Rome’s Istituto Centrale per la Grafica is one of those rare places that today allow for incursions into graphic art as a specific field of inquiry – testing, expanding and asserting its limits and possibilities. With a vast collection spanning five hundred years of drawing, print, calcographic works, matrices and photographs, the Istituto is…
Matt Mignanelli Born in 1983 in Providence, Rhode Island. Mignanelli lives and works in New York City and is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. In his works, Mignanelli’s approach to painting has evolved from subtle monochromes to a stark black / white, deep blue / white, and deep blue / black…
On a lovely and far-wandering walk a thousand useful and usable thoughts occur to me. Shut in at home I would miserably decay and wither. Walking is for me not only healthy, and lovely, it is also of service and useful. A walk advances me professionally, and provides me at the same time also with…
Rome is a city of a thousand faces Rome is the political capital of Italy, but also the center of Christianity, Rome is the city that brings with it all the contradictions and the beauty of the world. Its formal freedom has become its most unique trait over the centuries, thanks to the urban, architectural…
The possibility of observing the world in a realistic manner does not exist in itself, but requires certain actions. This is what appears to be suggested by Action at a Distance, Elia Cantori’s second solo show at the CAR DRDE gallery. A sense of altered faithfulness, stemming from the synthetic and documentary qualities of form,…
Jon DeCola , Jane Hayes Greenwood, Mooni Perry, Eric Zindorf and (Riikka Hyvönen) In reference to the title of the inaugural exhibition, Opening Night honors the gallery’s artists’ work in an annually recurring group show that provides a platform for experimental techniques and new forms of artistic expression. Opening Night stands for the gallery’s deep…
George Henry Longly’s new exhibition at Valentin, The Smile of a Snake, takes its name from a language tutorial emphasising the pronunciation of the letter “s”. A phonetic exercise forlearning English as a foreign language it also highlights problems withthe physical materialisation of language. A lisp also known as sigmatism, is a speech impediment in…
15th January- 20th February, 2016 Jon Pilkington (1990) lives and works in London. He holds a BA in Fine Art for the university of Lancashire, and a Master of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design. Recent Solo exhibitions include: ’From the Favela’, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, ’Jon Pilkington’, Peter Von Kant, London. Recent…
A Moveable Feast is a duo exhibition featuring the works of Steven Cox and Bas van den Hurk. The exhibition takes the form of an immersive environment where both artists’ paintings and sculptures are displayed on top of a site-specific collaborative floor piece. A Moveable Feast aims to blur the boundaries between presence and absence,…
“My influences come from everyday life. I’m easily blown away by the brutal elegant design on a passing truck. I just love it and can only hope that my work transmits that same feeling. That one feels “the street” in my paintings. Through the title “SLOW, SIMPLE, SWEET” I want to stress the simplicity that…
