Lena Henke’s “My History of Flow” at SALTS, Swiss
Lena Henke My History of Flow Curated by Anna Goetz SALTS, Birsfelden, Swiss 16 June — 28 August,...
“Owen Piper and Lili Reynaud-Dewar on how to talk dirty and influence people” at SALTS, Swiss
Owen Piper and Lili Reynaud-Dewar Owen Piper and Lili Reynaud-Dewar on how to talk dirty and influence people Curated by Samuel Leuenberger and Elise Lammer SALTS, Birsfelden, Swiss 16 June — 28 August,...
“Works off Paper” at SALTS, Swiss
Penny Goring, Lorraine O’Grady, Lady Pink, Arleen Schloss, Martine Syms, SADAF, Manuel Arturo Abreu, Ashley Angel Ashley, Katherine Botten, Ana Božičević, Whitney Claflin, Michele D’Aurizio & Nathaniel Wolfson, Hamish Farah, Jameson Fitzpatrick, Penny Goring, Aurelia Guo, Diana Hamilton, Ian Hatcher, Caspar Heinemann, Christopher LG Hill, Rin Johnson, Sophie Jung, Devin Kenny, Shiv Kotecha, Sophia Le Fraga, Matthew Linde, Laura...
Yorgos Stamkopoulos’ “Soul Remains” at Nathalie Halgand, Vienna
Yorgos Stamkopoulos Soul Remains Nathalie Halgand, Vienna 29 June – 30 July, 2016...
“Identify Your Limitations, Acknowledge The Periphery” at VITRINE, London
Jennifer Douglas, Justin Eagle, Sean Edwards, Ditte Gantriis, Maria de la O Garrido, Lauren Godfrey, Ludovica Gioscia, Felicity Hammond, Holly Hendry, Karin Hueber, Alix Marie, McGilvary/White, Paul Merrick, Lucia Quevedo, Charlie Godet Thomas, Aethan Wills, Madalina Zaharia “Identify Your Limitations, Acknowledge The Periphery” VITRINE, London July 13 – 11 September, 2016 Credits: “Identify your...
Stefano Canto’s “Concrete Archive” at Matèria Gallery, Rome
Stefano Canto Concrete Archive Matèria Gallery, Rome 1 – 30 July,...
“Out Of The Dark” at KOW, Berlin
Djonga Bismar & Manenga Kibwila, CATPC/ IHA/ Renzo Martens, Chto Delat, Heinrich Dunst, Alice Creischer, Eugenio Dittborn, Barbara Hammer, Ramon Haze, Hiwa K, Chris Martin, Dierk Schmidt, Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger, Mario Pfeifer, Tina Schulz, Michael E. Smith, Franz Erhard Walther, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Tobias Zielony Out Of The Dark KOW, Berlin 26 June – 31 July, 2016 Image credits: Out Of The Dark, exhibition view...
Martín Soto Climent’s “Retrospectiva” at Lulu, Mexico City
Martín Soto Climent Retrospectiva, curated by Chris Sharp Lulu, Mexico City 11 June – 8 August,...
Nathaniel Rackowe & Ulrik Weck’s “Low Fidelity” at Etage Projects, Copenhagen
Nathaniel Rackowe & Ulrik Weck Low Fidelity Etage Projects, Copenhagen 20 May – 30 July,...
“Artificial Arcadia” at Bosse Baum, London
Freya Douglas-Morris, Carson Fisk-Vittori, May Hands, Lucia Monge, Nicole Vinokur Artificial Arcadia Bosse Baum, London 10 June – 31 July,...
Fahd Burki’s “New Works” at Grey Noise, Dubai
Fahd Burki New Works Grey Noise, Dubai 16 May – 30 July,...
Nicène Kossentini’s “Fugitive” at Sabrina Amrani, Madrid
Nicène Kossentini Fugitive Sabrina Amrani, Madrid 8 June – 30 July,...
