Tag: The Art Field
“I am not a painter”: an Interview with Daniel Buren
“Many painters, few geniouses” says Daniel Buren. His investigation began in the 1960s with the use of vertical stripes, each measuring 8.7 cm: interventions on fabric, glass, wood, flags
Stones that breathe and water that sees: Tarek Atoui
With dripping water, a breathing organ, and handmade Korean drums, Improvisation in 10 Days unites Atoui’s work into an evolving sonic environment
Jordan Watson reimagines the present of the Black community with “Easier to Breathe” in St. Moritz
Robilant + Voena presents Jordan Watson’s Afrofuturist works in the Protestant Church of St. Moritz – an interview with Jordan Watson on art, digital community, and racism
How Wrestling Rituals and Creative Vision Shape Modern Senegal
Photographer Kévin Félicianne’s lens on urban Dakar: documenting the city’s transformation through teenagers’ eyes, as Senegalese wrestling grows from rural tradition to stadium spectacle
Inside the ‘Back Office’ of War: Nothing Personal, Just Business
Between hyperrealistic simulators and bullet-shaped finger food, photographer Nikita Teryoshin reveals the behind-the-scenes of the arms trade—one of the biggest economic sectors in the world
Copenhagen Contemporary. Designing art projects in the 7,000-square-foot of the B&W welding hall
In contrast with many art centers and institutions which implemented digital strategies to overcome the challenges imposed by the pandemic, Contemporary remains phisical
Maria Callas: la ruvidità di voce e di carattere in Maria di Pablo Larraín
La ruvidità di voce e di carattere in Maria di Pablo Larraín, biopic sulla Callas interpretata da Angelina Jolie: la recensione dopo la prima proiezione alla Mostra del Cinema di...
My name is Viviane Sassen and those scars are not my own scars
On the occasion of a travelling retrospective, Sassen looked into her archives and rediscovered a body of work she made while studying in an MFA program. Folio interrogates the preoccupations...
Jean Cocteau’s drawings: explicit sexuality – It is all about poetry
For Cocteau, it was all poetry: a drawing blended with words, Jean Marais the lover and actor in Orpheus, his friendship with Peggy Guggenheim, a relationship with Natalie Paley, the...
Reality as seen from a helicopter
Overcoming the banal beauty of the postcard landscape: stains are everyday realities, landscapes, scraps of life defined by chromatic contrasts
Kiki Smith: legends, fairy tales, and religious icons
Bronze sculptures and small-scale paintings are set up inside the Galleria Lorcan O'Neill as within a temple or a church
The Swab Barcelona Art Fair opens towards East Asia: where are the tentacles of the Octopus?
The art fair opens up to the global scene while at the same time furthering Barcelona’s own art tradition. This year’s edition focuses on East Asia, the cities of Tokyo,...
What happened this summer at Centrale Fies
"We explore whether a cake can become more than just a treat: can it be a bold, chaotic, and revolutionary landscape?" interview with Barbara Boninsegna, artistic director and founder of...
Saodat Ismailova: tigers, silk, cotton and the Uzbek cosmic embroidery
Working with dreams, oral narratives, silk, and glass, filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova’s work at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca explores the entangled histories of Central Asia
«Am I dreaming or awake?» – the schizophrenic work of Cinzia Ruggeri
Spell and reality by Cinzia Ruggeri. In conversation with Luca Lo Pinto, creative director of Cinzia says..., the ended exhibition at MACRO in Rome that is moving to London
Cassi Namoda – «I feel pregnant with work: all these ideas want to have a birth»
«Galleries should have no expectations. Every artist has overworked or underworked something. I will be the only one to know if it's finished». Cassi Namoda on her approach to work...
CHART Art Fair, Copenaghen. Interview with Director Julie Quottrup Silbermann
Neo Nordic Architecture challenged the white cube gallery format with a flexible wall system which lets the daylight through to illuminate the artworks – while at night it can be lighten...
Gaetano Pesce: «we can’t be solid; we are as liquid as our time»
From the polyurethane of the UP series to the resins of Vieni a Vedere installation for Bottega Veneta: experimentation doesn't need to be taught; it just has to be done
A Look Inside Painter Alexander James’ London Studio
Alexander James, known for his large-scale and layered abstractionist paintings, has a tendency to bring together in his compositions what many would consider to be disparate subjects
Alice Guareschi: an action for house lights
The 16 photographs that make up Je m’appelle Olympia were shot right after the live activation of the light choreography in the theatre's empty space
Christoph Büchel at Fondazione Prada: a politically-charged trompe l’oeil project on debt
Fondazione Prada in Venice transformed into a pawnshop – Swiss artist Christoph Büchel on the notion of debt and the many declinations of it, from the religious to the economic
Unsettling: Gigi Spelsberg inhabits a new space
We see her old possessions wrapped and bound, in a studio space void – tentatively being moved into their new environment which is still under construction
Minotaur – the rough love story between Lily Stockman and Le Corbusier in Paris
The American artist Lily Stockman is the first woman to exhibit at Maison La Roche – with an exhibition that follows her “obsession” with Le Corbusier, blending Greek mythology and...
