Luca Rossi

Ludovica Carbotta: good insights, but still too academic. What the exhibition at MAMbo in Bologna looks like.

The exhibition Very Well, on my own by Ludovica Carbotta (born 1982 in Turin, lives Barcelona) at MAMbo in Bologna addresses the relationship between the artist, her personal biography, and the dimension of the "city-society." The film Monowe, made t...
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Teller and Mueck at the Milan Triennale: two different exhibitions, but one is antidote to the other

Jurgen Teller and Ron Mueck at the Milan Triennale: two exhibitions that I recommend seeing as one, one a continuation of the other. Jurgen Teller (Erlangen, 1964) is a German fashion photographer who reworks fashion photography in a performative and...
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Can the Venice Biennale claim to have decolonialist intentions?

Biennial out of control. Curators have to choose from a given menu, and if that menu is mediocre, the Biennale will be no different. Contemporary art has gone through two crises (2001 and 2009) that have caused it to lose its ability to read the pres...
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"Maisons du Monde" art goes on stage at the Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale and the Italian Pavilion are litmus tests of a crisis in contemporary art that has been dragging on for at least ten to fifteen years. As I have motivated many times in recent years, the contemporary art system (market and events)...
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