On Saturday 7th October was the 19th Day of the Contemporary (Giornata del Contemporaneo) in Italy. Promoted by the AMACI (Association of Italian Museums of Contemporary Art), this countrywide yearly event invites not only museums, but also foundations, public institutions, private galleries, artist spaces and studios to show the vitality of contemporary art. We visited… (read more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 (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)
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)
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)
