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Art and Economy: towards new exchanging models (part I)

What can be said about the relationship between a business company and Culture? Even better: how can be analyzed, if it exists, the relationship between Culture and Business? Today we have two very prestigious personality talking for us: Cesare Pietroiusti, artist and Carlo Sini, the most important Italian contemporary philosopher. I would ask Cesare to start [...]

Giuseppe Penone at MAMbo

How would it feel to be a tree? What is the skin and why do we have it? Giuseppe Penone since his early artistic research perceives every single natural element like air, water, rocks, trees, hairs, hats, walls, streets throught oneself’s positive dimension, the skin, which is the negative dimension of the world. The skin [...]

Art on the Elections’ Day

The Elections’ Day is not exclusively a political fact. Even Art addresses its attention to this contemporary fundamental moment. A good examgle is the interestic collective exhibition curated by Alessandro Trabucco at Villa Carpiglio in Turin. A big crowd of young artists -it’s unuseful to cite just few of them- that will elaborate the Elections’ [...]

Sustainable Museum at Borgo Valsugana

Borgo Valsugana opens the depth of his gorges and the majestic nature to an artistic experiment that counts already 20 years, focused on art in contact with nature. The foundamental nub is proposing art works (45 are currently part of the permanent collection) along a natural path consisting of an attempt of taking the man [...]

Premio Cairo 2008

The Cairo Award will finally declare the 2008 best artist. Starting from painture and embracing varoius artistic techniques from scuplture to videoart, to photographic and digital art, the Cairo Award worths a mention for its attempt of promoting and sustaining the new italian up-coming artists. Thanks to a frist selection of 20 final partecipants, the jury [...]

Saatchi Gallery

Welcome to the new headquarters of the largest free entry contemporary art museum in the world: the Saatchi Gallery. Now located in the hart of Chelsea and in the Duke of York’s palace, this new location entirly renovated by collectionist Carl Saatchi is just unmissable. “The Revolution Continues. New Art from China” is the name [...]

Starting collection

Tomorrow is the opening day for the fourth appointment of ArtVerona: a consistent overview on contemporary artists and movements. Among the novelties of this year, stands out the “Starting Collection” projects. A new system that allows those who begin approaching art world, to identify artists and reasonable art works to start their personal colletion. This [...]

Italian Factory Award

At the Fabbrica del vapore in Milan, it opened the 2nd of October, the final section of the Italian Factory Award for  young painture, curated by Chiara Canali. Another time, the assembly of various artists doesn’t seem the best way to realizing worthy reviews. The arrived and exposed material, even if it was already [...]

Red&Black: two colours for contemporary art

This month the Galleria Lodi in Milan hosts a special historical and literary exhibition called: Red and Black. Inspired by Stendhal books and by his love for the city of Milan, the two well known curators Paolo Manazza and Alessandro Visca have realized an unusual combination of artists. Davide Nido, Dani Vescovi, Rosalinda Celentano, Luca Pignatelli: a [...]

October in London is art

For those who are planning to visit London on the second weekend in October you can consider yourself lucky!Starting from Thursday the 16th until Sunday the 19th, the bucolic location of Regent’s Park will host three major events in Contemporary Art scene: Frieze, Scope and Pulse London. What’s about them? Frieze it’s an regular event which [...]

Update Finale Ligure Festival

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Update Teramo Warehouse

We’d talked about the Teramo Warehouse few weeks ago. This new concept gallery is willing to work hard, to organize events and realize projects. Here there are some of the latest news about it. Keep reading! On the 27th of September Matteo Fato will open his personal exhibition. A really huge work for let the public [...]

The madness’ praise

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I’ve seen things

If you observe his picture on the University of Illinois website, the oriental traits of the scientist Yonggang Huang, that with his colleague John Rogers has realized a video camera prototype in an eye shape, they resemble scientist Chew’s features. Chew was the great scientist that in Blade Runner introduced himself saying “I make eyes!”. This [...]

