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Droste Effect / Pizza Box presents: PizzemblageDroste Effect | Feb 5, 2015
VERSIONE IN ITALIANO IN FONDO When Droste Effect was born, all the team was asking themselves a number of questions, that overlapped to merely practical matters. We were trying to face economic issues, to …
Basim Magdy: The Many Colours of the Sky Radiate ForgetfulnessGowri Balasegaram | Feb 3, 2015
Diogenes of Sinope, the Greek philosopher, was one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy. An irascible yet formidable character, Diogenes displayed his disdain of Athenian convention by living a spartan lifestyle and …
A Walk Through The Art. Arte Fiera 2015Manu Buttiglione | Jan 28, 2015
The Arte Fiera 2015 contemporary art fair was held in Bologna, Italy on January 23-26, 2015. The 39th edition of the International Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art included 210 exhibitors, divided into 5 sections. …
Days of Endless Time at the Hirshhorn Museum, WashingtonEleonora Castagna | Jan 27, 2015
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, …
Ed Ruscha. A Reality PaintedEleonora Salvi | Jan 21, 2015
The wide exhibition spaces of the Gagosian Gallery’s Roman branch are holding the solo exhibition of one of the greatest american painters and photographers. Mainly known for his “World Paintings”, Ed Ruscha, pop artist and …
Glitch. Interference Between Art and Cinema: A strange attemptEleonora Salvi | Jan 19, 2015
It is always a shame when good ideas fall victim to vague and misleading expedients, for fear they could pass unnoticed. It took a long time before someone went back to talking about Glitch art …
Pierre Huyghe at LACMA: Unexpected Pleasures and DisappoinmentsOlivia Fales | Jan 16, 2015
To naysayers of contemporary art, Pierre Huyghe’s retrospective at LACMA is bound to be the last straw. To an open mind, it will have a positively jostling impact. Huyghe’s body of work is as contemporary …
Geoffrey Farmer at Casey Kaplan GalleryEleonora Castagna | Dec 18, 2014
“Kathy Acker rang my head like a bell. It happened sometime in the spring of 1990, while she was reading out loud, a passage to our class from Gertrude Stein’s 1914 book, Tender …
The ambiguous meaning of a coffer. The opening of the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Contemporary ArtFrancesco Federici | Dec 2, 2014
The word “coffer” is often used to mean a place to hide treasures, and in many languages it is also used to label buildings that can be considered as jewels themselves. In the rhetoric of …
Droste Effect talk at SPRINT independent publishers salon MilanoDroste Effect | Nov 26, 2014
Join us at SPRINT _|/_ independent publishers and artists books salon for an informal Talk | Droste Effect on the Pizza Box project on Sunday, November 30, 2014 — 5-6 PM …
A.I. The Place/Non-Place Where Art and Fashion Meet in RomeManuele Menconi | Nov 24, 2014
The fashion world as we conceive it is a result of different forces, influences and ideas from other fields which have converged in it. Art, for instance, played a central part in the renovation of …
Julia Heyward and Perry Hoberman’s 29 Space Time brings performance art into the futureRobin Newman | Nov 21, 2014
29 Space Time is a performance art piece that was recently performed at the art space Roulette in Brooklyn, NY. Performed and created by the multimedia artists Perry Hobber and Julia Heyward. A unique piece on …
