The Happy Interval
presented by Tulips&Roses, Vilnius
until March 13, 2010
Croy Nielsen, Berlin

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In his largest exhibition thus far, Thomas Zipp is transforming the Kunsthalle Fridericianum into a “mental institution”. For the show (WHITE REFORMATION CO-OP) MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO, Zipp combines sculptures, drawings and paintings with a comprehensive exhibition architecture to create a total installation.

Did you see The Hurt Locker? If you did, great, but if you haven’t, you should do it now. It’s a great film. Great story, great direction, great acting, great everything. It’s about a soldier who pushes all his limits (and those of the people around him) and it reveals a great truth: men love war. They love to fight and they love to win. And that’s it. As you probably already know, the director of THL is a woman by the name of Kathryn Bigelow. But what you might not know is that, besides being James Cameron’s ex-wife, Bigelow is also an ex-conceptual artist. Back in the ’70s she collaborated with people like Lawrence Weiner, Vito Acconci and Richard Serra. Some might say her conceptualist past isn’t more than a footnote in her biography, a funny anecdote to tell at a social dinners. But how can one determine whether one’s early years are just a hitch or the origin of everything that followed? Breaking Point, at castillo/corrales until March 20, traces Kathryn Bigelow’s trajectory in art in the 1970s and her subsequent progression into the contemporary popular cinematic landscape.

Ninni Morgia is a Sicilian guy who lives in New York and plays guitar in a very intense, psychedelic way. Today you can go and listen to his noise at 9 PM in via Pastrengo 12, Milan.

Kaye Donachie’s portraits recognise the charisma of a cast of historical figures including modernist performers, futurist actresses and non-conformist poets. The British artist creates portraits that serve to evoke the atmosphere of the particular time, place or movement surrounding the various subjects of her investigation. In the past, Donachie has focused her attention on hippie communes and political radicals of the 1960’s like the members of the Charles Manson family. Until April 11, at Maureen Paley, you will find beutiful portraits of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nina Hamnett, Michael Corinne West, Mina Loy and many others. Don’t miss it.

Today at Peep-Hole, from 6 to 9 p.m., will take place Mad Marginal: antipsychiatry tradition and marginality as artistic position, a workshop by Dora Garcia with Stefano Graziani, Cesare Pietroiusti and Nicola Valentino. On this occasion the new issue of Peep-Hole Sheet—the quarterly of artist’s writings published by Mousse—will also be presented. The third issue features an exclusive text by American artist Jonathan Horowitz. See you there.

Three major exhibitions have been created to describe and interpret forty years in the history of Italy. With art as its focal point, artistic expressions are positioned within the cultural and socio-economic context of these decades that proved to be crucial for Italy: those from 1947 to 1989, from shortly after World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Collier Schorr’s third solo exhibition at Modern Art is structured around the idea of a retrospective. The show draws from a body of work accumulated over 18 years of rigorous practice. In a place determined by memory, war, emigration, and rebuilt society, the American artist combines the roles of portraitist, social anthropologist and storyteller: for some time Schorr explored the lives of her German neighbors, friends and family. By locating herself in an entitled cultural position, the artist takes and uses a found set of charged aesthetic principles, leaving the field open on whether the underlying ideologies are ultimately reinforced or undermined.

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Helen Marten
wicked patterns
05.02.010 – 13.03.010
T293, Napoli

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For his next exhibition on the 25th of February—that will also inaugurate the new space of Federico Bianchi Gallery in Milan—Berlin-based artist Alexander Wolff chose the puppet theatre as a pictorial detail that manifests itself in the form of a tangible image. Visualization, in this case, presents the act of painting.

Does the globalization obscure the ever more fragmented thoughts, ideas and opinions  of the real world? Lost in translation, an international symposium that will take place tomorrow from 9.30 am at Triennale in Milan, represents an opportunity to view artistic and cultural approaches as interesting ways of thinking about this issue. Final objective of the project is to stimulate reflection about the complexity of translation and artistic languages as an effective means of communication between cultures. To download the program, click here.

Above: Adrian Paci, Centro di Permanenza temporanea, 2009. Courtesy of francesca kaufmann.

INDEPENDENT, a hybrid model and temporary exhibition forum, will take place in New York City from the 4th to the 7th of March. Conceived by dealers Elizabeth Dee and Darren Flook, it is a part consortium, part collective that lies somewhere between a group show and a re-examination of the art fair model. Mousse was invited to participate, and we’re happy to say we will be there, along with a little present. Just trying to add a little something to the rich list of projects, performances and lectures. See you there.

Hans-Peter Feldmann is aware of the problematic nature of pictures and art in a culture that is constantly bombarded by images. Maybe this is the reason for which it is impossible to capture the amount of images that the German artist has collected from magazines and books during his long career. Get a little taste of it, from today onwards, at Malmö Konsthall.

Today, at 6 pm, at Triennale di Milano, the first book by Massimo Minini, Mai scritti. Racconti, favole, lettere, qualche sogno, published by Editrice La Quadra, will be presented. You would do well to check it out.
Actually, we are currently working on a second book with Minini, one that will also collect all the short notes, fairy tales, letters and memories wrote by the art dealer to fight the selective nature of memory.
Above the article appeared on the issue 933 of Domus magazine.

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Sylvano Bussotti is an italian composer and artist who, in his visual research, has experimented with the interaction between sound, movement and vision. Thanks to his work, Bussotti achieved several recognitions and charges, like the artistic direction of the Music Section of the Venice Biennale. From tomorrow, his multifaceted talent will be celebrate in Florence, his hometown, with a series of events, organized by the Museo Marino Marini, that will last until the end of March. Click on “see more” to listen more.

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Collins-Stracensky’s first Italian solo exhibition at Nicoletta Rusoni Gallery in Milan is an extension of the project presented at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2009, where the artist enlivened the existing architecture of the Museum by opening circular holes in the walls.

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