Columns

Venice Biennale 2022, la Biennale, Biennale di Venezia, 2022, The Milk of Dreams, Cecilia Alemani, 59th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale 2022 | Highlights
Droste Effect |

59th International Art Exhibition | The Milk of Dreams     The 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale is finally open: this edition was delayed by one year due to the world health …

Fuck off, Suzhou river, Shanghai, 2000. Courtesy of Feng Boyi A Meditation on History: Art Exhibitions in Shanghai in 2000
Shuai Yin |

A Review of Uncooperative Contemporaries     The curtain of “Bodies of Water: The 13th Shanghai Biennale” rose at Power Station of Art in early November, 2020. At the same time, European countries have again …

Gordon Matta-Clark, . Day’s End (Pier 52) (Exterior with Ice), 1975. Color photograph, 1029 x 794 mm.  © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, Artists Rights Society (ARS), N.Y. A history of the Wild West Side and the Whitney’s new public sculpture
Robin Newman |

  Long before its abandoned train track was turned into a famous park (The High Line), the streets of New York’s Meatpacking District were lined with racks of raw meat, drug dealers and transexual prostitutes. …

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) …

Scott Burton, The Lecture Agency, Lecture on Self Scott Burton. Lecture on Self
The Lecture Agency |

Scott Burton’s 1973 performance lecture     The Lecture Agency is a research platform, based on forms of radical pedagogy, which includes on its website a library of manifestos and other fundamental texts aimed at …

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 …

Jonas Mekas, Travel Songs (still), 1967-1981, Cripta747, Torino Private Vision. Notes on Jonas Mekas and Other Things Concerning our Particular Condition
Vincenzo Estremo |

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 …

Dora Garcia, The artist without works (A guided tour around nothing) (2009), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Second Time Around. Interview with Dora García
Annalisa Pellino |

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 …

Wed Development by THX88.net Digital Art Factory