In his work, Michele Guido brings out the relationship between architecture, history and the image of nature. This gave rise to the ‘garden projects’, interdisciplinary projects based on formal analogies between the plant world and scientific research, their geographical origin, migratory flows and the cultural history of their places of
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LIA RUMMA | The ANGAMC 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Lia Rumma
On the occasion of Arte Fiera Bologna and the inauguration of Luca Monterastelli’s installation at the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, the National Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries has awarded the gallery owner Lia Rumma, one of the most authoritative figures on the Italian art scene, who has
GIOVANNI ANSELMO | “Giovanni Anselmo. Beyond the Horizon ” at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Gloria Moure, the curator, recounts the major exhibition that opens just a few weeks after the artist’s death: “It is totally his creation, he chose the works and their dialogue, the layout and the texts”. The exhibition brings together a set of particularly significant works that provide a comprehensive analysis
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | Slade Lectures at University of Oxford
William Kentridge has been announced as the Slade Professor of Fine Art for 2023/4 at the University of Oxford. Kentridge, born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1955, is renowned for his drawings, films, theatre, and opera productions. His method combines drawing, writing, film, performance, music, theatre, and collaborative practices to
LUCA MONTERASTELLI | Solo show Storia di un onest’uomo in Bologna
Luca Monterastelli is delighted to present his upcoming individual installation, ‘Storia di un onest’uomo’, which will take place in Bologna at the Oratorio San Filippo Neri. The exhibition is curated by Alessandro Rabottini and is realised thanks to the collaboration with the Lia Rumma Gallery and the Fondazione del Monte.
WAEL SHAWKY | Egyptian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 2024
Lia Rumma Gallery is delighted to announce that Wael Shawky will represent Egypt at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. A natural storyteller, Shawky takes historiographical and literary references as starting points for his concentrated narratives, in which he interweaves fable, fact and fiction. Tackling notions of national,
MARZIA MIGLIORA | Green Snake: women-centred ecologies
Opening at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Green Snake: women-centred ecologies, gathers more than 60 works—16 of them new commissions—from 30 artists and collectives in an exhibition that draws on mythologies and world views with women at their heart to explore possibilities for other ecological relationships. In the context of rising global temperatures
JOSEPH KOSUTH | Lacan, The Exhibition. When Arts Meets Psychoanalysis.
Lacan opened up an innovative space that is at the heart of our modernity and of our contemporary experience. Today we are debating issues of sex, love, identity, gender, power, belief or disbelief, all questions for which the psychoanalyst provided precious reference points. The visit should be seen and experienced
PAOLO ICARO | La Biblioteca del Mondo-Conversation Piece
From 13 December 2023 to 21 April 2024, Fondazione Memmo presents La Biblioteca del Mondo, the ninth edition of Conversation Piece. This annual cycle of exhibitions is curated by Marcello Smarrelli and aims to provide an overview of Italian and foreign artists who choose Rome as their place of residence,
GIAN MARIA TOSATTI | Damasa at Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
On the second of December 2023, the director Sylvain Bellenger presented Gian Maria Tosatti’s work Damasa to the press and public in the Caravaggio Room on the second floor of the Museo del Real Bosco di Capodimonte. The installation has been acquired for the collection with the support of the