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The Armory Show 2024

Javits Center - New York

opening 12:00 am

06.09 - 08.09.2024

In a booth shared with Fracesca Minini, we are presenting works by Carla Accardi, James Bantone, Jacopo Benassi, Armin Boehm, Sol Calero, Peter Halley, Sheila Hicks, Anish Kapoor, Landon Metz e Francesco Simeti.

Landon Metz
Untitled, 2020
Dye on canvas
200x160 cm

Frieze London 2024

The Regent's Park - London

opening 12:00 am

09.10 - 13.10.2024

In a booth shared with Fracesca Minini, we are presenting works by Armando Andrade Tudela, Sol Calero, Elena Damiani, Daniel de Paula, Runo Lagomarsino and Wilfredo Prieto.

Wilfredo Prieto
The end of the strike, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
59,5x81 cm
Ph. Andrea Rossetti

Ruins of Rooms

KW - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

until 20.10.2024

Ruins of Rooms looks at the notion of portraiture through the lens of Jimmy DeSana (b. 1949, d. 1990, US) and Paul P. (b. 1977, CA). With their works set in a range of different interiors, the artists are brought into dialogue for the first time. Curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen at KW - Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the exhibition functions like a matryoshka doll. It expands our understanding of portraiture through an overlapping conversation between artists of different generations and is dedicated to those lost.

Paul P.
Untitled
2020
Watercolor on paper
26,5x18,5 cm

Jonathan Monk: Torre Bonomo

Torre Bonomo, Spoleto

until 14.07.2024

From the 29th of June 2024 the Bonomo Tower hosts works by artist Jonathan Monk, including several ceramic sculptures made to Deruta during his residency at Mahler & LeWitt Studios. Monk's work - a tribute to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner - recalls the procedural strategies typical of conceptual and minimalist art of the 1960s and 1970s and enriches them with a personal or playful twist. The exhibition, curated by Vittoria Bonifati, includes a screening of "to Cube Sol LeWitt photographed by Carol Huebner using nine different light sources and all their combinations front to back to front forever" (2001).

Jonathan Monk
Sol Always Shines (nine books from my library) V
2020
Wood, wood glue, water based varnish, 24 carat gold leaf and plastic wall fixtures
21×12×6 cm

Paolo Novelli. Il giorno dopo la notte

CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Torino

until 21.07.2024

CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia of Turin presents Paolo Novelli. Il giorno dopo la notte, a solo exhibition which creates a dialogue between two cycles of Paolo Novelli’s work, realized among 2011 and 2018, which have been central for the evolution of his practice. The exhibition will be on view until 21st of July 2024.

Paolo Novelli
Day n.3
2017-18
Gelatin silver print
40×30 cm
Edition of 12 + II AP

Giovanni Anselmo. Oltre l’orizzonte

MAXXI, Roma

until 06.10.2024

Starting from the 20th of June 2024 the retrospective Giovanni Anselmo. Oltre l'orizzonte, curated by Gloria Moure, will be on view at MAXXI, in Rome. The result of a prestigious collaboration, the exhibition is a comprehensive focus on Giovanni Anselmo’s artistic research. The exhibition – organised by Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with MAXXI – continues the research initiated by its curator Gloria Moure by highlighting the uniqueness of Anselmo’s art and his fundamental impact on the development of the Arte Povera movement.

Detail of

Giovanni Anselmo
Particular
1972-2016
projectors, slide with the word “particolare”
variable dimensions

When Images Learn to Speak

Arles, Les Rencontres de la Photographie

until 29.09.2024

Starting July 1st the group show When Images Learn to Speak, will be open to visit until September 29, 2024 at Les Rencontres d’Arles. The exhibition will show a selection of the works from A Foundation - Astrid Ullens de Schooten Whettnall’s Collection – which has not been looking for showpieces, choosing rather to focus on ways of seeing, ways of thinking and stances towards the world that they embody. Collecting is seen, in fact, as a means to cultural mediation, promoting photography and with it our ability to see and to understand the world.

Installation view

Hans-Peter Feldmann, Polygraphs, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2017

Art Basel 2024

Messe Basel - Messeplatz 10 - 4058 Basel, Switzerland

until 16.06.2024

For Art Basel 2024 we are presenting a selection of works by Carla Accardi, Daniel Buren, Sol Calero, Haris Epaminonda, Alberto Garutti, Peter Halley, Sheila Hicks, Paolo Icaro, Anish Kapoor, David Maljkovic, Landon Metz, Paolo Novelli, Wilfredo Prieto, Nedko Solakov.

Daniel Buren
Dal singolo al doppio, 2023
Mirror, wood, film
318x200 cm and 304,5x91,35 cm

Dialoghi e altri sguardi. Il Tempo della Comunanza

Fondazione Garuzzo, Torino

until 15.09.2024

On the occasion of the new edition of StArt/arte dedicated to the theme of Partage/Sharing, Fondazione Garuzzo presents a new and articulated project to enhance the Permanent Exhibition and Collection, entitled Dialoghi e Altri Sguardi. LETIA-Letizia Cariello will be part of this collective exhibition with the project Fratellini & Sorelline, on view from 2 June 2024.

Detail of

LETIA – Letizia Cariello, Fratellini & Sorelline
2015-2021
Pairs of objects, porcelain and red thread
ph. Mattia Gaido

Pesaro 2024 – Capitale Italiana della Cultura

Pesaro

19.04.2024

Paolo Icaro partecipates to Pesaro 2024 Capitale Italiana della Cultura with the project “Meteorite, gemello”, a permanent work which involves two different areas of the city: the Gardens of Rocca Costanza and the Library of Villa Fastiggi. Curated by Marcello Smarrelli, the project for Pesaro 2024 “Dalle sculture nella città all’arte delle comunità” will involve, during the year, 12 Districts of the city and the town hall of Monteciccardo, questioning the role of art in public space.

Installation view

Paolo Icaro,
Meteorite, gemello
2024
Pesaro 2024 - Capitale Italiana della Cultura

Rifrazioni. 15 curatori x 15 artisti

Accademia di San Luca, Roma

until 28.06.2024

From 9 April to 28 June 2024, the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca presents the exhibition Rifrazioni. 15 curatori x 15 artisti, a group show conceived by Marco Tirelli, President of the Academy, with the scientific coordination of Massimo Mininni, art historian and curator, and Barbara Reggio, internal curator at the Academy. Among the artists and curators who participate to this collective exhibition, Paolo Icaro presents the project Sottosopra, curated by Lara Conte.

Installation view

Paolo Icaro, Sottosopra
2024
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Roma

Luigi Ghirri. Atelier Morandi

Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna

until 30.06.2024

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Giorgio Morandi, Palazzo Bentivoglio opens its underground spaces to the public with the exhibition Luigi Ghirri. Atelier Morandi, on view until June 30th, dedicated to the shots of Luigi Ghirri taken between 1989 and 1990 in Morandi’s atelier. The selection of photographs on display, coming from the permanent collection of Palazzo Bentivoglio and the artist's archive, integrates the story through images of Atelier Morandi with a series of prints that suggests an itinerary within an evocation of the studio as it appeared before the apartment was turned into a museum.

Luigi Ghirri
Modena, 1975
Vintage C-Print
11.8x19.4 cm
Series Kodachrome

Stefano Arienti/Vanessa Beecroft/Giulio Paolini

ITALIA 70 – I NUOVI MOSTRI

Milano

until 21.04.2024

The Fondazione Nicola Trussardi will once again emblazon the streets of Milan, this time with works by seventy artists for “ITALIA 70 – I NUOVI MOSTRI,” curated by Massimiliano Gioni, from April 8, 2024—on the occasion of miart, Milan’s international modern and contemporary art fair, and the city’s Art Week and Design Week. In 2004, the Foundation’s “I NUOVI MOSTRI (Life is Beautiful)” project spread across the streets of Milan—from the city center to the suburbs. Thousands of posters created by sixteen young Italian artists depicted an anthology of visions of Italy and its multifaceted identity and irreverently took over public spaces.Twenty years after this early venture into bringing contemporary art to unexpected places around the city, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi is returning to that same format.

Giulio Paolini, Delfo

1965, Fotografia su tela emulsionata,180 x 95 cm

Inaugurazione PHOS

PHOS, Torino

until 15.05.2024

PHOS re-open its doors with a collective exhibition that will be on view in the new venue, in Turin, until May 15th, 2024. On this occasion, images of the many photographers - including Paolo Novelli - who have participated in the numerous personal and collective past exhibitions will be exhibited, thus providing a small extract of the work done in the two previous sites.

Detail of

Paolo Novelli
Never Beyond n.2
2006
Gelatin silver print
30x40 cm

Davanti a Bellini. Quattro artisti contemporanei in dialogo con un capolavoro

Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini

until 11.05.2024

From February 20th to May 11th 2024, Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum of Milan will host the Lamentation over Dead Christ by Giovanni Bellini (Venice, 1435 – 1516), one of the Venetian master's masterpieces, preserved in the Vatican Museums. The exhibition is completed with a section entitled Davanti a Bellini. Four contemporary artists in dialogue with a masterpiece, created in collaboration with Casa Testori and curated by Giuseppe Frangi, which presents the works of four contemporary authors – LETIA (Letizia Cariello), Emma Ciceri, Francesco De Grandi and Andrea Mastrovito - who confronted Bellini's masterpiece.

Detail

Letizia Cariello (Letia), Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini, Milano, 2024

Parole chiave per un Nuovo Umanesimo

Fondazione Luigi Rovati, Milano

until 11.04.2024

On April 11th at 4.00 pm the Luigi Rovati Foundation hosts the meeting Parole chiave per un Nuovo Umanesimo (Keywords for a New Humanism), organized and financed by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, curated by Elena Di Raddo and Daniele Perra. The meeting is part of the research project Cambiamento o Trasformazione? Conoscere, comunicare e trascendere nell'era digitale. Per un nuovo umanesimo which investigates the transformation of human identity determined by technological development.

Detail of Letizia Cariello (Letia), Calendario Suono del Tempo

Penna a inchiostro su lenzuolo, ricamo e rami oro su telaio tondo, Ø 100 cm, 2023

Anish Kapoor. Unseen

ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art

until 20.10.2024

The exhibition Anish Kapoor – Unseen is the first major solo exhibition in Scandinavia featuring Anish Kapoor. Anish Kapoor is one of the world's leading artists. His monumental sculptures and installations speak directly to our senses and emotions. With his unique use of materials, shapes, surfaces, and colours, Kapoor draws us into his artworks, turning the world upside down – often quite literally.

Installation view

Anish Kapoor. Unseen, 2024, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark

La Casa Dentro (The Home Within)

Fondazione ICA Milano

until 19.07.2024

Fondazione ICA Milano presents, from Wednesday 10 April to Friday 19 July 2024, the unprecedented exhibition project by designers Formafantasma entitled La Casa Dentro (The Home Within) and curated by Alberto Salvadori. The exhibition is set up on the first floor of the Fondazione and presents a selection of newly produced works. The exhibition constructs a delicate reflection focused on the idea of the home, explored as a physical space and as a complex set of human relationships and themes linked to personal identity and collective memory.

Formafantasma

The Passing Time City

Triennale Milano

until 12.05.2024

A tribute to Dan Graham (Urbana, 1942 - New York, 2022), one of the most important international conceptual artists, through a focus devoted to "pavilions," works created since the 1980s that lie on the border between art and architecture. Accessible and visitable, the pavilions, constructed of steel and glass (mirrored or semi-reflective), create an environmental dimension that challenges the viewer's perception and relationship with space.

Installation view

Dan Graham, A new work with curves, May 2015

VOL. XXXI: Futurism Drama

Museo del Novecento, Milano

until 12.05.2024

In conjunction with Artweek 2024, Museo del Novecento presents "VOL. XXXI: Futurism Drama", a site-specific project by Cypriot artist Haris Epaminonda. The exhibition, organized by the Henraux Foundation and curated by Edoardo Bonaspetti, opens up a dialogue in the Gallery of Futurism between the expressions of the avant-garde, the sculpture of Medardo Rosso and the artist’s own work. Epaminonda, winner of the first edition of the Henraux Foundation’s Sculpture Commission, creates layered installations that see planes and poetic visions intersect, her painstaking formal refinement co-existing with the dimensions of the unfinished.

Haris Epaminonda

VOL. XXXI: Futurism Drama, Museo del Novecento, Milano, 2024

Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

Casa Carlo Goldoni, Venezia

until 24.11.2024

The exhibition Eva Marisaldi. Biribisso, curated by Chiara Squarcina and Pier Paolo Pancotto, will be on view at Casa Carlo Goldoni in Venice, from March 21 until November 24, 2024. The project designed for Casa Goldoni develops in all the rooms of the building and consists of a series of original works, differing in technique and type but united by a common source of inspiration: the playwright whom the museum is dedicated to and his work in the theatre, as well as the world of entertainment and stage representation in general. With a gift for reflecting on and analysing her surroundings, Eva Marisaldi focuses above all on the private sphere of the individual, social reality and the environment, creating micro-narratives where analogies and contrasts prevail over the essence of the narrative.

Detail of

Eva Marisaldi, Pixeland, porcelain confetti, 2005

Senza Tempo

Villa Bardini, Firenze

until 14.07.2024

From March 23 to July 14, Villa Bardini in Florence will host the exhibition Mimmo Jodice. Timeless, curated by Roberto Koch. Mimmo Jodice’s artistic production has the ability to bypass all temporal contingencies by abandoning the logic of rapid consumption of images. A long time made of deep understanding, contemplation and meditation of the reality represented. The artist establishes a deep attunement with the images, which are often the result of experimental processing in the darkroom.

Detail of

Mimmo Jodice, Mare Lux, opera n. 28, 2009

Wilfredo Prieto/Mario García Torres

Taken Apart & Put Back Together Again

Tlön Projects, Amsterdam

until 21.04.2024

The exhibition Taken Apart & Put Back Together Again marks the fourth edition of an annual collaboration between Tlön Projects and A Tale of A Tub and presents a variety of artworks selected from Tlön Projects’ imaginary collection. The title of the exhibition, curated by guest curator Nathalie Zonnenberg, is derived from a statement by the American artist Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021). As the motto of the exhibition, it refers to the existence of conceptual artworks in collections, which often disintegrate after their initial presentation and need to be rebuilt to be seen again.

Installation view

Wilfredo Prieto, Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, 2019

Hans-Peter Feldmann – 100 Jahre

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark

until 26.06.2024

Hans-Peter Feldmann – 100 Jahre will be on view untile June 26th, 2024, at the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, in Denmark. This gripping photographic work features 101 portraits, together depicting a century of history – from an 8-week-old baby to a 100-year-old woman. What do 100 years look like? And how does one go about encapsulating the passage of time? This is exactly what the German conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann (1941-2023) endeavours to do in 100 Jahre (2001). The work comprises a series of black-and-white photos that depict 101 individuals aged from eight weeks to one hundred years, displayed in chronological order and accompanied by a bouquet of fresh flowers.

Installation view

Hans-Peter Feldmann / Pier Paolo Calzolari, April 2013

Mimmo Paladino in the Palace of the Pope

Palazzo Boncompagni, Bologna

until 09.06.2024

On the 50th anniversary of Arte Fiera, internationally renowned artist Mimmo Paladino returns after many years to exhibit in Bologna with large paintings and sculptures in a particularly evocative venue that enhances and celebrates his creative poetics. Mimmo Paladino in the Palace of the Pope is an exhibition curated by Silvia Evangelisti and will be on view at Palazzo Boncompagni in Bologna until June 9th, 2024.

Portrait

Mimmo Paladino

Quartz Studio, Torino

until 20.04.2024

Quartz Studio is pleased to present a special project conceived as a dialogue between Isabell Heimerdinger (Stuttgart, Germany, 1963) and Jonathan Monk (Leicester, UK, 1969). Heimerdinger and Monk, partners in life and art, reflect on Italy, starting from their experience in Rome several years ago to create an exhibition where their memories mingle with visions of grand tour travelers. A multitude of inspirations and techniques pile into the space: the Le Silence neon, Heimerdinger’s mosaic diptych, Monk’s collection of magnets, a boot-shaped wooden board, après Luciano Fabro (which becomes a base for Heimerdinger’s ceramic works). Themes of sacredness and irreverence, play and death are sparked by the powerful intersection of Heimerdinger and Monk’s work in this two-person show at Quartz in Turin.

Jonathan Monk
Selected Meeting Selected (Teatro Romano via dei Musei Brescia 13 settembre 2031 prima del tramonto)
2016
Colored vinyl letters on wall
230×150 cm

Roger Ballen/Joel-Peter Witkin

The Uncanny Lens

Castel Ivano, Trento

until 30.04.2024

The Uncanny Lens/ La Lente Inquietante is an exhibition that aims to present the photographic works of two renowned artists, Joel-Peter Witkin and Roger Ballen. Both artists are known for their distinctive and unconventional approach to black and white photography, to the human condition, the human psyche and the grotesque. The proposed exhibition seeks to encourage the exploration of the unconscious mind through photography.

Detail of

Roger Ballen
Off the hook
2004
Gelatin Silver Print
50x50 cm
Ed. 2/10
from Boarding House series

Percorsi di Memoria

Museo RISO, Palermo

until 30.04.2024

The works of the artists Vanessa Beecroft, Shay Frisch, Regina José Galindo, Hermann Nitsch, Aldo Palazzolo are on view until April 30, 2024, at Palermo Palazzo Riso, in the Regional Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Palermo. The Riso Museum was one of the 33 Italian institutes winners of the PAC 2020 (Plan for Contemporary Art), promoted by the General Direction of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, for the line "Acquisition of works of contemporary creativity in Italian public collections".

