OPENTOUR – The Academy of Fine Arts appears 13 – 19 June 2016 For the second edition of OPENTOUR the Bolognese Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna had once again found numerous partners to be visible all over the city for the week of the event and partly even longer. Besides the exhibition of Academy… (read more)
18 June – 3 July 2016 Lake Iseo, Italy Christo offered himself the realisation of “The Floating Piers” to his 81st birthday. Nevertheless, the project was already conceived in the 1970s, together with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, but refused by Argentina and Japan. In 2014, Christo finally found the lake Iseo in northern Italy. During… (read more)
9 – 12 June 2016 Porto dell’Arte via del Porto 34, Bologna http://portodellarte.wix.com/home The exhibition title “Metamorphoses” is in a double sense coherent: it is the name of the presented artwork by Paolo Bufalini, but is as well valuable for the exhibition space. “Metamorphoses”, as installation, consists of two white spheres facing each other. The… (read more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
