– On show at the Prada Foundation in Milan, the work of Edward Kienholz is a harsh mirror of American society grotesquely staged to emphasise the filth and waste induced by consumerism.
– Ivo Bonacorsi interviewed Maurizio Cattelan on the occasion of his show at the Monnaie de Paris, after the artist’s declaration that the exhibition at the Guggenheim would have been his last one.
– In Eliasson’s installations at Versailles displacements and destabilisation modify the perception of the spaces, inviting visitors to become active participants in the reality that surrounds them.
– Dual event in Turin with the site-specific installations by the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky, who joins mythological visions with the material physical world.
– Christo returns to Italy with a major installation: 70,000 sqm of orange fabric will lead visitors along a three-kilometer route across the Lake Iseo waters and its shores.
– The twelfth Biennial of contemporary African art from Senegal triumphantly exposes the fragility of the Biennial itself, of art of the past and that of the future.
– Using four case-studies, the Jonas Staal exhibition unfolds around the architectural aesthetic, seen as a model of representing a political thought that has witnessed often surprising changes over the years.
– Cristian Chironi keeps on discovering private houses designed by Le Corbusier, exploring how “The home of man” was actually perceived in the past and lived today.
– At the HangarBicocca, the German artist Carsten Höller (with a degree in plant pathology) adopts a series of experiences and emotions to explore our – mostly dissatisfied – expectations of things and events.
– At the Noordsvaarder – in the northern part of The Netherlands – Marc van Vliet built an installation that changes with the tide, revealing different aspects of the landscape.
– In Villar Rojas’ work, the ruin cohabits with the asteroid, archaeology with the apocalypse; all as a prehistoric beast is elevated to the rank of statue and Kurt Cobain to that of a fossil.
Top: Olafur Eliasson, Deep mirror (yellow), Versailles, 2016. Photo Anders Sune Berg. Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. © 2016 Olafur Eliasson