Art-Verona, the fair that is growing I arrived Friday in Verona and abandoned the glories of the wonderful city in order to go directly to the fair for the opening. This ever growing fair consisted of three quite interesting and well managed days thanks to the direction of Andrea Bruciati. Despite the fact that the…
Sandström’s practice actively interrogates the methods by which viewing initiates and elicits thought and cognition. Her newest body of work consists of a series of portrait-sized paintings hung at equal distance throughout the gallery. As a gestural template, each painting comprises an assortment of brushstrokes impastoed onto intimately-scaled panels colored vividly with swatches of magenta,…
@ Nicola Samorì Courtesy EIGEN+ART Leipzig gallery, Uwe Walter, Lapo Simeoni
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…
Jason Chung Tang Yen: Do we need art fairs? Why? Hans Ulrich Obrist: For me as a curator research never stops, there are many different ways of making research, far most, research of course happens in the studios. I make studio visits everyday, art schools, galleries, musuems, kunsthalle, autonomous project spaces, artist run spaces, and…
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…
