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Justin Chance: running a sewing machine through a picture plane

by Samantha Ozer

Justin Chance utilises a material structure of dissemination to speak to broader issues of political networks and the power of...

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An interview with gallerists Downs & Ross

by CFA

Born in 2017 from the merger of Hester and Tomorrow, Downs & Ross is a leading gallery focusing on emerging...

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Giacomo Jaquerio and Castello della Manta: new attributions

by Simone Bonicatto (from Nuovi Studi 26, 2021 anno XXVI)

Between the Duchy of Savoy and the Marquisate of Saluzzo: a new proposal for Giacomo Jaquerio in Carmagnola and some...

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An interview with Isabella Ritter of LambdaLambdaLambda

by CFA

We chat with Isabella Ritter, co-founder and co-director with Katharina Schendl of Pristina and Brussels-based gallery LambdaLambdaLambda

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Cassidy Toner, gambling as a career plan

by Paolo Baggi

Cassidy Toner stages repeated artistic misfires to better diffuse anxiety, pressure to perform, or the legibility of an artwork

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Three emerging favourites at Art Brussels 2022

by CFA (from Brussels)

Three picks from the emerging stratum of the art market, found in the first post-pandemic edition of Art Brussels

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Vera Palme’s self-operating subjects

by Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Vera Palme’s work generates a certain gut feeling in the viewer, where gut is the distinct opposite of the German...

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Julien Carreyn: a malicious pleasure to watch from afar

by Oriane Durand

A reflection on the art of Julien Carreyn, whose small-scale paintings and photographs seduce you to come close, very close...

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Niklas Taleb: staging privacy with no cunning

by Piero Bisello

Somehow staged and performed, yet down-to-reality, the art of Niklas Taleb presents his private sphere without an annoying sense of...

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The immaculateness of Andrea Mantegna

by Sofia Silva

On the youth of Andrea Mantegna, between the page and the stone, in the demystification of the antiquarian obsession

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Hélène Fauquet, resolution in space

by Céline Mathieu

Reflective things absorbing light and soft surroundings: an open-ended reading of the work of Hélène Fauquet

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Alix Dionot-Morani, co-owner of Crèvecoeur (an interview)

by CFA

We talk to Crèvecoeur's cofounder and director Alix Dionot-Morani, learning how the hip Paris gallery works for its artists and...

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Tõnis Vint and the search for the universal visual language

by Elnara Taidre

Tõnis Vint is one of the pioneers of the post-World War II period. His art practice changed significantly the Estonian...

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Stella Zhong and many confusing scales

by Piero Bisello

In its richness, a Stella Zhong painting, just like a Zhong sculpture or installation, is a little extra universe added...

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Aesthetic communities in the work of Pol Taburet

by Isabella Costabile

Through symbolic spaces like the yard and the trap house, Pol Taburet blends cultural awareness with entertainment’s aims

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International Galleries Alliance: the benefits of joining forces for the art market

by Stefano Pirovano

The new-born International Galleries Alliance could soon become a milestone in contemporary art's evolution. Here's why

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Guariento di Arpo

Guariento di Arpo relaxes perfection

by Sofia Silva

Guariento di Arpo's response to the authority of his Padua predecessor Giotto is one where grace blends with Gothic style...

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Sara Deraedt: sous vide

by Emile Rubino

Sara Deraedt paradoxically reinvests visuality by operating a shift of the discursive impulse away from words

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Evolution of a quasi-movement

by Stefano Pirovano

We look at a quasi-group of thirteen artists and what has kept them together in the last five years, rising...

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Defendente Ferrari, Sant’Ivo con due devoti, 1515 circa. Tecnica mista su tavola. Torino, Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica

Defendente Ferrari: escape from the Renaissance

by Silvia Tomasi

Defendente Ferrari keenly sought refuge in dreams during an era that instead celebrated the triumph of reality.

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Cosima zu Knyphausen and her imprecise skeletons

by Piero Bisello

The paintings of Cosima zu Knyphausen persuade you to ask what surrounds them, circulating motifs and subtle atmospheres, dismissing style.

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Ottaviano Nelli

Ottaviano Nelli the rough

by Antonio Carnevale

Here is an introduction to Ottaviano Nelli, the late Gothic painter from Gubbio who was famous for his rough mix...

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Naoki Sutter-Shudo, monuments and icons

by Samantha Ozer

In crafting speculative worlds on a shrunken scale, Naoki Sutter-Shudo dislocates us from the abstraction of the impending future, allowing...

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Wojciech Bakowski: dream-like narratives (an interview)  

by Veronica Gisondi

Dwelling on the possibilities of images, sounds, and words becomes a way for Wojciech Bakowski to dive into the boundaries...

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Henrik Potter: HINGE

by Céline Mathieu

The work of Henrik Potter is not the in-between. It is more the and and. It’s a mutuality, a literal...

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Sandro_Botticelli Simonetta Vespucci

Hair air style from Middle Age to Botticelli

by Silvia Tomasi

Hair colour had a moral significance, the hairstyle a message of seduction or betrayal. And each hair became a story

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Marina Xenofontos, fluidity is a chrism

by Stefano Pirovano

Marina Xenofontos' poetic loops entail independent words, images and forms, that fluidity turns into a discourse

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Francesca Bertini

Italian silent film divas in their photographic postcards

by Esme Garlake

Many ordinary women saw Italian silent film divas as influences on daily dress and behaviour; much of this came from...

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Fin Simonetti

At the tender edge of violence: Fin Simonetti

by Veronica Gisondi

Spaces of worship constitute a fruitful field of inquiry for Fin Simonetti due to their symbolic value and particular function,...

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Frans Maseree

At the show with artist: Elena Ricci encounters Frans Masereel

by Elena Ricci*

Frans Masereel presents us with an intensely personal vision of life. It is a vision which shows an understanding of...

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