Born: 1936 in Turin, Italy. Lives and works in: Turin, Italy. Upcoming exhibition: A Continuous Becoming. 26 January – 8 April 2018. Camden Arts Centre. Having just shown at his third Venice Biennale, Viva Arte Viva, Giorgio Griffa’s celebrated abstract paintings will soon be exhibited in London’s Camden Arts Centre. A Continuous Becoming includes works that [...]
Author: Yoli Terziyska Artvisor and Presenza have come together with the launch of the group exhibition Alchemical Imagination. Currently on display at LIBRARY, a private members club in London, are 27 works by 10 international artists working in different media. Some of the artworks are by promising emerging talents, others are made by mid-career or established [...]
Frieze Week With Artvisor: Monday 2nd – Sunday 8th October Author: Yoli Terziyska Blueprint Breakfast Briefings: Art Startup Pitch On Wednesday 4th October at Cromwell Place between 9am - 12pm, Blueprint Breakfast Briefings: Art Startup Pitch will give the stage to a select group of promising art startups to pitch their businesses to a group [...]
Coffee with Alessandro Roma Author: Yoli Terziyska “It is impossible to know where you are here, only your direction is known” Of Walking in Ice, Wednesday 4th of December, Werner Herzog Alessandro Roma, born in Milan in 1977, is a multi-media artist living and working between London and Milan. He studied at the Brera Art Academy [...]
Our weekly round-up of the best art exhibitions to attend, and engaging reads to keep you up to speed What’s happening this week · Mark your calendars – after (10!) long years of delays, the Louvre in Abu Dhabi is set to finally open its doors this November. [Artnet News] · Art and crime: father-and-son duo caught [...]
This year, Artvisor and a host of emerging and established galleries will be flocking to Denmark for CODE, Copenhagen’s premier art fair. As a relative newcomer to the circuit of global art fairs, Code Art Fair, which is about to launch its second edition, is already making waves in the art world. Set in the bustling [...]
Born: 1972 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands Lives and works in: Amsterdam Latest Exhibition: Weird Science, Gem Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague. Folkert De Jong creates macabre sculptures from polyutherene and styrofoam. His human sized figures are dismembered and reattached in bizarre poses. They often come dressed in theatrical clothing and splashed in [...]
Our weekly round-up of the best art exhibitions to attend, and engaging reads to keep you up to speed What’s happening this week Microsoft Paint survives! The beloved program was facing the ax, but after protests Microsoft concede that the classic won’t go away so easily. [News Watch TV] Is it ever okay for a [...]
Born: 1982 in Johannesburg, South Africa Lives and works in: Oxford, UK Current exhibition: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (June 13th - August 20th 2017) The South African born artist Carla Busuttil reformulates the conventions of portraiture to create grotesquely comical imagery. By parodying the faces, gestures and clothing of influential figures, she examines the [...]
Our weekly round-up of the best art exhibitions to attend, and engaging reads to keep you up to speed What’s happening this week A federal Judge has approved another copyright lawsuit against Richard Prince related to the artist’s use of instagram. [The New York Times] Did LG steal from Brazilian Artist Lygia Pape? The artist’s [...]