This year's Biennale of Venice's 50th International Art Exhibition presents an "exhibition of exhibitions" called "Dreams and Conflicts"; The Dictatorship of the Viewer. From the 12th of June until November, throughou...

THE INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR IN COLOGNE 2003

2003.2.1　 Text: Loredana Mascheroni

Expectations weren't high. The negative halo of the crisis in the German market, now evident for a couple of years, weighed heavily before the Mobelmesse even opened. But the German furniture fair, second in importanc...

FUZZY

2002.7.27　 Text: Ilaria Ventriglia

Five artists, who share the same basic idea of habitability, architecture, design, entertainment and reflection, lead us into their Fuzzy world. To demonstrate that art can be action, that it can establish a dialogue ...

HAVANA ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL

2002.4.27　 Text: Elisa Ale

The first Architecture Biennial in Havana, Cuba has recently been concluded, following a week of conferences and around twenty exhibitions. In a historic city centre momentarily immune from foolish speculation (thanks...

KELLY NIPPER: PHOTOGRAPHING TIME

2002.4.27　 Text: Ilaria Ventriglia

This could be the story of a rarefied and cerebral journey which involves a number of expressive languages in order to arrive at an objective view of things. Kelly Nipper, a young American born in 1971, uses photograp...

ACHILLE FUNI 1890-1972

2002.3.27　 Text: Ilaria Ventriglia

"If there is no form there is no life". This is how Achille Funi sums up in his painting the scrupulous definition of the object, the predominance of line on colour, the solid tangibility of volumes which express them...

FORM FOLLOWS FICTION

2001.12.26　 Text: Ilaria Ventriglia

At Castello di Rivoli, curator and gallery owner Jeffrey Deitch has put together the exhibition "Form Follows Fiction". Twenty international artists give body and voice to aesthetic worlds in which it is no longer pos...

BEAUTY IN AVIGNON

2000.7.21　 Text: Julien Villaret

In Europe, summer comes with its batch of exhibitions and events, art bienniales and other cultural meetings. One of the most important art exhibitions of the summer, at least in France, will be held in Avignon. The t...