Marco Scotini
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 …
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Artissima Live – Interview with Marco ScotiniVincenzo Estremo | Nov 26, 2018
Following the experience at #ArtissimaLive, Droste Effect is publishing the interviews collected during Artissima 2018 in Turin; find all articles at #ArtissimaLive. Second conversation: curator Marco Scotini on artist Zheng Bo Marco Scotini is Artistic …
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Yinchuan Biennale | Ecologies on the Edge: conversation with Marco ScotiniVincenzo Estremo | May 29, 2018
The Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 2015 as the first contemporary art museum in northwest China, will host the second Yinchuan Biennale curated by Marco Scotini. We met the curator in Milan, right …
in: Letters from China
The Szechwan Tale: A conversation with Anren Biennale curator Marco ScotiniVincenzo Estremo | Oct 28, 2017
The first edition of the Anren Biennale, featuring more than 120 participating artists from over 20 countries, is scheduled to take place from October 28 to February 28, 2018 in the historical town of Anren …
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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 …
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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 …
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L’Inarchiviabile/The Unarchivable, Italy 1970sVincenzo Estremo | May 4, 2016
The History of Art, perhaps like her older sister “History”, always needs to be questioned in order to stay alive. It’s not a coincidence that in our contemporary world, important artist figures often run the risk …
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Albanian Trilogy: Armando Lulaj at the Venice BiennaleVincenzo Estremo | Jul 22, 2015
The prolepsis is a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection to his own argument and immediately answers in order to anticipate future responses. In the Medieval world – and more precisely …
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Crossing over to Modernity: Too Early, Too Late and the dichotomy Islam/WestVincenzo Estremo | Feb 16, 2015
During my studies of History of Art I had two obsessions, better say, two artists I was obsessed with. I am talking about Antonello da Messina and Gentile Bellini. Both of them were not only …
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Vegetation as a political agent. A geography of nature’s resistanceVincenzo Estremo | Jul 21, 2014
Years ago a dear friend of mine pointed out to me that most of the plants that we usually call “weed” come from South America. They arrived in Europe after the colonization of the American …
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More than one Empty Pedestal. Ghosts from Eastern EuropeVincenzo Estremo | Jan 30, 2014
A big number of artists is involved in this show curated by Marco Scotini at the Archeological Museum in Bologna, Italy. Il Piedistallo vuoto / The Empty Pedestal, Ghosts from Eastern Europe is a survey on …
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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 …
in: Columns, Focus on Europe
