Artvisor continues its collaboration with prominent educational institutions: our co-founder Piero Tomassoni will give two talks at the Sotheby’s Institute, London on the 12th January for the Business Management in the Art World course. For further info and to register for the course: goo.gl/uRbgJH Contacts: m.williams@sothebysinstitute.com or contact@artvisor.com Photo credit: Sotheby’s Institute
Category: Journal
Click & Buy – The future of the art market?
Some old fashion art dealers have recently been shocked by seeing an “Add to basket” button appear on the website of some of their competitors, next to an artwork’s image. What has the world come to!, they must have thought. Despite all our financial interactions with it, buying everything from clothing to cars to stocks, [...]
Art Investment seminar at Regent’s University
Artvisor co-founder Piero Tomassoni has been invited by the Centre for Banking and Finance of Regent's University London to hold a seminar on the topic Art as Investment: Facts and Fiction. The seminar will be held on Thursday 3 November at 6pm in room A201 and will be open to the public as well as [...]
FIAC 2016: onwards and upwards
Once again, the stately dome of the Grand Palais welcomed an art fair whose constantly growing dynamism relies entirely on its capacity for change and experimentation. Outside of and within the vast exhibition space, the programme ‘Parades for FIAC’ shook the French capital with a series of contemporary art performances, rarely seen by the general [...]
Luigi Boille: Le Baroque at CIAC, Foligno
Luigi Boille: Le Baroque, curated by Italo Tomassoni at the Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea (CIAC) in Foligno. In collaboration with Ronchini and the Boille Archive, the exhibition brings together over 40 works that chart the evolution of one of the foremost figures in European Art Informel.
In Conversation with Vanessa Jackson & Piero Tomassoni
On 13 June, Piero Tomassoni will be in conversation with British painter Vanessa Jackson RA, whose work sits at the confluence of formal abstraction and feminist inquiry.
Queercore Talk at the ICA London
Last week, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London hosted a screening of short films produced in the 1980s by Ashley Hans Scheirl and Ursula Pürrer. These works blend DIY cinema, performance art, punk soundtracks, and queer semiotics to construct imaginative fantasy worlds that confront bourgeois norms and embrace sexual multiplicity.
In Plain Sight: Invisible Sculpture at Luxembourg & Co.
In Plain Sight: A Display of Invisible Sculpture at Luxembourg + Co., London, presents a critical inquiry that showcases works by artists who have redefined sculpture through immaterial, conceptual, and performative approaches. The exhibition surveys a century of sculptural practice that manifests not through material form, but through gesture, imagination, or disappearance.
‘Paolina and Her Double’, Vettor Pisani at the Casa Romana, Spoleto
Vettor Pisani consistently explored the problem of truth in art and the grand themes of human existence that were deeply embedded in esoteric and philosophical traditions. His work is a complex interplay of myth, magic, and religious belief, challenging and expanding the boundaries of artistic expression.
Francesco Jodice. Giocattoli at Umberto Di Marino, Naples
In his solo exhibition, Giocattoli (Toys) at Umberto Di Marino, Italian artist Francesco Jodice (b. 1967, Naples) presents a provocative departure from his customary exploration of geopolitical narratives.