The always very stern and morose Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Turin is currently running a retrospective dedicated to Ugo Mulas. The focus is on the photographer’s relationship with the art scene of his time
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Weegee gained fame for his photos of crime scene and villains, his documentation of life in the city from the 1030s Depression to the postwar period, but he was also keen on bringing into light social problems
This year Turin is the World Capital of Design, a title that the city is not holding with much panache. No critical design, no interaction design, nothing really progressive nor challenging either. Still, there’s a couple of interesting exhibitions going on throughout the city. The one i visited on Thursday might actually be the best show about design i’ve seen in a long time
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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
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.
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 […]