How to Handle With Care: a show-guide on art collecting and the relevance of exhibition spaces
A robot - a stuffed dog - following training related to the description of the works, is able to produce an analysis together with ChatGPT - its observations are ironically...
Oman, Zimbabwe, Grenada – la Biennale di Venezia oltre i Giardini e l’Arsenale
Fuori dai siti principali della Biennale di Venezia ci sono i padiglioni esterni e le mostre collaterali: Grenada con No man is an island, l’Oman con la forza delle donne,...
Cosmic Garden: safeguarding Indian craft manufacturing
The Cosmic Garden exhibition at the Venice Biennale is committed to the emancipation of women through craftsmanship – with the support of Dior. A dialogue with Karishma Swali, from the...
Dominique White: a Black future hasn’t happened yet, but must
The Max Mara Art Prize for Women presents Dominique White’s work Deadweight – found objects gleaned from shipyards, such as sails, ropes and chains, retracing Black Diaspora and human fragility
Hyperlocal installations produced with CO2 in mind – A Feral Commons (or: A Forgotten Place)
For A Feral Commons, Muhannad Shono studied unnoticed ecologies in Dubai’s urban Alserkal Avenue. He applied his rebellious manifestation philosophy to the industrial Al Quoz area
Italiani: siamo e saremo sempre, tutti stranieri
Siamo tutti stranieri, e gli stranieri sono ovunque. Straniero, può vuol dire strano, forse l’opposto di stereotipo. Revisione ruvida, forse provocatoria, della 60° Biennale d’Arte di Venezia
William Kentridge: «Identity is a continuous construction»
In Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot the South African artist reflects on humanity in a close dialogue with his alter-ego, a metaphor for the artist’s critical eye
Design a Milano, Biennale a Venezia, Vinitaly: l’Italia che non fa sistema
Perché il Salone del Mobile, la Biennale di Venezia e il Vinitaly a Verona sono caduti tutti e tre nella stessa settimana di aprile, perdendo occasioni e indotto? Di chi...
Ai Weiwei: fuck the mundane structure
Ai Weiwei returns to Italy with the exhibition Neither Nor at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Tuscany. Between lego, antique stools and criticism to art critics, the artist confirms to...
Art Paris 2024: avant-garde, inclusion, sustainability and human fragility
Art Paris 26th edition saw the debut of the BNP Paribas Banque Privée Prize, which was awarded to Nathalie Du Pasquier for her multidisciplinary practice as illustrative of an era
Brands and independent publishing: the Bottega Veneta case
Today brands play a role in the promotion and diffusion of independent fashion publishing which seems to be experiencing a new golden age – the Bottega Veneta fanzine
Deborah Poynton: «overcome by vertigo – knowing I will die, while acting like I won’t»
Discordant objects amongst natural landscapes, nude portraits of herself, her friends and family, Deborah Poynton’s practice is about creating the illusion of reality, applying layers of oil painting
Marion Baruch: humans made textile before writing
The curiosity towards humanity, the desire to experiment with the unknown, fabric and movement: the Romanian textile artist talks about her latest solo show
Public cruising and orgies: Raphael Hubner’s male art is a modern Kama Sutra
The Brazilian artist draws sex positions men can perform in public and private spaces. Raphael Hubner homoerotic art outline men intimacy and sex in conservative Brazil
Langston Uibel on pursuing cinema in a post-streaming landscape
Films are made in consortium. Langston Uibel discusses processes of collaboration and notions of artistic voice with the award winning actor
How Unreal We Are. SIRA cultural hub in Paris slams human fragility in viewer’s face
In the cultural hub SIRA in Paris, the nomadic curatorial project Shivers Only uses video art and analog photography to carve out human fragility and depict How Unreal We Are
Corporeal and digital – multidisciplinary artist Aziza Kadyri’s blend of old and new
Kadyri combines extended reality (AR/VR) and traditional art forms in works exploring the themes of decolonization, displacement, feminism, identity, social invisibility, and migration
A gallery of books – Rupture in Venice challenges the expectations of traditional bookstore
Alexandre Sap’s Rupture Arts & Books store in Venice is part of a network that encourages the exchange of culture, conversation and community in a creative international cultural space
It was fun even a thousand years ago – even Medieval images were memeable
Dicks, killer rabbits, and giant snails: a look at Medieval humor – from the recent discoveries by Dr. James Wade to @weirdmedievalguys and @medievalmarginalia accounts
Jeremy Hutchison: «I’m interested in perverting dominant culture. Queering power»
Waste colonialism and consumerism, environmental and social justice: the British artist’s latest project, Dead White Man, investigates the fate of the used clothes we send to the Global South
Roses and hunter: Farshad Farzankia honors the strength of women from Iran
«I experienced pain in my family and my close relationships, people going to jail and not coming back. I was born into this chaos of uncertainty» – Farshad Farzankia on...
Jota Mombaça about political intersectionality and utopia as transition
Queer artist Jota Mombaça discusses her work as a radical reorientation to history and memory, allowing the elements to reveal perspectives inaccessible to people
Gurjeet Singh’s idiosyncrasy: textile sculptures respond to notions of stereotype labelism
Rural Indian subjectivity found in 3d textile sculptures. Gurjeet Singh handcrafts bold narratives of identity, isolation and sexual exploration into faces made of fabric and stuffing
