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: 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: 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: 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: 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 […]
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: 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: 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 […]
Location: Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA Artist: Bordalo II (Portugal) For: Beyond Walls Location: 44 Clemente St. Photo credits: Mario Tosti USEFUL LINKS: Bordalo II in this blog | Website | Instagram | Facebook fan page
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: 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: 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 […]
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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