Exhibition reviews Bologna Contemporary art
Anyone who spent time in Bologna in the 1990s surely remembers a stylized goose with long, jointed legs that chased itself from one street to another across walls, doorways, roll-up doors, and electrical cabinets—whose appearances seemed…
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What if a painting were so large that it couldn’t be displayed in a museum? That’s what happened with Anselm Kiefer’s Schwarze Flocken (2007), a painting 11.2 meters tall and 7.1 meters wide that, due to its size, had…
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Interviews Contemporary art Handicrafts Paleontology Prehistory
Born and raised in Carrara, Mariaelena Mariotti—known by her artist name, Mother of the Dinosaurs—is enjoying increasing success with her realistic dinosaurs, incredible sculptures that take shape in her studio in the Apuan Alps and are…
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A meeting of two great artists, separated by five centuries but united by their ability to challenge the conventions of representation. This is the heart of *Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads)*, a monumental painting by…
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In Brussels, a 1920s factory—where Atoma notebooks, a staple of Belgian design history, were once produced—has been reborn as a center for contemporary art. The industrial building, which had stood vacant since the company moved to a more…
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On Île Seguin, on the Seine just outside Paris, where Renault’s historic automobile factories once stood, the industrial legacy serves as the starting point for a new project dedicated to contemporary art. On October 17, 2026…
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A glass bottle factory built in Ghana in 1966, abandoned after decades of attempts at renovation and privatization, is dismantled and rebuilt as a work of art. The metal structures, the molds, the bottles, and the glass fragments from the…
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What remains of our time on earth? This is the question that serves as the starting point for *Reliquie*, a solo exhibition by Erk14—an artist born in 1986 who lives and works in Naples—scheduled to take place at the Diocesan Museum of…
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