In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde wrote: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”. While Hollande’s government in Paris is formally considering the draft law on marriage for alland homoparentality in Milan there is a shy echo: Camera16 is opening a pioneering exhibition, if considered in the Italian cultural environment, that explores the homosexual identity conjugated to the artistic activity through multiple perspectives: both existential and aesthetic.
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Liu Bolin
Let’s restart the year with an artist the world is totally going crazy for: Liu Bolin. Liu Bolin is a Chinese artist known for his photographic self-portraits in which it is difficult to distinguish the artist from the background. Before taking the photo, Liu Bolin work on a makeup to blend perfectly with the surrounding environment, after studying closely the lines and lights.
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Contemporary Soviet Photography: Arsen Savadov
Spencer Finch
Lisson Gallery, Milan, presents Spencer Finch’s series of new works including a site-specific LED installation, a suite of photographs and a large watercolour that explore memory, colour and the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious.
Read moreArt Lovers Club.
It all started with a very a nice dinner on the rooftop of the Soho House. We were six women all working in the art business and we realized that there was no forum for professional dialogue between different players within the art world. Following this dinner, I commenced the organisation of events which the five other women supported in the beginning through networking the art world. The popularity of these events grew rapidly, through word of mouth and personal contact. And since September 2012 I have two fantastic partners, Christina Kohorst and Lena Winter, and we will continue growing.
Read moreContemporary Shapes: Diamond
Johannes Wohnseifer’s Diamond is painted with comic mysticism: its corporate logo a meditative fixation, accompanied by a haiku-like slogan. Humorously playing on spiritualism as a by-product of global enterprise, Wohnseifer’s Diamond places advertising as the new religious art, extolling the virtues of faceless powers.
Read moreRe-inventing Painting, Miltos Manetas
‘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.
Read moreHOW TO Visit a Contemporary Art Fair
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.
Read moreThe Others
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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