Category: Contemporary Art
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Biennale di Venezia 2024
This weekend marks the end of the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, this year’s Biennale, titled “Stranieri ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,” reflects on our interconnected, globalized world and celebrates the richness of diversity. Over the past months, I had the opportunity to visit the Biennale…
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Pierre Huyghe – liminal
Punta della Dogana, the Venetian location for the French Pinault Collection, presents Liminal, a solo exhibition by Pierre Huyghe, held in parternship with Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art. Known for immersive and thought-provoking work, Huyghe constructs an immersive experience that leads visitors beyond the reality, inviting them into a boundary-crossing…
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Pino Pascali
Fondazione Prada presents a comprehensive retrospective on Pino Pascali (1935-1968), a precursor of Arte Povera and an artist whose influence continues to resonate across generations. Despite his brief life and career, Pascali left behind an impressive body of work, primarily sculptures, which the Prada Foundation has carefully assembled for this…
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Eva Jospin – Tromper l’œil
Galleria Continua celebrates the first year of collaboration with Eva Jospin (b. 1975), the acclaimed French sculptor who, for over fifteen years, has been experimenting with various materials to create intricate and immersive artworks. Located on the first floor of the gallery, this exhibition features a selection of both recent…
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Ellsworth Kelly – Formes et couleurs. 1949-2015
The Louis Vuitton Foundation dedicates an exhibition to the American painter, almost ten years after his death. From the first room, the visitor enters a world of vivid colours, monochromes and geometric forms that attract and immerge. The rooms of the exhibition are invested in such an ethereal and silent…
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Le monde comme il va
Similar to Babouc, who discoveres human controversies and excesses in Voltaire’s philosophic fable, visitors here explore the depths and complexities of the world described through the pieces of the Pinault Collection on display. This exhibition, titled after Voltaire’s tale “Le Monde comme il va” (The World as it Goes), presents…
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Dislocations
A truly moving exhibition, Dislocations showcases artworks created by artists living in exile. Organized in collaboration with the association Portes Ouvertes sur l’Art, dedicated to promoting and exhibiting painters experiencing exile, Dislocations features artworks by fifteen artists from diverse origins and generations. The exhibition’s layout isn’t too big, allowing visitors…
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En poussière – Dominique Ghesquière & Lucie Douriaud
An exhibition with a strong environmental resonance, En poussière showcases the works of two artists from different generations, whose pieces perfectly dialogue with each other but also with the viewer. Upon entering the exhibition space, the conscientious research on materials becomes immediately apparent: tyres, wood, metal, stone, straw are integrated…
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Suzanne Husky – The Deep Time of Rivers
Have you ever reflected on the importance of beavers for our environment? That is the focus of this exhibition, in particular the subject of this series by Suzanne Husky. Winner of the Prix Drawing Now 2023, Suzanne Husky has been exploring environmental issues since the 2000s through her art, particularly…
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Chéri Samba, dans la collection Jean Pigozzi
The solo exhibition at Musée Maillol showcases Chéri Samba’s bold and engaging work, spanning 40 years of his career. It challenges traditional art narratives and includes thought-provoking textual elements.
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