Ute Müller’s and Zin Taylor’s “The Canyon” at collicaligreggi, Catania
Ute Müller and Zin Taylor The Canyon collicaligreggi, Catania 30 April – 30...
Mika Rottenberg at Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
Mika Rottenberg Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris 23 June – 30 July, 2016...
Megan Rooney’s “Animals on the bed” at Seventeen, London
Megan Rooney Animals on the bed Seventeen, London 3 June – 23 July,...
Andrew Barber’s and Bill Culbert’s “The Key to the Fields” at Hopkinson Mossman
Andrew Barber and Bill Culbert The Key to the Fields Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland 24 June – 23 July,...
Chris Hammerlein’s “God Is My Only Friend” at Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels
Chris Hammerlein God Is My Only Friend Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels 9 June – 16 July,...
“Secondary Object” at David Dale Gallery & Studios, Glasgow
Mikkel Carl, Natalie Dray, Aymeric Tarrade Secondary Object David Dale Gallery & Studios, Glasgow 11 June – 16 July,...
Debora Delmar Corp.’s “*Headquarters*” at DUVE, Berlin
Debora Delmar Corp. *Headquarters* DUVE, Berlin 11 June – 16 July, 2016 Credits: Images courtesy the artist and DUVE Berlin. Photo: Joachim...
Yves Scherer’s and Grear Patterson’s “East of Eden” at Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels
Yves Scherer and Grear Patterson East of Eden Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels 9 June – 16 July, 2016 Credits: Images courtesy Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Brussels. Photo: Ludovic Beillard....
Valentin Carron’s “A comb a hole” at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Valentin Carron A comb a hole David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles 4 June – 16 July,...
Ignacio Uriarte’s “Disegni Scritti” at Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome
Ignacio Uriarte Disegni Scritti Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome 22 June – 20 July,...
Anna-Eva Bergman at Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris
Anna-Eva Bergman Galerie Jerome Poggi, Paris 28 May – 16...
Krishna Reddy’s “Editionmaker: Contextual Sculpture to the Conceptual” at Experimenter, Kolkata
Krishna Reddy Editionmaker: Contextual Sculpture to the Conceptual Experimenter, Kolkata 20 May – 16 July,...
“I Like What I See And How It Makes Me Feel” at Hollybush Gardens, London
Knut Henrik Henriksen, Alejandra Hernández, Lubaina Himid, Reto Pulfer I Like What I See And How It Makes Me Feel Hollybush Gardens, London 3 June – 9 July,...
Joshua Saunders’ “Rock Candy” at Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Joshua Saunders Rock Candy Steve Turner, Los Angeles 3 June – 9 July, 2016 Credits: Image courtesy the artist and Steve...
“Triples: Harry Dodge, Evan Holloway and Peter Shelton” at The Approach, London
Harry Dodge, Evan Holloway, Peter Shelton Triples: Harry Dodge, Evan Holloway, Peter Shelton The Approach, London 26 May – 3 July, 2016 Credits: Image courtesy The Approach...
Magni Borgehed’s “13 true stories” at Last Resort, Copenhagen
Magni Borgehed 13 true stories Last Resort, Copenhagen 11 June – 2 July,...
Bronwyn Katz’s “Groenpunt” at blank projects, Cape Town
Bronwyn Katz Groenpunt blank projects, Cape Town 2 June – 2 July, 2016 Credits: Image courtesy the artist and blank...
Cinga Samson’s “Ubugqoboka Magqoboka” at blank projects, Cape Town
Cinga Samson Ubugqoboka Magqoboka blank projects, Cape Town 2 June – 2 July, 2016 Credits: Image courtesy the artist and blank...
Tamara Al-Samerrai & Fouad Elkoury’s “Play The Possum” at Gypsum, Cairo
Tamara Al-Samerrai & Fouad Elkoury Play The Possum Gypsum, Cairo 31 May – 14 July,...
Rubén Grilo’s “Proof Of Concept” at Union Pacific, London
Rubén Grilo Proof Of Concept Union Pacific, London 20 May – 2 July,...
