February 26~2010
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.
February 24~2010
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.
February 23~2010
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.
February 22~2010
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.
February 20~2010
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.
February 20~2010
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.
February 18~2010
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.
February 16~2010
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.
February 15~2010
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.
February 15~2010
Yale Graphic Design Exhibition is a condensed version of Lux et Veritas, the thesis show of Yale University’s Graphic Design Department. The students decided to present their works as a series of looping video that will be displayed at Chert, in Berlin until March 20. A selection of works from their previous exhibition at New Haven can be seen after the jump.
February 13~2010
Today, at 6 p.m. the second project by P38, an independent, no-profit space for contemporary art in Lucca, will inaugurate with two personal exhibitions by Leonora Bisagno and Jacopo Miliani. The first, Da Desiderio a Desiderio, is focused on the memory of the objet trouvé, while Parallel words, irrelevant worlds by Jacopo Miliani takes its cue from the many-worlds interpretation elaborated by Hugh Everett.
February 11~2010
I have just got back from a trip to Dublin. There has been a lot of talk about the city’s fall from economic grace – indeed it certainly felt different to my last visit, three years ago, at the pinnacle of the upswing. However, despite the prevalence of plywood nailed over shop-fronts around the city centre and seemingly halted construction projects, the city’s galleries were open for business.
My first stop was to Mark Garry’s show ‘another place’ at Kerlin – his first with the gallery. He claims to have been planning this exhibition at the notoriously long, thin space for a couple of years now, and two of the pieces in the show – a half-spectrum of coloured threads bouncing from side to side of the gallery, and a string of beads that rose from a spiral on the floor to the high ceiling – made dramatic use of its dimensions. Garry seems to stretch formal concerns of material transformation and craftsmanship to devotional, even religious, extremes.
Almost next-door, Douglas Hyde Gallery was showing a selection of paintings by the young Dublin-based painter Ciaran Murphy. Although they seemed to subscribe to a familiar and fashionable style – modest-sized oil paintings in washed-out colours taken from an eclectic range of photographic sources – they are, nevertheless, at their best both endearing and unnerving. Animals, such as a herd of woolly mammoths, seem impossibly melancholy, while snatches of landscape are remote and elegiac.
February 10~2010
Sounds – Radio – Art – Neue Musik will open on February 12 at n.b.k. in Berlin. The exhibition project makes radio accessible as an artistic medium, and makes it possible to experience it in a spatial context.
Based on the polyvocality of radio art and a fascination with the disembodied character that shaped the early years of radio, the exhibition opens surprising perspectives on radio art and its potential to create complex experiential spaces.
