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Fotografia Europea Festival – Photography takes over Reggio EmiliaMariangela Savoia | May 16, 2013
Taking a walk in Reggio Emilia to visit the Fotografia Europea festival is like wandering around unknown worlds, and exploring one hundred stories. Several exhibitions take place all around the city and the chosen theme …
Tris Vonna-Michell – Pebble Dash at T293 GalleryManuele Menconi | May 15, 2013
In the UK houses with pebble-dashed surfaces are estimated to have undergone a reduction of up to 5% in value. What does Tris Vonna-Michell say in his personal exhibition at T293 Gallery in Rome? His …
Tímea Anita Oravecz: Nothing that Exists or Happens is SymmetricalDroste Effect | May 12, 2013
The central symbol of the shamanistic cosmology is the World Tree which connects the heavens and the underworld to our earthly world. Shamans were travelers between these three spheres and intermediaries between worlds, thereby acting as spiritual …
Leone Contini’s The Potato Eaters at Goleb* – AmsterdamDroste Effect | May 12, 2013
A very rich bio-diversity is today compressed into the narrow space of the contemporary European city, the landing point of the migration routes. Here we can find potatoes and tubers of many forms and origins; …
Intimacy exhibition at PAH project, FribourgDroste Effect | May 12, 2013
A group show that aims to investigate the silentness of truth, and shows the rites that bind us to our environment. Intimacy discloses and announces the unexpected and blurs the edges of reality. Fragments of …
When Contemporary Art Becomes Tradition: Sm’Art Art FairVirginia Villari | May 9, 2013
From the 2nd to the 6th of May, Aix-en-Provence hosted the 8th edition of Sm’Art contemporary art fair. Born European, but having been based in New York for the past 6 years, I found this …
Rob Sherwood – How much does the earth weigh?Manuele Menconi | May 8, 2013
Stable and free, these are the two terms in between which Rob Sherwood’s painting moves. “How much does the earth weigh?” at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome is an arrival, and a prelude to a …
Droste Effect’s LibraryDroste Effect | May 7, 2013
Droste Effect no. zero Green Days – a multidisciplinary project on art and nature Vincenzo Estremo, Anna Santomauro Fijnschilder – IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art Vincenzo Estremo What Can We Learn from Nature? Vincenzo …
CALL FOR BLOGGERS – Droste Effect magazine is looking for art bloggersDroste Effect | May 7, 2013
DROSTE EFFECT MAGAZINE IS LOOKING FOR ART BLOGGERS *NOW CLOSED –updated Apr 2014 Are you a blogger, a contemporary art lover, exhibition and art opening attender? Droste Effect is looking for you. Droste Effect is …
How art can change the world: Think the Unthinkable at OltreDimore GalleryMatilde Soligno | May 3, 2013
The exhibition hosted by OltreDimore Gallery, “//:(TT)+U=Think The Unthinkable,” lies in between two different realms – not unlike its own curator: Raffaele Quattrone is indeed committed to the art world, but is also president of …
Anna Franceschini, Es ist verdammt heiss hier – Fondazione Bevilacqua La MasaChiara Manzoni | May 1, 2013
Anna Franceschini is among the ranks of those Italian young artists who decided that being international was the right thing do to, so she divided her life among Italy, USA, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. She’s …
Luisa Lambri, New Works at Studio GuenzaniLuca Piatto | Apr 28, 2013
“New works” – watch closely: what’s “new” in this brand new exhibition by Luisa Lambri at Studio Guenzani Gallery? Instead of focusing on modern architecture, as she used to do, here Lambri pays attention to …
