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Artificialis

contemporary art / history of art

Artwork of the Month / October 2023

Fans Antonella Sacconi 2014 Pigment inkjet printing (Giclée) on Canson Baryta paper 40 cm x 60 cm Edition 1/30 Antonella Sacconi’s black and white photo “Fans” shows a fan-shaped arrangement of panels, widening towards the top. Hence, the title. In grey tones, with black shades the boards ascend from the left bottom to the right… (read more)

Art in Autumn 2023: 4 + 1

Summer is over and the new exhibition season has started. In a first tour, we visited five exhibitions, four in Bologna and one in Florence.   Galleria B4: Tamas Podraczky, Giovanni Buffa – Sulla ruota del tempo Gallleriapiù: Felicity Hammond – Deposits C2: L’orMa – Opere Esplosive! CAR DRDE: Alessandro Roma – Il tutto per… (read more)

Artwork of the Month / September 2023

Ars Curandi, Beaune (The Art of Caring, Beaune) Elena Franco 2020 Giclée print on Canson Platine Fiber Rag paper 60 cm x 90 cm Edition of 3 With Elena Franco’s photography, “Ars Curandi, Beaune” (The Art of Caring, Beaune), we are looking from a dark room through an open two wing leadlight casement window with… (read more)

ArtworkS of the Month: The first five of 2023

Exceptionally, this year we had only five Artworks of the Month before the summer break. Still, we would like to remind them and thank the artists for their support.         In January, we started with the photo “Il Santo che brucia” (The Burning Saint) by Alessia Rollo from her series “Parallel Eyes”,… (read more)

Artwork of the Month / June 2023

Fiume dell’Amazzonia (River of the Amazon) Marina Paris 2019 Collage 42 cm x 32 cm ph: Giorgio Benni The collage “Fiume dell’Amazzonia” (River of the Amazon), from the series “Urban Fragments” by Marina Paris, shows a neoclassical building in its urban environment. The entrance is a portico with a triangular tympanum and on the rearward… (read more)

Artwork of the Month / April 2023

Fringe Nature #12/2017, Sri Lanka Jacquie Maria Wessels 2017 Analogue C-Print 120 cm x 120 cm, Edition of 7 70 cm x 70 cm, Edition of 10 The photo “Fringe Nature #12/2017, Sri Lanka” by the Dutch artist Jacquie Maria Wessels allows a glance on ferns in an environment. Between this foreground and a green… (read more)

MIA Fair 2023: Architecture, Trees and other Subjects

MIA Fair (Milan Image Art Fair) 23 – 26 March 2023 Superstudio Maxi, Milan www.miafair.it The 12th edition of Italy’s oldest and most important photo fair confirmed its position with 100 exhibitors (80 % galleries), thereof 30 % from abroad. No matter whether the galleries originated in Italy, Europe (France, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Serbia and… (read more)

Artwork of the Month / March 2023

Rubik Cube Chiara Dynys 2023 cast glass panes, gold leaf, light, frames variable dimensions The site-specific installation “Rubik Cube” by Chiara Dynys, is a composition of 16 single pieces of the artist’s series “Camini delle Fate” (Fairy Chimneys) on white ground and 14 rectangular colour fields arranged as a chessboard pattern. Over the course of… (read more)

ARTE FIERA 2023: Eye-Catchers

Bologna, Italy 3 – 5 February 2023 www.artefiera.it Back at the traditional schedule and venue, the 46th Bolognese art fair attracted around 50.000 visitors and reached herewith the level of before the pandemic. Once again directed artistically by Simone Menegoi, Italian’s oldest trade show returned after two editions to the ground-based halls 25 and 26,… (read more)

ART CITY 2023: Highlights and more

Like every year, the accompanying program to the Arte Fiera (the Bolognese art fair) was very rich. Even though, taking place during ten days (from 27th January to 5th February) it was impossible to visit all venues. Besides the main program, once more many galleries and cultural institutions participated. Additionally, numerous studios, shops and temporary… (read more)