The artist who represented Italy at the last Venice Biennale currently has two major exhibitions in Italy open through July 2023: NOw/here at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan and Spazio #09 – Mi Ricordo at Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea in Foligno. Installation view of Gian Maria Tosatti, NOw/here (2023), Courtesy of HangarBicocca. NOw/here at Pierelli Hangar...
Pursuing the series of exhibitions dedicated to the relationship between Art and Architecture, Zuecca Projects and Artvisor present the first solo show in Venice of the artist Giuliana Balice. The exhibition “Giuliana Balice: l’ordine geometrico e la seduzione dell’architettura” (Giuliana Balice: the geometric order and the seduction of architecture), curated by Italo Tomassoni, will be...
The Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea (CIAC) in Foligno hosted a conversation between Artvisor founder Piero Tomassoni and artist Gian Maria Tosatti last month. Together, they examined today’s relationship between art and the city. The event was held in conjunction with Tosatti’s site-specific solo installation at CIAC Spazio #09 – Mi Ricordo and his Italian Pavilion...
Two weeks ago, the jet set of the contemporary art world continued their breakneck pace around this year’s circuit of must-see/must-be-seen-at-events with the preview of the 2019 Venice Biennale, titled “May You Live in Interesting Times”. It seems as though the whirlwind of Frieze New York is in the distant past. The crowds were heavy...
Amidst the turbulence presented at the 58th Venice Biennale, Chile’s pavilion is a fitting (anti)monument to the hegemonic power structures that have distorted the historical canon. Much in line with Ralph Rugoff’s questioning of truth in his centrepiece show, Altered Views, curated by the Spanish Agustín Pérez Rubio, presents Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa’s three-part exploration...
Last week’s Contemporary Art sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips saw established names achieving stellar results. William Kentridge’s The Pool set a record for a work on paper at the hammer price £447,000 at Sotheby’s on Wednesday. At Christie’s the day before, Gerhard Richter’s Musa (2009) achieved £1,031,250, a world record for a tapestry by...
Giuseppe Stampone is one of the artists participating in the Korean Pavilion’s “Future School” at the 17th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale. Together with Maria Crispal, Stampone developed a series of workshops to introduce his ‘abecedaria’ or alphabetic grids.