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: 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: Sheree Hovsepian (Iran-USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Iranian American artist Sheree Hovsepian’s wall-based assemblages incorporate photographic prints into three-dimensional vignettes with nylon, ceramics, string, nails, and walnut wood in deep, custom-built box frames. Her compositions are imbued with an incisive […]
Artist: Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim Title: Between Sunrise and Sunset Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: United Arab Emirates Curated by: Maya Allison Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim developed this single, room-filling installation commissioned for the Emirates Pavilion. Dozens of human-sized, biomorphic sculptures cluster in […]
Ecco la lista degli articoli pubblicati nell’ultima settimana. SPECIALE BIENNALE ARTE 2022 Visitatori e curiosità (Fotogallery) Artworks by Charline von Heyl Saudi Arabian Pavilion by Muhannad Shono Artworks by Miriam Cahn Artworks by Cosima von Bonin Brazilian Pavilion by Jonathas de Andrade “Encyclopedia of Relations” by Alexandra Pirici […]
Artist: Charline von Heyl (Germany) Year: 2020/2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Working in the vibrant Cologne art world of the 1980s only led painter Charline von Heyl to more firmly believe in the importance of her chosen medium: painting. The eight […]
Artist: Muhannad Shono Title: The Teaching Tree Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Saudi Arabia Curated by: Reem Fadda Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “This artwork forms a monolith tree-like installation that occupies and consumes the space it inhabits. It has been carefully crafted combining natural elements and […]
Artist: Miriam Cahn (Switzerland) Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “From the 1970s to the mid-1990s, Miriam Cahn shunned painting as an act of feminist resistance against the Western art world’s male, Abstract and Minimalist Zeitgeist. Painting had passed its art […]
Artist: Cosima von Bonin (Kenya) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Cosima von Bonin came of age as an artist in the 1990s amid the storied art scene in Cologne. In her practice, mixed references to art history, popular culture, and music are […]
Artist: Jonathas de Andrade Title: Com o coração saindo pela boca / Con il cuore che esce dalla bocca Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Brazil Curated by: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jonathas de Andrade bases his work on his profound interest in […]
Artist: Alexandra Pirici (Romania) Title: Encyclopedia of Relations Year: 2022 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Video by: Barbara Picci “Alexandra Pirici is a Romanian artist and choreographer known for staging public actions, gestures, and sculptures that provoke re-assessments of historical narratives and civic space, nature, and […]
Artist: Merikokeb Berhanu (Ethiopia) Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Brimming with abstract forms, at the blink of an eye Merikokeb Berhanu’s canvases become recognisable cosmologies and topographies, bearing with them evocations of nature and its universal rhythms. Berhanu’s series Cellular […]
Artist: Zineb Sedira Title: Les rêves n’ont pas de titre / Dreams have no titles Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: France Curated by: Yasmina Reggad, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Zineb Sedira’s film installation investigates the drive to make militant films […]
Artist: Mrinalini Mukherjee (India) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Born to artist parents in post-partition Bombay and raised in Santiniketan, a utopian community in West Bengal, Mrinalini Mukherjee worked intensively with fibre – and later, bronze and ceramic – for most of […]
Artist: Yunchul Kim Title: Gyre Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: South Korea Curated by: Youngchul Lee Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “In the infinite cycles of creation and extinction, it gyrates and descends; this theme permeates everything from energy to matter, life, and the universe – […]
Ecco la lista degli articoli pubblicati nell’ultima settimana. SPECIALE BIENNALE ARTE 2022 “Lympha” by Paolo Fantin @ Venice Pavilion Artworks by Sandra Mujinga Italian Pavilion by Gian Maria Tosatti Artworks by Andra Ursuţa Artworks by Jana Euler Israeli Pavilion by Ilit Azoulay Artworks by Elias Sime Artworks by […]
Artist: Paolo Fantin (Italy) Title: Lympha Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 – Venice Pavilion Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The exhibition project of the Venice Pavilion, this year entitled Alloro, has basically three main themes: the approach of man to nature, the strength of woman and the […]
Artist: Sandra Mujinga (Congo) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Sandra Mujinga’s multidisciplinary practice is driven by a profound interest in the body – and its absence. In her uncanny installations, ghostly hooded figures, sculptures resembling flayed skins, and fantastical hybrid creatures are […]
Artist: Gian Maria Tosatti Title: History of Night and Destiny of Comets Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Italy Curated by: Eugenio Viola Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “History of Night and Destiny of Comets is an installation by Gian Maria Tosatti that combines literary references, visual […]
Artist: Andra Ursuţa (Romania-USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Andra Ursuţa’s seductive and unsettling sculptures – often made from casts of her own body – are radical hybrid beings. Recalling both American science fiction action horror films including Predator and the Alien […]
Artist: Jana Euler (Germany) Year: 2019–2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jana Euler’s work bounds between stylistic conceits, trafficking in grotesque, monstrous, contorted, eroticised, and frequently off-putting representations of figures, both human and not. Aping the jokey, anarchist attitude, surrealist fixations, and […]
Artist: Ilit Azoulay Title: QUEENDOM Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Israel Curated by: Shelley Harten Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “How sovereign can art be? Ilit Azoulay casts off the restrictions of national and male representations and opens pathways into an interconnected Middle East. The Queendom, […]
Artist: Elias Sime (Ethiopia) Titles: Red Leaves, two Veiled Whispers Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Elias Sime’s large-scale abstractions are made from thousands of electrical wires, type keys, microchips, and computer hardware components. His focus on electronic materials began approximately […]
Ecco la lista degli articoli pubblicati nell’ultima settimana. SPECIALE BIENNALE ARTE 2022 Artworks by Hannah Levy Photography by Joanna Piotrowska USA Pavilion by Simone Leigh “Lineage For A Phantom Zone” by Sondra Perry Latvian Pavilion by Skuja Braden Artworks by Tau Lewis Danish Pavilion by Uffe Isolotto “Brick […]
Artist: Hannah Levy (USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Hannah Levy defamiliarises commonplace objects by warping or exaggerating their formal properties. Levy’s visual vocabulary includes medical equipment, gymnastic devices, safety bars, vegetables, pastries, and pearls. Her objects provoke repulsion and attraction to […]
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