Enzo Rossi Bio

We talked about this unique artist and his arrival in Sweden but a little biography about his studies and his academic career. Enzo Rossi borns in Civita Castellana (Novara), lives and works in Cameri. He studied at Brera Academy of Arts in Milan. He took an Architecture degree as well, and he graduated with glowing report. [...]

Update Finale Ligure Festival

We didn’t have many information about Finale Ligure Festival beacuse everything is changing and evolving.So, our promise was to keep you updated and here we are!! Andrej Mussa will make a 30 minutes video for the work “Maine” by Riccardo Deni. Cosimo Terlizzi will bring on the project “Apartment Video” that will be joined by the [...]

Auction highlights

In order to facilitate this process, we report an highlight of the top auctions for the up coming months. For the moment Sotheby’s and Christie’s have a sure schedule of the future sales, while minor auction houses are not so reliable with dates, times and locations. We will keep you up-dated with cocktail event for preview [...]

Enzo Rossi and the Swedish twinning

It has been celebrated with the art work “Dicoto Mix” the visit of Enzo Rossi in the Swedish territory. The famous Italian artist from Civita, arrived in Vannas, in the Vasterbotten county for the National Swedish Party: during this event the artist of the MG Art society gave to the municipality his latest creation. The art [...]

Art in Bangkok city

Bangkok. Thailand. Chaotic and extremely smoggy, the capital of this Asian state can be defined as a pulsing hart for fashion, design and art of course. Its central location in the region gives artists the possibility to use the capital city as a base for their work, especially for its connections with the international market. Therefore, [...]

Contemporaneamente (a new space for art)

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Melted Art

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Finale Ligure Festival

The city of Finale Ligure, close to Savona, in Liguria, is organizing for the month of September ( but maybe it’s going to be May 2009) a festival of visual arts and various shows. The project consists of different theatre performances, ballets, concerts that will be joined and followed by art works like video [...]

The Corrado’s conceptual ironic

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Teramo Warehouse

This ex-factor adapted to be an innovative art centre in the city of Teramo, close to the Adriatic sea, will present an interesting cultural and artistic production. In the Warehouse created by Alfredo Marcozzi, artists from all parts of the world will put in the favourite situation where they’ll be able to work, live [...]

The strange instance of Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana is a great master of the Italian Spatialism art. Born in 1899, this artist is the protagonist of a typical Italian instance related to the growth of his success during the past decay. It’s been a while that the artistic production of Fontana represents an economic and financial investment with a bigger rating than [...]

Italian roundbounds

Torino World Design Capital 2008

Turin has always been an important industrial pole due to the numerous research centres, mechianical industries, prototype laboratories, style and model centres. This fact combined with the 2006 Olympic Winter Games have lauched Turin in the international scene again, acquiring a new, ascendent position. Thus, in 2005, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), [...]

Crazy arts

Willard Wigan is universally recognized as the “micro sculptor”. The English artist carves grains of sand, pin points or eyelashes. His entire artistic production consists of 159 pieces that perfectly fit into a single letter box! Have you ever thought to paint with your nails? If not, Nangaji Bhati, a 45 years old Indian painter, realizes [...]

Daniel’s Arts Garden

Daniel Spoerri it’s an artist of the new French (hyper)realism. Visionary, picaresque but still, realistic. A person that has been able to develop a melancholic and dreamer vein, an attempt to escape, into the post-naturalistic realism. In his tableaux he takes us into an effective and daily reality, leaving on the street few elements from another [...]

Educating through art

In uno dei quartieri più remoti della città di Milano ma allo stesso tempo più vivo e pulsante, trae alimentazione la linfa giovane e tenace di un nuovo progetto didattico e artistico. A partire dalle scuole medie generalmente si insegna Storia dell’Arte, uno studio teorico, spesso sterile. Perché, allora, non partire dall’arte stessa per arrivare a [...]