Installation view

Vanessa Beecroft, vb62.017.nt, Chiesa dello Spasimo, Palermo, 2008
Digital C-print, 178×226 cm
Edition 1/6

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

until 05.05.2024

The Hammr Museum dedicates a solo exhibition to Stanley Brouwn. Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, the exhibition is co-curated by Ann Goldstein, deputy director and senior curator at large, art institute of chicago, and Jordan Carter, curator and co-department head, dia art foundation and former art institute of chicago associate curator, modern and contemporary art.

Installation view

Stanley Brouwn,
1 x 1 foot, 1 foot,
1991
2 aluminum elements presented on a wooden table
Dimensions of the table 1x1 m

Fondazione Made in Cloister

Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples

until 21.09.2024

The second edition of InterACTION Napoli, a biennial international contemporary art exhibition, will be inaugurated in Naples on 16 March 2024. The theme of this edition, the Other and Otherness, has been explored by 30 artists from different parts of the world, including Letizia Cariello. The exhibition investigates contemporary issues linked to migratory phenomena and the complexity of relationships between different cultures, traditions and religions. Produced by the Made in Cloister Foundation, InterACTION Napoli 2024 is curated by Demetrio Paparoni, who was also commissioned with the curatorship of the 2022 edition.

Detail of

Letizia Cariello, installation for InterACTION, Naples, 2024

The Metropolitan Museum, New York

until 16.06.2024

Sheila Hicks' solo exhibition Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art, is now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, through June 16, 2024. The process of creating textiles has long been a springboard for artistic invention. In Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art, two extraordinary bodies of work separated by at least 500 years are brought together to explore the striking connections between artists of the ancient Andes and those of the 20th century. The exhibition displays textiles by four distinguished modern practitioners—Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney, and Olga de Amaral—alongside pieces by Andean artists from the first millennium BCE to the 16th century.

Detail of

Sheila Hicks
Ganymède, 2023
linen, cotton, synthetic fibers
86x86x10 cm

Serralves Museum, Porto

until 31.03.2024

The Exhibition Not Post-Modernism. Dan Graham and 20th-Century Architecture was conceived by Dan Graham and is the last exhibition that he had the opportunity to work on before he passed away recently. It is a moving and rigorous tribute to an artist, a thinker, a writer and an artist for whom architecture and the way we inhabit it collectively has been the core value of his work.

Installation view

Dan Graham, A new work with curves, May 2015

Museo MAXXI, Roma

until 12.03.2024

MAXXI museum in Rome will present the preview of the documentary film on Jan Fabre “The Crown of Love. The Ultimate Performance”, directed by Giovanni Troilo. The great contemporary artist presents an intimate and unprecedented portrait: the celebration of his wedding and his son’s baptism in the Cathedral of Naples. The narrative unfolds in the beating heart of the Neapolitan city, where a red thread links three important places of worship: the Royal Chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro, the Chapel of Pio Monte della Misericordia and the Church of Santa Maria delle Anime del Purgatorio ad Arco.

Jan Fabre
Croci nel silenzio della tempesta, 1992
biro blu su seta

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma

until 01.09.2024

Anthological exhibition dedicated to Carla Accardi on the centenary of her birth. The exhibition is curated by Daniela Lancioni and Paola Bonani and promoted by the Assessorato alla Cultura di Roma Capitale and Azienda Speciale Palaexpo. Conceived, produced and organised by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo and realized with the collaboration of the Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo and with the support of the Fondazione Silvano Toti. The exhibition project will include works from some of the most important public and private collections, both in Italy and abroad, as well as a nucleus of historic works that remained in her ownership and which are currently part of the archive.

Carla Accardi
Verde e blu, 1965
casein tempera on canvas
130×210 cm
Arch. n. 417 tris

The Design Museum, London

The Design Museum, Londra

until 08.09.2024

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli at The Design Museum in London, this major exhibition will celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest Italian designers of the 20th century, Enzo Mari, whose designs have inspired generations of creatives around the world. Not only one of the 20th century’s most significant designers, Mari was also an artist, teacher, theorist, and more. During his prolific career, he created countless enduring and timeless designs, filling the homes and streets of the Milanese and beyond. An outspoken critic of the design industry, his uncompromising belief in the social responsibility of design resonates powerfully today, as we face ecological and ethical issues with ever greater urgency.

Detail of

Enzo Mari
Struttura 728B, 1963
Anodized aluminum
130,5×40,5×12,5 cm

Mediterraneo

MAXXI, Roma

until 14.04.2024

Mediterraneo began between the 1980s and 1990s, when Jodice developed a growing interest in the themes of antiquity, memory, and origins, pursuing visions that were outside of reality. All this translated into various projects dedicated to Mediterranean culture and archaeology that began with an initial exploration of the Neapolitan area closest to him (Paestum, Neapolis, Pompeii, Cumae, Baia) and then extended to the Mare Nostrum – from Greece to Tunisia, from Jordan to Libya – to museums all over the world.

Detail of

Mimmo Jodice, Trittico di Ulisse, 1992

Car Crash. Piero Gilardi e l’Arte Povera

PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Torino

until 05.05.2024

PAV Parco Arte Vivente presents the exhibition Car Crash. Piero Gilardi and Arte povera curated by Marco Scotini, which investigates the production of Piero Gilardi (Turin, 1942-2023) during the 1960s. The exhibition aims to present itself as a tribute to the founder of PAV and retraces the beginnings of the artist's career by exploring the years from 1964 to 1969, a germinal season during which Gilardi's multiple interests and his great contribution were already emerging at the origin of the Arte Povera movement. Car Crash is the first of a series of monographic exhibitions of a long-term PAV project which, following a chronological division, will delve into the artist's work.

Installation view of Car Crash. Piero Gilardi and Arte povera at PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Torino

Beyond the Horizon

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao

until 19.05.2024

The exhibition Beyond the Horizon, curated by Gloria Moure and organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, is a comprehensive analysis of the practice of Giovanni Anselmo, an artist who is considered a key referent in Arte Povera yet managed to develop his career avoiding any label or classification. Envisioned as a journey, a continuous flow, this show connects the most emblematic works in Anselmo’s career with others created specifically for this occasion. Anselmo was deeply involved in the organization of this exhibition until just a few days before he passed away last December. Therefore, now more than ever, the goal of Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the Horizon is to faithfully convey the depth of his vitality, the greatness of his legacy, and the meaning of his contribution.

Cuban Pavilion – Biennale di Venezia

Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice

until 24.11.2024

Wilfredo Prieto will represent Cuba at the 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. The artist is presenting "Curtain". Commissioner: Daneisy García Roque Curator: Nelson Ramírez de Arellano Conde Catalogue: Maretti Editore Support: EMINENTE

Wilfredo Prieto ©️Joyme Cuan

Maurizio Donzelli

Arazzi e Reti

TheMerode Art Salon, Brussels

until 08.03.2024

TheMerode is pleased to present Maurizio Donzelli’s exhibition Arazzi e Reti , curated by Daniella Ferretti. Tapestries, in particular those created in the historical period from the Middle Ages to the early years of the Renaissance, exerted a strong fascination on Maurizio Donzelli. The absence of perspective, the dreamlike and enigmatic themes, and the fairy-tale atmospheres are the traits that most piqued the artist's interest. For the exhibition, we will discover the approach of Maurizio Donzelli to making art that is rooted in philosophical considerations of the nature of perception, and how visual phenomena such as colour, images, and art itself affect the way we see and understand reality. He considers drawing both an intellectual and technical pursuit, and it is central to his practice. Donzelli’s work also features mirrors, which he sees as symbols of the process of perception.

Installation view of Maurizio Donzelli's exhibition: Arazzi e Reti at TheMerode Art Salon, Brussels

Wilfredo Prieto

YOU MATTER. DON’T GIVE UP

Subtitled NYC, 113 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222

until 21.01.2024

Jacob Jackmauh’s work is rooted in a tactile engagement with the artifacts of mass manufacturing such as factory molds, cheap toys, and disposable merchandise.Through assemblage and material mimicry he contends with the relentless momentum of consumer-driven industries and traces the latent visual patterns that emerge. In a similar vein, Dominic Palarchio uses objects and artifacts that resonate with the psychological and physical impositions of class. His sculptures make use of materials that originate in the automotive industry, domestic utilities, and a range of light sources that embody energy and its expense. An Industrial investigation continues with Wilfredo Prieto’s sculptures and installations which are characterized by shocking simplicity and serve as tools for exploring social and political issues with a poetic sensibility. Through this exhibition questions—with no answers or solutions—are explored about contemporary culture's underlying structures with subtle gestures and open metaphors. -Text by Jamie Sterns All photos courtesy of Subtitled NYC, New York

Detail of

Wilfredo Prieto,
Egg and 8 Ball, 2016
6 x 11 x 6cm
You don't matter give up,
Subtitled NYC,
Ph. Paul Rho

Sheila Hicks

Nowhere to go

National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Road Melbourne vic 3004

until 07.04.2024

For more than seven decades, Paris-based, American artist Sheila Hicks has worked with textiles to challenge traditional boundaries between art forms. She studied painting with Bauhaus artist and designer Josef Albers at Yale University, and gained insight into pre-Columbian weaving with art historian George Kubler. Hicks has lived and worked in Chile, Mexico, South Africa, India, Morocco, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Informed by these extensive periods of time – travelling, living and working around the world – her depth of knowledge of materials and form is communicated through knotted, weaved and tied sculptural forms.

Installation view

Sheila Hicks,
Nowhere to go,
NGV Triennial, Melbourne.
Photo: Sean Fennessy

Paolo Novelli

Lo Sguardo Radicale

Palazzo Comunale Seriate, Piazza Alebardi n. 1, Bergamo

until 13.01.2023

In contrast to an encyclopedic listing of the exhaustive history of Italian photography, curator Roberto Mutti has opted for a selection of authors whom he believes represent its cornerstones and subsequent development. This choice has given rise to a reflection on what was once called the avant-garde because it traced, in advance, the boundaries of a new and different expressiveness imposed by contemporary art, a challenge even more pressing today.

Paolo Novelli
Day n.3
2017-18
Gelatin silver print
40×30 cm
Edition of 12 + II AP

Nedko Solakov

A Cornered Solo Show #3 (with Charles Esche as my artistic conscience)

Belvedere, Prinz Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna

until 19.06.2024

“I would love to do a huge solo show in one of the gorgeous halls of the Belvedere’s magnificent building. And in case this happens and I get invited someday, why not figure out in advance what this show would be? The audience of this extremely well-visited museum is hard to please. How should I prepare myself? “Go to that corner, you 65-year-old dreamer, and until you have a really clear idea of what this solo show of yours will look like, you must stay there, cornered!” said my artistic conscience in the shape of an old friend (and prominent curator) Charles Esche. Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov’s artistic intervention, A Cornered Solo Show #3, will not be on view in the prestigious galleries of the Upper Belvedere; instead, it can be found in an inconspicuous corner of the museum’s coatroom. In this transitional space between arrival and departure, Solakov engages visitors with the themes of his art and wittily involves them in an inner dialogue with his artistic conscience.

Installation view

Nedko Solakov
"A Cornered Solo Show #3 (with Charles Esche as my artistic conscience)"
Belvedere, Vienna
November 24, 2023 - June 19, 2024
Photo: Johannes Stoll

Paolo Icaro

La Biblioteca del Mondo. Conversation piece I Part IX

Fondazione Memmo, via Fontanella Borghese 56/b, Roma

until 21.04.2024

The Memmo Foundation presents La Biblioteca del Mondo, ninth from 13 December 2023 to 21 April 2024 edition of Conversation Piece, the annual exhibition cycle, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, born with the intent to provide an overview of the Italian and foreign artists who choose Rome every year as place of residence, research and work. The ninth edition, entitled La Biblioteca del Mondo, involves nine artists who have a common denominator in use of the book as "building material" of the work of art. With Equilibrio (2023) Paolo Icaro gives body to space through a primary metallic structure that originates from the tracing of a few simple lines, articulated vertically, while it is placed on the ground, to do as a counterweight ensuring the balance of the sculpture, an edition of War and Peace (1863-1869) by Lev Tolstoy, on whose open pages the artist places a sheet of dusting paper which has written on the reverse, War and peace in Russian and on the obverse, War and Peace in Ukrainian

Paolo Icaro
Equilibrio, 2023
Metal and book

Stefano Arienti

Pittura italiana oggi

Triennale Milano

until 11.02.2024

A large group exhibition dedicated to contemporary Italian painting through the work of 120 of the most interesting Italian artists of different generations, born between 1960 and 2000. The exhibition aims to restore the richness and complexity of Italian painting.

Detail of

Stefano Arienti,
Cancello dorato, 2020
Gold paint and digital printing on paper

Massimo Minini. The Story of a Gallerist

Maxxi, via Guido Reni 4/3, Roma

until 12.11.2023

A documentary-portrait about the gallery owner Massimo Minini. The film recounts the personal engagement with important museums and cultural institutions, but also the private aspect of the gallery owner in his multifaceted activity that divides his daily life, work, yoga, writing and photography. A meeting with the gallerist is scheduled for November 8th at 6.30 pm, followed by the preview of the film at the MAXXI auditorium.

Massimo Minini,
The Story of a Gallerist,
video 67 min, director Manuela Teatini
2019,

Perché non Lilloni?

Hotel Principi di Piemonte, Via Piero Gobetti 15, Torino

until 05.11.2023

The ballroom of the historic hotel Principi di Piemonte | Una Esperienza in the centre of Torino will host, for the fourth time in collaboration with Artissima, a contemporary art exhibition titled "Perché non Lilloni?", curated this year by Massimo Minini and his namesake gallery in Brescia. For the 50th anniversary of Galleria Massimo Minini, the project orchestrates a plot twist that draws attention to Umberto Lilloni (1898- 1980), seen by Massimo Minini as “a mysterious, metaphysical artist, a Morandi of the forest rather than the trees, creator of vases with cut flowers, landscapes of northern cities such as Stockholm, portraits, maidens…”.

Umberto Lilloni,
Bosco, 1968
oil painting on canvas
30×39 cm

ARTISSIMA 2023

OVAL – Complesso Lingotto Fiere Via Giacomo Mattè Trucco, 70 – 10126 Torino

until 05.11.2023

In a booth shared with Francesca Minini, we are presenting a selection of works by Carla Accardi, Stefano Arienti, Jacopo Benassi, Sol Calero, Ambra Castagnetti, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Flavio Favelli, Alberto Garutti, Landon Metz, Paul P., Giulio Paolini, Ali Kazma, Riccardo Previdi, Wilfredo Prieto, Albert Samson, Nedko Solakov, Francesco Simeti and Armando Andrade Tudela.

Alberto Garutti,
Un filo dorato lungo 18590 metri..., 2021
Brass wire ø 16 cm, brass shelf 18x35x31 cm

Peter Halley

Peter Halley firma il nuovo Red Carpet

Veronafiere, V.le del Lavoro 8, 37135, Verona

until 15.10.2023

Red Carpet has become one of ArtVerona's most recognizable and identifying projects. It is a monumental work of art, which takes the shape of a carpet of over 400 square meters, which welcomes visitors to the Galleria dei Signori, becoming a meeting platform and an immediately recognizable artistic sign. Magic Carpet, the carpet designed by Peter Halley, is 42 meters long, is made with sustainable ingredients such as ECONYL® thread and uses a complex grid of interconnected rectangles to create a single flowing tapestry.

Peter Halley,
Magic Carpet,
Installation site-specific,
2023

Giulio Paolini

Et in Arcadia ego

Galleria d’Arte Moderna Achille Forti, Verona

until 03.03.2024

It is announced as one of the most anticipated inaugurations of the program which sees the Civic Museums, Achille Forti Gallery of Modern Art and ArtVerona collaborate for the 2023 edition. From 15 October to 3 March 2024, at Palazzo della Ragione, it will be possible to visit Giulio Paolini's new project entitled "Et in Arcadia Ego", curated by Patrizia Nuzzo and Stefano Raimondi. In Et in Arcadia ego, which also gives the title to one of the works on display, Paolini stages the visual tale of an artist who addresses with renewed creativity the “deceptions” of representation – such as copying, mimesis, perspective, constant elements of his research – in favour of a kind of conceptuality that renews the complex chessboard of meanings around the work of art.

Giulio Paolini,
Et in arcadia ego, 2023
Pencil and collage on paper, triptych

Ryan Mendoza

TANZ AUF DEM VULKAN. Storie dalla Collezione Morra Greco II

Largo Proprio d'Avellino, 17 Napoli

until 16.12.2023

TANZ AUF DEM VULKAN is the new exhibition of the Morra Greco Foundation, an exhibition project that brings together a selection of works of painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video from the Morra Greco collection. The works on display interrogate the legacy of modernism through a critical reading of society and individual life in late capitalism. The title refers to a 1938 German musical inspired by a phrase uttered by the then German Foreign Minister, Gustav Stresemann, who described German society in the midst of a turbulent situation of change as "dancing on a volcano". There will be works of Candice Breitz, Adriano Costa, Lothar Hempel, Evan Holloway, Judith Hopf, Jonathan Horowitz, Jim Lambie, Miltos Manetas, Win McCarthy, Ryan Mendoza, Helen Mirra, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Daniel Pflumm, Hannah Starkey, Simon Starling are presented , John Pilson, Tim Rollins & K.O.S.

