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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
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Jurgen Bey, as part of Studio Makkink and Bey (est. 2002), is currently participating in an exhibit on here in the furthest Northern reaches of London: The Crate Series exhibition at the Spring Project, a show that re-interprets the possible uses of the shipping crate.
APproaching the small lake in the middle of Kensington Gardens, you see from far this strange circle that seems like a piece of red sky in the wrong place and all above is concentrating the power on this mirror. It’s a mixed feeling for me to see this work by Anish Kapoor here in this green space. Anish Kapoor: Turning The World Upside Down is on until March 13, 2011.
The sincere and rough photographs of the American artist Jim Goldberg are exhibited for the first time in Italy in a path that reveals the themes of his major artistic experiences. The show inaugurates the new spaces of PARCO – the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Pordenone and is on now until January 30 2011. Curator Marco Minuz recounts the special moment when, the night before the inauguration, the sun had set a few hours before and all the works were hanging in their definitive positions. The installers had gathered their drills and ladders and gone home. And he remained alone with the art.
Opening tomorrow in Trieste is an exhibit by Fabrizio Serse, who tells me that the poetry has disappeared from our cities and his work is an incitement to find it again. Let’s open doors and windows on daily life, let’s take away the fear and tricks of humankind who is, in fact, completely absent from the images that thus become timeless and immortal.
The Italian Embassy in Germany and the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin have collaborated on a two-year-long project that has as its main goal the promotion of young Italian artists who have chosen Berlin for their creative work and home. The exhibit ITaliens is open to the public on select days and is worth a visit!
I asked of one of the locals who is helping us out at Galleria illy to for suggestions as I wanted to check out the contemporary art scene in Berlin. She suggested ME Collectors Room, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and the area around Checkpoint Charlie. So I set out in search of the hippest locations in this hopping town… with reviews, and plotted on a google map!
Make your own itinerary around the two exhibits at Tate Modern and Tate Britain dedicated to the Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs (who has been based in Mexico since 1986). Alÿs’s work starts with a simple action, either by him or others, which is then documented in a range of media.
An exhibit on Skin at the Wellcome Institute in London (183 Euston Road) is a show for those with strong stomachs; it combines science and art to explore this seldom-considered organ of the body.
Alla Fondazione Vedova di Venezia, una mostra dedicata a Louise Bourgeois solleva Silvia dalla pioggia.
Silvia escapes from wet London to wet Venice, and into an exhibit dedicated to Louise Bourgeois…
At the Casa d’Arte Futurista Fortunato Depero (Via Portici, 38 Rovereto (TN)), the exhibit Mendini > Depero presents furniture and tapestries designed by the Milanese architect and designer Alessandro Mendini that are inspired by the creativity of the Rovereto-born Fortunato Depero
If you can’t make it Munich to see the exhibit “Alessi Objects and Projects” about this iconic brand of Italian design, check out the website, a beautiful illustrated storybook…
Al Moderna Muset di Stoccolma una mostra dedicata a Ed Ruscha costituisce un motivo in più per venire nella capitale svedese.
A retrospective exhibit of Ed Ruscha’s work at Stockholm’s Moderna Muset is certainly an extra reason to visit the Swedish capital.
Appena entrata da Berlino, vi segnalo una bellissima mostra di Olafur Eliasson. A me è piaciuta la sua mostra perché è uno dei pochi artisti contemporanei che fa entrare noi visitatori nella performance…
I’ve just returned from Berlin where I saw an excellent exhibit by Olafur Eliasson. I liked this exhibit because Eliasson is one of the few contemporary artists who really help the visitor enter into the performance…
The exhibit “Tutti a Tavola” – conviviality and the five senses – in Milan until May 9th is an impressive multi-sensorial experience in which you are the guest in a ghostly villa. It’s definately worth going to explore this show – here’s my full review, photos, and video.
Appuntamenti durante il Salone del Mobile 2010 da Edizioni Corraini (Milano), che per l’occasione si trasforma in una bottega disegnata da Martí Guixé / Join Edizioni Corraini in the fabulous artistic space especially designed by Martí Guixé on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2010 (April 14-18).
I am right now entering in Arco Art Fair, Madrid.
Have you ever visited an art fair? If the answer is no, then DO IT! You will enter in a never-seen-before world.
An art fair is more than a solo exposition or a one artist’s performance. It is a “cosmo” around which several artists, galleries, interests, hopes and emotions turn frantically…
We suggest this exhibition:
ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV | The Blue Carpet
MACRO | Museo d’arte contemporanea Roma
Via Reggio Emilia 54 | Roma | Italy
preview: Friday, January 22, 2010 – h. 7 pm
Open from January 23 – April 5, 2010
www.macro.roma.museum
Illywords and Galleria Continua worked together in the past — I met up with Daniel Buren for a conversation in 2004. This interview is in illywords #8 Place-Not Place
Triennale di Milano, presentazione libro CAMPARISODA.
L’aperitivo dell’arte veloce Futurista, Corraini Edizioni.
Steven Guarnaccia (illywords#14, Parsons school N.Y ) tra il designer Matteo Ragni e Alessandro Mendini stimola la battuta di Beppe Finessi :” Matteo, come diciamo a Milano, e’ uno che non se la tira”!
Ma e’ proprio vero che esiste una nuova generazione di architetti e designer che “non se la tirano”?
* in italian means people at hand, not snobby, not arrogant.
The question is: are this charachteristics present in categories such as designer&architects?
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