Nicoletta Rusconi

I am pleased to inform you that, after the summer break, the activity of the Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi will take the form of a new project. While effectively continuing what we have been doing up to now, this will seek to explore in greater depth a number of aspects that have characterized the gallery’s modus operandi so far. Our office will reopen in mid-September in our new premises at Corso Venezia 44, Milan.

The capacity we have displayed for activating relationships aimed at promoting the work of the artists who have exhibited here, will allow us to transform the concept of the art gallery — as I have understand it up to now — into a more complex system of services for artists.

The need expressed by contemporary artists to act on two fronts, with different media and techniques, has induced me to make available my experience in creating links between people coming from different cultural milieux, also connecting them with a wide range of productive situations.

Enjoy your summer holidays!

Best wishes

Nicoletta Rusconi

Opening: 13 January 2012, 7 – 9 pm

Teatime: Sunday 15 January 2012, 4 – 6 pm

Raumstation Liebhartsgasse
Liebhartsgasse 36 / 13
1160 Vienna Austria

www.raumstation-L.com

Alessandra Spranzi, L'Impenetrabilità, photo-engraving, 2011

an editorial project curated by Daniele Upiglio in collaboration with Associazione Culturale HC

Artists: Alvise Bittente, Elena Mocchetti, Margherita Morgantin, Sara Rossi, Alessandra Spranzi, Pasquale Campanella (Wurmkos).

Opening: November 9th, 2011, 6.30pm

Exhibition dates: November 9th – November 19th, 2011

Careof DOCVA

Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4, Milano

www.careof.org

Franz Schmidt, Kugelbrett, 2011, oak veneer, MDF, glass, color, 110x40x9,5cm

Schöne Wahrnehmung. Positionen junger Kunst

curated by Gertrud Peters

Artists: Angela Fette, Yesim Akdeniz Graf, Benjamin Greber, Thea Gvetadze, Nschotschi Sarah Haslinger, Sabrina Jung, Heike Kabisch, Matthias Lahme, Pauline M’Barek, Ulrich Pester, Philip Seibel, Franz Schmidt.

Opening: November 5th, 2011, 7pm

Exhibition dates: November 6th – December 10th, 2011

Temporary Gallery Cologne

Mauritiuswall 35

50676 Cologne, Germany

www.temporary-gallery-cologne.de

From October 8 to October 30, The Royal Palace Amsterdam is organizing the exhibition of the Royal Awards for Painting 2011.

The Royal Awards for Painting are presented each year by Her Majesty the Queen. They were first introduced by King William III in 1871 as an incentive to talented young painters. Queen Emma, Queen Wilhelmina, Queen Juliana and the incumbent Queen Beatrix have kept up the tradition to this day.

Royal Awards for Painting 2011

Dutch independent professional artists who had not reached the age of 35 years on January 1, 2011, could compete for the Award. In 2011 – in response to advertisements in various media, over 200 artists’ sent in slides and documentation. 80 Artists were asked to submit two paintings for the second round.

Winners of the Royal Awards for Painting 2011 are Marie Civikov, Omar Koubâa, Katja Mater and Navid Nuur.

Silvio Wolf

PAC opens its new season with the exhibition ‘SILVIO WOLF. On the Threshold’, curated by Giorgio Verzotti.

The exhibition explores thirty years of artistic activity, in seven different sections. In the itinerary designed by Silvio Wolf the visitor is placed at the center of a visual and sensory experience: environmental installations, photographic works and video projections are conceived as stages of a journey that engages the viewer from the outset, moving through timeless images in which light is the primary feature, the expressive fulcrum of work that amplifies perception and sensory stimuli, immersing the viewer in a situation the artist calls “listening”.

The first section presents Light Wave, created for the 53rd Venice Biennale: the impressive abstract writing of light displayed on the threshold of the exhibition itinerary marks the sensory aspect of the show and introduces the visitor to the coming stages of the journey.

The next three rooms are devoted to cycles of photographic works: Soglie/Thresholds (symbolic images of architecture),Orizzonti/Horizons (abstractions in the language of photography) and Icone di Luce/Icons of Light (apparition and disappearance of the object-image): they deal with the principal themes explored by the artist in the photographic medium.

The environmental works use radiating light, sound, photography and reflecting surfaces to actively involve the viewer in the architectural space. The nature of these works and the particular way they are set up encourage visitors to remain in quiet contemplation, but also to consciously interact with spaces conceived as active zones of experience.

PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan

Opening: thursday October 6th, 2011, 6.30pm

Exhibition dates: October 7th  – November 6th, 2011

Franz Schmidt, Torte, 2011, wood, color, cm 59x54x54, unique

Freie Klasse Ayse Erkmen

Artists: Annika Burbank, Maria Gerdwilker, Sabine Huzikiewiz, Miriam Jonas, Marie-Alice Kammer, Susanne Keller, Jana Guerrero Lara, Gero Meisterjahn, Franz Schmidt, Dino Steinhof, Janine Tobüren and Birgit Wichern.

Opening: June 7th, 2011, 7pm

Exhibition dates: June 8th – July 31st, 2011

Wewerka Pavillon Münster, Germany

Kardinal-von-Galen-Ring / Annette-Allee / Aasee-Uferweg

www.wewerka-pavillon.de

Francesco Patriarca, Bird House II, 2011, 35x20x10 cm

curated by Camilla Boemio
Artists: Cassander Eeftinkc Schattenkerk, Damir Ocko, Donato Piccolo, Emmanuelle Villard, Francesco Patriarca, Gino De Dominicis, Justine Cooper, Klaus Thymann, Marek Kvetan With Bra, Ravi Agarwal, Trevor Paglen, Wout Berger.

Opening: June 11th, 2011, 10am
Exhibition dates: 11th – 18th June, 2011, mon/fri 10am – 5pm, sat/sun 11am – 9pm

Botanical Garden
Largo Cristina di Svezia 24
Rome
Info + 39 066864193

The show will travel to Ancona afterwards.

Alessandra Spranzi, La scatola nera (dialogo con Luca), 2011

Artists: Alessandro Castiglioni, Antonio Catelani, Sergio Breviario, Andy Boot, Ermanno Cristini, Giovanni Morbin, Giancarlo Norese, Goran Petercol, Fabio Sandri, Luca Scarabelli, Emily Speed, Alessandra Spranzi

ASSAB ONE

Via Assab 1, Milan

Opening: May 20, from 7 pm

Exhibition dates 21st to 27th May 2011, from 3 to 7 pm

www.assab-one.org

Curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi

Artists: Mario Airò, Massimo Bartolini, Riccardo Benassi, Bianco-Valente, canecapovolto, Alberto Garutti, Donatella Landi, Martux_M, Liliana Moro, Cesare Pietroiusti, Alfredo Pirri, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Annie Ratti, Donatella Spaziani, Alberto Tadiello, ZimmerFrei.

NCCA, National Centre for Contemporary Arts

Moscow, Russia

In occasion of the celebration Russia – Italy 2011

Opening: May 16th, 2011, from 7 pm

Exhibition dates: 17th May – 5th June 2011

www.ncca.ru

in collaboration with: Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Mosca and RAM radioartemobile, Roma

Davide Tranchina, Lettere Anonime, Posters for public display.

Segni di apparenti sparizioni e ritrovamenti

Curated by Sara Mazzocchi

Artists: Susanna Alberti, Anna Arzuffi, Paolo Baraldi, Samuel Fortunato, Oscar Giaconia, Selene Lazzarini, Francesco Pedrini, Luca Resta, Jacopo Sana, Davide Tranchina and Martina Vigan.

