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“Le Milieu Est Bleu”: between imaginary and conventions

Redazione DigicultJanuary 31, 2020

Around the notion of ritual, inspired from the theatre, the artist Ulla von Brandenburg invites the public to take part in an immersive and renewed experience of the themes, forms and motifs that feed into her work.... READ MORE...

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Radha May: When the archives disclose the ways of seeing

Claudia D'AlonzoJanuary 30, 2020

Until February 2 2020, ICA Milan hosts When the Towel Drops Vol. 1 | Italy, the video installation by Radha May (Elisa Giardina Papa, Bathsheba Okwenje and Nup... READ MORE...

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“Fictive Appearance”, Yotaro Niwa’s new installation

Redazione DigicultJanuary 27, 2020

Taking inspiration from Yuto Takamuro's book, the new spatial installation of Yotaro Niwa also leads the visitors back to experiencing the physical space. One medium used to construct the installation is the book contents itself.... READ MORE...

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Loop, repetition and cyclicity: the exhibition “AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand”

Redazione DigicultJanuary 27, 2020

"AGAINandAGAINandAGAINand" aims at inquiring into the theme of loop, repetition and cyclicity in the present time, by looking at things from different perspectives, through the works of artists who have made this issue the focus of their research.... READ MORE...

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Imran Perretta’s experience at “the destructors”

Redazione DigicultJanuary 22, 2020

Chisenhale Gallery presents the destructors, a film commission and solo exhibition by London-based artist Imran Perretta.... READ MORE...

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MAPS 2020: a conference and an exhibition on preservation of media art

Redazione DigicultJanuary 20, 2020

The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates its "Media Art Preservation" project this year with a two-day MAPS 2020 conference and a related exhibition, continuing the work started in 2015 to discuss the issues of conservation and preservation of media art, that has involved international conservators, art historians and experts.... READ MORE...

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“Dark Matter”: the use of black

Redazione DigicultJanuary 17, 2020

The exhibition "Dark Matter" brings together individual works from a variety of contemporary artists, ranging from photography, collage, and painting to sculpture, all of which make use of the color black and its diverse contexts of meaning to convey many-faceted connotations.... READ MORE...

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Olaf Nicolai: A light vapour emanating from bound matter as spirits running, along

Redazione DigicultJanuary 15, 2020

The Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt is presenting, in the Museum Künstlerkolonie, the exhibition A light vapour emanating from bound matter as spirits running, along by the Wilhelm Loth Prize winner 2018, Olaf Nicolai.... READ MORE...

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“Sublimi Anatomie”. Gli abiti multimodali e transfemministi di Jeanne Vicerial

Caterina TomeoDecember 23, 2019

Partendo dalle orme del maestro Chalayan, Jeanne Vicerial ha fondato l’innovativo studio di ricerca Clinique Vestimentaire, all’interno del quale idea e sviluppa nuovi principi di creazione tessile, coniugati alla ricerca tecnologica sperimentale avanzata (Robotica). Report di Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...

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“Momentombs”: 50 years of Gary Hill’s artistic practice

Redazione DigicultDecember 16, 2019

Suwon Museum of Art presents a solo show of Gary Hill encapsulating his 50 years of artistic practice from the 1970s, when video art began, to the present time.... READ MORE...

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Giving images new lives. Interview with Kensuke Koike

Teresa RuffinoDecember 13, 2019

What can be the role of abandoned photographs, which after a certain time cease to have their original intention? Teresa Ruffino interviews Kensuke Koike, a visual artist that, with a calibrated manipulation, transforms in an alchemic way the matter he comes across to create something new. ... READ MORE...

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Are we ready for a new revolution? Some reflections after Signal 2019

Federica FontanaNovember 28, 2019

Comprehensively the theme of this 2019 edition of Signal, which took place from 10th to 13th of October, was the revolution: the 30th anniversary of the Czech Velvet Revolution, but also that of the present and the future, linked to the climate, social and technological changes of our time. Report and interview of Federica Fontana.... READ MORE...

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The Assembled Human

Redazione DigicultNovember 22, 2019

With "The Assembled Human" the Museum Folkwang focuses on the manifold entanglements between human being and machine: the exhibition presents art as a mirror of industrialisation, technologisation and digitisation.... READ MORE...

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Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Redazione DigicultNovember 20, 2019

"Masculinities: Liberation through Photography" is a major group exhibition that explores how masculinity is experienced, performed, coded and socially constructed as expressed and documented through photography and film from the 1960s to the present day.... READ MORE...

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Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future

Redazione DigicultNovember 11, 2019

Inspired by 2019 - the year that many iconic cyberpunk futures were set or scheduled to arrive (see Bladerunner, Akira, Running Man, The Island, and more…) - the exhibition "Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future" considers the hold that cyberpunk retains on our collective imagination.... READ MORE...

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The Extended Mind / Walk, Hands, Eyes (Edinburgh)

Redazione DigicultOctober 30, 2019

Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh are proud to present the exhibition "The Extended Mind" and Myriam Lefkowitz’s "Walk, Hands, Eyes (Edinburgh)", a unique city-wide performance event. Talbot Rice Gallery seeks to unlock the potential of universities to contribute to contemporary art, with both projects rooted in research called the History of Distributed Cognition (2014–18).... READ MORE...

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Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age

Redazione DigicultOctober 7, 2019

IMMA presents one of its most ambitious and compelling exhibitions exploring desire in our everyday lives. In particular, "Desire: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age" considers desire’s relationship to structures of power, individualism and emerging collective actions.... READ MORE...

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Asta Gröting: “Where do you see yourself in 20 years”?

Redazione DigicultOctober 4, 2019

In her exhibition, Asta Gröting combines earlier works with new sculptures and videos focusing on the physical and psychological deconstruction of the human body. Whether based on family members, friends or historical figures, Gröting’s work across media seeks to cast abstract qualities such as thought, intimacy, conflict and subjectivity.... READ MORE...

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