THE BEST 2016 | Maria Chiara Valacchi
Ed Atkins a cura di Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev e Irene Calderoni Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino Ed Atkins a cura di Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev e Marianna Vecellio Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea 27 settembre 2016 – 29 gennaio 2017 Il Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea inaugura la personale dell’artista inglese Ed Atkins (Oxford, 1982) in […]
THE BEST 2016 | Francesco Garutti
Peter Wächtler, Far Out Chisenhale, London 16 September – 11 December 2016 Chisenhale Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by Berlin and Brussels-based artist Peter Wächtler. Wächtler works across a range of media including sculpture, drawing and animated film, with his writing and prose poems often providing source material. For Wächtler, […]
THE BEST 2016 | Eva Fabbris
Bruce Conner | It’s All True Until January 22, 2017 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Realist. Surrealist. Hippie. Punk. Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was all of these and more. A pioneer in experimental film, collage, photography, conceptual works, and paintings, he challenged the limitations of medium, genre, and style, constantly breaking new ground. Both of and ahead […]
THE BEST 2016 | Matteo Innocenti
9° Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art The Present in Drag DIS As a theme, “the present” strikes a slightly desperate tone. Like a spin-class instructor trying to power through a massive hangover. Exhibitions have increasingly come to resemble TED Talks—theaters of competence. There is a pleasure principle at play, not too different from disaster films […]
THE BEST 2016 | Rossella Moratto
L’Inarchiviabile/ The Unarchivable, Italia anni ‘70 FM Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Milano La mostra Non-Aligned Modernity – a cura di Marco Scotini, in collaborazione con Lorenzo Paini e Andris Brinkmanis – ha riletto lo spazio culturale e artistico della ex-Jugoslavia come laboratorio complesso e interstiziale, sospeso tra l’Est e l’Ovest ma non completamente assimilabile a nessuno […]
THE BEST 2016 | Pietro Gaglianò
OCCIDENTE ESOTICO — Luca Pancrazzi Galerie Andrea Caratsch — Sant Moritz Dal 12 Dicembre 2015 sino al 16 Aprile 2016 la Galleria Andrea Caratsch mostra le nuove opere di Luca Pancrazzi dal titolo Occidente Esotico. Due anni di ricognizioni sulle mon- tagne e valli dell’Engadina. Occidente Esotico L’occidente siamo noi. I con ni dell’occidente sono […]
THE BEST 2016 | Marinella Paderni
Quand fondra la neige, où ira le blanc, Palazzo Fortuny A cura di Eric Mézil e Lorenzo Paini Opere dalla Collezione Enea Righi 4 Giugno – 10 ottobre 2016 La vocazione espositiva di Palazzo Fortuny è costantemente animata dalla volontà di muoversi lungo il percorso multidisciplinare che fu appannaggio dell’esperienza artistica di Mariano Fortuny. L’esplorazione […]
the BEST 2016 | Simone Menegoi
The Infinite Mix: Contemporary Sound and Image | Hayward Gallery in association with The Vinyl Factory 180 the Strand 9 Sept 2016 – 4 Dec 2016 The Infinite Mix, Hayward Gallery’s pop-up exhibition, takes place at The Store, a new creative space located at the iconic Brutalist building on The Strand.The exhibition brings together audiovisual […]
THE BEST 2016 | Ilaria Gianni
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 | Marianna Vecellio
Francis Picabia Kunsthaus, Zurich “Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction” Francis Picabia has remained a passionately discussed personality among the great artists of the twentieth century. Throughout his life, he rejected normative criteria distinguishing between high art and kitsch or conservatism and radicalism. Self-critically and sometimes with mordant humour, he questioned […]