Viale Vittorio Emanuele II, Porta di Sant’Agostino and Traffic Gallery, Bergamo

15-29 May 2011

Opening: May 14th 2011, 7 pm

Exhibition dates: 15th – 29th May

www.storytellinglab.org and www.trafficgallery.com

Alessandra Spranzi, L'uovo (Cose che accadono), 2011, edition of 5 + 2ap

DISSIPATIO HG L’uomo è un abisso

Artists:

Blind Adam, Mercedes Baliarda, Cesare Biratoni, Lindsey Bull, Laura X Carlé, Umberto Cavenago, Pierluigi Fresia, Gabriele Jardini, Cristina Mariani, Ioanna Pantazopoulou, Francesco Pedrini, Vera Portatadino, Luca Scarabelli, Alessandra Spranzi, Stavro Christo Vlachakis

CHIOSTRO DI VOLTARRE

Piazza Chiostro 23, Gavirate (VA)

Opening: May 14, 2011, from 6 pm

Exhibition dates: 14th – 29th May 2011

Open from Tuesday to Sunday 10 am – 12.30 / 2 – 6 pm

ASSOCIAZIONE STRALIS www.stralis.eu

New York celebrates the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy with a group show featuring 46 artists. The works will express the cultural relationship between Italy and the U.S. The newly created Italian oriented Industria Gallery will host the exhibition. Located at the heart of Industria Superstudio, the space is run by photographer Fabrizio Ferri. Different generations of artists, linked by the experience of living and working in New York throughout their career, will be displayed. The main theme will be artistic migration, which marked the history of contemporary art from the beginning of the ’60s until the present day. Promoted and curated by Flash Art in collaboration with Industria Superstudio, the event is sponsored by jewelry firm Vhernier, regarded as a great supporter of Italian art.

The show runs from March 27 to May 10, 2011.

Works by: Carla Accardi, Getulio Alviani, Alighiero Boetti, Enrico Castellani, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Gino De Dominicis, Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Carlo Maria Mariani, Fabio Mauri, Gian Marco Montesano, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Alessandro Roma, Piero Dorazio, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Lucio Pozzi, Vanessa Beecroft, Rossella Biscotti, Lorenza Boisi, Gianni Caravaggio, Damiano Colacito, Davide Dormino, Daniela Di Donato, Rä Di Martino, Mimmo Rotella, Bruna Esposito, Ettore Favini, Paolo Gonzato, Isola e Norzi, Massimo Kaufmann, Sebastiano Mauri, Samuele Menin, Angelo Mosca, Gabriele Picco, Giada Ripa, Antonio Rovaldi, Pietro Ruffo, Maurizio Savini, Donatella Spaziani, Santo Tolone, Luca Trevisani and Marcella Vanzo.

The gallery will stay closed on Thursday April 7, 2011.

Come and visit us at MiArt, 08/11.04.2011

Milan

viale Scarampo

Porta Teodorico,

Hall 3

Booth L 11

works by: Mario Airò, Tony Brown, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Jana Kasalova, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Francesco Pignatelli, Franz Schmidt, Jan Serych, Lisa Solomon, Alessandra Spranzi, Silvio Wolf

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The gallery is closed from 27 to 29 January 2011.

Please come to visit us at Arte Fiera, Bologna, pavillion 15 booth A8.

Thursday 27 January
12.00 – Preview by invitation only

Opening time
From Friday 28 to Sunday 30 Jan., 11.00am – 7.00pm
Monday 31, 11.00am – 5.00pm

Entrances
Costituzione Ovest entrance and Nord entrance

http://blog.atcasa.corriere.it

The American Academy will open its doors, windows, and public spaces to the city of Rome from 6 to 9 PM on Thursday 20 January 2011 to highlight the work of fifteen of its Italian Affiliated Fellows in the Arts in a show called ACCADEMIA °  STANZE ° PERSONE. The exhibition runs at the Academy until 3 March 2011.

This show is co-curated by AAR Programs Associate Lexi Eberspacher and by Luca Massimo Barbero, Director of Rome’s hugely popular MACRO museum. It promises to provide a splendid anthology of the best work being done today in Italy in diverse artistic disciplines.

The Italian Affiliated Fellowship Program began in 2006 and is funded by the American Academy in Rome’s McKim Medal Gala. The show ACCADEMIA STANZE PERSONE, made possible by a grant from the Nando Peretti Foundation, is intended to celebrate the Academy as a venue for artistic creation  by focusing on the work of the fifteen Italian Fellows who have been affiliated with the Academy.

The public spaces (stanze) of the Academy—the art gallery, atrium, bar, billiards room, cortile, cryptoporticus, dining room, salone, and stairs—will be reimagined as spaces in which the work of this talented group of architects, composers, designers, poets, and visual artists can be presented.

In the atrium are displayed archeological artifacts and inscriptions from the Janiculum, including an ancient torso that will become the subject of a lighting installation by Giovanna Latis, recipient of the first annual Elsa Peretti Italian Affiliated Fellowship in Design.

The versatile art gallery space, which has hosted shows by artists ranging from Piranesi to Maya Lin and from Joel Shapiro to Alex Katz and Alec Soth, will become the venue for Manfredi Beninati’s oil paintings, Paola Pivi’s I wish I am fish, Nico Vascellari’s Gnawing my own teeth behind a closed door, Luca Vitone’s interventions to old engravings, Sissi’s sculpture installation Self-Portrait with Mirror, and Luca Nostri’s photographs.

In the august public spaces created by the stairs and the salone will be exhibited a project by architect Gianmaria Sforza and work by visual artist Flavio Favelli and by Giovanna Latis.

In the billiards room, a locus for after-hours sociability, the pool table will sport a new cover, on which Flavio Favelli’s image of an original black-and-white postcard of the Vatican City (with interventions in red) will establish a dialogue with the heroic proportions of Chuck Close’s iconic work depicting Alex Katz.

An attentive and ironic look by visual artist Marco Raparelli at the rows of portraits of past Fellows arrayed over the bar will result in the infiltration of that portrait gallery with his own work.

The Roman light filling the elegant AAR dining room, where the cuisine at the American Academy has been elevated to new heights by the Rome Suistainable Food Project, will now be inflected by visual artist Carola Bonfili’s window transparencies reproduced from a sixteenth-century herb dictionary.

In the splendid barrel-vaulted space of the basement cryptoporticus, the voice of the water that use to run below in the Acqueduct of Trajan is silent. But many more recent voices have spoken, including those of the collective Destroy All Monsters in the recent Depart Fpundation show Hungry For Death. Here work will be performed by Italian Fellows in Musical Composition Filippo Perocco and Emanuele Casale, and poets Massimo Gezzi and Guido Mazzoni will read from their work, with Moira Egan and Damiano Abeni reading the English translations.

http://www.aarome.org/#

Bologna, 28/31 January 2011

Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi
pavillion 15 booth A8

presenting works by:

Mario Airò
Tony Brown
Claude Collins-Stracensky
Flavio Favelli
Franco Guerzoni
Eva Marisaldi
Liliana Moro
Frank Schmidt
Davide Tranchina
Silvio Wolf

Franz Schmidt
Model, 2008
printed paper, cardboard, wood, colour
cm 184,5×105x28
unique

I, in my intricate image
curated by Marinella Paderni
21 January 2011 > 4 February 2011
Opening 21 January 2011 ore 19
FARNESPAZIO © – Galleria del Toro 1, Bologna

http://www.farnespazio.it/

The Gallery will be closed from 24 December 2010 to 9 January 2011.

Happy 2011!

Francesco Pignatelli has recently inaugurated a solo exhibition at Schloss Greding, Nurnberg featuring works from the serie Reversed Renaissance.
The show, curated by Rainer Crone and Wouter With, will continue until 16 February 2011.

Schloss Greding
Nurnbergenstrasse, 1
91171 Greding (Germania)
+ 49 (0)84639545
+ 49 (0)84638130

elles@centrepompidou is the third thematic exhibition of the National Modern Art Museum’s collections, following Big Bang in 2005 and the Mouvement des Images (Image Movements) in 2006-2007.
This will be the occasion for the institution, which has built up the very first collection of modern and contemporary art, to show its commitment to women artists, nationality and discipline taken together, and place them at the core of modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Also exhibited in the show is the book by Alessandra Spranzi: La donna barbuta.

elle@centrepompidou

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Emanuela De Cecco’s new book: Arte-Mondo, Storia dell’arte, storie dell’arte, Postmedia books edition, featuring a text by Flavio Favelli: Non c’è nulla di meglio che produrre oggetti.
There is also published a picture of the big map Holy Land, that our gallery exhibited during Bologna Art Fair last January.

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We’re pleased to inform you that on Saturday 20 November 2010 the gallery will be closed for the whole day.

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On Friday 8 October at 6.00 PM, at Palazzo Ziino in Palermo will be inaugurated the show of the artists that participated at the fourth edition of the Agenore Fabbri Prize, among them Davide Tranchina.

