Articles

Italian Conversations. Discovering contemporary art in Italy

By daily following this path, after visiting and analysing Rotterdam, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Copenaghen, Riga, Switzerland and Bruxelles, this year Rob e Nienke, encouraged by Nomas Foundation’s curators Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni, have published their investigation of Italy, “Fucking good Art: Italia. Issue #28, Italian Conversation – Art in the age of Berlusconi”, the result of an almost one-year-long itinerant residence.... READ MORE...

Nam June Paik: Global Visionary

The artwork and ideas of Nam June Paik (1932–2006) were a major influence on late 20th-century art and continue to inspire a new generation of artists. Nam June Paik: Global Visionary offers an unprecedented view into the artist's creative method by featuring key artworks that convey Paik's extraordinary accomplishments as a major international artist as well as material drawn from the Nam June Paik Archive, which was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum from the artist's estate in 2009.... READ MORE...

Alfredo Jaar to represent Chile at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Alfredo Jaar will represent Chile with a major new site-specific installation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Alfredo Jaar (b.1956; Santiago, Chile) is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. With an expansive commitment to art in diverse and distinctive cultural, political, and public contexts, his work has been commissioned, exhibited, and installed throughout the world, including Biennales in Venice (1987, 2002), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989, 2010), and Documenta in Kassel (1987, 2002).... READ MORE...

Displace 2.0: Mediation of Sensations. A conversation with Chris Salter

Chris Salter is a media and performance artist, based in Montreal and Berlin. Performance and performativity, as well as interaction with other disciplinary fields or arts are the main aspects and features of his work. Not only from the artistic point of view but also in terms of research. Salter is indeed involved in scientific research projects and publications (we would like to mention here his book published by MIT Press in 2010 Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance)... READ MORE...