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Spoken Narratives. A Book Show by REPLICADroste Effect | Apr 3, 2020
REPLICA presents Spoken Narratives, a collection of artist books by Francesco Pedraglio, Juan de la Cosa Droste Effect: This is the first year of REPLICA, and after the first year more concrete perspectives and …
The Wizards of Capitalism. A conversation with Juan Pablo MacíasVincenzo Estremo | Dec 10, 2019
In an age in which the global art market governs the artistic practice, from the margins of the art world – the peripheral city of Livorno – departs an analysis with multiple voices. The event …
Francesco Urbano Ragazzi. Making Re-Reality ManifestMarco Antelmi | Nov 21, 2019
A conversation with curators Francesco Urbano Ragazzi Francesco Urbano Ragazzi is a curatorial duo formed in 2005, whose research focuses on redefining the commission and the theoretical foundation of the work of art …
A Conversation With Sara Enrico and Andrea RespinoVincenzo Estremo | Oct 28, 2019
By using different materials and visual references to construct their narrative, Sara Enrico and Andrea Respino created the exhibition «Mai un vestito dunque, adeguato» at Quartz Studio in Turin. A few days ago I met …
Private Vision. Notes on Jonas Mekas and Other Things Concerning our Particular ConditionVincenzo Estremo | Sep 23, 2019
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am …
Second Time Around. Interview with Dora GarcíaAnnalisa Pellino | Jul 18, 2019
Dora García (Valladolid, 1965) is a Spanish artist whose research-based practice draws on a range of different media — performance, film, sound, literary and scientific texts — using the display as a tool to investigate …
Venice Biennale 2019 | HighlightsMatilde Soligno | May 17, 2019
A Walk Through The Art – Best of: Venice Biennale 2019 A Walk Through The Art is a format that provides our readers with photo galleries presenting a selection of highlights from …
Ravi Agarwal. Ecologies of LossVincenzo Estremo | Apr 8, 2019
Indian artist Ravi Agarwal on show at PAV Turin Nowadays, photography is a kind of visual note. It has become – within the last decades of digital and “social” (r)evolution – a written track composed …
Interview with Cally SpoonerMarco Antelmi | Mar 28, 2019
Cally Spooner is one of the most interesting figures in performance art today. Winner of the illy Present Future Prize at Artissima, Turin in 2017, she challenges object performativity while overcoming the binary definition of …
Maya Watanabe: LiminalDroste Effect | Mar 20, 2019
On show Maya Watanabe’s new video installation by Lorenza Pignatti Liminal is an intense journey that analyses the threshold of the recognizable and the representable, the visible and the abstraction. The video installation presents …
Not a Shoe. Sophie Nys at GuimarãesDroste Effect | Feb 8, 2019
A few months ago we asked art writer Josseline Black to visit Sophie Nys’ exhibition “Not a Shoe,” hosted by Guimarães art space in Vienna. The following is the text she wrote on that occasion. …
Jon Rafman: Il viaggiatore mentale, Galleria Civica di ModenaLisa Andreani | Jan 28, 2019
Jon Rafman’s solo show The Mind Traveler in Modena, Italy It does not seem so difficult to make the figure of Jon Rafman coincide with that of a cursed poet. His videos are like a chasm …