PALAZZO ZIINO
Via Dante, 53
90141, Palermo, Italia
+39 0917407619

Together with ten other artists, Alessandra Spranzi and Mario Airò participate to the exhibition of the City of Treviglio Prize that will be inaugurated on Saturday 9 October, at 6.o0 PM.

www.premiocittaditreviglio.it

Rethinking California Light and Space Art and recognizing 60s-70s-era California Minimalism as a leading influence on the current generation, is the main theme of the group exhibition AFTERGLOW, now on stage at Wiegand Gallery, featuring works by Claude Collins-Stracensky, Thomas Akawie, Lewis Baltz, Michelle Blade, Gina Borg, Michael Damm, Chris Fraser, Evan Holloway Ruth Laskey, Helen Lundeberg, Laurie Reid, Jonathan Runcio, Dean Smith, Kathryn Van Dyke.

The exhibition will continue until 30 October.

Wiegand Gallery
Notre Dame de Namur University
1500 Ralston Ave.
Belmont (CA) U.S.A.
www.wiegandgallery.org

Roaming at MUSEO VILLA CROCE, GENOVA
OFF CELLS: PRACTICES OF NO VISION

Nina Beier – Ermanno Cristini – Vicky Falconer – Ryan Gander – Urs Lüthi -
Federico Maddalozzo – Giovanni Morbin – Andrea Nacciarriti
Luca Scarabelli – Alessandra Spranzi – Adam Thompson

photography: Francesco Joao Scavarda and Dario Guccio web: simply.it
curated by: Alessandro Castiglioni

Friday 24 September 2010 – at 6

Alessandra Spranzi will exhibit the video Et voilà, and a meditation on the art of miniature Le cose in piccolo.

The project ROAMING, within MUSEO DI VILLA CROCE, will have an intersticial display pending in between vision and no vision. Artists will work in relation to the artworks of the permanent collection, around the idea of “Off-Cells”, a definition lately used by neurobiologists in order to define the cells of visual apparatus delegated to the perception of the dark. The absence of vision, in this case, is not a lack but a cue to a process that leads to a different – mental and dilated – vision, which will suggest a different approach with the artworks of the collection in itself. ROAMING of actions, as a project that focuses the attention on the relation between work and image, material and immaterial presence; for this particular event, it reflects upon the dynamics and the process of vision as a metaphor and a trace for a wider reflection on the identity of the work of art.

Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce
via Jacopo Ruffini, 3 Genova
www.villacroce.museidigenova.it
www.roaming-art.it

CITY LIMITS
close your eyes and dream
Project curator: Luca Panaro
Silvia Camporesi, Cristian Chironi, Guido Meschiari, Davide Tranchina, Diego Zuelli
8-11 September 2010
Tongij University, Shanghai

Connecting with the theme of the Shanghai Expo 2010 “Better City, Better Life”, the exhibit offers an oneiric vision of the real and imaginary boundaries found in contemporary cities, presented through the interpretation of five artists living in Emilia Romagna and working in the field of video art and photography.
The work by Guido Meschiari entitled Ascolta i pixel (Listen to the pixels) (2010) provides an ideal opening to the exhibit. It consists of a series of photographic portraits of individuals taken strictly with their eyes closed, as a necessary condition to ensure their estrangement from the urban context and useful to achieve the dimension of dreams. This is followed by the photographic series by Davide Tranchina entitled Through the globe (2003), a sequence of real cities “trapped” inside a fictitious space in which we can observe the world through the glass-globes collected as souvenirs of places visited in the past.
The dimension of travelling with our eyes closed continues, taking us to areas outside the city boundary where only a few elements suggest the presence of civilization. In Cristian Chironi’s video entitled Le petit (2006), action is frozen as in a photograph, and only nature continues to follow its course creating a surreal atmosphere. In his video entitled 3000 esposizioni ultrarapide (3000 ultra-rapid exposures) (2002), Diego Zuelli uses computer graphics to offer a different, mathematical and distilled vision of one of the most typical landscapes in Emilia Romagna; a space familiar to the artist but which may seem alien to a foreign eye.
Water, the source of every civilization, is the key feature in the work that closes the exhibit. With her video entitled Dance dance dance (2007), Silvia Camporesi brings our brief oneiric journey to a close, taking us back to an urban context. Inside a swimming pool, a swimmer embarks on a slow investigation process, striving to overcome a limit at once physical and spiritual.
“Close your eyes and dream”: the exhibit suggests to us metaphorically that we blot out our visual perception, mentally distancing ourselves from urban civilization while remaining within its boundaries. This temporary sensory privation can enable man to place himself in a boundary zone from which it is easier to see the path to follow in order to achieve a “better city” and a “better life”.

Press info:
Matteo Iori, Industree, iori@industree.it; + 39 0522.325270; mobile: + 39 348.2519358
Letizia de Felice, Industree defelice@industree.it; + 39 0522.325270; mobile: + 39 348.0108040

On September 2nd at 6.30 PM Francesco Patriarca will inaugurate “Mineral Hemisphere”, Next Level Projects, London.
The exhibition will continue until 26 September

For information:
+ 44 (0)20 76554350
rsvp@nextleveluk.com

The gallery is closed from 30 July to 31 August. The office will be open on 1 September: Monday to Friday, from 11 AM to 7 PM.
Friday 17 September at 6.30 PM onwards, will be inaugurated “Los vigilantes de la playa”, curated by Milovan Farronato: David Renggli, Franz Schmidt, Kelly Tippsman. On the occasion of the special opening by the Milan galleries participating in START, the exhibition will also be open as follows: Saturday 18 September until 9 PM and Sunday 19 September, from 11 AM to 7 PM.

http://www.aarome.org/?rt=blog&rid=252#

Eva Marisaldi meets “Home Movies” – National Family Movies Archive
with the participation of Gisella Gaspari e Paolo Simoni
8 JULY 2010
h. 6.30 PM, free admission
Centro di Documentazione Arti Visive di Connecting Cultures
via Giorgio Merula 62, 20142 Milan

The work of Eva Marisaldi deals with little gestures, insinuations, suspicions. Her speeches are light and complicated at the same time. The artist represents her world through different ways of expression, ranging from the construction of simple objects to articulated installations, using different languages like videomaking, drawing or embroidery. Questioning about themes like dialogue and communication, Eva Marisaldi investigates the possibilities of individual and collective reflection in the context of exhibition space, in a delicate and elegant relationship with it.
Through different ways of expression and without searching for any special effect or exuberance, Marisaldi creates rarefied and essential situations that, sometimes, acquire the abstract peculiarity of a game.
Eva Marisaldi meets Home Movies
Her collaboration with the National Family Movies Archive “Home Movies” (Bologna) originates from a need of dealing with a fragmented, complex and full of signs and traces material, like family movies. Starting from this private cinematic source, a real dialogue takes places through images using by the artist to join old movies with her recent and past works. Into these fragments of private history the artist finds the words to complete her work’s explanation

Fuori Luogo 2010 |Out Of Place 2010
“The other side of avantgarde”
Thirty years after “L’altra metà dell’avanguardia” (“The other side of avantgarde”) – the exhibition curated by Lea Vergine in 1980, which first highlighted the work of women artists in the twentieth century, a milestone in the rethinking of modern and contemporary art – FuoriLuogo|OutOfPlace presents a series of encounters with a generation of contemporary women artists in their thirties and early fourties with the aim of presenting the work of this younger generation and their reflections with regard to their research and the art system within which they work.
The underlying theme connecting the seven artists’ work  will be the relation between art and knowledge. This year’s FuoriLuogo intends to research the variety of interests and starting points, the processes and procedures that these artists have put into practice ,  the specific spheres of knowledge relevant for each artist  and the very particular observation points or perspectives that those special interests imply.
The seven artists’ projects – with different modalities, sensibilities and attitudes – confront the more complex aspects of knowledge: from psychology to anthropology, from history to neuroscience, from cognitive science to epistemology. Our aim is, on the one hand, to build an interdisciplinary discussion in which artists could meet speakers from different fields of study verging on the areas their own research has touched on; and on the other, to guide the audience along a complex and exciting pathway of contemporary artistic reasoning. The motive is not to rebuild a poetic vision ‘common’ to ‘the other half of the universe’, but to better comprehend the differing perspectives on the complex world of knowledge and its definitions which fascinate and dominate the work of this generation caught in a precarious equilibrium between artistic creation and the complex universe of intellectual discovery.
The fourth edition of FuoriLuogo|OutOfPlace – series of meetings organized by Connecting Cultures from April to November 2010 – deals with contemporary themes observed through an interdisciplinary approach with the collaboration of artists, thinkers, philosophers and critics.

http://www.connectingcultures.info/main/?p=4663&langswitch_lang=en

George Billis Gallery presents On|Paper, an exhibition of works on paper by selected gallery and guest artists. Musing on the concept of works based on paper, the show will include sculpture, installations, and wall works by emerging and established artists including Carol Es, Trine Wejp-Olsen, Joe Davidson, Johnny Robertson, Ronald Santos, Brian Borlaug, Camilla Taylor, Christophe Leroux, Matthew Heller, and Tony Brown among others.

