group at LACA to write in community and find peer-to-peer support. Drop in to work on your essays, artist statements, stories, poems, drafts for fellowship/grant/residency applications, project proposals and more. The writing center program is open Wednesdays 6-9PM. First session starts on 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟯/𝟭𝟭 𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘀 offers 3 hours of quiet cowriting space. The last hour will provide an optional time for participants to meet in pairs or small groups to share work and talk through projects. Coffee, tea, pens, pencils, highlighters, post-it notes, and scrap paper will be provided. 🫂 Thank you @simoneworkinit and @ccczzznnn of 𝗥𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝘀.

Opening during Pasadena ArtNight 🎨🌠, 'Sanctuaries' is a group exhibition composed of Armory Teaching Artists, where artists expound the meaning and imagination of the true and metaphysical sanctuaries that co-exist as protection, agency, preservation, and healing. Through painting, textile, ceramic, photography, riso, and mixed media, each artist shares a personal inquiry into the inward and outward meanings of sanctuary, exploring transcendent, environmental, and personal relationships and tracing how sanctuary can be a tool for transformation. Featuring Ronna Ballister, JT Bruns, Rachel Curry, Austyn de Lugo-Liston, Sandra Gallegos, Ruzanna Hanesyan, Sergio Hernandez, Heather Hilliard Bonds, Gail Howland, Ed Leonardi, Matt MacFarland, Brandi Mack-Khalfani, Simone Montemurno, Elonda Norris, Julieta Reynoso, Joe Sanchez, Allison Segura, and Dajin Yoon. 📷 Courtesy of the artist, Rachel Curry (@currycheeks ) Visit armoryarts.org/sanctuaries or our link in bio to read more about our new exhibition and start planning your visit for October 10. #Sanctuaries #ArmoryTeachingArtists #TeachingArtistsExhibition #PasadenaArtNight

Czech Movie Night @ Leroy’s ~~~ TONIGHT “Prefab Story” by Vera Chytilová August 21st, 2024 Doors at 7pm. Film starts at 7:30 pm. Come have a Slivovitz and some Becherovka with us (@groggy_carbon ) as we watch this overlooked gem of a film by Vera Chytilová, one of the masters of the Czech New Wave. 💎 🎥 💎 🎥 💎 “Prefab Story” (1979) is set against the backdrop of a very real housing shortage in 1970’s Czechoslovakia during the Normalization period of Communist rule. Chytilová offers a satirical omniscient narrative of ensemble characters that leads you through the everyday lives of panelák inhabitants. Nevertheless, comedy abounds! At the time, people were moving in as construction continued around them. Amenities were dragged over mud and garbage as the state built Brutal/Modernist towers with uniform units to quickly fulfill its utopian promises of a better quality of life. Chytilová used documentary footage of the construction periods and amplified its digenic noise as part of the soundtrack. Much of this social commentary is communicated via an unusual combination of visual slapstick and verité style. Characters constantly get lost searching for their actual apartments which leads to surprise trysts and unnoticed children casually joining into a mistaken family activities. Chytilová vivid interwoven storylines reveal the desires, deceptions, pleasures, frustrations, hopes and foibles of everyday life. “Prefab Story”, with its focus on the domestic sphere also critiques the intrinsic Patriarchy of the Communist utopia. Socialist ideals may have equalized men and women in terms of a labor force, but this did not translate into the division of labor at home. There are several scenes of woman cooking, thwarted from any ease in the process by badly designed kitchens. The absurdism in these scenes is presented with an affection for the characters and foils the state-imposed plans for ideological and architectural uniformity. Vera Chytilová (most known for her film “Daisies”) first made “Prefab Story” in 1979 though it was not released in Czechoslovakia until December 1981 and first shown outside of Czechoslovakia in the 1990’s. @leroys_happy_place

@simoneworkinit Montemurno makes paintings, sound recordings, and books inspired by the cultural artifacts one might encounter in a regional folk art museum, out-of-the-way collection or overlooked archive. This spring, Montemurno had her third solo exhibition, Transcriptions, After F. Kolari at Art in the Park, a Department of Cultural Affairs exhibition venue in Los Angeles, prior exhibitions being at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) and metro pcs, in L.A. In 2023, Montemurno was an artist in residence at Monson Arts in Monson, Maine. This fall, the music label HaHa will release a cassette edition of Montemurno’s collaborative work with artist/composer Byron Westbrook. She has participated in exhibitions at Chicago’s Soccer Club Club gallery, BASILICA, Hudson, NY, Craft Contemporary and The Main Museum in L.A., and the Indianapolis ICA among other venues. Montemurno holds a BFA from NYU and an MFA from CalArts. @nyutisch @calarts @calarts.art #nyu #tisch #calarts #art #artlosangeles #artla #artgallery #artgalleries #artgallerieslosangeles #painting #magdalenegallery

Transcriptions, After F. Kolar Simone Montemurno Gallery Hours, June 22nd, 2pm - 5pm @simoneworkinit

