Challenge. Who of you knows what Premio Shanghai is? Promoted by a synergy of many public and private Italian institutions, this prize is now at its second edition, and it was presented in Venice on May …

Venice Biennale 2013 by Manuela Buttiglione for Droste Effect magazine. The video is a walk-through the biennial, showing a selection of artworks.

De Stefani was born in Arzignano, an industrial city near Vicenza, a territory whose original identity was lost. What if nature reinvented itself through the hands of this young artist? Tar piles look like shapes of …

A Lift (2013) introduces you to the solo show in the form of an obstacle, an unusual ‘naked’ object right in the middle of the entrance, like a monolith. Reuter likes Surrealism a lot, for …

Sometimes stories can travel through time better than supersonic military aircrafts. This is the case for Letter To A Refusing Pilot by Akram Zaatari. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the exhibition creates a …

The notion of bottari (bundle) as a whole and totality as well as the concept of sewing have been core components of Kimsooja’s work for over three decades. Kimsooja has approached the Korean Pavilion’s architecture as …

Droste Effect Magazine presents: Immersivo Estensivo Droste Effect magazine presentation will take place at OltreDimore Gallery in Bologna on Tue, June 4, 2013. In that occasion, the gallery space will host two temporary site-specific artworks …

For sure, of icastic, contemporary art has very little at times. In terms of realistic, effective, immediate. Nevertheless, this first edition of Icastica, international festival in Arezzo dedicated to art in its totality, goes far …

Until September 8th at the suggestive archeological site of the Mercati di Traiano, in Rome, you’ll be able to see T.R.I.P. – Travel Routes In Photography, a group photo exhibition displaying the work of four …

A restrained disorder able to spread solemnity and harmony: this is Louise Nevelson’s art. Her works use a methodical repetition of the same elements to recall the magnificence of ancient art by using ordinary materials. An artistic …

Three artists’ answers to the question connected to every absence. Harun Farocki (Novy Jicin, 1944) at first launches an icy, detached, almost sarcastic attack to the mind/money, ideas/governement short circuits (Nothing Ventured, 2004); then comes an …

The big installation “Fabulous Muscles” at Museion in Bolzano is only one part of a bigger project, whose aim is to create a 1:1 reproduction of the Statue of Liberty. More fragments of the Statue …