Ryan Mendoza,
The rabbit and his housewife,
2020
Oil on canvas, diptych
Left: 108.5x98 cm
Right: 77x54.5 cm

Sheila Hicks

TOWARDS UNKNOWN HORIZONS

Place de l’Institut, Paris

until 25.10.2023

The concept of infinity embodies the column erected by Sheila Hicks on the square in front of the Institut de France. Infinity, as a limit, is as indefinable as it is unattainable: infinity as a way of approaching the sky, infinity as a promise of unexpected discoveries and of exploring the unknown. The fibers, made up of mineral pigments from Turkey combined with acrylic, once twisted, constitute threads that build the ensemble. The column mixes a variety of colors, conferring on the whole an alternating character, depending on the 360-degree rotation. - Frédéric Bonnet

Installation view

Sheila Hicks, VERS DES HORIZONS INCONNUS, 2023, Pigmented acrylic fibers, approximately 5m50. Installation on the Parvis de l’Institut de France, Paris. Photography by Claire Dorn.
Courtesy of Sheila Hicks, Frank Elbaz gallery, Meyer-Riegger and Massimo Minini

Daniel Buren

La Cabane éclatée polychrome aux miroirs, travail situé (2000),

MAC VAL, Vitry-Sur-Seine

The polychrome exploded cabin with mirrors was designed to be exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Villeurbanne in 2000. Outside, walls of mirrors hide its presence through the reflection of its environment. Since the 1960s, Daniel Buren has pursued a critical artistic approach in his relationship with the museum, an institution whose impact on the very vision of the works it presents is most often hidden.

Photos-souvenirs : La Cabane éclatée polychrome aux miroirs, travail situé (2000), in « L’Oeil vérité. Le Musée au second degré », MAC VAL, Vitry-Sur-Seine, 2023. Détails © DB - SIAE

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal

Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze

until 04.02.2024

From 7 October 2023 to 4 February 2024, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi presents "Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal", a major exhibition conceived and created together with the famous master who revolutionized the idea of sculpture in contemporary art. In Anish Kapoor’s art, the unreal merges with the untrue, transforming or negating the common perception of reality. He invites us to explore a world where the boundaries between what is true and false dissolve, opening the doors to the realm of the impossible. One of the distinguishing features is the way Kapoor’s works transcend their materiality. In a world where reality seems increasingly elusive and manipulable, Anish Kapoor challenges us to seek truth beyond appearances, inviting us to explore the territory of the untrue and the unreal.

Anish Kapoor "Svayambhu"
2007
Dave Morgan. ©

Letizia Cariello (Letia)

Letizia Cariello Letia. Echelle

Milano, Cinema-Teatro Angelicum, Piazza San’Angelo, 2 - 20121 Milano

until 27.11.2023

From 27 October to 27 November, Letizia Cariello Letia's solo exhibition "Echelle", curated by Olga Gambari, will be held in the historic Cinema-Teatro Angelicum in Milan. "Echelle" means both scale and level, the artist chose this term because it evokes an ascent that corresponds to an energetic transformation. On the occasion of the inauguration on Friday 27 October at 7.00 pm, a participatory performance linked to the Terra! installation will take place. with a repeat on Saturday 28th at 5.00 pm.

Detail of

Letizia Cariello
"Planetario"
2023

Alberto Garutti

TEMPORALI

Maxxi, via Guido Reni 4/3, Roma

07.10.2023

Presentation of the work "Temporali" by Alberto Garutti. Conceived in 2009 for the internal spaces of the MAXXI before its opening and rethought by the artist in a new form: a large luminous writing on the roof of the building which faithfully reproduces the artist's handwriting.

Alberto Garutti, "Queste luci vibreranno quando in Italia un fulmine cadrà durante i temporali. Quest’opera è dedicata a chi passando di qui penserà al cielo",
2017-19.
Veduta dell’opera presso Ca’ Corniani, Caorle. Fotografia di Agostino Osio.

Eva Marisaldi

Andature III Helene Appel / Eva Marisaldi

Museo Marino Marini, Firenze

until 24.12.2023

At the Marino Marini Museum in Florence, "Andature III" opens to the public on Thursday 5 October, on the occasion of the Florence Art Week, an exhibition with works by Helene Appel and Eva Marisaldi. Starting from real, concrete or abstract data, Eva Marisaldi and Helene Appel, through their poetic imagination, turn their gaze to the "here and now" to attempt, through what is clearly visible to our eyes, to reach elsewhere, to a revelation , to that something that escapes, that we do not grasp, to open up to possible other meanings and transformations.

Eva Marisaldi
Frame da "Linee"
2019

Stefano Arienti

SANTE SUBITO E FIORI

Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti – Via Machiavelli 30 – 20145 Milano

until 10.01.2024

The first exhibition of the season opens on 10 October at the Agnetti Archive: "Sante Subito e Fiori", Chiara Dynys and Stefano Arienti in dialogue with Vincenzo Agnetti. This exhibition, the third episode of a project that brings Agnetti into dialogue with contemporary artists, introduces a close and timely comparison capable of creating common atmospheres between artists of different generations. Stefano Arienti intertwines his works with those of the late Agnetti, in which poetry takes over, creating an engaging environment, evocative of a world in which the utopia of nature takes over.

Detail of

Stefano Arienti
Gelsomino Canelli
2020

Daniel Buren

Lumière naturelle versus Lumière électrique, travaux in situ versus travaux situés

Centre d’art contemporain, Anglet

until 14.10.2023

From the end of the 1960s, Daniel Buren became interested in light, natural or electric, in a multitude of works playing with transparency, reflections, chromatic superpositions, lighting and light radiation. Over the course of his interventions, which began in 1968 on glass roofs, windows, doors or facades, cellophane papers printed with white stripes were added to the striped papers, subsequently replaced by colored transparent filters which have become one of Daniel Buren's favorite materials. Thus the transparent color is introduced, described as indescribable by the artist.

Detail of

Photos-souvenirs: « Lumière naturelle versus Lumière électrique, travaux in situ versus travaux situés », Centre d’art contemporain, Anglet, 2023. Détaisl © DB - SIAE

Sabrina Mezzaqui

L’INCORRUTTIBILE RICAMO

Padiglione d'arte, Fondazione Luigi Rovati

until 30.09.2023

Sabrina Mezzaqui returns to Fondazione Luigi Rovati with L'incorruttibile ricamo, a new work in which the visitor is invited to extract from three containers a sentence taken from three books chosen by the artist herself. As in the ancient divinatory practice of bibliomancy, everyone will be able to read and find in that "random" sentence the answer to their questions. The artist will be present throughout the opening period of the exhibition.

Detail of

Sabrina Mezzaqui,
Segni,
2005-2009

PROJECT ROOM – SANTIAGO TORRESAGASTI

Galleria Massimo Minini

until 11.11.2023

With Santiago Torresagasti's exhibition "zero virgola quattro", a new project begins. During the gallery's openings, the project room will present the work of young Italian and international artists. The reproduction of moving images is the technological invention that has led human beings to maintain observation of the world in its act of transformation. Santiago Torresagasti explores the microscopic distance between one image and another is where the observers build the perception of the image in their movements. "Zero point four" is the calculation of the average time of the duration of a blink of an eye, the body version of darnkess between the movements and the world.

Detail of

Santiago Torresagasti
"0,4"
Video, 2023

THE ARMORY SHOW 2023

Javits Center, Main Entrance Crystal Palace, 429 11th Avenue, New York

until 10.09.2023

In a booth shared with Francesca Minini, Galleria Massimo Minini presents a selection of works by Carla Accardi, Ivana Bašić, Sol Calero, Sheila Hicks, Anish Kapoor, Bertrand Lavier, Ryan Mendoza, Landon Metz, Paul P., Alice Ronchi, Francesco Simeti and Betty Woodman.

Landon Metz
MMXXIII XL, 2023
Dye on canvas
80×100 cm

Haris Epaminonda

Solo show

Kunstmuseum St.Gallen

until 14.01.2024

curated by Nadia Veronese Haris Epaminonda’s (*1980, Nicosia, Cyprus) work engages with a complex, culturalhistorical cosmos. Her work intertwines film, sculpture, found objects and images culminating in spacial installations and multi-layered narratives. Epaminonda’s subjects come from a wide variety of sources and leave room for numerous associations.

Ph. Bjarne x Takata

Maurizio Donzelli

SPELLBOUND

Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco, via dei Musei, 30, Brescia

until 03.09.2023

Curated by Alberto Fiz, Paola Pezzi curated by Marco Tonelli. The exhibition is part of the project "Una Generazione di Mezzo" which desires to focus on contemporary art in Brescia. For the exhibition, Maurizio Donzelli presents various cycles of works: the “Drawings”, “Arazzi” “Mirror”, “O”, “Notturni”, “Girandole”, and “Lux Drawing.” An overview of his entire poetics, intended to constitute a true anthology. Donzelli questions the beginning of the iconic process and the modalities of the gaze, going to seek in the ornamental the embroideries and filaments of our stratified cultural and philosophical geography.

Installation view

Maurizio Donzelli
Palazzo Martinengo
2023

Carla Accardi

The Seventies: Lenzuoli

Museo Correr, Venezia

until 29.10.2023

Museo Correr’s initiative marks Accardi’s 100-year anniversary. Although she lived in Rome, Accardi maintained a personal and professional link with Venice throughout her life. In 1948 she made her debut at the Biennale, returning in 1964 with her own room and an introduction in the catalogue by Carla Lonzi. She returned in 1976, 1988 (own room) and 1993, and her work was shown posthumously in 2022. Works, photos and other documentary material confirm her relationship with Venice, including a photo from 1952, during the time of her show at Galleria del Cavallino, when she visited the Guggenheim collection with her husband, the artist Antonio Sanfilippo, and Tancredi Parmeggiani. Curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, the Venice project is an homage rather than a retrospective exhibition. The limited selection of work is arranged in the form of an installation that interacts with the museum’s historical rooms. Despite their singularity, these rarely seen works fully represent her artistic research and, in their own way, summarise her creative journey.

Installation view

Carla Accardi
"The Seventies: Lenzuoli"
Museo Correr, Venice

Sheila Hicks

HILOS QUE VIAJAN

Centre Pompidou Malaga

until 10.09.2023

The monographic exhibition - Sheila Hicks' first solo show in Spain - does not follow a chronological record. The exhibition seeks to favor a sensible experience of the work and a more direct immersion in the formal, material and chromatic universe of this artist. The textil is the material with which we live most in contact, it is in contact with out body, part of our daily life. It is the same material with which Sheila Hicks sculpts, paints and colors the space.

Installation view

Sheila Hicks
"Hilos que viajan"
Malaga
2023

Peter Halley

Conduits. Paintings from the 1980s

MUDAM, Luxembourg

until 15.10.2023

Assembling thirty key works from public and private collections, this retrospective survey presents paintings alongside previously unseen drawings, sketches and notes from the first decade of Peter Halley’s career. Peter Halley. Conduits: Paintings from the 1980s is the first museum survey of Halley’s 1980s work in over thirty years. Drawing extensively on Halley’s critical writing, interviews and unpublished notes it seeks to re-evaluate this early work and its subjects of alienation, isolation, confinement and connectivity within the context of its production. The exhibition reflects upon both the artistic and critical landscape of New York in the 1980s and a period of social history shaped by economic expansion and collapse, nuclear threat and the AIDS epidemic.

Installation view

Peter Halley. "Conduits: Paintings from the 1980s"

Letizia Cariello (Letia)

I nodi dei giardini del Paradiso

Grande Miglio, Castello di Brescia

until 05.11.2023

The exhibition project, curated by Giovanni Valagussa and Letizia Cariello LETIA, for the top floor of the Grande Miglio is presented as a conceptual and sensorial matryoshka that shows carpets and tapestries coming from the Tassara Collection (for the first time exhibited publicly in the city that will receive them as gifts) together with some contemporary works of art, bonded together in a visual and sensorial identity thanks to a setting that is, in fact, a site-specific and adjustable installation by Letizia Cariello (LETIA), titled Beauceant.

Installation view

"I nodi dei giardini del Paradiso"

Roger Ballen

Call of the Void, (Danse macabre No. VIII)

Museum Tinguely, Basel, Svizzera

until 29.10.2023

Roger Ballen. Call of the Void is the eighth in a series of exhibitions at Museum Tinguely under the title Danse macabre with works responding to Jean Tinguely’s late work Mengele—Dance of Death, shown in direct proximity to it. While Anouk Kruithof. Universal Tongue focussed on dance and Bruce Conner. Light out of Darkness on the apocalypse, the link this time is the disturbing, unsettling quality of Roger Ballen’s photographs and installations. In his work, Ballen examines the human psyche and asks both himself and the viewer questions about being and becoming.

Roger Ballen, Headless 2006 © courtesy Roger Ballen

Giulio Paolini

Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia

Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Roma

until 15.07.2023

Promoted and organised by the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, the exhibition “Giulio Paolini. A come Accademia” will be available from the 19th of Aprile to the 15th of July 2023, conceived by Marco Tirelli and Antonella Soldaini and curated by her, under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic. It features six unpublished works of different media specially created by the artist for Palazzo Carpegna, creating an analytical and poetic space, to investigate art in its essential components and to show the process of transparent sedimentation of the making of the work, in which the past represents both the future of artistic creation and the very basis on which it stands.

Giulio Paolini
Studio per “In cornice”
2023
pencil and collage on paper
50 x 70 cm

Stanley Brouwn

Art Institute Chicago, USA

until 31.07.2023

Stanley brouwn is co-curated by Ann Goldstein, deputy director and chair and Dittmer Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Jordan Carter, curator at Dia Art Foundation and former Art Institute associate curator, Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition will also be presented at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Dates are yet to be determined.

Stanley Brouwn
At this moment
1998
ink on paper
13x10cm

David Maljkovic

In the Pictorial Code

Quetzal Art Center, Vidigueira, Portogallo

until 31.08.2023

Quetzal Art Center proudly presents a solo exhibition by David Maljković titled In the Pictorial Code. At the core of Maljković’s practice is a regimented exploration of formalist concerns. Whilst narrative is the driving element at the origin of a project, the artist’s varied means of visual implementation consistently and profoundly modifies and compromises its supremacy, whether that is through photography, video, sculpture, installation, collage or painting. The process of construction within a set of formal directives encrypts his narratives and postulates what he describes as a new semantic logic. Virtually all of Maljkovic’s work is engaged with historical and technological markers that are characterized by situations both local and universal. In each, the erosion and corruption of memory are the subjects that are left to the viewer.

Installation view

"In the Pictorial Code" Quetzal Art Center, Vidigueira, Portogallo

Armando Andrade Tudela

In Chosen Memories

MoMA, New York, Usa

until 09.09.2023

Chosen Memories brings together contemporary works by Latin American artists who have been investigating history as source material for their work. “History is a living organism,” said the Brazilian artist Rosangela Rennò, one of the 40 artists featured in the exhibition. Bringing together videos, photographs, paintings, and sculptures made over the past four decades, the exhibition reveals how some of today’s most relevant art is conceived through investigating and retelling history in new ways.

Armando Andrade Tudela Huaco Deforme

Armando Andrade Tudela
Huaco Deforme

Roger Ballen

Inside Out Center for the Arts

Johannesburg, Sudafrica

28.03.2023

The artist and photographer Roger Ballen opens a new space for art and education, the Inside Out Center for the Arts in Johannesburg. The first event is an exhibition that reflects on the relationship between man, nature and colonialism. The building was designed by Johannesburg architect Joe van Rooyen of JVR Architects, in close collaboration with Roger Ballen, to structurally and visually reflect the very idea of “Inside Out”

Inside Out Center for the Arts, South Africa, Johannesburg

Luigi Ghirri

Luigi Ghirri e Modena. Un viaggio a ritroso

Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena, IT

until 20.11.2022

On the 30th anniversary of his death, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive is presenting an exhibition that traces the career of the great Emilian artist, a central figure in late twentieth-century photography. The exhibition aims to use Luigi Ghirri’s corpus of Modenese works to recreate the exceptionality of his work in the place where they were made. His production changed the course of photography in Italy, not only through his original vision and thought, but also through his passion for photography as a medium. Moreover, his human side enabled him to create great friendships and partnerships that went well beyond the field of photography.

Luigi Ghirri
Modena, 1975
Vintage C-Print
11.8x19.4 cm
Series Kodachrome

Roger Ballen

In “The Milk of Dreams”, 59th Biennale Arte.

La Biennale di Venezia.

until 27.11.2022

Roger Ballen represents South Africa at the 59th Venice Biennale Arte 2022 titled "The Milk of Dreams" with his photographs from the renowned series “The Theater of Apparitions”. The works from this series are printed on backlit canvas depicting splendid black and white silhouettes obtained with a "dada-chalcographic" process from the dust deposited on the windows of a former women's asylum (2010-2013). Ballen is the director of a surreal staging full of black humor, where the game of ancestral impulses is represented as metaphor for a dystopian contemporary reality, in full decline. In the theater of the absurd that emerges from the artist's subconscious, in fact, the brutality and degradation linked to the darkest and most primal instincts nestled in the human soul act.

installation view

Roger Ballen
"The Theater of Apparitions"
2022 Biennale, South African Pavillion, IT.

Jonathan Monk/Giulio Paolini/Salvo

Arte in Opera

Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, IT

until 29.01.2023

The exhibition highlights the connections and the dialogues between these three artists, reflecting on the themes of authorship, history and time. The group show inaugurates the 12th edition of the contemporary art festival ArtDate, promoted by The Blank and Bergamo Municipality. Arte in Opera transforms sala delle Capriate in a large arena where times and stories are explained and the theme of the authorship is analysed.

