‘I know no one, more international than me’ Miltos Manetas loves to say when asked where he is from, but as all roads lead to Rome, eventually also this globe trotting greek artist ended up in the eternal city. It was almost a year ago and last week at Complesso Monumentale Santo Spirito in Sassia, an ancient hospital complex dating back to 727 AD, M.M. inaugurated his one-night-only exhibition and performance entitled BlackBerry Paintings, a series of works started in August 2010.
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Alexei Meschtschanow
Welcome on board to my latest discovery: Alexei Meschtschanow. Meschtschanow’s exhibition concept “The Buggenbauer Syndrome” in 2007, embraced a series of sculptures resembling pieces of furniture placed in open space. Cold, terrific, these are self-sufficient objects. The objects observed are indeed familiar, but they can no longer be associated or classified. They are rudiments of a social arrangement, in which parameters such as security, hygiene and sense of style had their undisputed places. Their image is emphasized and at the same time is humiliated.
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Since when i was at the high school, i have never missed one single edition of Artissima, i basically grew up with this event. Anyway during the years i’ve heard the comments of a lot of people “out of the art-world” who defined contemporary art fairs as boring, confusing. This is just because they don’t have a method, and don’t really know what to do at an art fair.
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In the amazing setting of the former prison of Turin Le Nuove, The Others, established in 2009, is a new satellite art fair dedicated to young galleries and organizations devoted to the emerging art scene. Instead of luxurious booths we founded amazing brutal displays cells.
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“Lights had gone out all of a sudden. Only the sound of the wind was left whistling through the avenues and across the streets.
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