Paola Nicolin
Rosalind Nashashibi
December 2011
Rosalind Nashashibi showed her new 16-mm film, Carlo’s Vision, 2011, at spaces in both Milan and Rome. The dual venue signified not only a coproduction but also an amplification of the effect of a work that, in just eleven minutes, conveys… READ ON
IN PRINT December 2011 [TOC]
Adrian Paci
Adrian Paci discusses his work in the Church of San Bartolomeo, Milan
July 2011
Adrian Paci is an Albanian artist based in Milan. His work explores the boundaries between the personal and the political as well as the identities and rituals that are forged along those borders. Here, Paci explains his process in re-creating… READ ON
500 WORDS
“Are You Glad to be in America?”
April 2011
This exhibition borrows its title from a 1980 album by the distinctive blues guitarist James “Blood” Ulmer, and it engenders a compelling dialogue between contemporary art and American musical culture. Like a polyrhythmic symphony, the … READ ON
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Gabriele Basilico
March 2011
Two threads emerged from this sophisticated mini-retrospective devoted to Gabriele Basilico: the investigation of the nature of the photographic medium and the discovery of a new identity for the figure of the author-photographer. The … READ ON
IN PRINT March 2011 [TOC]
Alessandro Ceresoli
February 2011
Pondering the effect that George Kubler’s book The Shape of Time (1962) had on the work of Robert Smithson and Robert Morris, Alessandro Ceresoli’s investigation of the relationship between primitivism and modernism can be framed in a … READ ON
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Joan Jonas
January 2011
For over forty years, the revered American artist Joan Jonas has blurred the boundaries between art and life, working and living within a hybrid territory that could be categorized as the experimental realm of artistic research. This sustained… READ ON
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Maurizio Cattelan
December 2010
Maurizio Cattelan first appeared on the scene around 1990 with nearly imperceptible performance actions that manifested a fear of failure and an intolerance of every constrictive system. In recent years, however, he has occupied increasingly… READ ON
IN PRINT December 2010 [TOC]
Luca Pozzi
October 2010
While visiting Luca Pozzi’s latest exhibition, “U-Drawings,” I found myself thinking about the ideas of the Hungarian artist and theorist György Kepes, particularly his essays in Language of Vision (1944) that describe light as a … READ ON
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“Solar Skill”
June 2010
In this exhibition, the city is a living organism consumed by sunlight. Through the works of four artists, “Solar Skill” proposes an antifunctionalist view of urban life, in which time transforms images into traces. At the heart of the … READ ON
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Adrian Paci
April 2010
Adrian Paci’s latest exhibition, “Gestures,” features Britma, 2009, a video projected in a small room near the gallery’s entrance. The work offers blurry glimpses of two children in a meadow; their actions are nearly imperceptible … READ ON