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Artificialis

contemporary art / history of art

Artwork of the month / June 2016

Blue Ink Giovanna Sarti 2014 100 cm x 87 cm Vanish and ink on canvas The painting “Blue Ink” by Giovanna Sarti is a monochrome. The main part of the surface is painted in not homogeneous blue, but there are some graphical appearing elements in white or lighter blue. There are straight and curved lines… (read more)

Exhibition: PetriPaselli – “Cosa manca?”

What is missing? 6 – 28 May 2016 CACCA via Solferino 33a, Bologna www.ilcacca.org A shopping list is a very personal text, written for a single use and afterwards disposed. People use shopping lists for not forgetting anything to purchase or to tell someone else what needs to be bought. They might be as well… (read more)

Exhibition: Alberto Zilocchi – Rilievi e Linee

Reliefs and Lines 29 April – 2 July 2016 Spazio Testoni via D’Azeglio 50, Bologna www.spaziotestoni.it   The Italian artist Alberto Zilocchi (1931 – 1991) frequented in the 1950s the artistic avant-garde of Milan, where he met, inter alia Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni and exhibited with them. In the 1960s he attended as well… (read more)

Artwork of the month / May 2016

Melo in fiore, EXPO 2015 (Flowering Apple Tree, EXPO 2015) Irene Kung 2014 100 cm x 140 cm D-print on rag paper To start the merry month of May, we’ve chosen a flowery artwork of the month, the photo “Melo in fiore” (Flowering Apple Tree) by Irene Kung. After early bloomers like snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils… (read more)

Exhibition: Irene Fenara “Se il cielo fugge”

28 April – 17 May 2016 Adiacenze Vicolo Spirito Santo 1/B 40123 – Bologna www.adiacenze.it Last week the association Adiacenze opened its new exhibition space with the site specific installation “Se il cielo fugge” (If the sky flees) by Irene Fenara. On view are two videos and a wall painting by the artist. Francesco Privato… (read more)

Exhibition: Giovanna Caimmi “Il male degli Ardenti”

22 April – 28 May 2016 ABC-Arte Bologna Cultura Via Alessandrini 11, Bologna www.abcbo.it/abc curator: Beatrice Buscaroli exhibition design: Fausto Savoretti   “Il male degli Ardenti” is one of the Italian synonyms for the disease Ergotism. In the Middle Ages it was a feared illness, caused by a fungus that lives as parasite on cereals plants, especially… (read more)

Impressions of the MIART 2016

MIART 8 – 10 April 2016 www.miart.it [Show slideshow]   Cardi Gallery, London, Milan www.cardigallery.com [Show slideshow]   montrasio arte, Milan www.montrasioarte.it [Show slideshow]   CAR DRDE, Bologna www.cardrde.com [Show slideshow]   A Arte Ivernizzi, Milan www.aarteinvernizzi.it [Show slideshow]   Lia Rumma, Naples www.liarumma.it [Show slideshow]   Galleria Massimo Minini, Bescia www.galleriaminini.it [Show slideshow]  … (read more)

ДОБРОЕ УТРО, ВАРВАРА СТЕПАНОВА // Buongiorno, Varvara Stepanova

Iulia Gabriela Toma & Claudiu Cobilanschi: Buongiorno, Varvara Stepanova 2 April 2016 – 10 June 2016 Gallleriapiù via del Porto 48 a/b, Bologna www.gallleriapiu.com   For the exhibition “Buongiorno, Varvara Stepanova” the Romanian artist-duo Iulia Gabriela Toma and Claudiu Cobilanschi focused on the Lithuanian-Russian artist Varvara Stepanova (1894-1958).   Stepanova was part of the Russian… (read more)

Artwork of the month / April 2016

Landschaft (Landscape) Betty Zanelli 2014 50 x 90 cm Pigment print on Epson Canvas Satin – Ed. 1/5   A lonely footpath leads into bushes. A half-height nature stonewall frames the woods on the left side. Low shrubs on the right provide the view to a Ferris wheel. Despite the grey and cloudy sky, some… (read more)

Exhibition: Piero Manai – Luigi Presicce, Autoritratto con maschere 1899

(Piero Manai – Luigi Presicce, Self-portrait with masks 1899) Galleria De’Foscherari Via Castiglione 2b, Bologna www.defoscherari.com 31 March 2016 – 31 May 2016 Two artists, Piero Manai (1951 – 1988) and Luigi Presicci (born 1976) were inspired by the same painting: “Self-portrait with masks” by James Ensor from 1899. Between the executions of the works… (read more)