Focus on Europe
Wade Guyton: A draft reviewVincenzo Estremo | Aug 28, 2017
In his last solo exhibition SIAMO ARRIVATI (“WE’VE ARRIVED”), conceived for the MADRE Museum in Naples (Italy) and curated by Andrea Viliani, the American artist Wade Guyton (Hammond, Indiana, 1972) explored the state of the production …
Fernanda Fragateiro and the problematic documentation of contemporary artClaudio Zecchi | Aug 1, 2017
The following is a conversation between curator Claudio Zecchi and artist Fernanda Fragateiro (1962; lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal) on the problematic practice of documenting the contemporary artwork. Fernanda Fragateiro’s projects are characterized by a …
Arthur Fouray’s “2080″ at ZQM in BerlinEleonora Castagna | Jun 9, 2017
Eleonora Castagna: The exhibition you are presenting at ZQM in Berlin (which was inaugurated on the 20th of May and will close on the 18th of June) was presented through several steps. One of the …
The White Hunter! African art and the West at FM MilanoVincenzo Estremo | May 11, 2017
The hunter is the one who has the tools to exercise power. He achieves his goal when he brutalizes his victim. He keeps his position. He is careless, unscrupulous; with or without his gun. The …
A conversation with Musa paradisiacaClaudio Zecchi | Apr 14, 2017
Musa paradisiaca (Eduardo Guerra and Miguel Ferrão, 2010) is a long-term discursive project that manifests itself through the different shapes of drawing, performance, and sculpture. It’s a single expression of a collective and fragmented soul, …
Documenta 14: Teaching in AthensVincenzo Estremo | Apr 10, 2017
In a scene from the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading (2008) there is a great dialogue between the Director of the CIA (J. K. Simmons) and CIA officer Palmer Smith (David Rasche). It is a paradoxical …
Guimarães. A new artist-run space in ViennaVincenzo Estremo | Jan 25, 2017
Guimarães is a new exhibition space that opened a few months ago in Vienna. The place is run by Hugo Canoilas, Christoph Meier, and Nicola Pecoraro. I decided to meet the guys because I wanted …
A curatorial team for Localedue: Giulia Morucchio and Irene RossiniEleonora Castagna | Jan 13, 2017
When did your collaboration start? Could you talk about your very first project together? We started our collaboration while attending University in Venice. Our first project together was curating the screening of a documentary film …
Cavo. Frequente at Standards MilanoGaia Martino | Jan 9, 2017
This is a coversation between Attila Faravelli and I. Along with Nicola Ratti and Enrico Malatesta, we are part of Frequente, an art organization based in Milan, focused on sounds and auditive culture. From an idea …
Palinsesti contemporary art festival. Interview with Davide BevilacquaVincenzo Estremo | Dec 14, 2016
Palinsesti is a contemporary art festival organized in San Vito al Tagliamento (near Pordenone), Italy, a small town that for 25 years has proposed – and shown – exhibitions and performances to its 15000 inhabitants, …
Non-Aligned Modernity. Eastern-European Art at FM MilanoVincenzo Estremo | Dec 5, 2016
There was a time in which the term “Iron Curtain” was more than a simple definition for the boundary that used to divide Europe into two separate areas. A time when Westerners thought to be …
Generational Quadriennale, Roma 2016Vincenzo Estremo | Nov 4, 2016
There are certain events in nature that still need to be observed; actually, it is believed that 95% of our oceans remain unexplored and we have discovered only 10% of the living things on Earth. …





