Journal

The WEST project by the Italian artist Francesco Jodice (b. 1967, Naples) is the subject of an exhibition curated by Matteo Balduzzi at the Galerie Le Chateau d’Eau, a public art space in Toulouse, France. With the WEST project, Jodice tells the story of the rise and fall of the American economic model and its image, investigating the origins of the current crisis of the liberal model over a period between the beginning of the Gold Rush (1848) and the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers (2008). Begun in 2014, WEST consists of three long journeys through a few of the states...

A collection of works produced in the 1990s and early 2000s by the American artist Paul Jenkins are the subject of a significant solo exhibition at the Ronchini Gallery in London. ‘Paul Jenkins: Works on Canvas from the Nineties and Noughties’ opened on 23 November and highlights the multiformity of acrylic paint as a medium. Jenkins, who lived in New York City as a contemporary of Pollock, Rothko, and Motherwell, is recognised for his method of pouring luminous layers of paint as a foundation for his abstract works. The exhibition comes following a major presentation at the Tampa Museum of...

The exhibition Giuliana Balice 1974-75, organised by Zuecca Projects in collaboration with Fondazione Tomassoni, was inaugurated in October at the Atelier Coldefy in Paris, on the occasion of Paris+ par Art Basel art fair. This solo show is the first episode of an extensive project about the convergence between art and architecture. Throughout the history of art, art and architecture have always been closely tied. During the Renaissance, the figure of the artist, of the architect, and of the theorist was often one and the same, as in the case of Leon Battista Alberti, Vasari, and Michelangelo. This close tie...

Large-scale installations by Shahpour Pouyan (b. 1979) and Salvatore Arancio (b. 1974) are featured in an ongoing major survey exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. Curated by Dr Cliff Lauson, ‘Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art’ presents large-scale and immersive sculptural works by twenty-three multi-generational and international artists working across recent decades. Contributing to the expanding dialogue between art and craft, the presentation proposes new perspectives and insights beyond the kiln as it inquires about the possibilities of ceramics as an inventive medium. It explores thinking through production and addresses meaningful conversations from architecture, the body, the domestic and organic,...