George Billis Gallery LA
2716 South La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
phone: 001 310-838-3685
fax: 001 310-838-3438
la@georgebillis.com
www.georgebillis.com
Tuesday – Saturday, 10-6 pm

Il Giardino della memoria

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Here are some pictures of the solo exhibition that Alessandra Spranzi held at Palazzo della Frumenteria in Reggio Emilia, Festival di Fotografia Europea.

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On the 15th of June, LoL (Via Urbana 89 | Roma 00184 tel. +39 06 4814160) presents selected works (photography, drawing and painting) of the Italian artist Francesco Patriarca (Rome 1974).

‘Recycle’ is a series of photographs, drawings on recycled cardboard and wasted wood pieces made inbetween 2009 and 2010. The works draw a parallel between the creative process and the industrial cycle which extracts natural resources for production that leads to (or generates) waste and recycle products.

Patriarca has exposed since 2002 in solo exhibitions at the Gossmichael Foundation in Dallas, the M’ars Contemporary Art Center in Moscow, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels in Vienna, Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi in Milano, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Roma, The Spoleto Festival and in group shows at the Dactyl Foundation in New York, National Gallery of Arts in Tirana, La Galerie les Filles du Calvaire in Paris and Museo dei
Mercati Di Traiano in Rome.

Flavio Favelli’s installation about Ustica’s aeroplane in Piazza Maggiore, Bologna (from Repubblica.it)

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Centro Alik Cavaliere, Milan: “Nella deriva di tutte le incertezze”: 9 June, at 6.30 PM.
Also exhibited works by Alessandra Spranzi.
Works by: Alik Cavaliere, Vincenzo Ferrari, Giorgio Lucini, Sergio Breviario, Chiara Camoni, Giovanni Ferrario, Lucia Leuci, Michele Lombardelli, Amedeo Martegani, Giancarlo Norese, Luigi Presicce, Lidia Sanvito, Luca Scarabelli, Alessandra Spranzi, Terzaghi & Zürcher

Curated by Lorena Giuranna and Alessandro Castiglioni

www.cavaliere.it

About 80 works – paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and video – from the AGI Verona Collection, which has always dedicated itself to seeking out new talent, will be exhibited in the Mart’s rooms.
The AGI Verona Collection was founded in 1989 at the behest of five collectors from Verona, who joined together with a shared desire to support contemporary art. Over 500 works have entered the collection so far, made using different artistic languages and techniques, offering varying poetics and provenance, with artists from outside Italy forming the majority. AGI has always focused on buying young and emerging talent; for the most part, the works entered the collection the same year they were made. The young artists and new hopes have represented a continuous challenge, matching a collecting sensitivity that has always sought to capture the new and topical, in order to register the changes and transformations under way in the history of art.

The “Languages and Experimentationss” exhibition, curated by Giorgio Verzotti and with a catalogue essay by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, is part of a cycle of exhibitions the Mart is dedicating to the promotion of private collections of particular worth; new or long-standing, they share an important role in the history of Italian collecting. About 20 works will remain on long-term loan to the museum and will form part of the Permanent Collection.
The artists selected for the long-term loan are Mario Airó, Stefano Arienti, Pierre Bismuth, Tom Burr, Maurizio Cattelan, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roni Horn, Flavio Favelli, Jim Lambie, Jorge Macchi, Eva Marisaldi, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Giovanni Morbin, Gabriel Orozco, Rob Pruitt, Julius Rolf, Andreas Slominski, Grazia Toderi, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa and Chen Zhen.
Through the lens of the AGI Verona collection, the exhibition enables the visitor to focus on the current complex international artistic scene in Europe, America and Asia as regards young emerging talent. Many of these are now gaining an international reputation but were still ‘emerging’ when acquired by the AGI Verona. Among the artists present are Mircea Cantor, Jeremy Deller, Cyprien Gaillard, Carlos Garaicoa, Django Hernandez, Gabriel Kuri, Jonathan Monk, David Renggli, Anri Sala, Simon Starling, Tomas Saraceno, Tino Sehgal; and from Italy: Francesco Vezzoli, Nico Vascellari, Luca Trevisani, Piero Golia, Anna Galtarossa, Lara Favaretto, Gianni Caravaggio, Luca Pozzi, Emanuele Becheri, Alberto Tadiello and Andrea Galvani.

The works on long-term loan at the Mart will be on show on the second floor, where they may be compared with the Museum’s collections. The exhibition itself will be held in the rooms of the first floor and other spaces, and will present videos, performances and large installations, some of which in contact with the public and city of Rovereto.

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In Which the Wind is also a Protagonist
30 april – 27 may 2010

curated by Chris Sharp
conceived with Joanna Fiduccia

organised by Joe Tang

La Générale en Manufacture
6 Grande Rue
92310, Sèvres
www.la-g.org

VERNISSAGE > 30/04/10 > 17:00 – 00:00

Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Nina Canell, Fernanda Gomes, André Guedes, Flavio Favelli, Laresa Kosloff, Kate Owens, Kirsten Pieroth, Patrick Pound, Mandla Reuter.

Press Release
It could start anywhere– with a missing painting (whose X marks the spot), a window cropped open by a spoon, an album of antique photos featuring portraits of people beleaguered by the wind, or a Sherlock Holmes novel with a dead ant on it– but here is a space inhabited by enigma, by an accumulation of suggestive events, a subtle kind of aftermath. Somebody or something, it would seem, is trying to tell something or somebody something. Or maybe nothing at all. Maybe something merely happened. A misdeed. An evocative crime. A felicitous felony– which (like most crimes) prefers to remain a mystery, and yet dares to be deciphered (like art?).
Imitating the chapter headings typically found in 19th century novels, the exhibition In Which the Wind is also a Protagonist is about narrative. It is about how stories are told through not being told, through adumbration, dissimulation, subterfuge and a whole host of other ten cent words. For this is an exhibition that seems not to be an exhibition– that seeks to conceal itself by withdrawing into its surrounding, much like the slightly strange banalities of the everyday. Once discovered, the works will activate the space as much as they are in turn activated by it. As they reveal themselves and emerge as works of art from their environment, they in turn will reveal and even transform their environment just as their environment initially transformed them into everyday objects.
Furthermore, if the spatial trajectory of the exhibition promotes discovery, then the works themselves go on to promote narrative, functioning like highly suggestive clues. The clues themselves will add up to an elliptical tale, forming a mystery of sorts, whose point will not be so much to tell a given story but rather to underline the narrative power of the art on display and art in general.

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Viafarini DOCVA is pleased to announce its participation to the second edition of No Soul for Sale-A Festival of Independents, that after the successful first edition in New York moves to London taking place from 14 to 16 May in the monumental spaces of the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern.

Viafarini DOCVA represents itself through an installation-room by Flavio Favelli, China Purple, which will function as a showcase that will present some works realized by artists who have exhibited at Viafarini during its 20 year long story: Stefano Arienti, Maurizio Cattelan, Linda Fregni Nagler, Paolo Gonzato, Kim Jones, Armin Linke, Margherita Manzelli, Liliana Moro, Yoshua Okon, Tobias Rehberger, David Renggli, Dragana Sapanjos, Sissi and Santo Tolone.

