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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 …
A Walk Through The Art. Arte Fiera 2014Matilde Soligno | Jan 29, 2014
Arte Fiera 2014 was held at BolognaFiere on January 24-27, 2014. The 38th edition of the Arte Fiera art fair brought together 172 galleries, a 27% increase on last year’s edition. The galleries were divided …
Peter Schlör | Light Shift. Going deep inside landscape photographyBruna Esperi | Jan 28, 2014
Peter Schlör’s solo exhibition at Landes Galerie Linz is just finished, but I would like to direct your special attention to the “Light Shift” works. Artist Peter Schlör made a name for himself with his peculiar …
Making sculpture alive: Big Bambù at MACRO TestaccioCaterina Berardi | Jan 27, 2014
Curious visitors have been wandering all last summer long about the strange conglomerate in the main courtyard of MACRO Testaccio. It took a while and a crew of experienced rock climbers but Big Bambù, a …
Edward del Rosario + Asuka Ohsawa, It’s all fun and games at The Flat – Massimo CarasiLuca Piatto | Jan 23, 2014
The Flat – Massimo Carasi presents the duo show of Asuka Ohsawa and Edward del Rosario,. These two artists are presented together for the first time at the gallery in a double solo. Both of …
A Walk Through the Oakland Museum of California’s Art CollectionDiana Gadaldi | Jan 22, 2014
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche in 1969 and situated between Lake Merritt and Downtown Oakland, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is a major architectural example of mid-century modernism in the United States …
Tom Burckhardt at Gregory Lind GalleryCatherine Nueva España | Jan 21, 2014
For his latest showing, Cast Paintings, Tom Burckhardt cast his canvases and supports first, hung them up as “legitimate” paintings, and then painted them. This idea of a false start, embedded in the canvas itself, …
A conversation with Su-Chen Hung: resonances from the past and a look into her future projectsDiana Gadaldi | Jan 20, 2014
My first meeting with visual artist Su-Chen Hung dates back to April 2013, when her latest solo exhibition Ants in the City opened at Intersection for the Arts, a multidisciplinary center for the arts located …
Digital Garden – A green platformVincenzo Estremo | Jan 18, 2014
Information society works as a big computer, it accumulates sensitive data trying to understand the evolution and future of the world. This society needs to understand and develop new strategies starting from the study of …
Curiouser and Curiouser: Fantasies as EscapeGowri Balasegaram | Jan 16, 2014
Lustrous and smooth in porcelain, the bikini clad figure of a woman stands resplendent, her legs entangled with the multifarious arms of two octopi. On the opposite wall, the faces of 13 forgotten starlets from …
Nina Katchadourian at Catharine Clark GalleryCatherine Nueva España | Jan 15, 2014
Two Libraries: Recently Sorted Books is the latest in Ms. Katchadourian’s twenty-year project series, Sorted Books. “Once Upon a Time in Delaware/In Quest of the Perfect Book,” and “Family Gathering” are insightful, clever, and multi-layered. …
There’s No Place Like Home: One Collective’s Take on Suburban SolaceEmily Kramer | Jan 14, 2014
As private site-specific dance performances go, the ones produced by Rebecca Bruno’s HomeLA are pretty special. The last installment (in Highland Park) featured six pieces showed at both dawn and dusk of the same day, …
