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When the contemporary artist doesn't want to be understood: what Uri Aran's exhibition in Naples looks like

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 tolerance with re...
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Berlinde De Bruyckere, shaping pain beyond the skin. What the exhibition at Galleria Continua looks like

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 sculptural practic...
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When art hacks AI and reality: what Hito Steyerl's The Island looks like at the Fondazione Prada

Big data, chatbots, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, predictive modeling, Internet of Things (IoT): the list could go on with a long list of neologisms coined in recent decades to designate the technological applications by which our collect...
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Art in a state of emergency: PUSH THE LIMITS against the immobility of the present. What the exhibition looks like

It is by no means easy to organize thematic multimedia group exhibitions by enhancing the breath and specificities of multiple works without the end result being dissonant, and it is even more difficult to orchestrate curatorial reasoning on topical ...
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Nan Goldin, when life becomes image. What the HangarBicocca exhibition looks like.

To crown Nan Goldin's more than 40-year career, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, in collaboration with the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Grand Palais Rmn in Paris, has or...
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Jeff Wall and the invention of the real: when photography becomes theater

The figure of Jeff Wall (Vancouver, 1946) represents a decisive juncture in the history of contemporary photography: the artist, beginning in the late 1970s, was among the first to problematize the status of the topical photographic image, moving it ...
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In Lucca, Open Group collective forces you to look war in Ukraine in the eye

Many will have been impressed by the Poland Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, featuring the participatory video installation Repeat after me II by the Open Group collective (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga). The protagonists of the two vid...
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Laure Prouvost, when art goes quantum. What the exhibition at OGR in Turin looks like.

The debate on the intersection of art and science has experienced a significant acceleration in recent years in exploring the aesthetic possibilities offered by emerging technologies, as evidenced, one example above all, by the section The Unfinished...
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