Portafortuna is a public program presented in Florence by Toast Project Space that aims to bring together different independent Italian entities from the world of contemporary visual culture. In an open perspective independent spaces can help decentralize the contemporary art world, letting new ideas emerge while developing a unique identity. Independent art spaces can also
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Kyle Thompson was born in Chicago in 1992 and he is currently based in Portland, Oregon. His work is mostly composed of self portraits, which he shoots using a timer and moving slowly in front of the camera as if it was a solitary performance. Thompson’s carefully staged photographs encapsulate an ephemeral narrative: it is
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Treti Galaxie is the tight artistic-curatorial co-working of Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini. Based in Turin, but set in a virtual third dimension, the ideas’ one, their project is actually a state of mind rather than a concrete place. The aim is to break boundaries between curatorship and art, choosing to investigate the spaces in
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Nicola Melinelli’s practice makes representation both abstract and anthropomorphic, stimulating references to art history and the natural world. From the simple form to its transformation into an architectural building, a drawing, a three- dimensional object, in a composition for a book. In the following interview, starting from the last group show Pelle d’oca curated by
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With the show Estate, autunno the group formed at BoCs Art Cosenza, last July’s residency, presents itself in a new guise with a strong vitality of the connections developed in that time. This chapter set in Milan is the result of research born in Cosenza and developed through the following months.The curators invited to take
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Born in Santiago de Chile (1979), the audiovisual artist Enrique Ramírez trained at the Institute of Arts and Communication (ARCOS), a mix of cine, video and visual arts. Then, he earned his Masters degree at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Tourcoing, France) high-level audiovisual arts and contemporary art. Enrique Ramírez is recognized
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“Art is the only power to free humankind from all repression.”– Joseph Beuys With these words we introduce The Revolution is Us, title of the second edition of the Autostrada Biennale Prizren, Kosovo, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, whom I interviewed and told us how it went.In this edition 30 selected artists could bring their
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Almanac is a non-profit organisation based in London with a sibling project in Turin called Almanac Inn. Founded in 2013 by Guido Santandrea, Astrid Korporaal and Francesca von Zedtwitz-Arnim, the project is dedicated to showing art in various forms and engaging with ways art can become a part of life’s daily rhythms. Since its inception,
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