What image is more evocative than the artwork as a generator of intertwined words, where forms and metaphors offer the syntax of a brilliant creative disorder? This is the case of Alessio Ancillai, on display with “Il turno di note” curated by Davide Silvioli, at the Roman space COSMO, until April 21st, 2024. This project investigates with acute intelligence and powerful imaginative exploration the theme of work, the dimensional aspect of the artwork and the word. The exhibition presents itself with the specific awareness of an experiential journey of an unprecedented and summary interpretatio ..read more

«When I read Sara Varon’s graphic novel Robot Dreams, I devoured it. I loved it so much, and in the end, it even moved me. The characters are anthropomorphic and the emotions very human, similar to those we can all experience: that’s why I decided I could make an animated film for the first time» recounts the award-winning Spanish director Pablo Berger (born in 1963) about his film Robot Dreams (2023). The truly astonishing film opened the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and was nominated for the 2024 Oscars in the animation category. Recently released in Italian theaters, distributed by I Wonder ..read more

The national premiere of The Idiot by the Japanese choreographer and dancer Saburo Teshigawara (Tokyo, 15 September 1953), Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2022 Dance Biennale, was staged last April 9th at Teatro Arena del Sole in Bologna, as part of the CARNE – focus on physical dramaturgy programme curated by Michela Lucenti. The show, inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, was conceived ten years ago during a stay in Italy by the founder of the Karas company, founded in 1985 with the aim of searching for “a new form of beauty” in total freedom, a direction that still guides ..read more

«Prima che di te resti solo la voce» (Before only the voice of you remains) recites a warning in which the transience of being and the inevitable disappearance resonates deeply. This poetic sentence is encapsulated in the site-specific work “Sibilla” (2024), born from the collaboration not only between Camilla Gurgone and C. Sidonie Pellegrino – the two artists who have recently presented the double solo show “Softly Disappear” – but also among mysterious prophecies and modern artificiality. The exhibition by Camilla Gurgone (Lucca, 1997) and C. Sidonie Pellegrino (Castellammare di Stabia, 200 ..read more

Francesca Svampa, independent producer, filmmaker and Italian visual artist living in Barcelona, Spain, exhibits “A Movie in a pic”, a collection of negatives that generate micro films, from 5 to 28 April 2024 at Il Meccanico gallery in Verona. The project, exhibited together with “Gli Stressonauti” series by Giovanni Sellari in the double show entitled “Analogue – Artificial” presents itself as an alternative way of understanding analogic photography. The images originate in a negative, part of it or a manipulation of some kind. A collection of very short films. A project that was born as a g ..read more

As part of the celebrations designating Pesaro as the Italian Capital of Culture 2024 and within the framework of the 50×50 Capitals Squared project, the Municipality of Cagli and Pesaro Museums have announced the solo exhibition by Giovanni Termini, titled Come la metti sta (How You Place It). Curated by Marcello Smarrelli, the exhibition will take place at Palazzo Tiranni-Castracane in Cagli, a sixteenth-century residence that embodies the city history. Termini has expressed his connection with Pesaro, highlighting how in 2001 one of his early works, Celare l’attesa (Concealing the Waiting ..read more

“Liminal”, Pierre Huyghe’s new exhibition project, conceived and curated for Punta della Dogana with Anne Stenne, turns out the lights on the reality we know by transporting us to the border of what lies beyond, to places in-between inhabited by creatures at the margins of the conceivable. The exhibition, which can be visited in Venice until 24th November 2024, embodies the latest frontiers reached by the French artist over the last decade, providing the perfect context for a reflection on relational aesthetics and its horizons. Pierre Huyghe, “Liminal”, 2024 – ongoing. Courtesy the artist an ..read more

Mark Kostabi, artist and composer, was born in Los Angeles in 1960, to Estonian parents. He studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton. In 1982, he moved to New York, where he also frequented Andy Warhol’s Factory, emerging in 1984 as a leading figure in the East Village art scene. He positioned himself as a critic of the system, publishing a series of self-interviews reflecting on the degenerative aspects of contemporary art. Rome, Mark Kostabi at work in his studio. Photo by Greesi Desiree Langovits Since 1987, he began exhibiting in renowned galleries across th ..read more

From Saturday 16 March 2024, LABS Contemporary Art gallery in Bologna presents the “METAMORFOSI” exhibition starring the four French artists Cécile Beau, Nicolas Boulard, Jean-Baptiste Caron, Charlotte Charbonnel, in collaboration with the Parisian gallery 22.48 m2 and with the support of CNAP – Center national des arts plastiques. The exhibition is the result of an exchange project, born from the will of the gallery owners Alessandro Luppi and Rosario Caltabiano, with the intention of promote the vision and research of their artists, presenting new and thoughtful projects specifically fo ..read more

Il Meccanico, a research space on contemporary artistic languages, in Verona, will host the two projects that won the call starting from April 5th: one created in analogic and the other built with Artificial Intelligence. The theme of the concept was “Rupture”, and the two works fit perfectly into it. Francesca Svampa exhibits “A Movie in a pic”, a collection of negatives that generate micro films. Giovanni Sellari instead proposes “Gli Stressonauti”, a project born from landscape shots on film but then “processed” by Artificial Intelligence. The protagonists are a group of intergalactic explo ..read more