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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
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
New patrons: young artists. A dialogue among Angela Vettese, Cesare Pietroiusti and Patrizia Brusarosco
-> New patrons: young artists. A dialogue among Angela Vettese, Cesare Pietroiusti and Patrizia BrusaroscoInside Teatro Masini, Angela Vettese, President of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, moderated the debate on collecting in its current form, together with artists Alberto Garutti and Cesare Pietroiusti and Patrizia Brusarosco, president of Viafarini, Milan. Collecting, viewed with its set of constraints, limitations and opportunities provided i...
continue..Non è facile essere donna nel mondo dell’arte!
-> Non è facile essere donna nel mondo dell'arte!Leggo sul magazine Io Donna (il femminile del Corriere della Sera) che Angela Vettese, critica d’arte, è appena stata premiata come figura di spicco al femminile. La Giuria internazionale del Veuve Cliquot Award ha deciso di assegnarle il premio 2010 “al valore artistico femminile”. Sorrido mentre leggo l'intervista ad Angela Vettese (di P...
continue..What’s on in June 2010
-> What's on in June 2010The weekly "What's On" column becomes monthly in order to make room for the many contributions we have been receiving lately from the illy wor(l)d of contacts. Here's a gathering of interesting arts and other events in June 2010. Exhibits Johannesburg, South Africa: 23 May – 17 July 2010, In Context: A series of exhibitions and interventions...
continue..China art
Magazine -> #12 Waiting for ChinaRealism, cynicism, tradition rejected yet yearned after and sought for. These would appear to be the catchwords characterising the latest, burgeoning generation of Chinese artist and the first to have been seen in Europe when Harald Szeemann brought a small party of these new artists to the Venice Biennale in 1999. They then looked to us a bit p...
continue..…Artistic movement
Magazine -> #10 Nomadic knowledge“Fare forth” is the overwhelming imperative of our times. Each according to her/his life style - on a white sofa fitted with wheels, in a shabby dinghy, or playfully in a portable pool like those invented by Andrea Zittel for personalised caravans in the nineties. We’re nomads, be it for pleasure or out of necessity. It’s a paradox, but ...
continue..Fear of not succeeding
-> Fear of not succeedingThe countdown has started towards issue #28... "che emozione!" Cut, add, translate, check, cut again... that doesn’t work… now it is ok! We lack a cover but Pietro (Corraini) is finalizing it and will be good for sure. The feather is growing and at the same time grows the fear of not suceeding. This is the most critical phase w...
continue..The Automatic “refresh” button
-> The Automatic “refresh” buttonIssue #14’s theme was “refresh”. As in, the green button with two arrows at the top of Internet Explorer that is going extinct thanks to auto-updating streams. In 2005, to discuss the question of being “always on” was highly perceptive; it was pre iphone and before we could truly speak of being “always connected”. I read through the...
continue..Art T-Eco
Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecologyRather than being a metaphysical entity, a brain is first and foremost a local aggregate of matter, a knot of interwoven and interlinked neurons acting as pathways for chemicals and electrical charges to travel down and along. Scientists are no longer that sure that it works on a rigidly sectional basis, even though they admit that it’s made u...
continue..Straight on target
Magazine -> #6 OrientationDetermined action but also long, drawn-out, wearisome even, negotiations. In any case, all committed efforts aimed at reaching an objective, at achieving a goal. But what if purpose is blurred? Let us then come to terms with the essential meaning of artistic endeavour and the artist’s strivings and struggle. Straight on target. Like Lucio Font...
continue..Haim Steinbach
Magazine -> #3 Weaving relationsWE MET HAIM STEINBACK IN PARIS AT THE PALAIS DE TOKIO, DURING THE CELEBRATIONS FOR THE TENTH ILLY COLLECTION PRODUCTION ANNIVERSARY. THROUGH THIS INTERVIEW, FAMOUS ART CRITIC ANGELA VETTESE HELPS US TO BECOME MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE ARTIST AND THE MAN. It is with slight consternation that one enters Haim Steinbach's studio. On the identical baby ...
continue..Cogito ergo sum
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeCogito ergo sum, it reads on what is probably the most famous work by German artist Rosemarie Trockel. In actual fact, it is not a painting but a frame containing a piece of knitting like Grandma used to do. The insight of Descartes meets feminine handiwork, through a subtly sophisticated critique of Cartesian dualism, which will not leave us alone...
continue..I look, I know, maybe I feel
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseIt’s not true that emotions are simply there for the taking. Shock may well be a common feeling. So may disgust. A man baked in an oven out of revenge, laid out on a huge dish, well done and crispy, with a garnish of colourful vegetables, as seen at the end of one of Peter Greenaway’s movies. Something classical, such as ornamental wallpa...
continue..The unexpected world
Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The ErrorA sketch comes into focus beneath the scrutinizing eye of a camera lens, revealing an error. Promptly corrected, a new and different figure appears, materialised and dematerialised by strong, alternate strokes of pencil and eraser flaying the surface. That’s how William Kentridge works, by fine-tuning and adjustment, dynamically, hesitantly, step...
continue..Memory: the zest and zip of vintage
Magazine -> #25 InnovageWhen we were children we’d love to stroke mother’s otter fur coat (or perhaps it was beaver or lapin, who can say for sure at this point in time?), moving my hand back and forth in fondling reverie: a light-coloured stripe, a darkcoloured one. How soothing it was to trace figures with one’s hands over that beloved body. Memories are what p...
continue..Questing by misunderstanding
Magazine -> #17 SerendipityAna Mendieta bends backwards over a table, naked, covered in blood and mute. She’s enacting the rape suffered by a friend the setting: a – student’s room in an American college; the time: the early stages of the feminist movement. The artist was searching for a powerful way of exposing the violence endured by women. As it turned out, that p...
continue..Not a mechanical pump
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallyLet’s take a closer look at a work by Sol LeWitt, a great artist who has just left us, whose legacy to the world was the idea of art as a concept. But a concept in what sense? For example, you take a point and slide it towards the end of a given quadrangle. Another point, sliding in the opposite direction, will define a partly closed space w...
continue..The beauty of ugliness
Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well madeLittle bodies of Siamese children joined together at the hips and huddled to form a group, arranged so as to appear to be posing: the statues of the Chapman brothers are horrific monstrosities. The statues of very young-looking but already sexually mature adolescents of the Japanese artist Tadashi Murakami are no less unsettling. His manga-looking,...
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