Art in the Park, located in beautiful Hermon Park in the Arroyo Seco, will be buzzing with activity this Saturday, as it does most weekends. It's the last day to see their current exhibition 'Transcriptions, After F. Kolar,' an exhibition by Simone Montemurno based on the artist's discovery of nearly 200 watercolor landscapes by an unrecognized artist, F. Kolar at a flea-market in Prague, Czechia. The landscapes were painted between 1923 ­and 1959, a period defined by Hitler’s occupation of the Sudetenland and the show trials of the Communist Putsch. The Manila, Philippines-born artist makes “cover” paintings of Kolar’s works, pairing the original with her version and adding historical ephemera to create collage-like configurations. And happening outside in the park, Art in the Park hosts Community Band, produced in partnership with Neighborhood Music School, where Musicians of all skill levels, ages, and backgrounds are invited to join the band in learning and perform an eclectic mix of music; and Community Arts, a free, all ages workshop series exploring the arts, from puppets to painting. Art workshop and music activities take place 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Gallery hours are 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. All programs are free. artintheparkla.org @nmsmusicla @simoneworkinit

Transcriptions, After F. Kolar Simone Montemurno Saturday, June 1st, 2pm- 5pm. Gallery Hours. at Art in the Park
5568 Via Marisol Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90042 Art in the Park is an arts partner site of the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

DISCUSSIONS IN EXHIBITIONS: Simone Montemurno: Transcriptions, After F. Kolar Saturday, May 25, 2pm-4pm at Art in the Park
5568 Via Marisol Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90042 Join the Southland Institute with Discussions in Exhibitions @southland.institute this Saturday, May 25th within Transcriptions, After F. Kolar, a solo exhibition presented by Simone Montemurno at Art in the Park. This is an in-person event. @simoneworkinit Discussions in Exhibitions has been invested since 2010 in considering ticketless exhibitions, and their limits, through publicly initiated discussions occurring from within. As a sporadic series of unsanctioned gatherings, the aim continues to be providing opportunities for situational dialogue on the choices which compose shows and characterize the work inside them, stimulated by the diverse perspectives of those in attendance. By extension an inquiry into, and representation of, what is public in these spaces becomes tangible in the process. Discussions in Exhibitions is part of the Southland Institute public events series. A public-ation through public action. Discussion open to all. Image: Wallpaper Mural view during installation. Photo: Simone Montemurno Art in the Park is an arts partner site of the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. @culturelablic

Transcriptions, After F. Kolar Simone Montemurno May 18 – June 15, 2024 Opening: May 18th, 2–5 pm Gallery Hours Saturdays, 2pm - 5pm for durtaion of show or by appointment. Transcriptions, After F. Kolar presents a body of work by Simone Montemurno based on her discovery of nearly 200 watercolor landscapes by an unrecognized artist, F.Kolar at a flea-market in Prague, Czechia. The landscapes were painted between 1923 ­and 1959, a period defined by Hitler’s occupation of the Sudetenland and the show trials of the Communist Putsch. Montemurno makes “cover” paintings of Kolar’s works, pairing the original with her version and adding historical ephemera to create collage-like configurations. Transcriptions, After F. Kolar considers individual lived experience in the landscape of history, and weaves together ideas about time, memory, socio-political and family history, and the value of material culture. Each work is accompanied by an audio track—a combination of narrative and description—enacting an oral history of the time and place conjured. Simone Montemurno was born in Manila, Philippines. She has a background in photography and art history, moving to Los Angeles to earn her MFA from CalArts (2011). She makes paintings, sound recordings, and photographic books. This is Montemurno’s third solo exhibition in Los Angeles. This fall, the label HaHa will release a cassette of Montemurno’s collaborative work with artist/composer Byron Westbrook. . Art in the Park 5568 Via Marisol, LA, CA, 90042
in Hermon Park in the Arroyo Seco artintheparkla.org, (323) 379 - 5718 This exhibition is made possible though the Los Angles Department of Cultural Affairs. @culture_la @simoneworkinit

Thank you @monson_arts for the most beautiful month. I’m already missing my desk overlooking the lake 🍂

LACA Haunted [Commercial Gallery] Halloween Fundraiser Friday, October 28 8–11 PM Tixx in bio $10-20 The Los Angeles Contemporary Archive presents A Haunted Fundraiser. Something is rotten in the art field. See the archives transformed into a swampy abyss of despair, where the demonic wraiths of the aristocracy’s interior decorators play—the commercial art gallery! In the great graveyard of dreams, the fiendish crypt of creative confusion, you shall find not only the deceased within, yet those familiar and dearly beloved who too are dead inside! Find yourself in the gateway of decay to a screaming pit of a painterly purgatory, the grimacing corpses of formalism, the husks of dead MacBooks that ran Adobe CS6 for the last decade, the Cemetery of the Canceled, the ghouls of social integrity, and the ghosts of volunteers so unpaid that they perished. Take heed! Beware! The art market is quite a scare! Witness horrifying installations concocted by artist Olivia Mole and works by Scott Benzel, Simone Montemurno, Christopher Richmond, and Andy Cabrera. New petrifying sonic performances by Wryngwyrm, Sellardoor, and Otto Splotch. Entry tickets can be redeemed inside for a serving of wine or non-alcoholic beverage, with more devilish drinks available for purchase. Funds from this event will be used to replace digital media equipment bygone from LACA early last month, such as scanners and cameras we make available onsite for our visitors among the living. Thank you @jumbotimewines Flyer by @l.coats_