Artist: Giulia Cenci (Italy) Title: Dead dance Installation view at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia Year: 2021-2022 “Incorporating everyday found objects and modelled elements in sculptures and immersive installations, Giulia Cenci hybridises the natural with the synthetic to explore themes of technology and nature. […]
Artist: Barbara Kruger (USA) Title: Untitled (Beginning/Middle/End) Year: 2022 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Video by: Barbara Picci “Barbara Kruger’s image and text work is renowned for its rhetorical power and visual urgency. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kruger worked as a graphic designer and picture […]
Artist: Tetsumi Kudo (Japan) Title: Garden of the Metamorphosis in the Space Capsule Year: 1968 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Tetsumi Kudo was part of a generation of Japanese artists that was highly skeptical of traditional society in the wake of the […]
Artist: Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada-France) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Drawing from her training in anthropology, Kapwani Kiwanga’s research-based work in film, sculpture, performance, and installation signals anti-colonial struggle and attention to systems of power through a combination of conceptual and architectural strategies. […]
Artist: Precious Okoyomon (Nigeria-USA) Title: To See The Earth Before the End of the World Year: 2022 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Precious Okoyomon – poet, artist, and chef – stages sculptural topographies composed of living, growing, decaying, and dying materials, including […]
Artist: Anish Kapoor (India/UK) Installation view at: Gallerie Dell’Accademia, Venice When: from 20 APRIL until 09 OCTOBER 2022 Curated by: Taco Dibbits Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia is staging an ambitious presentation of both retrospective and new works by Anish Kapoor, the British artist […]
Artist: Teresa Solar (Spain) Title: Tunnel Boring Machine Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Teresa Solar’s art alludes to material entities in states of transformation. Suspended between the biological and the industrially produced, the tangible and the mythical, her works of sculpture, drawing, […]
Artist: Raphaela Vogel (Germany) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Creatures of the natural world are a source of fascination for the German artist Raphaela Vogel, who frequently includes animal parts both natural and synthetic – cow, goat, lion, and elk hides, fragments […]
Artist: Louise Nevelson (Ukraine-USA) Title: Homage to the Universe Year: 1968 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Louise Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky) created elegant, room-sized sculptures throughout the post-war period, during which she honed her best-known artistic process, which involved salvaging cast-off wood […]
Artist: Katharina Fritsch (Germany) Title: Elephant Year: 1987 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Katharina Fritsch’s realistic sculptures dissolve the edges between the ordinary and the uncanny, stirring our deep-rooted dreams and nightmares while awakening childhood memories of religious tales, fables, and myths. […]
Artist: Louise Bonnet (Switzerland) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Louise Bonnet began her creative career working in illustration and graphic design. She shifted into the realm of painting in 2008, making acrylic paintings of people such as Yoko Ono or characters from […]
Artist: Firelei Báez (Dominican Republic) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The visual references in Firelei Báez paintings, drawings, and installations range from mythology and science fiction to histories of the African diaspora. By re-examining ancient folk tales, Báez reflects on the theme […]
Artist: Wu Tsang (USA) Title: Of Whales Year: 2022 Duration: 6 hours Techinical details: real-time video, multi-channel audio Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Video by: Barbara Picci “Wu Tsang’s works accentuate the intersections of collaboration, performative strategies, experimental processes, aesthetics, and storytelling. Tsang’s films, immersive installations, […]
Artist: Marguerite Humeau (France) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Marguerite Humeau’s supernatural, biomorphic sculptures could have been lifted from a work of science fiction, occupying a world in which hypermodern technology and medical equipment have displaced human life. A vacillation between speculative […]
Artist: Ficre Ghebreyesus (Eritrea-USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “At once pensive and exuberant, Ficre Ghebreyesus’ paintings capture the complexity of his East African childhood and life in diaspora, presenting fantastical landscapes drawn from longing for a time and place interrupted by […]
Artist: Gabriel Chaile (Argentina) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Gabriel Chaile’s practice is informed by his long-standing exploration of impoverished communities, rituals, and artistic customs from his home in Argentina. Raised in the northern city of San Miguel de Tucumán with Spanish, […]
Artist: Naja Utzon Popov (Denmark) Title: Momentum Year: 2022 Installation view at: Giardino della Marinaressa, Venice Exhibition: Personal Structures Curated by: the European Cultural Centre Opening time: Open everyday from 7:00 am to 8:30 pm until November 27th 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci USEFUL LINKS: Naja Utzon Popov […]
Artist: Marcelo Tomaz Galvão de Castro aka Marcelot (Brazil) Title: Lion of St. Marc / Napoleon Year: 2022 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “My work is often inspired by contrasts and challenges. For my participation in the Biennale 2022 in Venice, invited […]
Artist: Nomad Studio (USA) Title: Exculpatio – The unsustainability of sustainability Year: 2022 Installation view at: Giardino della Marinaressa, Venice Exhibition: Personal Structures Curated by: the European Cultural Centre Opening time: Open everyday from 7:00 am to 8:30 pm until November 27th 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci USEFUL […]
Artist: Jakup Ferri Title: The Monumentality of the Everyday Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Kosovo Curated by: Inke Arns Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jakup Ferri presents paintings, embroideries, and carpets in a monumental display. Ferri’s works are inspired by children’s drawings, folk art, and so-called […]
Artist: Hans-Petter Bjørnådal (Norway) Title: Sfere Year: 2021-2022 Installation view at: Giardino della Marinaressa, Venice Exhibition: Personal Structures Curated by: the European Cultural Centre Opening time: Open everyday from 7:00 am to 8:30 pm until November 27th 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci USEFUL LINKS: Hans-Petter Bjørnådal in this […]
Artist: Rosana Paulino (Brazil) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Rosana Paulino’s practice spans drawing, embroidery, engraving, printmaking, collage, sculpture, and installation to explore the history of racial violence and the persisting legacy of slavery in Brazil, deconstructing the production and dissemination of […]
Artist: Rodrigo De La Sierra (Mexico) Title: Orizzonte Year: 2017 Installation view at: Giardino della Marinaressa, Venice Exhibition: Personal Structures Curated by: the European Cultural Centre Opening time: Open everyday from 7:00 am to 8:30 pm until November 27th 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci USEFUL LINKS: Rodrigo De […]
Artist: Niki de Saint Phalle (France) Title: Gwendolyn Year: 1966-1990 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her Nanas (French slang for “girls”) – large, leaping female figures painted in kaleidoscopic hues and often found frolicking […]
Artist: Richard Orlinski (France) Installation view at: Giardino della Marinaressa, Venice Organized by: Bel-Air Fine Art, in collaboration with the European Cultural Center Italy Opening time: Open everyday from 7:00 am to 8:30 pm until November 27th 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci USEFUL LINKS: Richard Orlinski in this […]
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