Jonathan Monk
Lost VI, 2017
marble thumb
21x142x37 cm

Sabrina Mezzaqui

Fare Piano

Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Stockholm, SE

until 06.06.2023

The title Fare piano refers to the expressiveness of the artist, developed modalities around the concepts of delicacy, slowness and silence. Mezzaqui's works concretize the passage of time in the material, by means of a manual process that imprints, in different forms and supports, the regularity of minute gestures (threading beads, cutting out, folding, drawing small motifs). In her works, she often compares writing (short texts, memoirs, literary references, reworked books).

Sabrina Mezzaqui
Senza Titolo I-II
2006
Sheets hand-carved in squares
140x140x6.5 cm each

Haris Epaminonda

VOL. XXVIII

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE

until 31.08.2023

Haris Epaminonda has conceived an architectural intervention that uses playful visual and conceptual shifts to subtly question entrenched social structures while suggesting possibilities for change. Extending this work is an installation at the window on the 1st floor of n.b.k., which makes further references and connections between the interior and exterior architecture. In her diverse body of work, which includes collages, installation, films, and photography, Haris Epaminonda explores the idiosyncratic inherent life of images, their power, and logic. Re-contextualized recurring motifs in Epaminonda's oeuvre reflect her preoccupation with archetypal forms, colors, light, composition, figuration, and abstraction. Her fascination with found imagery is evident in her distintive visual compositions, which link times and places and create new narratives.

Haris Epaminonda
Untitled #12 t/g, 2019
Veneered wooden structure, cushion with tassels
Overall dimensions 47X44.7X44.7 cm
Edition unique
© Petrò Gilbe

Daniel Buren

Comme tombèes du ciel, les couleurs in situ et en mouvement

Gare de Liège-Guillemins, Liège, BE

until 15.10.2023

Ten thousand square-meters of the roof's station is wrapped with transparent and adhesive filters in seven colors. Five colors - pink, green, blue, white and orange project a checkerboard pattern from the glass panels while two others yellow and red- cloak the side awnings in a form that is 'reminiscent of the striped panels,'a recurring feature of the artist's work since 1960s. "It is the sun and the sky that will make these entirely coloured rectangles come to life with their projections onto the platforms, people, trains, objects, the stairs…These projections will unleash the colour to meander freely". Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren
Comme tombées du ciel, les couleurs in situ et en mouvement.
Gare de Liège- Guillemins, Liège.
Details © DB-ADAGP Paris

Carla Accardi/Enzo Mari/Wilfredo Prieto

in A Time of One’s Own: Escaping the Clock

Centre Pompidou Malaga, ES

until 15.10.2023

Goethe —the German writer who became the coordinator of the “cloud service” of the city of Weimar (which itself had a wide network of observation points)— used to say that the day is too long for those who don’t know how to appreciate or use it. We could apply this statement to life itself, which by definition is sometimes so short. If we don’t know how to appreciate and use time well, it can seem long and something even worse: empty. However, wasting or making the most of time is a subjective matter that varies from one person to another, depending on how we look at it. In these times when tribulations assault us in different ways and one after the other, and sometimes even simultaneously, rethinking the way we use our time —in other words, our life— is no longer a necessity but practically an obligation. Valentina Moimas, the curator of A Time of One’s Own: Escaping the Clock, has selected a broad sample of works from the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris which shine a spotlight on the reflections and creations of artists, architects and designers about the place where we engage with ourselves, our loved ones and our surroundings, which is none other than time, that prized asset which we find so scarce. José María Luna Director of Centre Pompidou Malaga

Installation view

A Time of One’s Own: Escaping the Clock at Centre Pompidou Malaga, ES

Ryan Mendoza

The Golden Calf

Palazzo Reale, Palermo, IT

until 26.09.2022

The artist worked three years for this exhibition at the foot of Mount Etna always in contact with the Fondazione Federico II, in Palermo. It is useless to look for a plot: to shatter any static of meaning, Mendoza chooses to break up, he chooses the path of anti-narration. The real plot is the non-plot. Works that go beyond images, which occlude the real meaning of the world declined by the establishment. Beyond the conflicts sedated by the appearance of meaning-images which regulate our breath without ever resolving the ambiguities of the consumer society. In this organized delusion some clue, or point of reference, is found in two diametrically opposed elements. The golden calf, which gives the exhibition title, biblical symbol of false idols and idolatry, which is contrasted by the bat: the anti-hero, which for Mendoza includes the multitude of the marginalized and the weakest. Behind that form that most have always looked at with reluctance, for the artist there is probably the body of anxieties and conflicts in society.

Nedko Solakov

A Cornered Solo Show #2

MAXXI, Rome, IT

until 25.09.2022

“A Cornered Solo Show #2”, curated by Zhou Hanru and Monia Trombetta, is Nedko Solakov’s second unconventional intervention for a corner of the MAXXI museum in Rome. Writing and drawing enrich the stories conceived for this corner of the museum: short writings, aphorisms, double meanings become vehicles for comments and thoughts on social and collective issues. Relying on a witty play on words - corner / cornered - the artist chooses a corner of the MAXXI to critically narrate highly topical socio-cultural questions and ironically reveal the most hidden mechanisms of contemporary art 'corner'. Of the latter he explores the complexities, contradictions, alternatives and experiments derived from the urge to think, to shape, to negotiate with the human condition and self-representation. In the course of work, reflections and thoughts on the Russian-Ukrainian war that broke out in February 2022 were added to these themes, which prompted the artist to replace some of his stories with new works designed to recall the tragic events of the present in the collective imagination.

Installation view

Nedko Solakov, A Cornered Solo Show #2, MAXXI, Rome, IT
© Nedko Solakov

Maurizio Donzelli

Ascoltare Bellezza

Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, IT

until 13.09.2022

On the occasion of "Ascoltare Bellezza" Maurizio Donzelli realized the work Fragments in dialogue with the large mosaic floor of the Mosaic room of the Biblioteca Classense and originates an unprecedented path which invites the viewer to discover unexpected relationships between the precious work of the sixth century and the delicate tapestry created by Donzelli for this moment that greets the arrival of the new season. A precious and delicate reference that develops like an embroidery along the room, asking the viewer to find, starting from the visual attitudes, relationships and comparisons between the past and the contemporary language of the artist, who feeds on the stratifications and the remains of the time.

Installation view

Maurizio Donzelli, Fragments, 2022, Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, IT

Stefano Arienti

in Panorama Monopoli

Monopoli ancient seaside village, IT

until 04.09.2022

We are glad to announce the participation of Stefano Arienti in the new edition of the city-wide exhibition Panorama Monopoli, a project by ITALICS, curated by Vincenzo De Bellis, Curator and Associate Director of Programs, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The exhibition itinerary encompasses the ancient historic center of the Adriatic town and entails twenty exhibition venues, including palaces, churches, piazzas, votive aedicules hidden in alleyways and lanes. It will host 70 works ranging from the 15th-century to today and includes 7 performance pieces, created by 60 international artists of different nationalities and from different eras and generations. We are waiting for you in Monopoli for a new itinerary of ancient and contemporary art and architecture, accompanied by a schedule of informative side events, performances and special projects open to the public. “Panorama Monopoli” is realized with the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the support of the Department of Tourism, Economy of Culture and Valorization of the Territory of the Puglia Region and the Departments of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Monopoli. Belmond Ltd. is joining ITALICS as main partner to support the Consortium activities and “Panorama Monopoli”.

Bertrand Lavier

Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, CN

until 04.09.2022

Looking back on the past several decades of Bertrand Lavier's artistic creations, this exhibition engages in a bold exploration of two of the most important creative techniques of the 20th century—the readymade and appropriation. While providing a 21st-century audience with an opportunity to understand and experience the explorations of avant-garde art in the 1980s and 90s, it also opens up an entirely new perspective through which to examine the world, to ponder the essence of art and its relationship to life through the dissolution of familiar cultural images and everyday objects, to explore a master artist’s fantastical world of fusion between creative ideas and artistic concepts. As exhibition curator Michel Gauthier puts it, Lavier is a "happy postmodernist.”

Bertrand Lavier
Blue Eames
2017
Acrylic painted chair, wooden base
chair : 78,5 x 63,5 x 60 cm
base: 9 x 80 x 80 cm
Courtesy Galleria Massimo Minini

Paul P.

Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment

Oakville galleries, Toronto, CA

until 28.08.2022

Paul P explores the visual aesthetics of the late nineteenth century, he considers and commemorates queer social histories, particularly the period of gay liberation that occurred just before the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The artist is known for portraits appropriated from source material found in the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. Less well known are his numerous delicate watercolours of gardens, flowers and statuary, as well as seascapes and shorelines, drawn from life over the past 15 years. Responding to views of the garden and lake outside the gallery, the exhibition brings together a number of these non-figurative works, which are almost entirely exhibited for the first time. They include sketches of flowers, flower stalls, neoclassical statuary in the Jardin des Tuileries, a public park in Paris (where the artist was based for many years), as well as seascapes in various locations, including Venice, Italy, its namesake Venice Beach in California, and Fogo Island in Newfoundland. The exhibition title, 'Friendly in the Knife-edged Moment', is an excerpt from a poem by Jocelyn Brooke. An early twentieth-century English author and naturalist, his search for a rare orchid became both the catalyst for one of his most well-known books (The Military Orchid, published in 1948) and a symbol of a search for self. The imagery in Paul P.'s work is presented in a similarly allusive way, as subtle allegories expressing the politics and aesthetics of longing.

Paul P.
Untitled
2009
Oil on canvas
46x33 cm
Courtesy Galleria Massimo Minini

Sheila Hicks

Woven Wonders

Coal Drops Yard, London, UK

until 16.10.2022

Sheila Hicks has realised “Woven Wonders”, a new monumental outdoor site-specific installation which has been displayed today at Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross, London. The artist has made a vast, floating sculpture which transforms Coal Drops Yard into an diversified environment of colour and moving forms. The uniquely chosen hydrophobic material is resistant to the atmospheric agents, thus creating a fadeless and timeless experience in vibrant technicolour. The work is suspended between two former buildings and creates a connecting threads becoming a focal point for community assembly and future cultural expression.

Installation view

Sheila Hicks, Woven Wonders, London, 2022 © Sheila Hicks
Ph: Cara McCarty

Paolo Novelli

in Giardini disobbedienti

Hortus Artieri, Trento, IT

until 18.06.2022

Paolo Novelli is part of “Giardini disobbedienti”, a photographic exhibition curated by Pio Tarantini and Maria Sabina Berra. Twenty-five photographers of different generations and stylistic orientation interpret the theme of the garden, not only from a documentary point of view, but ranging in different conceptual areas that make this place in itself so characterized in the reality, a place of the mind and imagination. A setting that justifies the title, “disobedient gardens”, because they respond more precisely to the unpredictable poetics and conceptions of photography.

Paolo Novelli
Day n.2
2017-2018
Gelatin silver print
40x30 cm
Edition of 12 + II AP

Piero Gilardi

Gilardi: Tappeto-Natura

Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY

until 09.01.2023

Through an ample selection of relevant works, the exhibition seeks to recount and illuminate the experience of a pioneering artist who, at the height of the 1960s, opened a dialogue between Italy and the United States, and who remains committed to investing in the formation of an international artistic community that embodies the tie between art and life. Since 1965, Gilardi has conceived Tappeto-Natura to concretize a dream: the dream of an ideal nature, uncontaminated, “recreated” through an artificial material like polyurethane foam, which takes shape through the intaglio (carving) technique and is then saturated with synthetic pigment – at first dissolved in vinyl resin, and later, in rubber latex. During this era, the artist’s intent was to create real “aesthetic objects of practical use” that overcome the dualism between art and technology; natural and artificial; body and world. It was possible to walk, lie down and have a multisensory experience of art and life on these soft rugs. Focus and aim were redirected towards the infinite possibilities of these works and towards creating everyday interactions with each individual consumer.

Installation view

Piero Gilardi: "Tappeto-Natura" at Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York, NY, 2022 Photograph by Marco Anelli/Tommaso Sacconi ©

Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen. The place of the upside down

Palazzo del Duca and Palazzetto Baviera, Senigallia, IT

until 02.10.2022

Senigallia città della fotografia [Senigallia City of Photography] presents Roger Ballen' solo show curated by Massimo Minini. It is the only one that will take place this year in Italy in a public location, in addition to his participation in the LIX Biennale in Venice for which he was called to represent South Africa in its national pavilion. This exhibition investigates the human condition and the depths of the subconscious, inviting the viewer to ask himself questions about what he is looking at and consequently to ask questions about himself as well. The images created by Ballen are characterized by a perfectly recognizable visual style, to the point that a neologism, "Ballenesque", has been coined to define a mysterious, chaotic, sometimes dark atmosphere that resides in his works. Over the years the artist's style has evolved in search of new creative possibilities, he has experimented different visual languages where photography interacts with drawing, painting, collage and sculpture, giving life to a new hybrid aesthetic that has made him famous all over the world.

Roger Ballen
Woman man and dog
1995
Archival pigment print, 40x40 cm
Ed. 29/35

Luigi Ghirri

Luigi Ghirri (non) luoghi

Fondazione Cassa di RIsparmio di Jesi, Palazzo Bisaccioni, Jesi, IT

until 31.07.2022

The solo show, curated by Massimo Minini, wants to present itself as an emotional story, a path that reveals to the visitor the way in which Ghirri enters into a relationship with things, celebrating the artist and focusing on his intimate need to photograph. With his shots he demonstrates how photography generates possible worlds, never artificial and unreal, but which always tell the perception of another truth, the result of the perfect "balance between detection and revelation".

Luigi Ghirri
Ravenna
1986
serie Un piede nell’Eden
Stampa cromogenica da negativo 6x7 cm
43.5 x 54.5 cm

Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks: Off Grid

The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, EN

until 25.09.2022

"This major exhibition explores the many facets of Hicks’ ground-breaking work. They range from intimate minimes – small woven explorations that Hicks continually creates on a hand-held frame – to large-scale installations that fill spaces with voluminous form and vibrant colour. The exhibition spans Hicks’ career from her earliest works made in the 1950s to new site-specific commissions. Off Grid reveals how Hicks’ extensive travels across several continents, where she immersed herself in local communities and studied vernacular textile traditions by observing and collaborating with local artists and artisans, together with her own experimentation and natural curiosity, inspired her to develop an unique artistic language. On display are little-known photographs and journals offering insights into the extraordinary range of cultural and aesthetic influences that have inspired her work".

Sheila Hicks
Perruque, 1968-1969
linen and cotton
48×24×32 cm

Anish Kapoor

KAPOOR | UNA MOSTRA IN DUE SEDI

Gallerie dell'Accademia - Palazzo Manfrin, Venezia, IT

until 09.10.2022

"Concurrently with the next International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia is dedicating an extraordinary exhibition to the great internationally recognized artist, Anish Kapoor. The exhibition will have a retrospective character, presenting the key moments in the artist's career alongside a new body of recent and unpublished works. For the first time, the highly innovative new works, created using carbon nanotechnology, will be exhibited, as will the paintings and sculptures that testify to the vitality and visionary drive of Kapoor's current artistic production".

Anish Kapoor
Lady Chrysanthe, 2016
Fiberglass and gold
65 x 65 x 65 cm
Edition 3/3 +2AP

Landon Metz

in WE PAINT!

Palais des Etudes des Beaux-Arts Paris, Paris, FR

until 24.04.2022

Landon Metz is among the artists presented in the group show "WE PAINT!", an exhibition on the effervescence of painting in contemporary art, curated by Cristiano Raimondi, who will also be responsible for the scenography. This exhibition programmed by the Beaux-Arts de Paris presents this state of contemporary painting through 33 French and foreign artists selected over the last 10 years by the Jean-François Prat Prize, in a scenography specifically created for this occasion in the heart of the emblematic glass courtyard of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Landon Metz
Untitled, 2020
dye on canvas
200x160 cm

Haris Epaminonda

in The Dream of Ulysses

Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, Hyères, FR

until 16.10.2022

Haris Epaminonda is featured in the group show "The Dream of Ulysses". "The exhibition is inspired by the Greek hero who sailed for ten years to return home after the Trojan War (The Iliad). Legend has it that Ulysses reached the shores of Porquerolles Island, where he fought and struck down the Alycastre, the monster sent by Poseidon and sculpted by the artist Miquel Barceló at the entrance of the Villa Carmignac. Thanks to the intuition of this year’s guest curator, Francesco Stocchi, the Villa Carmignac will be transformed into a labyrinth for this exhibition. Is Ulysses’ decade-long journey of return, with its diversions, impasses and traps, not a labyrinthine journey drawn on the sea?"

Haris Epaminonda
Untitled #03 t/g, 2019
Mirrored and black polished lacquered wooden structure with brass hinge, veneered wooden structure, cube and panel, ceramic vase and glazed ceramic bowl, plaster head
180×107,5×112,5 cm

Carla Accardi

in Astratte. Donne e astrazione in Italia 1930-2000

Villa Olmo, Como, IT

until 29.05.2022

“The exhibition tells about some long-neglected or forgotten protagonists of Italian abstract art who, thanks to the critical activity carried out in particular in the last twenty years, are returning to the center of attention”.

