An Elegy for the Death of Hamun
The work of the artist Hashem Shakeri, through a palette drained of all vitality, tells the drought and how the resultant crisis is changing the province of Sīstān in Iran.
Gibellina PhotoRoad: photography out in the open
Open air and site–specific: it’s Gibellina PhotoRoad, an international photography festival in one of the world’s largest en plain air museums.
Capturing Shangai’s disappearing streets
Blending Chinese traditional style and colonial art deco, the typical Shikumen lane houses are drastically disappearing. Cody Ellingham preserves their memory in neon night fragments.
A work in progress on the red road
Carlotta Cardana guides us through an updated version of The Red Road Project, her ongoing work now again on display in Italy.
Paradise does not exist and perhaps has never existed
That which is to come is just a promise presented at Cannes is the latest work by Flatform, a duo of artists who for the last ten years have been producing videos and films.
Michelangelo Pistoletto
My father, who has always been in my heart, returns through my art”: an interview with Michelangelo Pistoletto
Biella plays host to “Padre e Figlio (father and son)”, a multi-venue exhibition which brings together the art of Michelangelo Pistoletto and that of his father Ettore.
Bitter Leaves: a portfolio by Rocco Rorandelli
Just a week left till the end of the Kickstarter pre-sale campaign for the latest book of the italian photographer.
Elisabetta Benassi. Misguiding production time
The artist's last installation will be displaced at MOSTYN, Wales UK, and it will be finally set at Crypta Balbi in Rome.
A half-renovated 20th century building
Here is the third example of interior urbanism in Milan: artist Silvia Hell transforms the spaces of FutureDome by rethinking the relationship between the constant looking for clues and the use of matter, following the rules of psychoanalytic art.
Latin America’s dreams and nightmares
The Bronx Documentary Center in New York hosts the second edition of the Latin American Foto Festival.
The new space race
Light and free like a butterfly, extending and folding like a folding screen, ORIGAMI, designed by Alberto Meda, is an electric plug&play radiator that liaises with its surroundings.
Fitness of materials
Paravan is sculptural in form and architectural in execution, both articulating and creating space. Like parentheses to enclose a conversation, Paravan creates intimacy in open areas with sound absorbing panels to support focus, concentration, and collaboration.
Shapes and materials compositions: Arblu’s bathroom furniture
The Lineò collection, produced by the Friulian company, is characterised by the combination of warm and delicate colours, finishes and different materials.
Artist ceramics: new canons at ICA Milan
Two exhibitions, at the Foundation located in via Orobia, present the first chapter of a research voted to artist ceramics. Seven creatives interpret new trends.
In Stockholm Stefano Serretta covers the stained-glass windows of a Gio Ponti’s building with newspapers
The Italian Cultural Institute of Stockholm, in partnership with Konstfack, presents an installation by Stefano Serretta as part of the exhibition cycle “Shoegaze” curated by Vasco Forconi, where young artists will relate to the architecture of Gio Ponti for the whole year.
The Biennale of Moving Images has opened in Turin
The title is The Sound of Screens Imploding and it has been conceived as a single large screen at the OGR in Turin.