Conceptual Animals at Antica Libreria Cascianelli in Rome
Animals have inhabited and sometimes haunted the human imagination since the emergence of symbolic thought and language. An antique bookshop in the heart of Rome that looks as popping out from Balzac’s novel The Magic Skin. An art curator and travelling reporter who thinks that all the places you can imagine are real. The exhibition The Conceptual Animal transforms Antica Libreria Cascianelli - just behind Navona square and beside the entrance of the archaelogical site of Domitian Stadium – into a contemporary wunderkammer. Humanitas and Animalia meet in an unexpected setting; concocted not by the means of a weird genetic engineering but through the language of art: Marco Brandizzi and Laura Palmieri, the artists engaged in this two person show, play with the imagery and the concept of animals in an exhibition curated by Fabio Sindici that is designed by stage designer Valentina La Rocca (Libreria Cascianelli co-owner).
DI/S Case Studies: SIGNAL Festival Ticketing and Audience Strategy
How can digital arts organisations bring in a business mindset while maintaining artistic integrity as major producers of digital art? DI/S - Digital Inter/Section, a multiyear project supported by Creative Europe, has released four case studies of new business models for digital arts organisations and the creative sector. A key takeaway from the Prague case study include is that by targeting both mass and niche audiences, Signal Festival can secure long-term growth while maintaining artistic integrity and developing visitor experiences - thus putting audience perspective and artistic integrity at the center.
DI/S Case Studies: KONTEJNER - Sustainable venue management
DI/S - Digital Inter/Section, a multiyear project supported by Creative Europe, has released four case studies of new business models for digital arts organisations. KONTEJNER’s case study revolves around experimenting with economic sustainability and community engagement for Kontejner’s new venue, a small centre for contemporary art practices.
DI/S Case Studies: KIKK | Klub Pavillon - Sponsorship through members’ club
In 2022 KIKK opened an exhibition space in Namur (Belgium) dedicated to the digital experience that increased the organisation's dependence on public funding. To reduce this dependence, KIKK has looked into developing new private support through a members' club, based on adherence to the project and its values, that guarantees a unique offer to members while securing funding for an exhibition space for digital art that is open around the year.
Miguel Andrade Valdez in Mexico City
In Mexico City artist Miguel Andrade Valdez opens at the gallery Proyecto Nasal.. The exhibition premiers a new series of painting and drawing on canvas. It takes us back to the artist’s beginnings as a painter after having focused on sculpture and installations for many years, it also takes us into the body and mind. The exhibition is titled la peil which means ”the skin”. Exhibition text by Art Insider PR founder Sofia Bertilsson.
Between us and the world, our skin embraces us, protects us from evil and holds us together like a bag of bones, blood, guts and neurons. Our skin is the house our body built that our mind started to fill with memories, emotions, foibles, fads and dreams. Room by room, it stores and archives, losing the battle against clutter that piles up in the attic. Where to put our teenage dreams? The books we read? Physical memories of hands held, someone else’s skin?
World of Art and Design Fall 2023 Art Special
Fall is here and we’re highlighting artists from Scandinavia, via the South of France to Peru and Mexico. We love to hear artists talking about their work and the inspiration behind it - this newsletter is dedicated to the long read. Read the conversation between artist and designer David Elia and critic Rob Goyanes about art, landscape and environment and about sources of inspiration from the light of Rio and the South of France to Color Field painting and Jacques Tati - and weird Barbie, dots and grids.
With disarming humor and playfulness, Ingela Ihrman's work tackles questions concerning the conditions of one's own existence. By donning sculptural costumes fabricated by herself, the artist pretends to be someone else: a giant otter giving birth, a blooming giant water lily, a fig splitting in two. At the same time, the work brings forth the imbalance and the problems that have arisen ever since humans began to distinguish themselves as superior to nature. Hear the artists talking about her ongoing exhibition Frutti di Mare at Malmö Konsthall which she coincidentally envisioned as a giant pizza.
In Mexico City artist Miguel Andrade Valdez opens at the gallery Proyecto Nasal. The exhibition premiers a new series of paintings and drawings on canvas. It takes us back to the artist’s beginnings as a painter after having focused on sculpture and installations for many years, it also takes us into the body and mind.
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