On this occasion Viafarini presents Souvenir d’Italie. A nonprofit art story, a publication which is aimed at narrating the story of the Italian contemporary art world from 1991 to today, interpreted from the point of view of the first Italian nonprofit organization. A collection of documents, images and unpublished texts, divided into 17 chapters, which describe the core activities of a nonprofit organisation. The editorial project gives space to the documentation collected throughout the years, enriched by new critical essays, so as to reinterpret what happened, thanks to the statements of all the protagonists of Viafarini’s journey. The book has been realized in collaboration with Mousse Publishing and includes contributions by: Michela Arfiero, Patrizia Brusarosco, Elena Bordignon, Stefano Baia Curioni, Chiara Bertola, Giulia Brivio, Barbara Casavecchia, Luca Cerizza,  Gail Chrocane, Giulio Ciavoliello, Anna Daneri, Roberto Daolio, Vincenzo De Bellis, Emanuela De Cecco, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Milovan Farronato, Beppe Finessi, Francesco Garutti, Mario Gorni, Elio Grazioli, Antonio Grulli, Andrea Lissoni, Simone Menegoi, Guido Molinari, Paola Nicolin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lisa Parola, Francesca Pasini, Cloe Piccoli, Alessandra Pioselli, Gianni Romano, Pierluigi Sacco, Gabi Scardi, Noah Stolz, Marco Tagliafierro, Monica Thurner, Giulio Verago, Giorgio Verzotti, Angela Vettese, Andrea Viliani, Claudia Zanfi.

No Soul for Sale, conceived by Maurizio Cattelan, Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni, will be part of the program celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Tate Modern and will take place in the huge Turbine Hall, which is part gallery and part covered street. Fifty indipendent art spaces and collectives, from Shanghai to Prague, have been invited to create unique projects for this global arts festival, in order to celebrate the iconic value of this space. No soul for Sale will fill the Turbine Hall for three days with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge art events, performances, music and films. The gallery will stay open until midnight on Friday 14^th and Saturday 15^th May for late night events with special guests.

Among the other participating institutions: ArtHub (Shanghai), Artists Space (New York), e-flux (Berlin), PiST (Istanbul), Latitudes (Barcelona), no.w.here (London), Loop (Seoul), The Royal Standard (Liverpool), Tranzit (Prague), White Columns (New York) e Y3K (Melbourne).

Inauguration: 14 May 2010

From 14 to 16 May 2010

Book’s presentation: Souvenir d’Italie. A nonprofit art story

Turbine Hall
Tate Modern
Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Tel +44 (0)20 78878888
visiting.modern@tate.org.uk
http://www.tate.org.uk/

Press Office | Viafarini:
p/f +39 02 66804473
p +39 02 45471153
viafarini@viafarini.org
www.viafarini.org
www.docva.org

Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi
Pavillion 4, Booth M05

presenting works by:

Mario Airò
Claude Collins-Stracensky
Flavio Favelli
Franco Guerzoni
Eva Marisaldi
Alessandra Spranzi
Davide Tranchina
Silvio Wolf

MiArt
Milan, 26/29 March 2010
Inauguration: 25 March 2010, at 6 pm
fieramilanocity, pavillions 3-4
entrance Porta Teodorico
viale Scarampo, Milan

In occasion of MiArt and in
collaboration with START Milano
the gallery will be open also on:

Saturday 27 March 2010, from 3 to 10 pm
Sunday 28 March 2010, from 3 to 7 pm

On Tuesday 13 April, on the occasion of the first solo exhibition in Italy of the American artist Tony Brown (b. Louisiana 1970, lives and works in Los Angeles), Nicoletta Rusconi will open a new space in Corso Venezia, in Milan.

The new gallery is located on the ground floor of the historic Palazzo Crespi — a typically Milanese building renovated by the Piero Portaluppi in 1927 — in the former coach-house, which was subsequently converted into the architect Guglielmo Mozzoni’s office.

Nicoletta Rusconi has sought to maintain the identity of the place, making only a few changes, principally so it would be more suitable as an exhibition space. The new gallery comprises a large central exhibition room, with a smaller room on one side that will also be used to display video installations.

With the opening of the new space, from 13 April the gallery’s opening hours will also change: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm; Monday, Sunday and public holidays closed. Our office will be open Monday to Friday from 11 am to 7 pm, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays closed.

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On 12 February 2010 has been inaugurated a solo exhibitions by Eva Marisaldi (in collaboration with Enrico Serotti), and by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs.

Born in Bologna in 1966, Eva Marisaldi’s work moves in the space of minimal gesture, of insinuation, of doubt. With works that are both light and complex, the artist portrays her world via different expressive modes, ranging from the construction of simple objects to more structured installations; to achieve her ends she uses such heterogeneous materials as video, drawing, or embroidery. Delving for some time now into themes like dialogue and communication, Eva Marisaldi has been exploring the possibilities of individual and group reflection within the exhibition space; by relating to the space in a complex but respectful way, she suggests a wide-ranging and multiform perception of the same.

This is the direction taken by grigio nonlineare, the site-specific project elaborated by the artist for the floor of EX3’s central room. The piece invites visitors into the space where they discover its conception as a kind of diagram: it’s a path which, via 64 sentences and 16 drawings, develops over the floor’s entire area. In the foyer, the buffer zone that separates Marisaldi’s path from the other exhibition rooms, a robotic device designed by Enrico Serotti (her long-time collaborator) greets us with a cadenced movement of single-color ribbons. The aerial and impersonal movements are generated by a software which, like a light gymnast, makes the ribbons move through space, offering a sort of open-ended, “graceful and aseptic” welcome.

In the central room, visitors are invited, from the very first sentence (“I will tell you all about it”) to enter and follow a composite pathway where the written words — taken from different sources — proffer directions that are open to personal interpretations. In one corner of the room, visitors will hear an incessant flow of ghost words, that is particles of words that are grouped and re-elaborated by a software; this action of deconstruction stimulates the public to re-compose the words and attribute them a complete meaning.

La mostra è a cura di Lorenzo Giusti e Arabella Natalini.

Orario di apertura delle mostre:
dal mercoledì alla domenica, dalle 11.00 alle 19.00.
Chiuso il lunedì e il martedì

EX3
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Firenze
Viale Giannotti 81/83/85
50126 Firenze-Italia
Reception del centro: +39.055.6287676
Uffici: +39.055.6287091
www.ex3.it
info@ex3.it

Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi

Pavillion 15 Booth D4

presenting works by:

Tony Brown
Claude Collins-Stracensky
Flavio Favelli
Andrea Galvani
Franco Guerzoni
Francesco Pignatelli
Alessandra Spranzi
Davide Tranchina
Silvio Wolf

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Claude Collins-Stracensky exhibits in a group show entitled ‘Folly – The View of Nowhere’

The exhibition will inaugurate on 5 December at MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA.

PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair

Artericambi, Booth Number I – 103

December 3, 10am-1pm

Press and VIP Private Preview 1pm-8pm

Open to the public: December 4-6, 10am-7pm

The special project that Andrea Galvani has specifically developed for his solo show at IMPULSE section in PULSE, investigates the relationship between physical energies and their state of action or inaction. The natural phenomenon and the technological interactions, the planets movement, the blindness and the ultrasonic frequency, are some of the scientific influences which the Artist has been working with.

The PULSE Prize is a cash grant that is awarded to an emerging artist of distinction featured in the IMPULSE section of the fair. The recipient is selected by the PULSE Committee based on the artist’s presentation at the fair. The recipient is also given the opportunity to design the next limited-edition PULSE tote bag. Previous winners have worked in a wide variety of mediums and several have gone on to receive critical acclaim.

The project of Andrea Galvani won the 2nd Prize at the Impulse Pulse Prize (5 December).

10 Italian artists of the most recent generations, including Flavio Favelli, at the Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam.

www.annetgelink.nl

Italics, held in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, looked at Italian art as a sort of train made up of different carriages, some of which have made it onto international networks, others of which have been sidetracked into the tortuous m eanders of Italy’s recent history.
The show didn’t limit itself to the representation of Burri and Fontana, Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia, all key parts of Italian art. Instead it explored in depth the true essence of Italian artistic production over the last forty years.
Altogether, there was more than 250 works by 107 artists, some of whom – such as Pino Pascali, Alighiero Boetti, Marisa Merz, Maurizio Cattelan and Vanessa Beecroft – have enjoyed international fame and success, whilst others – such as Fernando Melani and Maria Lai – have been at times unfairly neglected.
The aim of this exhibition was to provide the Italian and international public with an insight into the decisive role played by tradition and revolution in determining contemporary Italian art.

