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Salvo, Archivio Salvo, performance lecture, The Lecture Agency Salvo. A performance lecture I’ve never written
The Lecture Agency |

  The period that anticipates Salvo’s leap to painting has often been described with a narcissistic flavor, that of the artist-author in the front row. The absence of his face in his subsequent work does …

"I… I… I…", 2019. Image credit: © Ryan Gander. Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin. Image Andrea Rossetti. Ryan Gander. The whisper perspective
Marco Antelmi |

Ryan Gander’s body of work fully reflects theories about the reality of the virtual. Professor, amateur philosopher – as he likes to define himself – and TV presenter, the artist from Chester (UK, born 1976) …

REPLICA, Francesco Pedraglio, Juan de la cosa, Villa Vertua Masolo Spoken Narratives. A Book Show by REPLICA
Droste Effect |

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 …

“Arte Magia e Capitalismo” Salvator Rosa gallery, exhibition view. Photos by Ela Bialkowska, OKNO studio The Wizards of Capitalism. A conversation with Juan Pablo Macías
Vincenzo Estremo |

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 …

Hillary Clinton's visit at Kenneth Goldsmith's HILLARY: The Hillary Clinton Emails, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, exhibition view, © Giorgio De Vecchi. Gerda Studio 2019 Francesco Urbano Ragazzi. Making Re-Reality Manifest
Marco Antelmi |

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 …

Sara Enrico, Mirroring, 2019 bronzo, neoprene, filo di seta 20x130x140 cm ca courtesy the artist photo: Beppe Giardino A Conversation With Sara Enrico and Andrea Respino
Vincenzo Estremo |

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 …

Ravi Agarwal, Alien Waters, 2004-2006. photographic print series, Hahnemühle paper on dibond, various dimensions. Courtesy the artist. Ravi Agarwal. Ecologies of Loss
Vincenzo Estremo |

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 …

Cally Spooner, Installation view, Dead Time (2018), installation view, incomplete partition wall, score of 63 elements (inkjet prints, marker and pen on paper, pencil and ink on technical paper, plastic wallets), 1 x Bose 5 second-generation Virtually Invisible® single cube speaker, audio of nonprofessional, hastily assembled choir, amplifier, open windows, road outside. 15 meters, 4'31" loop. Courtesy the artist and ZERO... Gallery Milano. Photocredit: Roberto Marossi Interview with Cally Spooner
Marco Antelmi |

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, Liminal (installationview), 2019. ProducedbytheHan NefkensFoundation. Courtesyoftheartist. Maya Watanabe: Liminal
Droste Effect |

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 …

Sophie Nys Frottage (Hugo, Nicola, Christoph), 2018, Frottage and urine on card 100 x 70 cm, photos by Gregor Titze Not a Shoe. Sophie Nys at Guimarães
Droste Effect |

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, Galleria Civica di Modena Jon Rafman: Il viaggiatore mentale, Galleria Civica di Modena
Lisa Andreani |

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 …

Pedro Neves Marques, Umberto di Marino Interview with Pedro Neves Marques
Marco Antelmi |

Pedro Neves Marques (1984) is a Portuguese artist based in New York whose practice ranges from video to the written word. Pedro Neves Marques’s works have much in common with science-fiction, but above all they …

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