REBELLIOUS MAGDALENA

A 64 meters long exhibition that allows to know the polish artist whole production

In the 1960s and 70s, the plastic art was reshaping its guidelines between minimalism, arte povera (poor art), earth art and the different body art tendencies. During the Cold War in Poland, Magdalena Abakanowicz (Falenty 1930-2017) gave life to innovative expressive forms.

Sculptor, performer, dancer: his work can be considered as a continuous weaving activity

You say beauty and I can deal with it. Beauty is no longer an absolute value for at least two centuries, perhaps three, although in our country it is difficult to accept. Beauty is changeable. Beauty has been used to exclude, to set criteria. Well, out. Yet one can not do without. Saying that it is no longer an idol, it does not mean that beauty is completely removed, as the eminent critics noted such as Arthur Danto did. It means questioning its chances of existence nowadays.

In ‘78 she met Giugiaro who introduced her to painting. Since then, a succession of visionary canvases led to the revisitation of Michelangelo’s work at the Sistine Chapel.

Marison Ray studied graphics and design and was hired by Giorgetto Giugiaro in 1978. But another world opened up for her later, that of painting.

With more than 150 artworks displayed this is the largest exhibition dedicated to the artist.

The exhibition “Getulio Alviani. Maestro della luce” has recently opened its door at Scuola grande della misericordia. After the Mayor’s introductions and those of the critics Luca Beatrice, Dora Fraglica and Carlo Vanoni, the violinist Olen Cesari played among an audience of collectors. This is one of the largest exhibitions dedicated to the artist from Udine that passed away in 2018.

We reached censorship

We are told that the last AW ArtMag Black Number (Nr. 5/2022) edition will go down in history. Who knows? In the meantime, between general astonishment and outrage, it has been passed from person to person. Can that be? Does Siae no longer intend to recognize the right to information and ask for money for reproductions published with newspaper articles? Even RAI (Italian television) is concerned, with close-ups dedicated to those pages of our magazine where gloomy black boxes, with Siae Artist stamp, appear rather than the usual artworks reproductions.

Madrid • At the Thyssen-Bornemisza a unique exhibition dedicated to Chanel and Picasso

The exhibition traces the experiences that the painter and the fashion designer shared between 1915 and 1925

The meeting took place in 1917 in Paris thanks to Jean-Cocteau. She was a model of class and elegance, while he was a committed avant-gardist. She is considered a master of dressing the world, while he was a master at laying it bare. There is almost a whiff of heresy in the juxtaposition of Coco Chanel and Pablo Picasso.

In conversation with Daniele Basso on the occasion of the exhibition in Oropa

An exhibition that includes the territory too. Artworks speak about courage, research, identity

We meet Daniele Basso on the occasion of the exhibition “The Folds of the Soul” at the Sanctuary of Oropa (Biella). A singular initiative that stimulates a dialogue between the sacredness of the place and contemporary art.

So, Daniele, the exhibition opens with Boogyeman at the entrance of the Sanctuary and Ikaros in the square of the Upper Basilica.

London • Cornelia Parker at the Tate

On show the works of the last 35 years: sculptures, films, photographies, installations and embroideries  

A different perspective can reconfigure the way we think. Cornelia Parker acts on the wow effect that her works, featured at Tate Britain through Oct 16, generate in the viewer. The English artist, who had already developed confidence with manual skills as a child by contributing to her father's farming business, performs unusual and original actions on the objects in her work: she explodes, destroys, burns, shoots and crushes.

New York • Tillmans's major retrospective at the MoMA

On show: 350 works photographs, videos and multimedia installations

"To look without fear", Wolfgang Tillmans's current exhibition at New York's MoMA (until January 1st 2023), already seems from its title to be a denial of, or at least a contradiction to, one of his previous solo shows, Fragile.

Paris • Hyperrealism takes the scene at Maillol Museum

Exhibition theme: investigating the reality which is concealed by realistic forms

In the beginning of this millennium, after the creative mare magnum of the 1900s, one might wonder if the new artistic revolution is not to return to a virtuous, lyrical realism, far from the intellectualism that swept away the naturalism of Western art. Sculpture in particular has always represented this link with reality, on a long path interrupted only in the Middle Ages and by the artistic avant-garde.