An exhibition in Turin challenged 11 architectural studio to design a prison cell and from then on engage in a reflection about the prison system and its corollaries: the restriction of freedom, human rights, instruments of surveillance and control
Category Archive: Art in Turin and Milan
Antarctica is the first complete and organic public showing of the artworks created by the artists as a result of their experience to the edge of the world
Humanity made even more upsetting and menacing than ever through the innocent magic of plasticine
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There’s art in Second Life, it just took me a couple of years to realize it
An exhibition of artworks which makes more tangible the contradictions and responsibilities that we encounter personally and as a society, giving the public the possibility of broadening and analyzing our perceptions and actions
A modern monument to the forgotten workers and their anonymous contribution to supplying the electricity to power modernity.
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At the Artissima art fair last month in Turin, i discovered a new player on the local art […]
On the left, an aerial shot of the dam (image The Times) The Three Gorges Dam is the […]
You left me no other action / cool off whiner, 2004 After Aix en Provence i’m in Turin […]
Cantar ciranda è como se aventurar à viver em alto mar pescando em una jungada, 2007 When i […]
The bad thing about seeing so many festivals and exhibitions is that i turned into that old lady […]
Yesterday i was in Turin. And bored (nothing new under the sun thus) so i followed exibart‘s advice […]
Yesterday i went to see Paola Pivi‘s My Religion is Kindness. Thank You See You In the Future. […]
Fabio Paris Art Gallery (from Brescia, Italy) was showing a couple of nice works at Artissima, such as […]
Yesterday evening i visited Salt on the Wound, an exhibition of some of most significant works of American […]
I don’t like everything Bruno Peinado creates. But when i do, i spam all my friends with images […]
Artissima, the art fair that closed yesterday in Turin, was even more recreative than the last edition i […]
Just back from my first trip to Artissima. Ladies with necklaces, chihuahua under the arm and super shiny […]
No fancy trip! Just blogging from my kitchen in sunny Turin and it’s the first time i’ve ever […]
C.STEM conference (Part 1) Second part of my report on the C.STEM conference, an event held in Turin […]
Looks like Italy is finally warming to art beyond Botticelli and Umberto Boccioni. Last weekend MixedMedia brought pixels, […]
On Sunday i went for the second time (first time they confiscated my camera phone too early) to […]
Prada probably decided that Tom Sachs was a wonderful PR after having seen his Prada Death Camp, the […]
Last Saturday, i visited SUPERNEEN at the Galleria Pack in Milan. The show aims to demo the best […]
I’ve met Paolo Rigamonti and Silvio Mondino from Limiteazero here and there: at their studio, at the Ars […]
On Sunday, i spent a few hours at the Share festival in Turin, the most important date with […]