Among others, also Flavio Favelli has been selected, and the exhibition will continue until March.

www.palazzograssi.it

In the Vienna exhibition (26 Novembre 2009-9 January 2010), Vides trophées aux armes de la mort the italian artist Francesco Patriarca emphasizes the constant antagonism in today’s modern world between nature and human mind.

The idea of struggle that we find both in nature and in human history and that lies at the foundation of our civilazation comes into play together with the consequences of the idea that associates war with progress and control.

To raise this question Patriarca quotes french poet Roger Caillois in the title of the exhibition.

Sede della mostra:

Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels

1010 Wien, Sonnenfelsgasse 6

www.peithner-lichtenfels.at

galerie@peithner-lichtenfels.at

Francesco Patriarca uses photography, drawings and paintings to create installations. By investigating the relationship between man and environment he has explored subjects such as memory (L’appartement), faith (The Accona desert), communist architecture in Albania (Pyramids project), loss and trauma from detention (Amnesia), environmental decay (Aggregates).

Works

Room I:

In the series Marbles Patriarca is making photography based works on which he draws with plaster, glass, glue and graphite. The marble surface becomes a living element where white glue and plaster transpire from the veins of the marble and its patterns. Marble is a key material in funerary architecture and the photographs were taken in the masoleum monument that was built in Rome during the fascist regime.

Room II:

In the series Grey Structures Patriarca is painting on large canvases. Like fossils, the structures that emerge in these works are empty and deprived of any life besides their shape. Their power lies in bringing together the concrete and the diaphanous. These works are materially very present but at the same time they suggest a sense of remoteness and stillness.

In the set Transparency drawings Patriarca is combining the techinique of multi layers drawings and photography. By justapposing different sketches and making the final work by taking a photograph at the end of the process. By doing so he gives consistency to an ephemeral act by creating an artefact capable of showing the traces of its making.

Room III:

In the series Bones Patriarca is presenting five large format photographs. Patriarca has created these works in 2007 by installing and photographing animal bones in his studio.

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On the 25th of November at 8.30 PM, on the occasion of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction in Milan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) will present the 8th annual edition of “Contemporary Art for Refugees”- initiative for fundraising in support of refugees.

Thanks to the generosity of many artists that have donated their works to UNHCR, and to Sotheby’s collaboration, paintings, photographs, installations, videos, and sculptures will be put up for the auction. Some of these works have been created expressly for the UNHCR and have been collected by Open Care – the art services company which organized the auction.

Among the artists involved are some of the best on the international scene: Alfredo Jaar, Nedko Solakov, Tomas Saraceno, Kimsooja, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Grazia Toderi, Vincenzo Castella, Nico Vascellari, Adrian Paci, Liliana Moro, Cesare Pietroiusti, Marcello Maloberti, Simone Berti, Francesco Jodice, Claudio Gobbi, Flavio Favelli, Christian Frosi, Andrea Sala, Federico Pietrella, Alessandra Spranzi, Gea Casolaro, A12, Roberto Bernardi & Raphaella Spence, and Moira Ricci.

The auction is being held in order to raise funds for the “Water for Refugees” project, in aid of more than 125 thousand refugees of the Democratic Republic of Congo and of Burundi in three different UNHCR camps in Tanzania.

This project provides over 25 thousand families in the camps of Nyarugusu, Lugufu, and Mtabila with new wells, new water distribution points, and a water purification system which will help reduce the sometimes life-threatening diseases caused by the use of non “safe” water. A protection program will also be implemented, designed to safeguard refugee women and children against the violence which they are often subjected to – as they have to travel long distances to reach the rare “safe” water distribution points which are currently available in the camps.

Despite the ceasefire agreement ratified in January 2008, violence continues to be prevalent in the east area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To this day, about 370 thousand refugees have escaped the country, with over a million internally displaced people; while refugees from Burundi, one of the poorest sub-Saharan countries, number more than 280 thousand.

The past editions of “Contemporary Art for Refugees” have raised over a million euro to support a number of very important projects including supplying therapeutic milk for 400 thousand children housed in the UNHCR camps in Guinea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia, digging wells for over 80 thousand refugees, and the creation of 8 elementary schools for over 20 thousand Ugandan and Sudanese children.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) thanks all the artists for their generosity, Open Care for the helpfulness and expertise, and Sotheby’s for the kind and precious collaboration.

A special thanks for the concrete support to Barbara Oteri and Beatrice Oleari (FARE), Elisabetta Galasso (NABA), Silvana Turzio, Maurizio Bortolotti, Verusca Piazzesi (Galleria Continua), and to all those who have given their contribution.

Specifications

Location: Sotheby’s Milan, Palazzo Broggi

Address: via Broggi 19, Milan

Auction date: 25th November 2009, 8:30 p.m.

Exhibition: 20th-24th November

10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. / 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Alessandra Spranzi, La donna barbuta #17, 2000

Flavio Favelli, Fabbri extra, 2008

Works by Antonio Biasiucci and other seventeen artists entered the collection of Madre Museum, Naples.

The exhibition route on the second floor winds its way through the most significant moments of artistic language from the end of the Fifties to the beginning of the Nineties. Thanks to the generous collaboration of several great Italian and foreign collectors, who have made some of the privately-owned works in their possession available on indefinite loan, it has been possible to put together a collection of some 100 works of considerable historical interest.
The curator of the exhibition has chosen to focus on mixes and matches between the different trends, from both the strictly artistic and the geopolitical points of view, in order to show how Italian art and, in some cases, Neapolitan artists too have formalized exemplary issues and styles in the international storm of contemporaneity.

The collection is curated by Eduardo Cicelyn and Mario Codognato.

MADRE Museum
Via Settembrini 79
80139 Napoli
+39.081.193.13.016
www.museomadre.it

OPEN
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 10.00am – 09.00pm
Saturday and Sunday, 10.00am – 00.00am
Closing day: Tuesday

TICKETS
FREE ENTRY on Monday
Ticket € 7,00
Reduced € 3,50
Special pre-booked groups [max 30]: € 4,00

INFO AND RESERVATIONS
Phone: +39.081.193.13.016
[(from Monday to Friday : 09.00am - 08.00pm | Saturday 09:00am - 02:00pm]

Flavio Favelli’s new installation CHINA RED will inaugurate at the new shop of Tiziana Fausti in Bergamo on 29 October at 6.30 PM.

The installation will remain open until 30 October. After this date it will become part of the furniture of the shop.

For information:

Tiziana Fausti

Portici Sentierone, 36 – Bergamo

tel. + 39 (0)35 224142

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La Grande Spolveratrice (The Great Dusting Woman) is the title of one of Letizia Cariello’s recent works – yet at ASSAB ONE dust has always been a familiar element. Polvere Contemporanea (Contemporary Dust) is both a performance and a piece of work by Luca Pancrazzi, created in 2002 with the printing machine that lives on the ground floor. In 2004 ASSAB ONE hosted Polvere d’arte (Art Dust), an exhibition curated by Elio Grazioli in 2004.

La Grande Spolveratrice e altre storie (The Great Dusting Woman and other stories) does not claim to be an exhibition. There is no curator nor a commenting text. It is not a systematic collection. It is a personal and subjective journey through a number of works which share a meaning in the retrospective view of the person who gathered them. Through art and poetry, these works respond to the need of finding a way to live with the heaviness of things and the chaos of emotions. They tell succinct stories (at times using titles to do so), they create order, and at the same time they breath. In this way, they bring peace and calmness. Like the brothers Grimm  fairy-tales do.

Admittance only with ASSAB ONE card. One year valid card cost: 5 euros.

The program starts on Friday 18th September with the opening of 41 galleries in the town with the following opening hours:

Fryday, 18th September till 10 pm
Saturday, 19th from 12 am to 9 pm
Sunday, 20th from 12 am to 7 pm

Born in 2006 as cultural association, every year STARTMILANO presents an art weekend in Milan to show a program of high standard contemporary art exhibitions either to art lovers and to the great public. The galleries will present solo and collective exhibitions of important Italian and international artists.