Carla Accardi
Parentesi n.1, 1981
vinyl paint on raw canvas
141×172 cm
Arch. n. 806

Maurizio Donzelli

in PLOT HUNTERS

Palazzo Pusterla, Milano, IT

until 03.04.2022

Maurizio Donzelli is among the artists presented at the new exhibition space of Banca Generali, BG Art Gallery. Banca Generali has been working for some time to support culture in its various forms of expression. In particular, in recent years, the Bank launched the BG ArTalent project embarking on a path to promote creativity in its most innovative expressions and to bring new light on Italian talent. The collection of BG Art Gallery is currently distinguished by the presence of 13 works representing the best of Italian contemporary art. The works of the 5 artists selected by Vincenzo De Bellis (associate director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, USA) as part of the BG ArTalent project and then those of 5 other leading exponents of contemporary art intermingle and dialogue with each other.

Maurizio Donzelli
Mirror #0222, 2022
Mixed media, wooden frame
140x95,8x7,5 cm

Peter Halley

in INTERACTION

Fondazione Made in Cloister, Napoli, IT

until 10.09.2022

Peter Halley is on view in this group show curated by Demetrio Paparoni at Fondazione Made in Cloister, in Naples. “INTERACTION responds to a precise social, cultural, political and dialogic message, which proposes new horizons for a global city in which different languages confront each other and coexist above any conflictual dimension, without losing their own specificities. The exhibition proposes the concept of "action", combined with those of "cooperation", of "doing", of "building". The title of the exhibition, as its curator explains, therefore emphasizes the need to combine "doing" with "building together"”.

Installation view

"INTERACTION", Fondazione Made in Cloister, Naples
© Francesco Squeglia

Giulio Paolini

Quando è il presente?

Museo Novecento, Firenze, IT

until 07.09.2022

Il titolo della mostra, Quando è il presente?, a cura di Bettina Della Casa e Sergio Risaliti, è tratto da una lettera scritta nel 1922 da Rainer Maria Rilke a Lou Andreas Salomè, e costituisce lo spunto da cui Giulio Paolini traccia una propria meditazione sul tempo e sulla nostra impossibilità di afferrarlo, combinando gli interrogativi sul ruolo dell’arte e la figura dell’artista con quelli sull’esistenza e il suo fluire. I lavori presenti in mostra, al centro di un percorso ideato dallo stesso artista, dialogano con l’architettura rinascimentale delle sale al piano terra del Museo Novecento, invitandoci a compiere un viaggio all’interno delle sue ultime riflessioni sul significato della creazione artistica e sulle sue molteplici implicazioni.

Giulio Paolini
Atto di nascita, 2021
photographic reproduction, plexiglas plate, plaster casts, plexiglas case, white base plate 35 x 35 cm, case 40 x 40 x 40 cm, base 100 x 45 x 45 cm,
overall dimensions 140 x 45 x 45 cm

Ceal Floyer

in FUTURA. Measuring Time

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE

until 10.04.2022

Ceal Floyer is one of the artists involved in the group show "FUTURA. Measuring of Time". The exhibition is based on questions about the future: What is time and how can it be artistically represented and measured? And how can the future be imagined? The starting point of this unusual exhibition is a work of art: Bogomir Ecker's (1996-2496) "Dripstone Machine". Designed to last an unimaginable 500 years, it runs through the entire gallery of the present from the roof to the basement. If everything goes smoothly, the machine will have formed stalagmites and stalactites about 5 cm in size over this period. That doesn't sound very spectacular, and yet an exciting intellectual journey into the future begins while we wait spellbound for the next drop to fall. What will the future look like, how do we want to shape it?

Ceal Floyer
KEEP CLEAR, 2021
Inline printed floor marking tape, empty wall
Variable dimensions
Edition 1/4 + II AP

Carla Accardi

in Marta Maps. New Routes through the Collection

Marta Herford Museum of Art, Architecture, Design, Herford, DE

until 29.05.2022

Carla Accardi's artworks are part of the Marta Collection presented in this exhibition. This group show composes a symbolic map on which the public can follow various thematic routes. Art thus becomes a matter of open experience and insight: we can be guided from work to work by the thoughts of the well-known author, Wladimir Kaminer, or by the descriptions from a child’s point of view, as well as on a tour that gives us a look behind the scenes of museum work.

Carla Accardi
Si sdoppia e ricompare
2013
Vinyl paint on canvas
100×160 cm
Arch. n. 374C

Vanessa Beecroft

in MARBLE

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, DK

until 21.08.2022

Vanessa Beecroft is part of the group show MARBLE at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg in Denmark. Traditionally speaking, marble reflected status, history, power and the classical ideals of beauty. Countless of the most iconic works in the history of art are made of marble, ranging from sculptures such as Laocoön and the Venus de Milo to architectural masterpieces that include the Parthenon and the Taj Mahal. In recent years, while marble has also become a much-loved material in interior design, many associate it with the kitsch of the 1980s. Despite, or because of the aura of the material and its unmistakably sensuous qualities, in recent decades marble has once again become a favourite material for many contemporary artists.

vbm.012.10, Gambe nere, 2010
black belgium marble (feminine legs), pink portugal (base), white Carrara, black belgium (wedge)

Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren: Going for a Walk in a Zigzag

EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, FI

until 17.07.2022

A world-renowned French artist, Daniel Buren (b. 1938) has taken over EMMA’s exhibition space until 17 July 2022. For EMMA, Buren has created an enormous new work Les Paravents consisting of countless folding screens, inviting visitors to take a walk through the zigzagging maze. In this site-specific piece, the screens embody Buren’s signature themes of impermanence and mutability.

Photo souvenir: Daniel Buren, Folding Screens, (Les Paravents), work in situ, 2022
© DB-ADAGP

Letizia Cariello (Letia)

in Poetica del semplice. Moda e design secondo Monica Bolzoni/Bianca e Blu

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, IT

until 27.02.2022

This exhibition is dedicated to Monica Bolzoni and to her historic brand and perfomative place Bianca e Blu to tell her experience as a fashion designer in order to explore the process which has animated her creativity. The poetic of the simple is the essential ingredient; it gave life to a unique language achieved making highly selective choices. The object of her research are the archetypes of the feminine, according to precise study of modular forms. The result is a contemporary and sophisticated canon of elegance which enhance the real body of the woman. Letizia Cariello is part of this collective exhibition with My Sister is Always with Me: a performance in which the artist turns into art seven pieces in jersey by Bianca e Blu. This is the first work for which the artist used her face and body, a work physically engaging: holding a pose copied from a painting requires not only identification.

Letizia Cariello, My Sister is Always with Me, cibachrome print, 120x90 cm, courtesy the artist and Fondazione Museion

Ariel Schlesinger

in Praise the Insignificant Dwarf Planets

DANGXIA Art Space, Beijing

until 23.04.2022

Ariel Schlesinger is part of the inaugural exhibition “Praise the Insignificant Dwarf Planets” at DANGXIA Art Space in Beijing, curated by Yang Zi, with his work entitled “Two Good Reasons”. Here a excerpt of Massimo Minini’s poem about Ariel Schlesinger’s artwork: white sheets dance Though the maker may well disagree this is a dance of love I see dancing joined as foes and friends two white fields laid out for the pen. the room is empty. on the floor the sheets engage in open war. a war of forms in three dimensions harmoniously curved ascensions. Two shapes lie flat there, on their own white rectangles: each one alone.

Ariel Schlesinger, Two Good Reasons, 2015,
Polypropilane, engine, wood, 100x132 cm each sheet 310x300 cm set up dimension.
Courtesy Galleria Massimo Minini

Vanessa Beecroft/Mimmo Jodice/Joel-Peter Witkin

in Canova tra innocenza e peccato

MaRT, Rovereto, IT

until 18.04.2022

Vanessa Beecroft, Mimmo Jodice and Joel-Peter Witkin will take part in the exhibition which will celebrate the second centenary of the death of one of the most important masters of sculpture of all time: Antonio Canova (1757 - 1822). MaRT has organized a large exhibition to explore the relevance of his work in contemporary languages, from photography to the most recent sculptural experiences, highlighting links, dialogues, continuity and contrasts.

Installation view

Vanessa Beecroft, vb62.017.nt, Chiesa dello Spasimo, Palermo, 2008
Digital C-print, 178×226 cm
Edition 1/6

Letizia Cariello (Letia)/Stefano Arienti

in Bocconi Art Gallery 2021

Via Röntgen 1, Milano, IT

17.11.2021

Letizia Cariello and Stefano Arienti will be part of BAG's seventh edition. Bocconi Art Gallery is an exhibition project spread within the Campus, which is renewed every 12-18 months. It hosts works by national and international artists, welcoming the public with inaugural evenings that combine art and music. It also offers guided tours and meetings on contemporary art themes. During the opening, at 6.45pm in Auditorium Ferrero via Sarfatti, 10, Letizia Cariello will have a public talk with Pino Pinelli and Emilio Isgrò, as moderator Severino Salvemini.

Letizia Cariello, Gate # 0 Bocconi, 2020, Site Specific, Unique edition

Eva Marisaldi

Secondi tempi

CSAC, Abbazia di Valserena, Parma, IT

until 28.02.2022

Centro Studi and Archivio della Comunicazione of Parma University inaugurates Archivio dal vivo, a new path that winds through the Abbey of Valserena, completely redesigning the environments of the archive, no longer intended as separate places, but integrated with the exhibition space. The first opportunity is represented by the project Secondi tempi by Eva Marisaldi that will be in dialogue with the spaces of the archive, through the installation of a video and the dissemination of over sixty small prints on aluminum that reproduce fragments of the artist’s personal collection.

Eva Marisaldi, Omissioni, 1998-2018
Post-it modified
76.3 x 76.3 cm

Alberto Garutti

in “Mehr licht!” (Più luce!)

Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, IT

until 06.02.2022

The last words spoken by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe before his death give the title to the next exhibition of Casa Masaccio. The concept of light has been a fundamental element of the history of art, as well as an essential means for the vision and transmission of colors in space and, since the sixties of the last century, has become an integral part of the expressive language of art. The artist Alberto Garutti takes part in the exhibition that brings together artists of various nationalities and generations whose works focus on perceptual phenomena and on the idea that light itself can be both the subject and the object of art. The journey of light has very remote sources, has crossed myth and metaphysics, theology and art, arriving secularized in our daily lives, trapped in our control and our operation. Becoming the material of our objects and the object of our work, it calls for a different perception of the world, a different posture of the body, a much more liquid boundary between inside and outside.

Installation view

"Mehr Licht", Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, AR
©Ela Bialkowska
OKNO studio

Haris Epaminonda

in Understudies: I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE

until 09.01.2022

Understudies: I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing is an exhibition curated by the artist Iman Issa, whose work often takes the form of displays featuring multiple elements and where text plays a central role. The curator reflects on her artistic methodology through the prism of a group exhibition. In order to unfold this introspective venture, the exhibition brings together works by artists, writers, and filmmakers, who each create their own parameters and universes within their practice. Many of the selected works touch upon notions of illustration, portraiture, and self-narration. The artist Haris Epaminonda will exhibit one of the books, taken from the ongoing project The infinite library, she made through the recombination of pages from one or more found publications; the concept for each new volume develops gradually, starting from the content of the original book and the associations that unfold in the process of making.

Haris Epaminonda, Daniel Gustav Cramer, The Infinite Library Index
8 color risograph prints with a two page Index
Edition of 50

Jonathan Monk

in Autoritratto come Salvo

MACRO, Roma, IT

until 27.02.2022

Self-portrait as Salvo is a polyphonic compendium of works that outline the complexity of the figure of Salvo. Born in Leonforte in the province of Enna, he moved in 1956 to Turin where at first he developed a research closer to Arte Povera thanks to artists such as Sol Lewitt, Robert Barry and Joseph Kosuth. In 1973 he returned to painting, a painting practiced in the very first years of training and which, at the beginning of the seventies, was to be considered as an unconventional choice, out of time. The central themes of his research such as the relationship with tradition and the past, the reinterpretation of the history of art, combined with a research partly self-satisfied ego, are expressed in a more solid way in this second moment that will last until 2015. The exhibition project, playfully echoing the spirit of one of the artist’s best known works, Autoritratto come Raffaello, offers in the form of a large picture gallery an exhaustive image of his work. The artist Jonathan Monk together with Nicolas Party and Nicola Pecoraro will be part of this drawing on the walls following an irregular timeframe, while the sound performer and musician Ramona Ponzini will offer her personal interpretation of the exhibition.

Salvo, Autoritratto come Raffaello, 1970, Collezione Paul Maenz, Berlino

Anish Kapoor

Painting

Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

until 13.02.2022

Offering a window into his dynamic daily studio practice, Painting shows Kapoor exploring the illusionary power of this medium, pushing the boundaries between sculpture and painting as he explores our perception and experience of the body. Through this exhibition, we can engage with how Kapoor views the vitality of shared social and biological origins – specifically the red blood essential to becoming, being alive and transitioning to death. ‘The art I love, the art I make, I hope, celebrates the sensual while always knowing that decay is close’.

Installation view
© Ben Westoby

Yona Friedman

The mobile exhibition

Frac Grand Large, Dunkerque, FR

until 31.12.2021

The title of this exhibition pays tribute to his major work L’Architecture mobile (Mobile Architecture, 1958), in which Friedman develops his Spatial-City ideas. He imagines modular living spaces that evolve in function of needs that change over time. Since “human society cannot be planned”, Friedman recommends just allowing its occupants the freedom of changing their habitat. Raised constructions play in favour of urban agriculture and account for demographic evolutions as well as limited resources. These ideas were embodied in a multitude of models and unique drawings, which reveal a creative process based on savings, recycling and improvisation. “At the present time we build too much. Earth is over built, earth is over planned, earth is over farmed. This does not mean that we don’t need architects, planners and farmers but we have to change rules.” Yona Friedman

Installation view
© Salim Santa Lucia

Gabriele Basilico

Territori intermedi

“Castello Ursino” Civic Museum, Catania. IT

until 06.01.2022

The exhibition at "Castello Ursino" Civic Museum, curated by Filippo Maggia and promoted by Fondazione OELLE Mediterraneo Antico in collaboration with Archivio Basilico, is an absolute preview. The selection of photographs reveals a completely new approach from the rich artistic production left by Basilico: these are photographs made as studies or left aside for precise needs arising from the client. The "intermediate territories" are tangible physical spaces, but also mental spaces, induced in the observer by voids, by absences determined by pauses and silences in the visual construction of the image. Carmelo Nicosia, Director of the OELLE Foundation SAYS: "These are photographs that exude passion, that surpass the professional job and that make us appreciate a private and romantic dimension of the artist. Basilico emanates visions, a kind of sensory approach to the alchemy of images, and governs the construction of the frames as Renaissance paintings with the harmonies of composition and light".

Roger Ballen

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ROGER BALLEN

Fotomuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, NL

until 06.03.2022

It’s the margins of society and the darker side of the human spirit that have always fascinated the world-famous photographer and artist Roger Ballen (an American who lives and works in the South African city of Johannesburg). People, dolls, rats and reptiles feature against a background of drawings of primitive figures. This distinctive ‘Ballenesque style’ enables him to create his own universe and has made Ballen a cult figure, especially among the young. This retrospective invites you to explore the psyche of Roger Ballen and leaves you wondering just what is real. In the exhibition The World According to Roger Ballen, the visitor also becomes part of his world. The artist has created a gesamtkunstwerk in which installations, videos and drawings form a hallucinatory alliance with his photography of the past fifty years, transforming Fotomuseum Den Haag into a true ‘Ballenesque’ theatre.

Installations view
© Gerrit Schreurs

Letizia Cariello (Letia)

in Nulla Dies Sine Linea

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, IT

until 27.11.2021

Itinerario di Arte e Spiritualità is the project that, since 2017, every year gives life to an exhibition of contemporary art in the spaces of the Catholic University of Milan, involving as curators the students of the University. The chosen theme enhances the university space as the place where study and research are intertwined and coexist. In fact, the title «Nulla dies sine linea», from Plinio’s Naturalis Historia, refers to the painter Apelle who only with the constant daily exercise had reached perfection. Letizia Cariello is one of the fifteen contemporary artists involved to whom the students have asked to draw a line between the past and the future of the University, applying creative flair to the theme of daily exercise.

Letizia Cariello
Calendario Door
scrittura a inchiostro e ricamo su lenzuolo intelaiato
Ø 120 cm, 2017

John Hilliard

in Look Twice

Fondazione Rolla, Bruzella, CH

until 09.01.2022

The nineteenth exhibition organized by Fondazione Rolla is Look Twice which features the English artist John Hilliard and the Americans Doug and Mike Starn. The exhibition consists of twelve works of different formats, arranged in the spaces of the former kindergarten in a delicate and vibrant dialogue. The works belong to the private collection of Rosella and Philip Rolla. In the catalogue text Emma Nilsson writes that the encounter between the works of John Hilliard and those of Doug and Mike Starn offer a cross-section of two important points of view of conceptual photography of two different generations in comparison, in search of the very essence of the photographic image.

