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Some of Jean Katambayi Mukendi so far

by Piero Bisello

Some the most salient aspects of the Jean Katambayi Mukendi's art, between Lubumbashi, Brussels and New York

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HC: thinking with more than one mind

by Francesco Tenaglia

What or who is HC, really? "Its humorous approach proved to be a pretty efficient tool to create unexpected situations."

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Raffaela Naldi Rossano’s invocation of the ancestors

by Sonia D'Alto

Raffaela Naldi Rossano shows how genius loci and personal memory come together in the search for an alternative society

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Bringing light and liberation: Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

by Ricko Leung

Dalila Dalléas Bouzar questions colonialism and patriarchy, trying to turn art into an instrument of liberation

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Chalisée Naamani

Chalisée Naamani presents fashion

by Piero Bisello

Chalisée Naamani's painterly installations expose what surrounds her today: the fashion-of-the-day that is not necessarily fashionable.

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Giangiacomo Rossetti: painting as a form of hospitality

by Stefano Pirovano

We interpreted the paintings of Giangiacomo Rossetti with the help of their author and a fundamental exhibition in New York

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Sophie Gogl: relating to the smiley face

by Julius Pristauz

On Sophie Gogl's love for turns, seeking what's behind her gimmicks and reaching the top of the pyramid of needs

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On the creative mentality of Patrick Weldé

by Stefano Pirovano

By turning the countryside into a creative frontier Patrick Weldé finds a powerful antidote to urban clichés and fashion disillusionment

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Double flowers: on the work of Keto Logua

by Céline Mathieu

Originally from Tbilisi and now in Berlin, Keto Logua takes botany, petals and sexes to speak of multiplicity, ambiguity, and...

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Laurence Sturla: an empirical turn of events

by Piero Bisello

Between cigarette breaks and fleeting memories, we look at the ceramics of Vienna-based artist Laurence Sturla.

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Ambiguity of time and space in Wang Zhibo’s painting

by Ricko Leung

With her ‘anthropologist’ approach of collecting quotidian fragments of life Wang Zhibo believes in the pleasure and ineffability of art.

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Emerging artists to watch: Willa Wasserman

by Sonia D'Alto

Willa Wasserman's work is inscribed in the phantasmatic possibilities of painting, in between contemplation and rejection of tradition.

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Emanuele Marcuccio: reproduction in an age of creative precarity

by Sofia Dati

An essay about artist Emanuele Marcuccio, dealing with the processes from the world and imaginary of industry.

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Cinzia Ruggeri by Dino Buzzati (anno 1960)

by Piero Bisello

An English translation of Dino Buzzati's text for the first exhibition of Cinzia Ruggeri in 1960, where magic realism meets...

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Ana Elisa Egreja

Ana Elisa Egreja: painting the texture of things

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Ana Elisa Egreja has painted interior scenes for twenty years. We talked to her in the midst of a change,...

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Contemplating Trifles with Fernando Marques Penteado

by Piero Bisello

An essay about Fernando Marques Penteado after a recent studio visit, showing how everything can be worth contemplating, trifles included.

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Andrea Romano, Potsherds of Gazes (second book)

by Stefano Pirovano

A 13 drawings book is the last chapter of a series Andrea Romano has dedicated to the way in which...

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Tatjana Danneberg

Painting + photography according to Tatjana Danneberg

by Piero Bisello

Tatjana Danneberg grabs fragments of real life, turning snapshots and drawings into complex paintings. Steyerl's poor image lives again.

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Raphaela Vogel: unification of the manifold

by Stefano Pirovano and Sonia D'Alto

Expressionism, monumentality and manifold in the works of Raphaela Vogel, before her solo exhibition in Milan.

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Jaanus Samma, the many gay histories of Modern Eastern Europe

by Agata Pyzik

Emerging artist Jaanus Samma deals with stories of homosexuality in his home country of Estonia, both under the Communist regime...

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