Mark Leckey’s “Uniadddumths” at Sant’Andrea De Scalphis, Rome
Mark Leckey Uniadddumths Sant’Andrea De Scalphis, Rome 25 May – 16 July, 2016 Credits: Photo: Roberto Apa. Image courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s...
Destabilizing visual codes with logical outcome: interview with Franco Costalonga on his kinetic art at GR Gallery, New York
“Revolution”, running until 17 July 2016, is the solo show of Italian Kinetic artist Franco Costalonga at New York’s GR Gallery, a commercial space focused on Kinetic and Optical Art. Detecting a recent comeback of these two movements on the art market—from this year’s edition of Miart 2016 exhibiting a large body of work by Alberto Biasi, to museum exhibitions across the US presenting masterpieces by Bridget...
B. WURTZ at Office Baroque, Brussels
B. WURTZ Office Baroque, Brussels 4 June – 16 July, 2016 Credits: © B. Wurtz – Photo: 2016 Sven Laurent – Let me shoot for you. Image courtesy the artist and Office Baroque,...
Catharine Czudej’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” at Office Baroque, Brussels
Catharine Czudej Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Office Baroque, Brussels 4 June – 16 July, 2016 Credits: © Catharine Czudej – Photo: 2016 Sven Laurent – Let me shoot for you. Image courtesy the artist and Office Baroque, Brussels....
Ed Atkins at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Ed Atkins Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York May 21 – 1 July,...
Italy/ Lamberto Teotino – through pictures
Italian artist Lamberto Teotino‘s work relies upon the massive use of images and photography. Particularly, the Rome-based artist explores the modes in which photography acts as the true reporter of facts while simultaneously cutting out portions of space according to what the eye of the observer wants to focus on. The artist’s research explores the dissemination of meaning alongside the conditions of an altered visual...
David Maljković’s “All Day All Year” at T293, Rome
David Maljković All Day All Year T293, Rome 26 May – 16 July...
Rob Sherwood’s “Totem” at Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome
Rob Sherwood Totem Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome 19 May – 15 July 2016...
Hugo Pernet’s “Mirages” at Super Dakota, Brussels
Hugo Pernet Mirage Super Dakota, Brussels 27 May – 2 July 2016...
Jaber Al Azmeh’s “Border-lines” at Green Art Gallery, Dubai
Jaber Al Azmeh Border-lines Green Art Gallery, Dubai 16 May – 2 July...
Tomaso De Luca’s “ein reiner Morgen in Amerika” at Monitor, Rome
Tomaso De Luca ein reiner Morgen in Amerika Monitor, Rome 20 May – 16...
India/ Aaditi Joshi – through pictures
Indian artist Aaditi Joshi works with site-specific environmental installations that tell of pollution and the historical heritage of her native city. As an inhabitant of Mumbai, one of the most populated and polluted metropolis in India, Joshi gets extremely influenced by the large amount of debris and trash she sees around herself on a daily basis. However, she looks at such ‘plastic’ landscape in a renewed way, reading...
Iris blue flooding: interview with artist Davide D’Elia on time and environmental painting
Rome-based artist Davide D’Elia’s work relies on environmental installations and a thoughtful use of colors. His research on the notion and impact of time over places and individuals has become recognizable thanks to the use of the iris blue antifouling painting flooding the exhibition spaces. Where’s Art catches up with Davide D’Elia to know more about the use of such an unusual medium, his background as a...
Australia/ Nyah Isabel Cornish – through pictures
There was a time when the line of sight was horizontal, wide, consequential. There was a time when perception relied mostly upon the “tangible” senses of smell, touch and taste. In 1916 the Cubist masterwork Les demoiselles d’Avignon by Picasso marked a huge leap in the perception of the body. The attempt was to catch all the possible angles from which a body with volume and mass could be perceived. Instead of...