The openings of the 41 galleries  – spread on the whole Milan territory -  will see the presence of the protagonists of the exhibitions: a real particular cultural experience.  The extended opening hours and the  Sunday extraordinary opening of the STARTMILANO galleries will allow the public to live  a slice of contemporary art – something unique in our town.

A tangible commitment  for the excellence of the proposals from young emerging artists to international well known artists.

Another important characteristic of  the STARTMILANO weekend is the organization of an international meeting  where some of the most prestigious national and international protagonists of the art field discuss  about contemporary art themes.

The meeting is the result of a new collaboration between STARTMILANO and  the degree course in Economics and  Management in Arts, Culture and Communication and the MSC in Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment of the Università Bocconi.

The meeting “Miracolo a Milano, Oltre la rete delle gallerie/ Miracle in Milan. Beyond the galleries network”, open to the public,  will be held on Saturday the 19th September 2009, from 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. at the Università Bocconi, via Röntgen 1, Milan.

The round table  will face the following  subjects:
•    Density of the art system
•    Role of the cultural planning  of art operators
•    Contribution of  art collecting: from the tradition of private collector to new strategies
•    International competition
•    The communication of the milanese art

A free service of shuttles has been organized on occasion of STARTMILANO  to brig the public to all the galleries of the circuit.
The shuttles will be operating on Saturday 19th September leaving from Piazzale Oberdan: booking and timetable will be published  on the website www.startmilano.com.

All the information can be found on the guide STARTMILANO, a free booklet distributed in all the associated galleries and other cultural places that informs on the most important contemporary art appointments in Milan.
Furthermore, in the September guide you will find a special project realized by the famous photographer Robert Frank for Aspesi, exclusive for STARTMILANO.

under the sponsorship of:
Comune di Milano
Camera di Commercio di Milano
Provincia di Milano

Partners:
Aspesi
Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna
Electa Konig
Artshow.it
UC
Mousse

Information: Chiara Chiapparoli – APStudio +39.02.70120481
chiapparoli@apstudio.net
www.apstudio.net

Heartened by the success of Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea in its promotion of photography in Italy and abroad, Nicoletta Rusconi is setting herself new goals by expanding the range of the gallery’s activities to different areas of contemporary art. This is a natural evolution towards a broader approach to contemporary culture that takes into account the history of the gallery and the need to respond to new developments in the international art world today.

When Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea was founded in May 2003, it was immediately evident that it played an almost unique role on the Italian art scene due to the attention it paid to themes regarding the image and experimental photography in Italy, and, over the years, it has staged numerous important exhibitions, offering valuable support to the artists’ work.

The values of Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea — which Nicoletta Ruston certainly does not intend to forgo — will evolve in this new proposal for an international gallery engaging with different fields of art, but seeking, in particular, to both encourage young artists and promote the work of established ones.

Endeavouring to maintain continuity with its recent past, the Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi will, however, continue to host shows by the artists it has represented in recent years, together, in the coming season, with ones by new Italian and foreign artists. Silvio Wolf, Alessandra Spranzi, Francesco Pignatelli, Franco Guerzoni, Mario Cresci, Antonio Biasiucci, Marco Campanini and others will continue to exhibit with the gallery in a period of increasingly exciting challenges.

Information
The Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi is located in the former premises of Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea at Corso Venezia 22, Milan.

From September, the opening hours of the office and gallery are as follows:

Office: Monday to Friday from 10 am to 1 pm and 3 pm to 7 pm. Closed Sunday and public holydays.

Gallery: Tuesday to Saturday from 3 pm to 7 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday and public holidays.

For further information regarding the activity of the Galleria Nicoletta Rusconi, the Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea website will function until September: www.nicolettarusconi.com
In September, the gallery’s  Internet address will change to: www.nicolettarusconi.com

IMPORTANT
To contact us, until further notice please write to the email address of Fotografia italiana, which is to be found in the contacts section of the website. The gallery’s telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged.

The gallery will close for the summer holidays from 30 July until 30 August.

The office and gallery will be open as normal from 1 September.

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Francesco Pignatelli will participate together with other 9 artists at the group show “Florales” – ‘from Painting to Photography’, besides that will inaugurate on 5 June 2009, from 6 PM to 10 PM at the Art Galerie 7, Koln.

The show will run until August 29.

The gallery is closed for holiday from July 5 to 19

PRAGUE BIENNALE ART 4

May 14 – July 26, 2009

Karlin Hall, Thamova 8, Prague 8, Czech Republic

Press Preview: May 14 from 11 AM to 3 PM

Opening Hours: 7 days a week from 11 AM to 7 PM

Details: Focus Italy

Rereading the Image – Photography as storage of meaning (Italy 1970-2009), Curated by Luca Panaro

Artists: Franco Vaccari; Adriano Altamira; Olivo Barbieri; Silvia Camporesi; Cristian Chironi; Mario Cresci; Paola Di Bello; Francesco Nonino; Sara Rossi; Marco Samoré; Alessandra Spranzi; Davide Tranchina; Carloalberto Treccani; Elisa Turchi.

Polymorphous, multifaceted, multicultural and in continuous dialogue with itself as well as with its audience; these are the qualities of PRAGUE BIENNALE 4, presented this year together with PRAGUE BIENNALE PHOTO 1.

Prague Biennale directors Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova have created an open forum on painting, presenting this issue through several declinations and manifestations: locals, nationals and internationals.

The result is EXPANDED PAINTING — a title coined on the occasion of Prague Biennale 2 and inspired by Rosalind Krauss’s “Sculpture in Expanded Field.” This term becomes the starting point for a series of sections which aim to spotlight and engage the actual state of painting in Central Europe together with other countries like Mexico, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines, in cooperation with a team of active and creative curators.

The counterparts of this parade of paintings and painters never seen before internationally are ART IN GENERAL and FOCUS ITALY, which confirm once again the Biennale’s mandate and its attention to a multiplicity of interests and themes. ART IN GENERAL captures the current situation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, featurig peculiar and unexpected curatorial visions, while FOCUS ITALY brings ‘on stage’ a fraction of Italian artistic production that is often overshadowed.

Nadace Prague Biennale, Budecská 3, Praha 2, 120 00

tel: +420 222 512 376

info@praguebiennale.org

www.praguebiennale.org

The relationship between Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea and Silvio Wolf started some time ago.

After ‘Invisibile’, a project he conceived expressly for MiArt — Milan’s International Modern and Contemporary Art Fair — in 2007, another exhibition devoted to the work of Silvio Wolf will be staged at the Fotografia Italiana arte Contemporanea gallery in September of this year.

In this newsletter, we would like to draw your attention to a number of important events regarding the gallery’s activity and Silvio Wolf’s planned exhibitions:

May

On 16 May an important exhibition bearing witness to the growing interest in abstract photography in the United States, ‘The Edge of Vision — Abstraction in Contemporary Photography’, will open at the Aperture Gallery in New York.

Silvio Wolf, who is participating together with nineteen other artists of international standing, will show an installation consisting of four large works.

Curated by Lyle Rexler, the exhibition investigates the new frontiers and the role of photography in contemporary visual culture. Freed from any social or temporal links, the selected artists explore the optical, psychological and metaphorical potential of photography. The exhibition will be open until 9 July 2009.

As part of the New York Photo Festival, on 15 May at 5 pm at St. Anne’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, Lyle Rexler’s book, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, will be presented to the public. In this, through more than 150 photographs, the author explores the idea of abstraction from the origins of photography to the present day. This volume contains works by Silvio Wolf, accompanied by a critical text devoted to him. Lyle Rexler, Jack Sal, Penelope Umbrico and Silvio Wolf will participate in the panel discussion related to the book.

June

Silvio Wolf is one of the Italian artists invited to participate in the exhibition entitled ‘Collaudi’ (Tests), in the new Italian Pavilion at the Tese delle Vergini in the Arsenale, as part of the 53rd Venice Biennale, which will be curated by Luca Beatrice and Beatrice Buscaroli and the press preview will take place on 3, 4, 5 and 6 June 2009.

As the gallery representing Silvio Wolf in Italy, Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea has contributed to the staging of this exhibition. On this occasion, for the first time, the name ‘Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea’ will be preceded by the gallery’s new name, ‘Nicoletta Rusconi’. The two names, Nicoletta Rusconi — Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea, will appear in the exhibition credits in order to underline the continuity between past and future.

