THE BEST 2016 | Francesco Urbano Ragazzi
The Infinite Mix: Contemporary Sound and Image | Hayward Gallery in association with The Vinyl Factory 180 the Strand 9 Sept 2016 – 4 Dec 2016 Ten immersive audio visual installations, including holographic illusions, multi-screen installations and 3D projections, installed into the brutalist building on London’s Strand, allow us to explore diverse and kaleidoscopic imageries: […]
Curatori italiani vs artisti italiani?
Cara Elena, mi permetto di mandarti questa lettera di riflessione perché ho notato alcune tendenze abbastanza marcate all’interno del The Best of 2016 che hai appena condotto, in cui chiedevi semplicemente di selezionare una mostra in Italia e una all’estero tra quelle che avevamo visto nell’anno passato. Penso si tratti di un un campione affidabile […]
THE BEST 2016 | Mariuccia Casadio
ICONS OF MODERN ART — THE SHCHUKIN COLLECTION From 22 October 2016 to 20 February 2017 Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris The exhibition pays tribute to one of the greatest art patrons of the early 20th century, Sergei Shchukin, the visionary Russian collector of French modern art. From 1898, Sergei Shchukin, a leading Moscow industrialist, quickly […]
THE BEST 2016 | Lorenzo Balbi
L’Image Volée Curated by Thomas Demand Fondazione Prada, Milan 18 Mar – 21 Aug 2016 “L’image volée” (The stolen image) is a group show curated by artist Thomas Demand, open to the public from 18 March to 21 August 2016. Within an exhibition architecture designed by sculptor Manfred Pernice, the show occupies both levels of the […]
THE BEST 2016 | Matteo Lucchetti
Wael Shawky a cura di Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev e Marcella Beccaria Fino al 5 febbraio 2017 – Castello di Rivoli La retrospettiva di Wael Shawky (Alessandria d’Egitto, 1971), allestita al Castello di Rivoli, presenta una serie di opere filmiche, sculture e nuovi altorilievi lignei ispirati alla storia delle Crociate, narrata dal punto di vista degli arabi anziché […]
THE BEST 2016 | Barbara Meneghel
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible MET Breuer di New York This exhibition addresses a subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. Beginning with the Renaissance masters, this scholarly and innovative exhibition examines the term “unfinished” in its broadest possible sense, including works left incomplete by their makers, which […]
THE BEST 2016 | Elvira Vannini
THE WILD WEST. A HISTORY OF WROCLAW’S AVANT-GARDE 06/16/2016 – 08/15/2016 Curators: Michal Duda, Anka Herbut, Anna Mitus, Pawel Piotrowicz, Adriana Prodeus, Sylwia Serafinowicz, Piotr Stasiowski MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art di Zagabria Wroclaw — a city in the Recovered Territories, which before the second world war had nearly one million inhabitants, for decades […]
THE BEST 2016 | Ilaria Bonacossa
GLOBALE: Reset Modernity! 16.04.2016 – 21.08.2016, ZKM_Atrium 8 Karlsruhe, Germany What do you do when you are disoriented, when the compass of your phone goes haywire? You reset it.The procedure depends on the situation and device, but you always have to stay calm and carefully follow instructions if you want the compass to capture signals […]
THE BEST 2016 | Antonio Grulli
Chiara Camoni — The story always comes later Spazio A, Pistoia Until 03.02.2017 Chiara Camoni spies on the relationship that a work of art maintains with reality. The works in this show also relate what happens before them and what happens after, the creative process, and the story that ensues. Before and after: two areas not […]
THE BEST 2016 | Eugenio Viola
Tino Sehgal Curator: Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel Carte blanche, Palais de Tokyo Palais de Tokyo presents an exhibition conceived by Tino Sehgal (born in Great Britain in 1976, lives in Berlin). The second of a series of “carte blanche” shows – interventions by artists covering the entirety of the 13, 000m² exhibition space of Palais de Tokyo […]