Henrik Olai Kaarstein’s “Well received lies” at T293 – interview
“Well received lies”, the exhibition of Norwegian artist Henrik Olai Kaarstein presents multifaceted artworks in the new premises of T293 in Rome. Black and white images, colour intensifying subjectivity and installation lead viewers to explore love as well as political relationships, activating a reflection on their own condition. Are these all well received lies? Fortunately a human being can comprehend only a certain...
Lebanon-US/ Daniele Genadry – through pictures
Brooklyn-based artist Daniele Genadry works with painting that she uses to record the evolution of places over time. As she states in her website, referring to one of her Rome-made project Vedute, “I used a selection of the records of the city from the 1700s to present day, as well as my own snapshots, to create a new series of views, referencing the traditional 18th century etching practice in Rome.” Genadry uses the...
Italy-Taiwan/ Marta Roberti – through pictures
Rome- and Taipei-based Italian artist Marta Roberti’s work focuses on drawing and video animation that she presented in the form of installation. Her latest project Nature is Artifactual (2014) is a multimedia installation of hand drawing and light boxes she commenced in her residency at Taipei’s Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in 2014-2015. Roberti’s research explores the theme of subjectivity in today’s society,...
Iran/ Sepideh Salehi – through pictures
New York-based Iranian artist Sepideh Salehi’s body of work is imbued with the image of the veiled Muslim woman as well as with stories from her own country of origin. Through a variety of media spanning from printing, photography and video animation, Salehi’s research revolves around the poetics of veil, an accessory that is by nature used to cover, obscure, or protect. Whether it stimulates fantasies of penetrating beyond the...
Italy/ Giulia Marchi – through pictures
Italian artist Giulia Marchi’s photography draws inanimate landscapes, one may find in sci-fi movies. Her work relies on the alteration of polaroids allowing the artist to give the image a completely new texture and chromatic combination. On the occasion of Marchi’s participation in the London Art Fair 2016 (20-24 January) at the booth of Matèria Gallery, Where’s Art picks two of her photographic works on landscape...
Islam and spiritualism in Maïmouna Guerresi’s “Talwin” on view at Matèria Gallery
Italian photographer, sculptor, and video and installation artist Maïmouna Guerresi talks to Where’s Art about her current solo exhibition at Rome-based Matèria Gallery. She presents her photographic research by focusing on her interest in Islam and its spiritual dimension alongside the hot topic of woman empowerment in our today’s society. Starting from your current exhibition “Talwin” at Matèria Gallery,...
Italy/ Marco Strappato – through pictures
London-based Italian artist Marco Strappato’s (1982, Porto San Giorgio) research revolves around the overlap and overexposure to the endless production of images from the media. His latest ‘multi-layered’ works take the form of a sculptural three-dimensional collage drawing material from the relationship between landscape and technology. Extrapolating color codes and the pure structure underneath objects, Strappato composes...
Exstatic tensions in the work of Hilla Ben Ari and Alice Cattaneo – interview
Where’s Art talks to Israeli artist Hilla Ben Ari and Italian Alice Cattaneo about their collaboration project “Tensioni Estatiche” (Ex-static Tensions) presented at Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch in Rome. Both the two artists share the interest in the notion of body and investigate the way it appears phisically and metaphorically as, simultaneously, a content and a container. The element of the body is very present in...
Kuwait/ Hamra Abbas – through pictures
Kuwaiti artist Hamra Abbas lives between Boston and Lahore. Her research expresses through a myriad of languages spanning photography, sculpture, video and installation. Her oeuvre is deeply imbued with images from the Islamic world that she sharply and ironically reworks. Made of miniature, vivid colors, and repetition of geometric patterns, Abbas turns such aesthetics into a minimalistic outcome. Her fascination with the power of...
Bangladesh/ Rana Begum – through pictures
Rana Begum is a Bangladeshi artist based in London. Her research delves into Islamic Art, from which she deduces the traditional repetition of motives. Combining geometry with brightly fluo colors, Begum gives shape to sculptures recalling both Scandinavian minimalistic looking and folded papers of origami.
