Burgos expands urban apocalyptic visions which proliferate in daily life. His starting point is a children's storybook, from which he constructs a delirious collage. Anything is possible in his productions. With amazing dexterity he cuts, pastes, digitally photocopies and photocopies again, the result of which he fits into a fascinating stage design. Within these metaphors, there are, mingled with a large cast of characters, iconic elements of national images continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10404 2009-11-11T06:40:54Z 2009-11-11T14:44:12Z Regine

The curators approach the topic of collecting, and the psychology behind the practice of expressing oneself through physical objects. Why do we gather items and surround ourselves with them in our every day lives? Which mechanisms of desire trigger our selection? continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10406 2009-11-10T14:03:13Z 2009-11-11T14:47:40Z Regine

The exhibition, located in the beautiful but cruelly un-heated Fondazione 107, uses photographic works, videos, installations and sculptures to document a moment of extraordinary transformation for an area that is five times bigger than Europe. The result is bold and exciting with its mix of "globalization", acceleration, pre-soviet and islamic traditions continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10405 2009-11-08T06:24:03Z 2009-11-10T16:35:05Z Regine

Letizia Battaglia's pictures, because of the corruption, silence, violence and suffering they laid bare, played a crucial role in the anti-mafia campaign. They show anti-mafia Judge Cesare Terranova shot in his car, corpses of mafiosi found by the road, tears of the wives and mothers when they discover the scene of the crime, arrests of the mafia boss, teenagers pretending to be though guys with attitude and guns continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10400 2009-11-04T19:01:22Z 2009-11-09T14:00:31Z Regine

In a series of symbiotic encounters and parasitic relationships, the solo presentations are often interrupted by incongruous presences or perturbed by unusual juxtapositions: drawings by Kara Walker surround a tomb by Urs Fischer; Maurizio Cattelan's homeless man kneels down in front of Kiki Smith's Bat Woman; Robert Gober's haunted rooms incorporate Gregor Schneider's architectural fragments, etc. continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10403 2009-11-04T17:43:00Z 2009-11-04T21:43:25Z Regine

Calculating Space is a delicate sculpture made of sticks, strings and little plumbs. The fragility and transparency of its structure reveals as much as it hides the logic and functioning of the machine. Its units operate like a very basic artifical neural network continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10401 2009-11-02T08:59:35Z 2009-11-03T19:50:56Z Regine

The VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd., Adam Zaretsky and Waag Society's temporary research and education institute on Art and Life Sciences, will be focusing this month on body art continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10395 2009-11-02T08:13:04Z 2009-11-05T16:49:13Z Regine

This year the wooden pavilion, designed by architect Alvar Aalto in 1956, hosts a collection of Fire & Rescue Museum by Jussi Kivi. The artist's museum project is based on his long-term passion of collecting every imaginable item that ever has had something to do with firefighting continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10399 2009-10-29T08:37:24Z 2009-11-02T08:36:34Z Regine

The installation echoes the artist's concern for the relentless threats against Iran made by many countries in recent years. Sentences that include "attack Iran" are scavenged from Google News and spoken using a text-to-speech synthesizer. The voice is then picked up by a microphone, analyzed, and translated into rhythmically corresponding smoke rings from a quartet of smoke ring makers continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10335 2009-10-28T16:14:50Z 2009-10-29T09:51:37Z Regine

Like paper projects designed in the absence of "real" architecture, installations offer architects another way to engage in issues critical to their practice. Direct experimentation with architecture's material and social dimensions engages the public around issues in the built environment that concern them and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people's everyday lives continue ]]> tag:www.we-make-money-not-art.com,2009://2.10397 2009-10-26T14:25:14Z 2009-10-28T06:31:39Z Regine

Everyday, someone cleans the marble floors of the Palazzo with a mop dipped in water mixed with the blood found on the site of murders committed during the drug wars in Northern Mexico. How long will traces of it remain on the sole of your shoes? continue ]]>