Simone Menegoi
“Revolution from Within”
Kaufmann Repetto
March 2013
In her book Revolution from Within (1992), feminist writer Gloria Steinem takes an approach that is considerably different from that of her beginnings. She speaks of self-esteem, meditation, and of channeling one’s “inner child”; what’s… READ ON
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Luisa Lambri
Studio Guenzani
March 2013
In her untitled 2012 photographic series, Luisa Lambri has somewhat changed her subject. From the interiors of modernist architecture for which she is best known, she now has moved on to photographing works that are located between architecture… READ ON
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Miroslaw Balka and Roni Horn
Galleria Raffaella Cortese
January 2013
“Gespräche über persönliche Themen” (Dialogues on Private Subjects), the title of this exhibition by Miroslaw Balka and Roni Horn, is appropriate, particularly because the show truly is about a gespräch, a dialogue. The two artists … READ ON
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Gabriel Orozco
Galerie Chantal Crousel
September 2012
Don’t search for the word roiseaux in the French dictionary—you won’t find it. It is a hybrid of “roseau” (reed) and “oiseaux” (birds), which Gabriel Orozco invented as the title of a series of new sculptures now on view at … READ ON
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Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain
Gallery Martine Aboucaya
September 2012
Although their works engage with various media, the artist duo Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain are faithful to particular ideas, chief among them languages, notation systems, and maps—in other words, the systems that we develop to describe… READ ON
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Camille Henrot
Camille Henrot talks about her latest work
September 2012
Camille Henrot’s latest exhibition, “Est-il possible d’être révolutionnaire et d’aimer les fleurs?” (Is it possible to be a revolutionary and love flowers?”), is on view at Kamel Mennour Gallery in Paris until October 6. Here … READ ON
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Alis/Filliol and Navid Nuur
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
June 2012
Since 2011, Stefano Raimondi and Mauro Zanchi have been curating “Ogni cosa a suo tempo” (All in Good Time), a series of exhibitions that pair two artists (or collectives) in a fascinating site that is usually closed to the public: the … READ ON
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Melvin Moti
Kunsthalle Lissabon
April 2012
In the accompanying brochure for this exhibition, Melvin Moti states that the show ventures “way out of [his] comfort zone.” This statement may seem surprising in light of the fact that his latest work dials into the same basic coordinates… READ ON
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“L’Institute des archives sauvages”
Villa Arson
April 2012
The challenge taken on by the five curators of “L’Institute des archives sauvages” (Institute of Savage Archives)—Jean-Michel Baconnier, Christophe Kihm, Florence Ostende, Marie Sacconi, and Eric Mangion—was a difficult one: to … READ ON
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Anna Hughes
Artericambi
March 2012
English painter Anna Hughes’s current solo show in Verona is titled “Waypoint,” but it could just as easily be called “Turning Point,” since it signals a rather significant step forward in her work. The artist’s basic ambition … READ ON