Syria/ Sara Naim – through pictures
London-based Syrian artist Sara Naim‘s (1987) work spans photography, video and installations. Her research revolves around sculpture as it investigates the texture of surfaces, shapes and the relationship between bodies. The way she looks at the surrounding world moves from the outside inward as to catch the inner soul and emotions of a certain momentum. ...
Israel/ Keren Benbenisty – through pictures
Where’s Art presents a selection of projects by New York-based Israeli artist Keren Benbenisty. Working with video installation, drawing and sculpture, the artist investigates the notion of “in-betweeness” alongside the relationship between Western and Eastern...
France/ Margaux Roy – through pictures
French Margaux Roy‘s photography draws on simple moments of her everyday life and stories from her childhood. Each shot becomes the occasion for the artist to express her feelings through images – precisely through textures, shapes, contrasts, pattern juxtaposition. Roy’s work is minimalistic, and one can clearly see how thoughtful is the selection of landscapes, situations and glimpses that stick to the...
ifa gallery at the Beirut Art Fair 2015 – interview with director Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff
Continuing the exploration of the artistic scene in the MENASA region, Where’s Art proposes a series of interviews with a selection of participating galleries in this year’s edition of the Beirut Art Fair that will take place from 17 to 20 September 2015. Where’s Art talks to director Alexis Kouzmine-Karavaïeff of the Brussels and Shanghai-based ifa gallery about his understanding of the Asian market and his...
Galerie Mark Hachem at the Beirut Art Fair 2015 – interview with art dealer Mark Hachem
Continuing the exploration of the artistic scene in the MENASA region, Where’s Art proposes a series of interviews with a selection of participating galleries in this year’s edition of the Beirut Art Fair that will take place from 17 to 20 September 2015. Where’s Art’s cycle of conversations continues with art dealer Mark Hachem about the specificities and guidelines of his New York, Paris and...
Director Jennifer Norback about her participation in the Beirut Art Fair 2015
Continuing the exploration of the artistic scene in the MENASA region, Where’s Art proposes a selection of interviews with directors from participating galleries in this year’s edition of the Beirut Art Fair. This first conversation is with gallerist Jennifer Norback, owner of the eponymous Chicago-based commercial space. How would you describe the contemporary art scene in Beirut? And why do you think is a commercially...
“Reciprocal Score” at Roman space Indipendenza – interview with Tauba Auerbach
Repetition, symmetry and an abundant use of patterns are the main features of New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach‘s work. Influenced by Op Art paintings from the Sixties and the Seventies, her production shows a great command over the perception of space that she fills out with stripe-based printing or weaving on canvas, and creating kinetic effects of distortion and pointillism. Where’s Art talks to Tauba Auerbach on the...
Minna Kantonen, Dafna Talmor, Emma Wieslander in conversation about “On Landscape #2”
London based artists Minna Kantonen, Dafna Talmor and Emma Wieslander talk to Where’s Art about their recent project On Landscape #2 presented at the new born Matèria Gallery in Rome, while introducing their own photographic research on the notion of landscape as a multi-faceted narrative where nature, history and culture merge to shape our present urban environment. “In vain, great-hearted Kublai, shall I attempt to...
Tunisia/ Nicène Kossentini – through pictures
The Cabinet presents a selection of photographs from Tunisian artist Nicène Kossentini‘s series The City in the Sky (2013) and I Saw the Sky (2009), in which the artist portrays fragments of the landscapes of her childhood. A coast, the seaside, a construction site appear in the image altered, blurred, almost unreal as if they were scenes from dream. The artist displaces her dear reality in the sky, where the horizon is wide and...
Interview with Russian artist Alexey Luka on his exhibition “Being Here” at Wunderkammern
From large-scale interventions in the urban space to sculptures and paintings, Russian artist Alexey Luka’s collages are deeply imbued by his motherland’s avant-garde movements. In particular, the graphic composition, the use of geometric forms and the juxtaposition of paint and newspapers’ cut-outs recall El Lissitzky’s manifestos of the early XIX Russian propaganda. Where’s Art talks to painter, sculptor and...
