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Sebastián Gordín at Cecilia Brunson Projects, LondonGowri Balasegaram | Oct 24, 2013
As part of their aim to bring innovative Latin America art and cultural production to London, the recently launched Cecilia Brunson Projects is exhibiting watercolour and wooden marquetry magazines by Argentine artist Sebastián Gordín. Gordín …
Pending PropagandaVincenzo Estremo | Oct 22, 2013
The etymology of the word Propaganda comes from the Latin Pro-pagere in which pagere means seed, spread, and the prefix pro means forward, for long. In digital era, the word propaganda seems to be anachronistic: …
Marisa Merz at the Serpentine GalleryGowri Balasegaram | Oct 7, 2013
In tandem with the launch of its sister gallery, The Serpentine Gallery is presenting an exhibition of Marisa Merz’s work, spanning her 50 year career. Although Merz has had solo shows internationally and has participated …
Adrián Villar Rojas, Today We Reboot The Planet, Serpentine Sackler GalleryGowri Balasegaram | Oct 1, 2013
The inaugural exhibition at the newly launched Serpentine Sackler Gallery had much to live up to. Its elder sibling, The Serpentine Gallery, is a major destination for contemporary art and culture, having so well …
Leandro Erlich at The Barbican Gallery, LondonSiân Louise Spicer | Jul 17, 2013
If you want to defy the laws of physics, and walk up a brick wall, then this is the place. The new installation by Leandro Erlich at Dalston House (commissioned by Barbican Gallery) sees a …
Cucinare in Massima Sicurezza: An interview with author Matteo GuidiVincenzo Estremo | Jul 8, 2013
Cucinare in Massima Sicurezza (Cooking in Maximum Security) by Matteo Guidi is a recipe book developed with inmates from high security sections inside Italian prisons. Illustrated by Mario Trudu, it lists the methods used by prisoners to cook …
Film as Sculpture. WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, BrusselsVincenzo Estremo | Jun 28, 2013
It is quite common today to find cinematic approaches to the artistic practice – various kinds of approach which extend beyond the moving image to include performances, live works, and sculpture as well. Film as …
From Here to Eternity. Spotlights on the memory of Mike KelleyManu Buttiglione | Jun 27, 2013
Eternity is a Long Time. A sentence pronounced by the quivering voice of a man who is going to leave this world hand by hand with his beloved; a recurrent refrain, stuck in mind, that …
Third Internet Pavilion: An interview with curators Francesco Urbano RagazziVincenzo Estremo | May 21, 2013
How is it like working with Miltos Manetas, and how was the idea for the third Internet Pavilion born? Working with Miltos has something in common with gambling. The Internet Pavilion has no ministers, consuls …
The Images RepublicVincenzo Estremo | May 12, 2013
The Disobedience Archive (The Republic) curated by Marco Scotini is a work-in-progress project, started in 2005 in Berlin. The show was hosted by Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Nottingham Contemporary, Raven Row of London, Massachusetts Institute of …