John Hilliard
For Your Eyes Only, 1995
cibachrome print on aluminium
126 × 142 cm

Ettore Spalletti

Ettore Spalletti. Il cielo in una stanza

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma, IT

until 27.02.2022

The first exhibition that celebrates the great master of contemporary art a few years after his death. A selection of works, including painting and sculpture, rewrite the spaces of the Central Hall transforming it into a landscape that expresses the meaning and scope of the artistic research of Ettore Spalletti, protagonist of a solitary path and characterized by features of uniqueness in the history of Italian contemporary art, starting from the beginnings in the seventies, crossed the swirl of the avant-garde from a perspective detached, original and strongly coherent. Rigorous choices and a very clear visual education have placed a limit to primary geometric shapes and colors of choice, such as blue, white, gray, pink and purple. The same applies to sculptural forms, such as the column, an element of tradition, the ellipse, the basin and the amphora. But it is a limit that stretches to infinity, where the golden rules of the artist have the power to amplify the expressive power of his works, from the writing of pure color to the studied interactions with surfaces and environmental dynamics. The light blue color, which dominates the exhibition, in the form of the monochrome occupies the space and invites the viewer to immerse themselves in this landscape and take part in an emotional experience. The vibrations of the blue color follow the variation of light and atmospheric situations, while even the time of the observer acquires a meditative dimension. The presence of a metaphysical tension that characterized Spalletti’s research, at an artistic and personal level, is therefore evident. The questions about the incorporeal dimension that the artistic object possesses subtend a deep spiritual involvement, the same that guides him in the intent to translate the supernatural into something tangible, to bring the sky into a room.

Sabrina Mezzaqui

in LA VIE MATÉRIELLE

CENTRALE.hall, Bruxelles, Belgio, BE

until 13.03.2022

Sabrina Mezzaqui participates in the collective exhibition entitled La Vie matérielle: dialogue between 12 artists, Italian and Belgian, around the link between art and life. La Vie matérielle, like the homonymous collection by Marguerite Duras, explores and connects artistic development and personal experience. Both the Duras' book and the works on display are defined by a constant dialogue between ordinary everyday life (in which the body is a crucial element) and the inner and intimate life, fought between its deep aspirations and reality. By re-using, hybridizing, diverting or decontextualizing organic materials, objects of daily use, and offering them a new life that transcends their usual use, the artists on display go beyond the divisions between the artistic disciplines to create a "refuge" of the self in the world.

Sabrina Mezzaqui
Rilke, 2014
Grey cellulose (from R.M. Rilke "Elegie Duinesi, nona elegia"
70×70 cm

Luigi Ghirri

Tra albe e tramonti. Immagini per la Puglia

Fondazione Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, Bari, Italia, IT

until 20.01.2022

The famous photographer, one of the most significant of the second half of the twentieth century, undertook in 1983 a personal trip to Puglia, taking over a hundred photos; an important selection of these was then exhibited at the Fiera del Levante in Bari. The Ghirri family, through negatives and original photos, reconstructed the journey with the images of the photographer who loved Puglia so much and often returned with friends like the songwriter Lucio Dalla, the writer Gianni Celati and the intellectual and photographer Gianni Leone.

Luigi Ghirri, Otranto, 1982

Peter Halley

CELL GRIDS

dallas contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA

until 13.02.2022

CELL GRIDS, Peter Halley’s first exhibition in Texas in more than fifteen years, presents a unique series of paintings made from 2015 to the present. CELL GRIDS showcases a surprising vein of Halley’s work, paintings in which one element of his distinctive iconography – his intensely colored rectilinear “cells” – is isolated and arranged into syncopated grids, bringing his work into dialogue with the structural grid of classic Modernism as represented in the work of Piet Mondrian, Agnes Martin, Andy Warhol and others. Since the 1980s, Peter Halley’s paintings have blurred the distinction between geometric abstraction and representation. In Halley’s paintings, monochromatic squares become “prisons” and “cells,” while straight lines become the “conduits” connecting them. The paintings on view in CELL GRIDS at Dallas Contemporary are a focused presentation of a new direction in Halley’s work developed over the last six years in which the artist has isolated a single element of his personal iconography, the intensely colored rectilinear “cells,” arranging them into large-scale syncopated grids. Multiple canvases are bolted together into a tightly packed jigsaw puzzle devoid of atmosphere, while the paintings’ bright, luminous color combines with their rough tactile surfaces to create a palpable tension between attraction and repulsion. Devoid of Halley’s usual practice of deploying his prisons, cells and conduits in a figure-ground space to create a recognizable narrative, the CELL GRIDS paintings tread a subtle line between purist Modernist abstraction and Post-Modern referentiality, creating yet another level of tension and ambiguity. Shown together at Dallas Contemporary for the first time, this group of eighteen large-scale paintings extends Halley’s ongoing exploration of the language of painting. The exhibition offers a surprising new way of engaging with the artist’s work. CELL GRIDS curated by Dallas Contemporary Executive Director Peter Doroshenko and will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue.

Peter Halley. Under the Light, 2021. acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, and roll-a-tex on eleven joined canvases.
© Peter Halley

Nedko Solakov

A Cornered Solo Show #1

MUDAM, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, LU

until 18.04.2022

A Cornered Solo Show #1 (2021) is deliberately an unconventional intervention conceived by the artist Nedko Solakov (b. 1957, Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria) for a corner of the museum (as opposed to the galleries where artworks are usually displayed). It is for the artist the first of a series of solo exhibitions in insignificant corners in various prominent museums. Renowned for his acerbic sense of humour and work that highlights the absurdities and contradictions of social norms, Solakov chose to present his work in Mudam’s cloakroom. In this confined and often overlooked space, he presents an installation that plays with the aesthetic judgements and codes of the retrospective exhibition format. The exhibition can be seen to engage with the subject of the social isolation engendered by the current health crisis. The artist elaborates: ‘It is a story about our times, when, even if we are cornered by the situation worldwide, we still have to survive, and an artist’s point of view, from the corner, might help us to better swallow the bitterness of daily life’.

Haris Epaminonda

34th Bienal de São Paulo – Though it’s dark, still I sing

Pavilhao da Bienal, São Paulo, BR

until 05.12.2021

Some artists’s work has its own, unique tone, which makes it immediately recognizable. In the case of Haris Epaminonda (1980, Nicosia, Cyprus), this tone permeates her collages, videos, films, artist books and even the elements that come together in her always carefully arranged installations. These installations often include simple objects of timeless beauty, such as vases and bowls, and sculptures of a lightness that makes them almost ethereal. These elements are often arranged on, near or behind bases, in an extremely self-aware balance, where nothing can be removed without profoundly changing the sense of the whole. In Epaminonda's work, everything is significant, including, or principally, the spaces, the voids, the remains: “I consider the exhibition space as part of the work – not only the occupied zones, but equally the empty gaps, rhythm, distances”, she says. It is in this ability to shift the viewer's gaze, to lead them to see what seemed, until then, irrelevant, that we can identify a distinctive quality in Epaminonda's work. The short films which make up the series Chronicles, filmed in distinct locations over a number of years, can be seen as a programmatically dispersed and yet coherent index of possible suspended narratives: the numbers of the page of a book, small ancient sculptures against colored backgrounds, a lone palm tree against a blue sky… For the work commissioned by the 34th Bienal, Grids (2021), Epaminonda delved into the huge archive of 35mm photographs she has been taking since 1997. Images taken in different moments and places are put in relation to each other, identifying and making almost tangible the forces of attraction that, invisible, operate in the world. Jacopo Crivelli Visconti

Installation view

Haris Epaminonda,
34th Bienal de São Paulo - Though it’s dark, still I sing

Sabrina Mezzaqui

I quaderni di Hannah Arendt

Palazzo Borromeo, Milano

until 02.11.2021

The miart returns to Milan, this year exceptionally in September, with an exhibition organized by LCA Studio Legale at Palazzo Borromeo, in collaboration with Antonini Milano, AXA XL and Apice. This year, with the support of the Galleria Continua and the Galleria Minini, Sabrina Mezzaqui will exhibit her work "I quaderni di Hannah Arendt". As the artist writes: "This work is a manual copy of the pages of Nel deserto del pensiero - Quaderni e diari 1950-1973 by Hannah Arendt, ed. BEAT, publication of 29 manuscript workbooks, in which the author notes and deepens her reflections. Even Hannah Arendt frequently copies texts by other authors and writes, in addition to German, in English, French, Greek and Latin. The 29 notebooks have been hand-bound with gray-black covers decorated with motifs inspired by the Bauhaus period, while the white sewn sheets are those used for printing legal and administrative documents, light paper that makes noise when leafing through it (...)". "Reality isn't tough, it isn't strong, it needs our protection". Hannah Arendt

Detail

Sabrina Mezzaqui
I quaderni di Hannah Arendt,
Palazzo Borromeo, Milano, IT, 2021

MIART 2021 – Promozione delle opere contemporanee in mercati internazionali attraverso la partecipazione a specifiche fiere del settore

Fiera Milano City

until 19.09.2021

Galleria Massimo Minini è lieta di annunciare la sua partecipazione a Miart 2021 con opere di Carla Accardi, Vanessa Beecroft, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ceal Floyer, Alberto Garutti, Sheila Hicks, Enzo Mari, Landon Metz. L'impresa ha beneficiato di un cofinanziamento a valere sulle risorse del POR FESR 2014-2020 nell'ambito dell'Asse III, Azione III.3.b.1.2. per aver completato un progetto di internazionalizzazione legato alla partecipazione alla fiera internazionale MIART 2021, la quale ha generato un interessante impatto dal punto di vista di attrazione di clientela e possibili futuri partners sullo scenario internazionale nel settore del commercio di arte moderna e contemporanea. Con il sostegno di:

PANORAMA PROCIDA. Island-wide exhibition curated by Vincenzo de Bellis Procida, Italy. September 2- 5, 2021

Procida, Italy

until 05.09.2021

Galleria Massimo Minini – member of ITALICS – is pleased to announce the first in-person project of the consortium. ITALICS, the first consortium in Italy to unite more than sixty of the country’s most influential galleries of contemporary, modern and ancient art, presents its first in-person project: PANORAMA, an island-wide exhibition on Procida (off the coast of Naples) from Thursday, 2 September to Sunday, 5 September 2021, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Curator and Associate Director of Programs, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. It is the first in a series of exhibitions, each with the title PANORAMA, organised by ITALICS to tell the story of some of the most fascinating places in Italy, in an offline continuation of the extraordinary journey begun in October 2020 on the pages of the website italics.art. The first exhibition in the PANORAMA series is taking place on the island of Procida, a picturesque location distinguished for its intellectual bent and natural surroundings, in the form of a long conversation between the curator Vincenzo de Bellis and Agostino Riitano, director of Procida: Italian Capital of Culture 2022. The exhibition brings together about forty-five works of art spanning sculpture, painting, video, performance and installations from a wide range of historical and production contexts. The itinerary stops at twenty sites island-wide, including public and private buildings, churches, historical palazzos and more, all pivoting around the fortified village of Terra Murata, dominated by Palazzo d’Avalos (1563), a former prison citadel. Through constant dialogue and comparison of notes, Vincenzo de Bellis and Agostino Riitano highlight a few of the key features of the project: the relationship between work of art and a highly distinctive space like that of the island, social potential, understood as an attempt to update communication and the use of art and, lastly, dialogue with institutions. Spreading the project throughout the island, PANORAMA presents not just Procida’s works of art but also its houses, churches, streets, terraces, piazzas and even residents. With PANORAMA, ITALICS is renewing its commitment to promote the beauty of Italy in all its profound complexity, through the eyes of Italian gallerists. PANORAMA is made possible by Intesa Sanpaolo, ITALICS’ project Partner, with additional support from the Region of Campania and the Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee - museo Madre, and the sponsorship of the Municipality of Procida. The exhibition is part of the program “Towards Procida 2022”.

Peter Halley

Antesteria

Museo Nivola, Orani, IT

until 22.08.2021

Starting in the 1990s, Peter Halley began to transform the architectural space through digitally generated mural works, sometimes developed in collaboration with other artists. The project created for Museo Nivola focuses on this aspect of his work: Halley has completely transformed the museum’s temporary exhibition space’s walls, in tune with the mission of Museo Nivola, an institution dedicated to Costantino Nivola, one of the protagonists of the movement for a “synthesis of the arts” at mid-century. In the old public washhouse used by the museum for temporary exhibitions – a clear and linear building similar in shape and proportions to a church – the tone is joyful and lively, the space euphoric. Entering from the terrace – a light-flooded environment overlooking the museum park – the visitor will experience a visual shock produced by Halley’s favorite fluorescent hues and the images’ exuberant and dynamic character. Arranged in a scheme recalling the Italian fourteen-century fresco cycles, which suddenly rises in a series of colored waves, the surface combines the artist’s painting’s distinctive repertoire with art historical references from the Renaissance to Warhol, from Matisse to cave art. “The installation – states Giuliana Altea, curator of the exhibition together with Antonella Camarda – enhances the contrasts in Halley’s painting. It is both conceptual and decorative, critically reflective and spectacular, intensely contemporary, and nourished by the dialogue with art history. It combines opposite polarities, not so much to seek a synthesis between them or to try to reconcile them, but rather to put them in tension and trigger short circuits of the viewer’s imagination.”

Installation view

Peter Halley, Antesteria, 2021, Museo Nivola, Orani
ph. Daniele Brotzu

Stefano Arienti/Letizia Cariello (Letia)

Carta bianca. Una nuova storia. 49 artisti x 49 copertine

Museo Gigi Guadagnucci, Massa, IT

until 29.08.2021

Invited by Valentina Ciarallo on the occasion of the White Issue Vogue Italia, 49 Italian artists have transformed the prestigious magazine from content to container, writing a new story on white paper: The white image desired by Vogue Italia for the April 2020 cover expresses through the the presence of an event antithetical to a context dedicated, by its specific nature, to beauty and the joy of living is disconcerted. The white that represents the principle of the vital phase, a sign of hope and trust, becomes a creative stimulus for artists capable of adhering to our contemporaneity. Back to vibrate, powerfully visionary, reinterpreted through personal readings. The surface, like a canvas, a sheet, a space capable of accommodating innovative requests, becomes a collective tale animated by different languages, techniques and materials. From painting to embroidery, from photography to ceramics, from collage to customization with A.I. With this project, the spaces of Villa della Rinchiostra, seat of the museum dedicated to the sculptor Gigi Guadagnucci, opens up to the artists of the present, capable of getting back into the game, of rediscovering new aspirations, of reinventing other expressive ways.

Letizia Cariello, Saving time, 2020
Ink and red thread intervention on paper, 28,5x23 cm

Letizia Cariello (Letia)

Il tuo cielo è verde

Filatoio Rosso di Caraglio, Cuneo, IT

until 10.10.2021

Curated by Olga Gambari, the exhibition presents some works that tell the story of the last few years, together with site-specific creations, with a declination that connects to the present time and to the specific location of the exhibition. Il tuo cielo è verde presents several families of works. Gates is a series of windows weaved with red wool thread and nails which create passages between inner and outer space. By creating passages, they heal bonds and rebuild lost connections. They are possibilities of crossing in multiple directions with the body, or with the gaze. They define everything we need: to look outside, through the grate - which is not always a prison - formed by the weaving of wool. While in Letizia Cariello's photographic work, the shots fix the objects, extrapolating a visible element from the flow of time in which we are immersed. The embroidery and the artist's interventions on the photographs are gestures of affective care, they take on the value of remedies, making visible the hidden links between things.

Maurizio Donzelli

In Nuce

Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna, IT

until 19.09.2021

The site-specific solo exhibition enters into dialogue with the works, rooms and halls of Bologna's Medieval Museum: the itinerary invites visitors to discover the unexpected relationships between the museum's fine artefacts and centuries-old architecture, and the artist's works, from the Tapestries to the Mirrors, through the Disegni del Quasi and the more recent monochromes on gold to the presentation of Notturni, the new series of nocturne paintings conceived, between the end of 2020 and the start of 2021, as a pictorial meditation on isolation and waiting and, as yet, unreleased. Several large-format works on paper evoke celestial maps of interstellar filaments and burning stars; others are inspired by Descartes' drawings on magnets: waves and magnetic fields that spread or stop like water waves when they meet, visual metaphors of mutual analogies and resonances between all worldly things.

Installation view

Maurizio Donzelli, In Nuce, 2021, Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna

Carla Accardi/Sheila Hicks

in Elles font l’abstraction

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

until 23.08.2021

The exhibition sets out to write the history of the contributions of women artists to abstraction, with one hundred and six artists and more than five hundred works dating from the 1860s to the 1980s. "Women in Abstraction" provides an opportunity to discover artists who represent discoveries both for the specialist and for the general public. It showcases the work of many of these women who suffer from a lack of visibility and recognition beyond the frontiers of their countries. Reviewing their specific contribution to the history of abstraction, the exhibition focuses on the careers of artists who were sometimes unjustly eclipsed from the history of art.

Carla Accardi,1966
Ph. Ugo Mulas

Haris Epaminonda

in Europe: Ancient Future

Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz

until 15.08.2021

Everyone talks about (and far too often against) Europe, and even a common Europe is only slowly getting off the ground. The particular interests of the nation states, bureaucracy and the economy are too deeply entrenched, reflecting the attachment of many to what is immediately familiar. The future, however, can only lie in an open, cosmopolitan approach, with a good relationship between each individual and the local as well as the international community. This critical balance of the individual to the group was already outlined by ancient Greece in order to strengthen democracy on the basis of individual and general freedoms and responsibilities. From a history conceived into the future, the extensive project Europe: Ancient Future formulates current contributions to an urgently needed discussion on egality in difference, in order to advance a culturally and therein politically conceived Europe.