Interview with Italian artist Francesco Ardini about mythology and sculpture in his solo show “Stige”
The carnal element of body and its deterioration alongside the way one can physically perceive anxiety are very present in the project Stige as well as in the research of Italian artist Francesco Ardini. Where’s Art digs into the artist’s background and practice that brought to the recent project “Stige” on view at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome. I would like to start this conversation from the title of your...
Lydia Gifford’s “To. For. With” at Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Lydia Gifford To. For. With Laura Bartlett Gallery, London 26 March – 10 May...
A journey through observation – interview with Italian artist Michela de Mattei
Where’s Art interviews Italian artist Michela de Mattei about her solo show “Vogliate Perdonare Quel Poco di Disturbo Che Reco” at gallery Ex Elettrofonica, where an old, baffling photo of a cheetah triggers a journey in space, time, vision and the relation than binds them all. So what does fascinate me in the animal? […] If I try to vaguely count, what shocks me in an animal, the first thing that fascinated me, is that...
Davide Monaldi on his solo show “Monaldi” at Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri – interview
Italian artist Davide Monaldi’s solo exhibition at Roman commercial space Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri is a delicate yet gloomy self portrait scattered across the space and depicting the artist’s emotional state and professional life through a variety of glazed ceramic objects. Where’s Art talks to Rome-based artist to know more about his research, future plans and cultural influences in his work. To the ones who...
Rome-based artist Stanislao Di Giugno recounting his experience in painting – studio visit
Rome-based artist Stanislao Di Giugno works on the boundary between painting and sculpture. His research revolves around the element of stratification in order for the artist to explore the landscape of images that surrounds him. A schizophrenic melting pot of visual stimuli that Di Giugno embodies in his collages and mixed media canvases. Where’s Art talks to Stanislao Di Giugno about his creative process and experimentation...
Astrid Nippoldt speaks about the project “Oakwood” presented at Rome-based The Gallery Apart
Berlin-based artist Astrid Nippodt talks to Where’s Art about her fascination for inanimate landscapes as well as for the notion of enclosure. Departing from her recent exhibition project Oakwood at The Gallery Apart in Rome, the artist recognizes as leitmotif in her research, the great interest of her in the immediacy of perception. Projects you have developed hitherto share the same medium – photography and video...
French curator Laurie Chappis Peron presents artist Morgane Fourey – curator’s pick
Where’s Art invites French artist and curator Laurie Chappis Peron to introduce Rouen and Paris-based artist Morgane Fourey’s research on painting and portraiture. Morgane Fourey (France, 1984) lives and works between Rouen and Paris. Graduated from the École Régionale des Beaux Arts de Rouen – ERBA, she currently works as both artist and independent curator. Morgane Fourey works with a variety of mediums combining...
Yéanzi’s “Persona” at Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan
Yéanzi Persona Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Abidjan 24 April – 20 June...
Santo Tolone’s “37 Days of Darkness” at Limoncello Gallery, London
Santo Tolone 37 Days of Darkness Limoncello Gallery, London 30 April – 6 June...
Revamping feminism: interview with French collective Claire Fontaine
Where’s Art talks to Paris-based collective Claire Fontaine about their exhibition “Pretend To Be Dead” at the Roman premises of T293 gallery, while exploring delicate and still very present issues related to the woman’s condition in our contemporary society. “Woman’s difference is her millennial absence from history. Let us profit from this difference; […] Equality is what is offered as legal rights to...
Interview with Bangladeshi resident artist Paul James Gomes at The British School at Rome
Paul James Gomes is an independent producer and director based in Edinburgh, Scotland. With a background in documentary filmmaking, Gomes recently expanded his practice to include video art. Having moved from Bangladesh to the UK, the main focus of his current work is migration and the understanding of home. On the occasion of his residency at the British School at Rome, the artist created two video installations: Prego Selfie (2015)...
