I am more and more convinced that Ukraina has been, and is again, one of the European centers for creative photography. In particular, after Roman Pyatkovka, I would like to go back to the works by Arsen Savadov, made in 1997.
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Spencer Finch
Lisson Gallery, Milan, presents Spencer Finch’s series of new works including a site-specific LED installation, a suite of photographs and a large watercolour that explore memory, colour and the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious.
Read moreArt Lovers Club.
It all started with a very a nice dinner on the rooftop of the Soho House. We were six women all working in the art business and we realized that there was no forum for professional dialogue between different players within the art world. Following this dinner, I commenced the organisation of events which the five other women supported in the beginning through networking the art world. The popularity of these events grew rapidly, through word of mouth and personal contact. And since September 2012 I have two fantastic partners, Christina Kohorst and Lena Winter, and we will continue growing.
Read moreContemporary Shapes: Diamond
Johannes Wohnseifer’s Diamond is painted with comic mysticism: its corporate logo a meditative fixation, accompanied by a haiku-like slogan. Humorously playing on spiritualism as a by-product of global enterprise, Wohnseifer’s Diamond places advertising as the new religious art, extolling the virtues of faceless powers.
Read moreRe-inventing Painting, Miltos Manetas
‘I know no one, more international than me’ Miltos Manetas loves to say when asked where he is from, but as all roads lead to Rome, eventually also this globe trotting greek artist ended up in the eternal city. It was almost a year ago and last week at Complesso Monumentale Santo Spirito in Sassia, an ancient hospital complex dating back to 727 AD, M.M. inaugurated his one-night-only exhibition and performance entitled BlackBerry Paintings, a series of works started in August 2010.
Read moreAlexei Meschtschanow
Welcome on board to my latest discovery: Alexei Meschtschanow. Meschtschanow’s exhibition concept “The Buggenbauer Syndrome” in 2007, embraced a series of sculptures resembling pieces of furniture placed in open space. Cold, terrific, these are self-sufficient objects. The objects observed are indeed familiar, but they can no longer be associated or classified. They are rudiments of a social arrangement, in which parameters such as security, hygiene and sense of style had their undisputed places. Their image is emphasized and at the same time is humiliated.
Read moreHOW TO Visit a Contemporary Art Fair
Since when i was at the high school, i have never missed one single edition of Artissima, i basically grew up with this event. Anyway during the years i’ve heard the comments of a lot of people “out of the art-world” who defined contemporary art fairs as boring, confusing. This is just because they don’t have a method, and don’t really know what to do at an art fair.
Read moreThe Others
In the amazing setting of the former prison of Turin Le Nuove, The Others, established in 2009, is a new satellite art fair dedicated to young galleries and organizations devoted to the emerging art scene. Instead of luxurious booths we founded amazing brutal displays cells.
Read morePhoto-diary: Sandy
“Lights had gone out all of a sudden. Only the sound of the wind was left whistling through the avenues and across the streets.
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