Production phase

Haris Epaminonda, Chapters, 2013
16mm film transfered to digital, single screen version, 1:37 min

David Maljkovic

in Here to Stay. Nuove opere per la Collezione

Museion, Bolzano

until 08.08.2021

The Museion 2021 exhibition program opens with a large-scale collection show consisting exclusively of donations, long-term loans and promised gifts. This new stimulus to the Museion collection creates two major clusters and cements future collection research though public-private partnership. As the element that binds an intergenerational alliance of artists together, the exhibition highlights a systematic interest in the conditions of art production and authenticity. For artists in the early 2000’s experiencing art was never a neutral affair, but shaped by social consensus and policed by public institutions. By appropriating the broader context of art as their craft, artists were able to appropriate public formats that were previously seen as unbiased, such as display, education, or even distribution; making them personalized, speculative, and socially critical. This progressive artistic shift happened on a global scale at the time, but can be traced back to the specific positions of conceptual artists around the 1970s, such as Berty Skuber, Franco Vaccari, and the art group Poesia Visiva. Here to Stay marks their historic role in paving the way for a new understanding of the art object. One in which authenticity is never owned, an art object is never finished and the art experience is never limited to the architecture of a museum building.

Installation view

David Maljkovic, Retired Form, 2010, Museion, Bolzano
ph. Luca Meneghel

Carla Accardi/Vanessa Beecroft/Sabrina Mezzaqui/Francesca Woodman

in Io dico Io – I say I

La Galleria Nazionale, Rome

until 23.05.2021

The show puts together Italian female artists of different generations, who, in different historical and social contexts, have told their own adventure of authenticity and have expressed their own way of inhabiting the world through a constellation of visions. Self-representation, a gaze that challenges existing roles, writing as a practice and self- narration, body as a measure, a limit and a trespass, resisting homologation — these are just a few of the themes around which the show is layered, overturning points of view and creating new visions and narratives. Io dico Io – I say I evades any retrospective vision and is situated in the present; it does not invent new words, but instead looks deep into the word we already have, “feminism”. Through various and singular ways, the show gives substance to that notion.

Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1978
Gelatine silver estate print
9,8×9,8 cm
Edition 7/40

Letizia Cariello (Letia)

in Muselmann. Omaggio ad Aldo Carpi

Memoriale della Shoah, Milan

until 19.03.2021

With works by Clara Bonfiglio, Letizia Cariello, Marco Casentini, Marco Cingolani, Gabriele Di Matteo, Omar Galliani, Franco Marrocco, Barbara Nahmad, Stefano Pizzi, Tamara Ferioli, Dany Vescovi and others.

Letizia Cariello, Rimedio inutile, 2021, cut sheet with mending, 20x20 cm

Haris Epaminonda

in Compassion Fatigue Is Over

Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague

until 18.04.2021

The exhibition “Compassion Fatigue Is Over” presents the next step in the ongoing program “Rudolfinum_Time-Based“. A series of narrative videos and films, alongside architectural interventions in the gallery’s historical space, aims its attention at a set of essential topics of our times. Issues of race, labour exploitation, re-evaluated historical narratives, sexuality, and gender, fallen and rediscovered utopias or abstract thinking vital for any rational judgment. In contrast to everyday media reality’s disturbing noise, the exhibition gives space for a favourable reception of these themes’ given artistic interpretations. The gallery’s safe space provides conditions for a slower, more attentive appreciation of the given content than one could ever experience in the quotidian rush. Haris Epaminonda has been invited to join the exhibition, together with Candice Breitz, Anna Daučíková, Naeem Mohaiemen, Jeremy Shaw, Hito Steyerl, Aleksandra Vajd & Anetta Mona Chisa. The work included will be Chimera, 2019, super 8 digitalised film presented in first place during the 58th Venice Biennial. Meditating on time, place and memory, Epaminonda’s Chimera is an experimental audio-visual travelogue. The exhibition will open as soon as the circumstances permit. Stay tuned!

Still from
Haris Epaminonda, Chimera, 2019
Super 8 digitalised film, duration 34’ 15”, colour, sound (by Kelly Jayne Jones)
Ed. 5 +2AP

Sheila Hicks

Thread, trees, river

MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Wien

until 18.04.2021

Dynamic, sensually enticing, infinitely colorful, delicately intimate, and often monumental and space-defining: the fabrics, sculptures, and installations of artist Sheila Hicks chal-lenge traditional notions of art and explore new territories. Hicks is a virtuoso in textile vocabularies and their historical traditions, interweaving the fine arts with design, the applied arts, and architecture to create objects and environments in which materiality, tactility, form, and color—ranging from the subtle to the vibrantly luminous—become a fascinating language of their own. In the MAK exhibition SHEILA HICKS: Thread, Trees, River, her first solo show in Austria, the artist presents both recent and familiar works with room-filling sculptures, relating them to the architecture.

Installation view

Sheila Hicks, Monumental, 2018-2020, MAK Wien
ph. Georg Mayer

ITALICS Art and Landscape

Italy from the viewpoint of its gallerists: the new digital platform to discover Italian excellence. Out of the vision of nine of the most influential galleries in Italy, comes a first-hand guide to the country’s art, culture and contemporary lifestyle, written and illustrated by the gallerists themselves. ITALICS Art and Landscape is an all-digital editorial platform that will spotlight the profound cultural experiences cultivated on the Italian territory by its most celebrated gallerists, exploring the extraordinary art heritage of the country. Through insightful storytelling and eye-catching photography, readers will be offered a sense of discovery and unrivalled access to explore Italy. The project stems from an idea Lorenzo Fiaschi (Galleria Continua) and Pepi Marchetti Franchi (Gagosian) had in April 2020 at the height of lockdown during the pandemic: to develop a new mode of cultural and human encounter between lovers of art in step with today’s digital age. A workgroup rapidly formed around the concept, made up of Alfonso Artiaco, Ludovica Barbieri (Massimo De Carlo), Massimo Di Carlo (Galleria dello Scudo), Francesca Kaufmann (kaufmann repetto), Massimo Minini, Franco Noero and Carlo Orsi, in addition to Fiaschi and Marchetti Franchi.

Letizia Cariello (Letia)

Libro del silenzio

Casa del Manzoni, Milano

22.10.2020

Gitti e Bertelli editori is pleased to present Il Libro del Silenzio - The Book of Silence, a series of 12 unique artist book + 1 AP by Letizia Cariello. The work contains the delicacy and sacredness of an artistic and spiritual work at the same time, since the books conceived by the artist were assembled by the hand of the Benedictine Nuns of the Abbey of Viboldone, in a silent work practice, punctuated by prayer and meditation: they confirm with their work an interior dimension very close to the practice of Letizia Cariello. The book is therefore an opportunity to look and listen and the possibility of welcoming a certain Thought into one's inner space. The pages of the Book of Silence bound by the nuns feature a serigraphed calendar, hand-transcribed text, as well as rose petals, thorns of roses, pressed flowers, drops of red nail lacquer, embroidery with red thread, bird feathers, drawings. Each book is unique because the same elements follow each other in different sequences and organizations each time.

Detail of
Letizia Cariello
Libro del Silenzio
2020

Enzo Mari

curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli

La Triennale di Milano, Milan, IT

until 18.04.2021

"Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli" examines over 60 years of activity of one of Italy’s greatest masters and theorists of design. The exhibition consists of a historical section and a series of contributions from international artists and designers – Adelita Husni-Bey, Tacita Dean, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mimmo Jodice, Dozie Kanu, Adrian Paci, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Danh Vō, Nanda Vigo, and Virgil Abloh for the merchandising project – who have been invited to pay tribute to Mari with site-specific installations and new, specially commissioned works. One contribution in particular is that of Nanda Vigo, whose work, made especially for the exhibition shortly before her death and never shown previously, uses light to reinterpret 16 animali and 16 pesci, two of Mari’s most famous works. At the same time, nineteen Research Platforms, specially created for the Triennale exhibition, give insights into the individual projects that have given rise to the key themes of Mari’s artistic vision and practice. The exhibition also includes a series of video interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist that illustrate Mari’s constant ethical tensions, the depth of his theoretical understanding, and his extraordinary design skills with which he has given shape to the essential.

Enzo Mari
Struttura 918
1968
Natural and black anodized aluminum
91x91x11.5cm

Giulio Paolini

Le chef-d’oeuvre inconnu

Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, IT

until 25.07.2021

Curated by Marcella Beccaria and developed in close contact with the artist, the solo exhibition dedicated to Giulio Paolini (Genoa, 1940) on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, starts from Geometrical Design, 1960, one of the most iconic and important works of history of contemporary art, defined by the artist as his “first (and last painting)”. Presenting an unpublished itinerary that reinterprets over sixty years of artistic production, the exhibition includes rare works kept by the artist and new works specially created for Castello di Rivoli.

Giulio Paolini, 2013
Ph. Luciano Romano

John Hilliard

in Fragile creation

Dom Museum, Wien, AT

until 28.08.2021

Fragile creation illustrates the complex connection between human beings and their environment. From loving care to exploitation, from menace to fascination, the relationship between people and nature is an ever-present topic—and was of existential importance long before the life-threatening consequences of global warming and pollution we are faced with today.

John Hilliard, Landscape In Ruins (Pendragon Castle Unfocused, Decayed And Blurred), 2014, pigment print on Hahnemuhle paper, 73×84 cm

Ryan Mendoza

Almost home. The Rosa Parks House Project

Palazzo Reale, Naples, IT

until 06.01.2021

Fondazione Morra Greco leaves the borders of its spaces and enters the Royal Palace of Naples to present the “Almost Home – The Rosa Parks House Project” by the American artist Ryan Mendoza. Realized with the support of Regione Campania and in collaboration with the Direzione regionale Musei Campania, the project includes the exposition of the house of the Afro-American activist Rosa Parks, who in 1955 launched the boycott of the public transport in the city of Montgomery, becoming an important symbol in the struggle for the civil rights of African Americans. Exhibited in the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace, the Parks’ house, originally located in the city of Detroit, was saved from demolition and recovered by the artist Ryan Mendoza. In 2016 he decided to protect it from neglect and reassemble it in the garden of his house in Berlin.

Haris Epaminonda

Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2018-2020

Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan

until 06.09.2020

Haris Epaminonda uses the technique of collage in her film/video works and installations. She became a focus of international attention at the 58th Venice Biennale last year when she was given the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Participant. As a long admirer of Japanese culture that began with an interest in the Japanese film director Yasujiro Ozu, Epaminonda, on her maiden visit to Japan to take up her residency last summer, chose to reside in both Tokyo and Kyoto. In this exhibition, she has collaborated with the German artist Daniel Gustav Cramer in a work entitled Untitled #01 b/l which takes as its theme the music of Hiroshi Yoshimura, an artist closely associated with the Hara Museum in the past. She also presents a video work Japan Diaries that she made on Super 8 film during her stay in Japan and digitized for this exhibition.

Haris Epaminonda, Untitled #01 b/l, 2020
installation of wooden brass gilded sphere, red carpet, sound, text on paper (work contribution by Daniel Gustav Cramer, Hiroshi, 2020, size varied)
Ph: Keizo Kioku

Peter Halley

in The Artist Columned Hall

STOA169 Foundation Stiftung, Polling

13.09.2020

OVER 100 ARTISTS FROM ALL CONTINENTS DESIGN COLUMNS FOR STOA169 A hall of art in the middle of nature, supported by over 100 individually designed columns, created by internationally renowned artists from all over the world: the artist Bernd Zimmer has been pursuing this idea and its realisation for almost 30 years. On a part of an agricultural meadow near the village of Polling, on the banks of the river Ammer, in the middle of Pfaffenwinkel, an open columned hall is being built: the STOA169. Artists from all continents were selected to design one column each, which together, as an archive of today's art, would carry the common roof of the STOA169.

Installation view

Peter Halley, The artist columned hall, STOA169 Stiftung, Polling, Germany

Carla Accardi

Contesti

Museo del Novecento, Milan, IT

until 27.06.2021

Carla Accardi. Contexts presents all facets of the artist’s achievements, offering a new interpretation of them. It differs from the thematic approach in the most recent monographs by being mainly focused on her repertoire of abstract-chromatic painting. With approximately 70 works together with photographs and documents from the Accardi Sanfilippo Archive, the project restores to the center of the exhibition the panorama and the artist’s historical, social and political context. It reveals a vital visual horizon clustered with stylistic comparisons, often associated with younger artists, presenting the portrait of a courageous and experimental woman who, at a time when developments in painting were dominated by men, became the first internationally recognized Italian abstractionist.

Carla Accardi
Due rettangoli mimetici
1979
Sicofoil on painted wooden stretchers
38×75 cm each

Wilfredo Prieto

Beso

Milano, CityLife public park

09.09.2020

"Beso", public sculpture by Wilfredo Prieto, consists of two stones, very big in dimension, united together side by side. Both are spherical in shape and touch in just one point, simulating a kiss. The presence of this artwork in a public park which hosts houses, offices and shopping centers, offers a link to the history of art and gardening. ArtLine Milano is a public art commission of the City Council, it is an open air collection into the public park realized in the area transformation area of CityLife. ArtLine Milano offers an articulated journey with more than twenty permanent works: 8 of them selected through a competition dedicated to artists under40 (the exhibition took place at Palazzo Reale in Milan between 2015 and 2016) and the others realized by established international artists.

Installation view

Hans-Peter Feldmann

Variations – Eugène Frey’s Light Set Projections presented by João Maria Gusmão

Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Paloma, Monaco, MC

until 30.08.2020

"Variations" is an exhibition devoted to the lesser-known art of Light Set projections, a stage design technique established in 1900 in the tradition of shadow theatres and magic lantern shows and developed on the Opéra de Monte-Carlo stage up until the 1930s. A journey into pre-cinema, the exhibition confronts some of Eugène Frey’s decorative projects with the experimental creations of other inventors from the early 20th century up to the present day: the shadow pieces of Caran d’Ache; the mechanical theatre of master-watchmaker Emmanuel Cottier; the artist Hans-Peter Feldmann’s shadow theatre and Lourdes Castro's performances; the silhouette films created by Lotte Reiniger or Michel Ocelot; the phantasmagorical experiences of Georges Méliès, Alexandre Alexeïeff and Claire Parker as well as those of Jean Hugo; the light choreographies of Loïe Fuller and the installations of Gusmão + Paiva.

Daniel Buren

Illuminare lo spazio, lavori in situ e situati

GAMeC, Bergamo, IT

until 01.11.2020

The opening of a new, major exhibition project of international caliber staged inside one of the emblematic venues of the Italian city most affected by the recent pandemic today takes on a strong symbolic value, as a signal of reawakening and rebirth, as well as its intrinsic artistic and research value. A leading exponent of Institutional Critique—the tendency towards the critical questioning of artistic institutions which emerged around the end of the 1960s—for the first time in 1965 Daniel Buren used a sun shade as a support for his “degree zero” of painting, the pattern of which with vertical white and colored strips measuring 8.7 cm became the visual tool used by the artist in all his works from then on, be it in exhibitions or public commissions. Illuminare lo spazio, lavori in situ e situati draws on the encounter between these key points in the artist’s research and his more recent interest in light—in particular in the qualities and esthetic/constructive potential of optic fiber.

Maurizio Donzelli

Thresholds

MAC, Lissone, IT

until 27.09.2020

For this special occasion, Donzelli creates a conceptual path were two different iconographies react according to the different techniques (acrylic on paper, mirror, tapestry, acrylic resin), to involve the viewer in a careful contemplation, thus demonstrating the complexity of the image in relation to the matter, space and time. The MAC exhibition is part of a larger scientific project dedicated to the work of Maurizio Donzelli, who in the next two years will see the artist protagonist of exhibitions, study days and meetings at public institutions and private spaces.

Maurizio Donzelli, Talisman drawing, 2019, acrylic resin on board, 41.5x31x3 cm

Ariel Schlesinger

in Double Wall of Silence

Hestia, Belgrade, YU

until 02.08.2020

Curated by Anja Obradović and Hana Ostan Ožbolt - with Daniel García Andújar, Louis-Cyprien Rials, Driton Selmani, Ariel Schlesinger. The starting point of the group exhibition “Double Wall of Silence” is a field of tension between the spoken and the unspoken, between the muted and the forgotten, between the individual and the collective. Migration as a dominant theme in recent years has sparked discussions about national borders, refugees, minorities, loss of identity, about them and us, danger and trauma. The power of recording experiences and memories poses a question of the forms of narrative – who is the speaker and who is the listener? How much time – and silence – does it take for the speaker's place to belong to the nameless, and how much for the listener, even if it is an unwanted testimony, to be able to fully hear it? When is dialogue possible at all, and what happens if what is said remains unheard? Through a selection of works by four artists who explore or play with the presence and absence, existence and non-existence, the exhibition focuses on the silenced and the power of the unspoken; on silence as a form of language and narrative.

Detail
Ariel Schlesinger, we started with a flame, February 2019

Jonathan Monk

Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank and other problems

Quartz Studio, Turin, IT

until 25.07.2020

Quartz Studio is pleased to present Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank and other problems, an edition by Jonathan Monk (Leicester, UK, 1969), purposely conceived for the Turin non-profit space. The project of this edition, following the one of Poster (Manifesto), realized in collaboration with Maurizio Nannucci in 2014, was pending since the exhibition Cool Your Jets (2016), resulting from a dialogue between Liam Gillick and Jonathan Monk on the topics of soccer and economy. Now, within the expanded time of the health emergency, that idea finally takes shape in order to support Quartz through the production of an edition of 10 (+1 AP). On the occasion, three installations have been produced. Each of them is composed by seven hexagonal cement tiles replicating the colors of the original Quartz floor cement tiles and three balls realized in Germany in 2016, thanks to the technical advice of Giulia Mainetti from Altofragile studio, Milan. The original project for the exhibition Cool Your Jets - writes the critic Marco Scotti – was born from a conversation between Jonathan Monk and Liam Gillick, in which to the questions posed by the latter related to themes of contemporary sociology, the former replied with quotations from the world of football.