Iranian literature and monochromes in Avish Khebrehzadeh’s solo show “Red, White and not Blue” at Studio SALES in Rome
Monochromes, sentences collected over the years and hints from Iranian literature are just a few features of Washington D.C. and Rome-based artist Avish Khebrehzadeh’s work presented in her exhibition Red, White and not Blue at Roman gallery Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri. “And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is...
London-based Italian curator Valentina Fois presents artist Steven Morgana – curator’s pick
Where’s Art invites London-based Italian curator Valentina Fois to introduce the work of new media artist Steven Morgana. As a curator there is nothing that gives me more satisfaction than working and playing a role in the career’s development of young talents. When I see them become aware of their potential I am rewarded for all the sacrifices and long hours of work. All these young artists work like there is no tomorrow; they...
Darren Harvey-Regan’s “The Erratics” at Galleria Passaggi, Pisa
Darren Harvey-Regan The Erratics Galleria Passaggi, Pisa 18 April – 27...
“The Originals S1 E1” at Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent
Catherine Biocca, Marijke De Roover, Marie Jacotey, Ilja Karilampi, Morgan Mandalay, Aiden Morse, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Pascal Petrus, Heather Phillipson, Dieter Ravyts, Robbert&Frank Frank&Robbert, Amalia Ulman, Tamara Van San & Jelena Vanoverbeek The Originals S1 E1 Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent 29 March – 31 May...
Belgium-based artists Kasper Bosmans and Raffaella Crispino in correspondence
Where’s Art talks to Belgian artist Kasper Bosmans and Brussels-based Italian artist Raffaella Crispino about their collaborative exhibition c/o An Alternate Correspondence at 1/9unosunove gallery in Rome, until 11 April 2015. “I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more...
Interview with Danish artist Peter Linde Busk about his fascination for the uncanny
Where’s Art interviews Danish painter Peter Linde Busk about the meaning of eerie figurations in his solo exhibition Gentlemen at Roman gallery Monitor. “Soon after my arrival in the hovel I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory. […] It was your journal of the four months that preceded my creation. You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress...
Pattern and totemic painting in the work of German artist Clara Brörmann – interview
Where’s Art talks to Berlin-based artist Clara Brörmann about painting and aesthetic influences from sculpture and Avantgarde movements in her work alongside her recent solo exhibition “Obenauf” at art dealer Federica Schiavo’s commercial space in Rome. “Abstraction is real, probably more than nature.” – Josef Albers 3 adjectives to describe your exhibition at Federica Schiavo Gallery. Diverse,...
Henry Chapman’s “Writing” at T293, Naples
Henry Chapman Writing T293, Naples 6 March – 10 April 2015 Henry Chapman’s writing text in the show (PDF download) ...
Italian curator Maria Villa presents Milan-based artist Marco Basta
Where’s Art invites Italian curator Maria Villa to introduce the narrative work by Milan-based artist Marco Basta. Works by Marco Basta (Milan, 1985), through the use of different techniques and materials, enact the balance being created between two opposites: the inner space and the outer worlds; the individual and the community; modernity and tradition; imagination and reality. Images being generated by his works always feature a...
Spain/ Marta Corada – through pictures
London-based Spanish artist Marta Martínez Corada’s Post Memories photographic project speculates on the causality of time while suggesting a reflection on the relationship between the individual and space. Multiple shooting and a careful selection of moments plus plenty of edition work are her tools to compose these images on the boundary between fiction and...
German artist Felix Kiessling interviewed on his “Vavilov” site specific project
Berlin-based artist Felix Kiessling’s research focuses on scale, distance and vastness, notions which are beyond man’s control and difficult to reach and measure. Where’s Art talks to Kiessling about “Vavilov”, his site specific project exhibited at Roman Galleria Mario Iannelli. “To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is...
Studio visit and interview with London conceptual artist Thomas Hutton
A life between London, Berlin and New York to eventually land in Rome. Where’s Art talks to British conceptual artist Thomas Hutton about his research and latest projects, digging into his choice to live in the Roman art scene and his relationship with the city. “Reality is a very subjective affair. I can only define it as a kind of gradual accumulation of information; and as specialization. If we take a lily, for...
