Art

Shiro Takatani: Camera Lucida. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

This first-ever museum exhibition by Shiro Takatani presents a survey of his endeavors, both as artistic director of the internationally known performance art collective Dumb Type, doing video, lighting, graphics and set design for the group, and as a solo visual artist whose imaging [video and photo] works offer deep insights into the natural environment and diverse physical phenomena... READ MORE...

Cyberfest 2013: Time & Place

Held annually since 2007, CYBERFEST is the first and biggest festival for technologically based art in Russia. Growing over years to become a massive international event, CYBERFEST 2012 rose to include over 80 artists held across St Petersburg’s top institutions: The State Hermitage Museum, Peter and Paul Fortress, KURYOKHIN MODERN ART CENTER, POLIGRAF Art Hall, Borey Gallery, and the Gallery of Experimental Sound.... READ MORE...

Shiro Takatani. The extension of visible

there is a sort of landscape full of visual and sonic inputs determining – unconsciously – our perception. Just around these minimal perceptions, boundaries of the infinitely small, are the works of the Japanese and worldwide known artist Shiro Takatani, already leader of the Japanese theatre company Dumb Type and today involved in different projects, from installation - as Frost Frames, conceived for the Kyoto Spiral Hall in 1998 and the collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto for LIFE – fluid, invisible, inaudible…(2007) – to live performances, like the recent La chambre Claire (2008) and Chroma (2012).... READ MORE...

Diego Tonus: Residenti. Villa e Collezione Panza

Residenti, the fifth appointment of AN EDUCATION - a series of exhibitions of artists’ videos and workshops conceived for students and anyone interested in contemporary art - opens on October 26th 2013 at Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, the property owned by FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano. The film Residenti, by the artist Diego Tonus, will be shown in the project room of the Villa until November 28th.... READ MORE...

Helsinki Photography Biennial: Basak Senova appointed curator

Helsinki Photography Biennial is pleased to announce the appointment of Basak Senova as curator of HPB14. The biennial is held next year from 27 March to 4 May. In addition, HPB14 has invited Mustarinda Association (Finland) to develop the theme of the 2014 biennial, which examines causal relations regarding ecological issues, and to build a section presenting critical views on images of nature.... READ MORE...