Uneasy Dancer is a comprehensive survey of work by Betye Saar (Los Angeles, 1926). It is the first exhibition of the American artist in Italy, and brings together over 80 works including installations, assemblages, collages and sculptures produced between 1966 and 2016. “Uneasy Dancer” is an expression Betye Saar has used… Read More
Elvira Dyangani Ose, exhibition curator, said, “If there is a particular ethos that has characterized Theaster Gates’s work in recent years, it is the formulation of the unimaginable as a common cause. It would be a misconception to believe that his attention to urban regeneration, social practice and… Read More
“T.T.T.-Template Temples of Tenacity features three entirely new works by Mosquito and will take place on the ground floor of the Podium, the Cinema and the outside spaces of Fondazione Prada. The project comprises three distinctive elements for which Mosquito has collaborated with a group of international artists. WEorNOT (Nastivicious’… Read More
For sixteen days, Italy’s Lake Iseo is being reimagined. 100,000 square meters of shimmering yellow fabric, carried by a modular floating dock system of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes, undulate with the movement of the waves as The Floating Piers rise just above the surface of the water. Visitors can experience… Read More
“Five Car Stud is considered one of the American artist’s most significant works. Despite the controversy and attention that it earned from critics right from its debut, the piece remained hidden from view in the storage of a Japanese collector for almost forty years. The artwork was only… Read More
Waiting for Qin Feng, a solo exhibition of work by Chinese ink artist Qin Feng, will be installed in three locations, the former Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, now home to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, the Armenian Catholic Monastery on San Lazzaro Island and Venice International University on San… Read More
“L’image volée,” includes more than 90 works produced by over 60 artists from 1820 through the present day. Demand’s idea for the exhibition is to explore the way we all rely on pre-existing models, and how artists have always referred to existing imagery to make their own. Questioning… Read More
“To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, developed by the artist for Fondazione Prada’s spaces, brings together reflections on seminal issues such as time, beginnings and endings, collapse and renewal. Observing humanity’s concern with the conclusion of mankind, Macuga poses a fundamental question: how important is… Read More
“The intense and visionary expression of Joan of Arc, taken from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, 1928), is the protagonist of Rebels, the cycle of works that Gianna Scoino presents today at the Immaginaria Gallery. The artist has worked for years… Read More
“The Western art tradition has mainly conceived of paintings as frontal (“recto”) artifacts. The back (“verso”) carries significantly less cultural meaning, destined to remain beyond the public’s view, and only visible to the artists themselves or staff at museums and galleries. In this exhibition, artists over the course… Read More
“The historical core of the exhibition consists of pieces from Venetian institutions such as the Accademia Gallery and the Institute of Art History of Giorgio Cini Foundation. These works of art bear scars attained during their various preservation processes, which ultimately changed their shape. At… Read More
“This Imago Mundi exhibition at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice has a very special significance for me. The vast numbers of artists present, from over 40 countries, in a certain sense reproduce the world I would ideally like. A world without borders and without political, ideological or religious… Read More
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