Argentinian Italian artist Mariana Ferratto interviewed on the issues of identity and the other
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” is among the famous quotations from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Invisible Monsters. Whether one agrees or not, we are the result of an ongoing exchange with the other, and perceive ourselves as same or different as someone else. Where’s Art talks to Rome-based Italian artist Mariana Ferratto about her practice focused on the...
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan’s “Fishbone” at State of Concept, Athens
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan Fishbone State of Concept, Athens 7 February – 4 April...
French curator Laurie Chappis Peron presents Paris-based artist Pauline Bastard – curator’s pick
Where’s Art invites Annecy curator Laurie Chappis Peron to introduce image-based research by Rouen artist Pauline Bastard. Pauline Bastard (born in 1982, Rouen) lives and works in Paris. She works with a variety of mediums and questions our relation with the image. Using objects, photographs, pictures, and numerical icons as in Western (2009), she creates sculptures, installations, new images and stories. A big part of the...
New York-based curator Natalia Nakazawa presents artist Deric Carner – curator’s pick
Where’s Art invites New York-based curator Natalia Nakazawa to introduce American artist Deric Carner’s work on hybrid and juxtaposition. Deric Carner (b. 1975, United States) is an artist living and working Brooklyn, NY. His most recent show, Stay, just for a little while, at the Romer Young Gallery in San Francisco, CA contends with the surly topic of sexual transgression through its most restrained counterpart:...
Activism, history and art: interview with Mexican artist Joaquin Segura
Where’s Art interviews Mexican artist Joaquin Segura on the occasion of his participation to the group show Edra. Connecting landscapes at the two venues of the Embassy of Mexico and Polish Institute in Rome. A founding member and board advisor of SOMA, Mexico City, the artist talks about his practice and the relation between art and politics, while reflecting more broadly on history and our present international occurrences....
Assembling realities: interview with Danish artist Asger Carlsen
The magic in Asger Carlsen’s work lies in the post-production phase, “the wrong element” shows up right when assembling images and juxtaposing materials and surfaces in the photographs. The result is a déjà vu of sorts: standing before the framed pictures, one believes to recognize subject(s) and be familiar with events and the composition represented; everything looks perfect but a little great detail that drags the...
Canada/ Hajra Waheed – through pictures
Canadian artist Hajra Waheed’s work seeks to address personal, national and cultural identity formation in relation to political history, popular imagination and the broad impact of colonial power globally. Her mixed media practice consists of ongoing bodies of work that continue to amass a growing personal archive – one in response to all those seemingly lost amongst rapid regional development and/or political strife. Hajra...
Pure love, morbid beauty and death: interview with Italian artist Gabriele Porta
Where’s Art talks to Italian artist Gabriele Porta about his research on human condition as well as his recent photographic and video projects exploring love, presented in the exhibition “Pure Love” at Rome-based Federica Schiavo Gallery. The Unjustly Punished Child The child screams in his room. Rage heats his head. He is going through changes like metal under deep pressure at high temperatures. When he cools off and...
Nomadism and relation in the work of Mexican artist Calixto Ramírez – interview
Calixto Ramírez’s research seems to perfectly embody the archetypes of artistic nomadism and the complete coincidence between life and creative process. After spending several years traveling between America and Europe, thus producing works that could fit in a luggage, Ramírez decided to settle in Rome for a while. In a conversation with the artist, Where’s Art explores the latest developments in his practice, investigating his...
London-based artist Ludovica Gioscia on contemporary visual language in “Èdra. Connecting landscapes” at the American Academy in Rome
Fascinated by the psychological mechanisms underlying marketing strategies, London-based Italian artist Ludovica Gioscia reworks materials and seemingly unrelated objects to create 3D collages. The environmental scale of these works seems to reference Freudian mechanisms of projection, transforming our own most intimate compulsions in totemic sculptures, rather than paranoia into objects. Where’s Art interviews the artist on the...