Olivo Barbieri

Early Works 1980-1984

Monastero di Astino, Bergamo, IT

until 31.10.2020

The exhibition presents, collected for the first time, 35 photographs taken by the great Italian author in the early eighties, mainly depicting Italy, from large urban centers to small cities, caught in the moments of daily life of its inhabitants. A unique opportunity to discover the cult series of images, almost entirely unedited, from which the successful artistic path of Olivo Barbieri began, which marked an extraordinary season of Italian photography.

Daniel Gustav Cramer/Haris Epaminonda

The Infinite Library

Centre d’Art Contemporani - Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, ES

until 24.05.2020

The project "The Infinite Library" began in 2007 as an exchange between the two artists Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda and is still being continually extended. It consists of an archive of books, made by removing pages from antique books and reassembling them in collage before binding them again. In many cases these are illustrated books which are, in this way, bound with altered patterns of causality. A series of collages assembled anew with the imagery of a publication with gothic plates is displayed in the first room. In the corridor a video work gives a deeper insight into the project showing turning pages of the books. The entirety nevertheless remains unrevealed and incomplete so far. The title of the project is a reference to José Luis Borges’s fantastic description of a library organised in endless hexagonal rooms. It serves as a metaphor for the universe, where humanity is on an endless search for total knowledge. Preoccupation with found images and the medium of the book is a common interest and a recurring motif in the works of Cramer and Epaminonda.

Daniel Gustav Cramer & Haris Epaminonda - The Infinite Library

Nedko Solakov

A Life (Black & White)

Tate, London, UK

until 01.03.2020

In Nedko Solakov’s performance work A Life (Black & White), two workers continuously paint the gallery walls. One uses black paint and the other uses white. The painters follow each other around the space, painting over each other’s work. This is constantly repeated for the length of time the work is on display. The materials used in the performance are also laid out in the space. These include tins of paint, rollers, rags and signs for the painters’ breaks. In A Life (Black & White), Solakov is exploring issues about work, labour, time and repetition. The piece also comments on the process of making a painting, but here the paint is applied directly onto the gallery wall instead of a canvas. As well as performance, Solakov makes work in media such as drawing, painting, video and installation. He explains ‘I am telling stories in space’. He frequently plays with the expectations of his audience, using humour to convey political concerns, often about his native Bulgaria. His work also playfully questions the conventions used in galleries and other art institutions.

Nedko Solakov "A Beauty 4", 2011. White artificial fur, black cloth, stuffing materials, acrylic and ink on paper, sanded glass, bulb 110x200x500 cm

David Maljkovic

With the Collection

MMSU, Rijeka, HR

until 20.04.2020

“With the collection” is an open-ended exhibition based on a series of collaborations that would take place on different locations at different times. It centers on Maljković’s extraordinary site-specific intervention which, in an unconventional way, represents the MMSU’s collection. Even though the Museum was founded in back 1948, its collection has never been presented in the form of permanent display, mostly because of the lack of spatial resources. Therefore, in Maljković’s spatial reconfiguration, the Museum’s collection becomes present, it receives a new face, and each of its works becomes more than just an artefact, acquiring a fresh meaning and a renewed social relevance. While building the relationship with the collection, Maljković rejects taxonomies and linear narratives. Instead, he applies his own recognizable artistic methods: he creates a collage of the existing artefacts and plays with the ways we perceive and experience exhibitions.

Gabriele Basilico

Metropoli

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT

until 13.04.2020

Devoted to a true master in the field of Italian and international photography, the exhibition will be focusing on the theme of the city, showcasing approximately 270 photographs ranging from the 1960s to the 2000s, some them on display here for the very first time. The city always lay at the heart of the interests and investigative work conducted by Gabriele Basilico (Milan 1944–2013) from the very start of his career. The theme of the man-made landscape, of its development and of the historical stratifications of a ceaselessly changing city, its outskirts and its surroundings, were invariably the predominant driving factor behind his art. The exhibition will be showcasing some of the work that he produced in the numerous cities he photographed in the course of his lifetime, including Beirut (with pictures both from 1991 and from 2011), Milan, Rome, Palermo, Naples, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Montecarlo, Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, London, Boston, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, San Francisco, New York and Shanghai, juxtaposed in an interplay of similarities and differences, of assonance and dissonance, offering different viewpoints that perfectly capture his varied approach to interpreting the built environment.

Gabriele Basilico,
Unidentified Modern City. Globalized Brescia,
2011
Pure pigmented print
60x80 cm

Jonathan Monk

Exhibit Model Six – The Tel Aviv Version

CCA Tel Aviv, IL

until 01.02.2020

On the occasion of his solo exhibition at CCA Tel Aviv, Jonathan Monk will present the latest, sixth, iteration of a project called “Exhibit Model” that he has been showing in modified forms since 2016 in Kunsthaus Baselland (2016), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen (2016), VOX, Montreal (2017), Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019), and the bathroom at Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (2019). The idea for “Exhibit Model” was born of the artist’s desire to offer a new take on the conventional framework of realizing an art exhibition as well as budgetary constraints. Thus, the artist decided to replace a straightforward exhibition of objects with a 2D photo installation made up of a wallpaper presenting images of some of his previous exhibitions. Covering all the walls of the exhibition space, the wallpaper does resemble a model of a planned exhibition. However, based literally and metaphorically, as it is, on the notion of reflection, rather than model of a future exhibition, “Exhibit Model” only looks like one. Thus, it generates a somewhat disorienting encounter with the images. Such a proposition brings into the physical exhibition space a similar experience to that provided nowadays by the “metaphysical” cyberspace of the Internet, where a growing number of people search for installation views of exhibitions they are unable to visit in person.

Jonathan Monk, Exhibit Model Detail with Additional Information, 2019, Mixed media, 182,5×123×15 cm

Anish Kapoor

CAFA Art Museum - Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, CN

until 01.01.2020

This November, celebrated British artist Anish Kapoor will open a major solo exhibition in Beijing at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Art Museum and Taimiao Art Museum of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, by the walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing. As Kapoor’s first solo museum show in China, the exhibition will present some of the artist’s most significant and celebrated works of his last thirty-five years – with powerful, self-generated installations at CAFA Art Museum and sensorial, geometrical sculptures at the Taimiao Art Museum of Imperial Ancestral Temple.

Installation view

Anish Kapoor, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2013

Sheila Hicks

Surrounds

MoMA, New York, USA

until 04.01.2020

How do artists mediate between the need for intimate experience and the ambition to engage with the enormity of the world? Surrounds presents 11 watershed installations by living artists from the past two decades, conceived out of different circumstances but united in the scale of their ambition. Each explores physical scale as well: many are large and imposing, at times even literally surrounding the viewer. Others group smaller works into sequences that stretch across space. Some suggest the passing of long stretches of time, and some focus our attention on the stuff of everyday life. All mark decisive shifts in the careers of their makers and are on view at MoMA for the first time.

Installation view

Sheila Hicks, Surrounds, MoMA, New York, 2019

Sheila Hicks

Reencuentro

Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, Santiago, CL

until 31.01.2020

Through more tan fifty of her works and a selection of pieces from the Museo Precolombino, some of which have never previously been exhibited to the public, Reencuentro presents a broad scope of work from the artist, through a thematic tour that puts contemporary art and the heritage of indigenous American art in dialogue. With five decades in her artistic career, the work of Sheila Hicks has been displayed in prominent museums, international galleries, and public spaces and monuments, including the Centre Pompidou and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Tate in London, and the High Line Park in New York.

Portrait

Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks

Secret Structures, Looming Presence

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA

until 12.01.2020

Fiber arts by artist, designer, and weaver Sheila Hicks (b. 1934) will be exhibited in the DMA’s Atrium Overlook and in the Arts of the Americas Andean gallery in a special exhibition illuminating how the contemporary artist’s practice has been inspired by the weaving traditions of indigenous artisans from Latin America. Sheila Hicks: Secret Structures, Looming Presence pairs works from the Museum’s collection of ancient Andean art with a selection of Hicks’ loom-woven, wrapped, twisted, and knotted fiberworks, offering a fresh examination of textile traditions through time.

SH, Untitled, 2019, 73x50cm

Sheila Hicks
Untitled
2019
Linen on wooden support
73x50cm

Haris Epaminonda

On the spiritual matter of art – curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi

MAXXI Museum, Rome, IT

until 08.03.2020

What does it mean today to talk about spirituality? on the spiritual matter of art is a project that investigates the issue of the spiritual through the lens of contemporary art and, at the same time, that of the ancient history of Rome. In a layout offering diverse possible paths, the exhibition features the works of 19 artists, leading names on the international scene from very different backgrounds and cultures. In a rigorously non-confessional vision, the exhibition, therefore, brings together works of contemporary art with a selection of archaeological relics from the capital’s leading museums: the Vatican Museums, the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums and the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia.

Haris Epaminonda
Untitled #13 t/g
2019
Mirrored and black polished lacquered wooden structure with brass hinge, mirrored and black polished lacquered wooden column, velvet curtain, two wooden spheres with golden leaf
Overall dimensions
270x166x230 cm

Roger Ballen

Le monde selon Roger BALLEN

Halle Saint Pierre, FR

until 31.07.2020

Roger Ballen reigns over the black-and-white world of the human psyche. Disturbing, provocative and enigmatic, the work of this American-born South African photographer, a geologist by training, expresses the sense of confusion of a man confronted by the nonsensical nature both of his life and of the world in general. Ballen’s work has been the subject of exhibitions at prestigious institutions for more than thirty years now. Although each of his shows is an event, his decision to exhibit at the Halle Saint Pierre in Paris, an atypical museum devoted to outsider art and unusual forms of creativity, demonstrates his freedom from artistic genres. For the Halle Saint Pierre, a collaboration with Roger Ballen is an invitation to showcase – or test out – the artistic and cultural otherness of art brut. In his relationship with creativity, Ballen has constantly explored a form of art that is rooted in the deepest layers of human nature; like the French dramatist, actor and writer Antonin Artaud, he is always moving towards more primal means of artistic expression.

Installation view

Roger Ballen, Ballenesque, Les Rencontres, Arles, 2017

Ariel Schlesinger

Nature morte/Nature vivante

Le Grand-Hornu, Magasin aux Foins, Écuries, BE

until 08.03.2020

Since the late 17th century, the French expression nature morte (literally ‘dead nature’) has been used to refer to still life, the field of painting that approaches nature from a sensual perspective and explicitly alludes to its fragility and ephemerality, and indirectly also to the vanity of human intervention on its composite elements. Over time, the term has extended to include any arrangement of inanimate objects organised in a certain fashion with a symbolic intention, which is meant to induce a poetic emotion. In our so-called “anthropocene” age, man’s unwarranted action is contributing to the impermanence of nature, or even its annihilation. With this sombre outlook, the term nature morte takes on even greater relevance. Yet nature has a formidable capacity for regeneration. Works by numerous creative minds question, provoke or encourage mechanisms that nature uses to underpin its intensity, reproduction and durability. In reality, each state of matter is a snapshot in a long, slow, evolutionary process of transformation, aggregation, assimilation and decomposition… Nature is very much alive! In this exhibition organised at the CID, designers, architects and artists present intensive, practical or experimental research that questions the relationship between man and nature, calling in equal measure on ecology, science, our moral conscience and artistic creation. Nature morte/Nature vivante reveals how much man’s ambiguous relationship with nature can be both perverse and inspiring.

Installation view
Ariel Schlesinger, we started with a flame, February 2019

Nedko Solakov

Stingy Doodles

Museum HOUSE OF HUMOUR AND SATIRE

until 19.01.2020

Nedko Solakov uses a characteristic method of making the viewer read and look simultaneously, an approach which “works” especially and equally well in his detailed installations, in his major museum exhibitions and in empty gallery spaces. The viwer can see how this happens in Stingy Doodles at the Museum of Humor and Satire. The work was created especially for the space, and the artist offers very local and personal commentaries; in this way, local viewers from Gabrovo will find themselves in a similar situation to that of viewers in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt; Haus Konstruktive, Zurich; Museum Frans Hals, Haarlem; Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen; P.S. 1 MoMA, New York; Serralves Museum, Porto; De Appel Contemporary Arts Centre, Amsterdam; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid and currently the exhibit A Passion for Drawing. The Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou Paris in the Albertina, Vienna.

Nedko Solakov
My Dream Bulgarian Cultural Reporter’s Butt
2014
Oil on canvas
97x130 cm

Titina Maselli

Panta Rei

Studio Legale Withers, Milan, IT

until 19.04.2020

Dopo la mostra “Lisa Ponti in dialogo con Gio Ponti e Francesco Vezzoli”, lo Studio Legale Withers dedica all’artista Titina Maselli (Roma, 1924-2005) il secondo episodio del progetto WITHERS MEETS ART, finalizzato ad offrire una trasposizione dei valori aziendali mediante l’arte contemporanea. La mostra, organizzata da London Trade Art, è realizzata grazie alla collaborazione delle gallerie Massimo Minini e Francesca Minini.

Titina Maselli
Calciatori, 1971
Oil on canvas
196x130 cm

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Dan GrahamPink Apartament building encosed by foliage, BresciaBrescia, 2010Lambda print26,5x39,5 cm53,6x64 cm framedEd. unique

Javits Center - New York

opening 12:00 am

06.09 - 08.09.2024

Landon MetzUntitled, 2020Dye on canvas200x160 cm

The Regent's Park - London

opening 12:00 am

09.10 - 13.10.2024

Wilfredo PrietoThe end of the strike, 2024Acrylic on canvas59,5x81 cmPh. Andrea Rossetti

KW - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

until 20.10.2024

Paul P.Untitled2020Watercolor on paper26,5x18,5 cm

Torre Bonomo, Spoleto

until 14.07.2024

Jonathan MonkSol Always Shines (nine books from my library) V2020Wood, wood glue, water based varnish, 24 carat gold leaf and plastic wall fixtures21×12×6 cm

CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Torino

until 21.07.2024

Paolo NovelliDay n.32017-18Gelatin silver print40×30 cmEdition of 12 + II AP

MAXXI, Roma

until 06.10.2024

Detail of

Giovanni AnselmoParticular1972-2016projectors, slide with the word “particolare”variable dimensions

Arles, Les Rencontres de la Photographie

until 29.09.2024

Installation view

Hans-Peter Feldmann, Polygraphs, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 2017

Messe Basel - Messeplatz 10 - 4058 Basel, Switzerland

until 16.06.2024

Daniel Buren Dal singolo al doppio, 2023 Mirror, wood, film 318x200 cm and 304,5x91,35 cm

Fondazione Garuzzo, Torino

until 15.09.2024

Detail of

LETIA – Letizia Cariello, Fratellini & Sorelline 2015-2021Pairs of objects, porcelain and red thread ph. Mattia Gaido

Pesaro

19.04.2024

Installation view

Paolo Icaro, Meteorite, gemello2024Pesaro 2024 - Capitale Italiana della Cultura

Accademia di San Luca, Roma

until 28.06.2024

Installation view

Paolo Icaro, Sottosopra2024Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Roma

Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna

until 30.06.2024

Luigi GhirriModena, 1975Vintage C-Print 11.8x19.4 cmSeries Kodachrome

Milano

until 21.04.2024

Giulio Paolini, Delfo

1965, Fotografia su tela emulsionata,180 x 95 cm

PHOS, Torino

until 15.05.2024

Detail of

Paolo NovelliNever Beyond n.2 2006Gelatin silver print30x40 cm

Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini

until 11.05.2024

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Letizia Cariello (Letia), Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini, Milano, 2024

Fondazione Luigi Rovati, Milano

until 11.04.2024

Detail of Letizia Cariello (Letia), Calendario Suono del Tempo

Penna a inchiostro su lenzuolo, ricamo e rami oro su telaio tondo, Ø 100 cm, 2023

ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art

until 20.10.2024

Installation view

Anish Kapoor. Unseen, 2024, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark

Fondazione ICA Milano

until 19.07.2024

Formafantasma

Triennale Milano

until 12.05.2024

Installation view

Dan Graham, A new work with curves, May 2015

Museo del Novecento, Milano

until 12.05.2024

Haris Epaminonda

VOL. XXXI: Futurism Drama, Museo del Novecento, Milano, 2024

Casa Carlo Goldoni, Venezia

until 24.11.2024

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Brescia, 2010
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53,6x64 cm framed
Ed. unique

Landon Metz
Untitled, 2020
Dye on canvas
200x160 cm

Wilfredo Prieto
The end of the strike, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
59,5x81 cm
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Paul P.
Untitled
2020
Watercolor on paper
26,5x18,5 cm

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2020
Wood, wood glue, water based varnish, 24 carat gold leaf and plastic wall fixtures
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Day n.3
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Gelatin silver print
40×30 cm
Edition of 12 + II AP

Giovanni Anselmo
Particular
1972-2016
projectors, slide with the word “particolare”
variable dimensions

Daniel Buren
Dal singolo al doppio, 2023
Mirror, wood, film
318x200 cm and 304,5x91,35 cm

LETIA – Letizia Cariello, Fratellini & Sorelline
2015-2021
Pairs of objects, porcelain and red thread
ph. Mattia Gaido

Paolo Icaro,
Meteorite, gemello
2024
Pesaro 2024 - Capitale Italiana della Cultura

Paolo Icaro, Sottosopra
2024
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Roma

Luigi Ghirri
Modena, 1975
Vintage C-Print
11.8x19.4 cm
Series Kodachrome

Paolo Novelli
Never Beyond n.2
2006
Gelatin silver print
30x40 cm