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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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Letizia Battaglia's consecration at last. What the exhibition in Forli looks like.

Certain documentary-style shots, besides standing out in isolation in the teeming iconographic firmament of recent reportage history for the eloquence of a phenomenon effectively risen to noumenon, are candidates to become staples of photography tout...
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Amores Perros 25 years later: Iñárritu at Fondazione Prada breathes new life into the film. What the exhibition looks like

Some films become cult films because they come out at the right time, first intercepting certain epochal and existential ferments still latent with an original style destined to set the standard. One of these is Amores Perros (153 minutes), the debut...
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Daniel Buren in Pistoia: an opportunity to rethink his entire journey. What the exhibition looks like

The figure of Daniel Buren (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1938) emerges on the contemporary scene with an authority that transcends mere historical recognition to embody an artistic practice that continues to renew its language after more than fifty years of...
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