September

After the Venice exhibition and to mark the end of a long series of shows abroad, Silvio Wolf will have a new solo exhibition at the Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea’ gallery in Milan. The exhibition, which will be accompanied by a critical essay by Giorgio Verzotti, will open on 18 September 2009, during the three-day special opening by the Milan galleries belonging to START, and will remain open to the public until 7 November 2009.

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On May 11 inaugurates “Aggregates”, by Francesco Patriarca, at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome.

The new work of Francesco Patriarca is about the relationship between man and landscape. Aggregates is a metaphor for the process of urban expansion and technological progress that man perpetrates at the expenses of nature.

The exhibition follows an imaginary line that runs through the spaces of the Foundation and that becomes visual and real in the works exposed. Organic and mechanical elements coexist alluding to the process of urban and industrial expansion reached through the exploitation and fragmentation of the territory. Human traces on the environment are represented through the subtraction of descriptive references. Several interventions show the precarious relationship between man and environment, between rational and natural.

The triptych Ethiopia Tryptich / Construction Site shows a detail of a construction site in Addis Ababa. This simple element refers to one of the main environmental threats to the African continent: the low cost and rapid growth timber used for construction eliminates the possibility of long – term forest policy.

In Settlement wood series, a small aggregation of woods inserted into a geological landscape evokes a miniature city where buildings are constructed in an arbitrary way.

The show, curated by Maria Alicata will run until 15 July 2009.

HOURS: Monday to Friday, 3 PM / 7 PM

For informations:

Fondazione Pastificio Cerere

via degli Ausoni, 7

00185  Roma

t./f. + 39 (0)6 45422950

info@pastificiocerere.com

www.pastificiocerere.com

Settlement – Wood Series, cotton paper on wood, cm 40×50

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Olivier Babin (ISCP resident)

Nanna Debois Buhl

Kate Gilmore

Corin Hewitt

Elaine Kaufmann

Eva Kot’átkova (ISCP resident)

Mores McWreath

Clifford Owens

Sergio Vega

www.iscp-nyc.org

The dialectical union of theory and practice, analysis and action, intellectual elaboration and concrete gesture has been one of the central focal points of political-philosophical reflection in the 20th Century. Within the postmarxist critical tradition, the combination of theory and practice represents a possibility to produce new and authentically transformative knowledge, embedded in the reality of its time and balanced between theoretical awareness and action and creation.

The exhibition aims to analyze the notion of theoretical practice as explored in the artistic pursuits of nine young artists. Thought and action intertwine in the multiplicity of the works presented, all of which are engaged in creating critical attempts to interpret reality in all of its guises. The works privilege the manifestation of social criticism and philosophical critique, formulating hypotheses and perspectives with particular attention given to the theoretical weight of the concrete gestures and actions enacted through them.

Italian curator and writer Luigi Fassi has been awarded the Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellowship at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He is the artistic director of ar/ge kunst, Bolzano (IT).

The exhibition “Da qui 01.09″ has been inaugurated at the Galleria Gianluca Collica in Catania, Sicily.

The artists invited to exhibit are: Carmelo Nicosia, Federico Baronello, canecapovolto, Filippo Leonardi, Paolo Parisi and Maria Domenica Rapicavoli.

The show will run until 30 March 2009.

For futher information please contact:

Galleria Gianluca Collica

via Musumeci 129

I – 95128 Catania – Italy

tel. +39 95 439678

galleriagcollica@gmail.com

The exhibition Terzo Paesaggio fotografia italiana oggi, XXIII edition of Premio Nazionale Arti Visive città di Gallarate, is curated by a committee of seven curators: Walter Guadagnini, Roberta Valtorta, Enrico De Pascale, Emma Zanella, Director of GAM and of Premio Gallarate, Luigi Sandroni and Sergio Uslenghi, advisers of Premio Gallarate.

The committee selected and invited eleven Italian artists: Luca Andreoni, Andrea Galvani, Tancredi Mangano, Maurizio Montagna, Armida Gandini, Moira Ricci, Francesca Rivetti, Alessandro Sambini, Marco Signorini, Alessandra Spranzi and Richard Sympson. Premio Gallarate acquires a work by each artist for the collection of the GAM.

TERZO PAESAGGIO

fotografia italiana oggi

XXIII edition of Premio Nazionale Arti Visive Città di Gallarate

7 March – 14 June 2009

Inauguration: Saturday 7 March 2009, at 6.30 PM

The show will open on Saturday 7 March during the Festival Folosofarti (1-8 March, 2009).

Every Thursday the show is open to the public until 9.30 PM with a guided tour at 6.00 PM

Free Admission

GAM

viale Milano 21, Gallarate (Varese)

Tel. e Fax + 39 (0)331 791266

www.gam.gallarate.va.it

info@gam.gallarate.va.it

Carmelo Nicosia will be the first guest invited to the radio meeting of Radio 3 Suite “I maestri della Fotografia Italiana” (The Masters of Italian Photography).

The Nicosia’s lecture will be on “The Chinese and Japanese Photography” and the role of women in Japanese and Chinese society.

The programme starts at 10.50 pm and the audience can call-in and ask the artist his question during the live broadcast.

Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea is pleased to announce “Insight”, the first solo-show of Italian artist Silvio Wolf at the Gallery of the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco. Following Wolf’s successful exhibition Voyager at New York’s Robert Mann Gallery, “Insight” represents the artist’s further investigation of the theme of Real and Illusionary in photography.

An internationally acclaimed artist, Silvio Wolf leads gallery visitors on a metaphorical journey, weaving in and out of representation and abstraction, through successive stages of appearance and disappearance of the subject. In Silvio Wolf’s theater of light, visitors are not simply viewers but voyagers on a journey, engaged in defining what they see and discovering what they can know.

Wolf’s photographs offer a deep insight into the subtle, emotional and meditative reality of seeing. In them, the visible is just a starting point, an opportunity for poetic understanding.

Inauguration: Wednesady, 11 February, from 6.30 pm.

Exhibition on view February 12 – March 5.

If you wish to attend the opening night with the artist please call 415-788-7142 ext. 18.

Further information:

The Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco web site

The next encounter with “Natura morta with the author” will be with Alessandra Spranzi on Monday 16th of February at 6.30 pm at Assab One, Milan.

The project foresees a total of 18 appointments in three different locations: American Academy, Rome; Sì, Bologna; Assab One, Milan.

Every encounter will be preceded by a short introduction by the curator to present the picture, or rather the artist and his objects. At the very end of the project a publication will be edited to collect all 18 pictures.

“Natura morta with the author”, a project by Flavio De Marco, is an encounter between the artist and his audience guided by three objects (a book, a movie, a disc, a painting, or maybe a dice, a shoe, a pair of glasses, a shirt, et cetera) which every invited artist, coming from different artistic fields (visual arts, literature, cinema, theatre, music) considers meaningful for his personal research.

On the Assab One web-site you can see the complete calendar.

Location

ASSAB ONE associazione promozione arte contemporanea
Via Assab, 1 – 20132  Milano
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mob +39 348 2925085
fax +39 (0)2 26111752
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http://www.assab-one.org/

Fotografia Italiana arte contemporanea has inaugurated the group show “Spazio Bianco” at Four Emotions – Palace Galerie in Sankt Moritz on Saturday 31st of January 2009.

On show works by Marco Campanini, Mario Cresci, Nanna Hänninen, Francesco Pignatelli, Alessandra Spranzi and Pio Tarantini.

Save the date for a second appointment on February 14th 2009, from 6.30 pm to 9.00 pm.

On the occasion of this second opening reception other works by Silvio Wolf, Marco Campanini and a new work by Andrea Galvani will be shown.

The show will be open until February 21st 2009.

Hours: every day: 11.00 am / 1.00 pm – 3.00/7.00 pm. Closed on Sunday.

Location: Four Emotions, Palace Galerie, Via Serlas, 22  7500  St. Moritz Dorf

For informations please contact: Valentina Romen, cell. + 39 335 7040106 valentinaromen@nicolettarusconi.com

Up: Francesco Pignatelli, + Fragile 62, 2008

Down: Nanna Hanninen, New Graffiti # 1 (Churchyard), 2004