Artist: Christian Schad (Germany) Title: Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove (left, 1929) | Self-Portrait (right, 1927) Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove 1929 is a large portrait-orientated oil painting of two […]
Artist: Cildo Meireles (Brazil) Title: Babel Year: 2001 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Babel 2001 is a large-scale sculptural installation that takes the form of a circular tower made from hundreds of second-hand analogue radios that the artist has stacked in layers. The […]
Artist: Bram Bogart (Belgium) Title: White Plane White Year: 1974 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “White Plane White 1974 is a large monochrome white painting by Bram Bogart in which a thick layer of paint has been applied to the surface of the support and […]
Artist: Yayoi Kusama (Japan) Title: Obliteration Room Year: 2011 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Yayoi Kusama’s interactive Obliteration Room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. Over the course of a few weeks the room is transformed from […]
Artist: Robert Indiana (USA) Title: Love Year: 1970 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His iconic image LOVE was first created in […]
Ecco la lista degli articoli pubblicati nelle ultime settimane. STREET ART Pablo Astrain @ Valverde de la Vera, Spain M-city @ Braunschweig, Germany Mike Makatron @ Melbourne, Australia Federico Zenobi @ Cacciano, Italy Amanda Newman + Pounce Murals @ Melbourne, Australia Trust. Icon @ London, UK Cinta Vidal […]
Ecco la lista degli articoli pubblicati nelle ultime settimane. SPECIALE VENEZIA 2022 Visitatori e curiosità (Fotogallery) Anish Kapoor @ Gallerie Dell’Accademia “Untitled (Beginning/Middle/End)” by Barbara Kruger “Garden of the Metamorphosis in the Space Capsule” by Tetsumi Kudo Artworks by Kapwani Kiwanga “To See The Earth Before the End […]
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, […]
Ecco la lista degli articoli pubblicati nelle ultime settimane. SPECIALE BIENNALE ARTE 2022 Visitatori e curiosità (Fotogallery) Naja Utzon Popov @ Giardino della Marinaressa “Lion of St. Marc / Napoleon” by Marcelot Nomad Studio @ Giardino della Marinaressa Kosovo Pavilion by Jakup Ferri Hans-Petter Bjørnådal @ Giardino della […]
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: 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 […]
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