Exhibition reviews AlbumArte independent space for contemporary art United States
Contemporary American society is rife with deep-seated structural tensions. On the political front, with Trump’s second term and the contradictory emergence of the MAGA movement, the fragmentation of the two historic political…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art
While in recent decades the center of gravity of the global contemporary art world has consistently gravitated toward New York—where multinational galleries such as Gagosian, Pace Gallery, David Zwirner, and Marian Goodman Gallery, and…
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Exhibition reviews Photography Twentieth Century
Starting in the 1960s, the structural crisis in the mining and steel industries profoundly reshaped the economy and geography of those European countries that had most closely based their industrial identity on that model. Oil, which was…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art
One hundred cast-iron male figures facing the sea horizon, scattered across two miles of a beach in Merseyside (Another Place, 1997, Crosby Beach, Liverpool). Solitary figures—like the previous works, replicas of the artist’s own…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art
Jenny Saville (Cambridge, 1970) is one of the few contemporary painters whom even the general public recognizes instinctively and without the need for captions. From the outset, her painting, unabashedly devoted to enormous bodies, treated…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art Venice
At a time when the aftermath of grievances over the absence of Italian artists at the International Exhibition of the upcoming Art Biennale is still swirling (completely unfounded, moreover, except in terms of "discourtesy" to the host…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art
One of the reasons why many contemporary art exhibitions are refractory to the general public is that they make the viewer feel a bit stupid. Of course, the more sensitive and knowledgeable viewers are, the higher their threshold of…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art
Anaesthetics of the laceration in which intimacy and dramaturgy, monumentality and maniacal attention to detail, references to the (especially Flemish) masters of the past and crude actuality coexist: these are the hallmarks of the…
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