The second Sharjah Triennial of Architecture emerges as a pioneering platform in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, showcasing groundbreaking perspectives on urbanism and architecture.
The landmark Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai welcomes a new group exhibition, Guest Relations, this winter. The exhibition runs until 28 April 2024. Curators Murtaza Vali and Lucas Morin join forces for a show that investigates the nature of commercial hospitality through art, architecture, and urban planning. Taking the hotel as its subject, this exhibition brings together the work of 34 artists whose archival and architectural research exhibit the historical, political and cultural metamorphosis of the concept of tourism from colonial hubris to present-day globalisation. Ahmed Mater, Abraaj Al Bait Towers, 2012 The exhibition appropriately draws on the nature of...
Emilio Prini: …E Prini is a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Emilio Prini (1943 – 2016, Italy), taking place at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO) from October 27, 2023, to March 31, 2024...
Two talks with Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa at the RCA and at Artvisor, London, with Dr Adrian Lahoud and Piero Tomassoni...
Artvisor has been featured in the Financial Times’ ‘The best new city residences for design lovers’ for our collaboration with 60 Curzon, Mayfair. ©The Financial Times Limited 2024. All rights reserved. The article notes ‘A date at the Curzon Home to some of London’s most prestigious galleries, 60 Curzon in Mayfair puts art at the centre of the scene. The development, designed by the late Thierry Despont, has been curated with pieces by British artist Vanessa Jackson and Royal Academician David Nash, while the 32 apartments including two penthouses (from £10.95mn through Knight Frank and Savills) will offer works by photographers Sasha Gusov and Cyrus Mahboubian and the...
Abstract expressionist Paul Jenkins (1923 - 2012, USA) is the protagonist of an important retrospective, ‘Absolute Painting’, held at the Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea (CIAC) in Foligno, his first museum exhibition in Italy...
‘Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries’, curated by Nicholas Cullinan, will be on display at the Fondazione Prada in Milan from 26 October 2023 to 26 February 2024...
Artvisor is pleased to announce Untitled (Radical Objecthood), an exhibition that explores the idea and meaning of sculpture today through a group of artists across generations and geographies, interlacing nonlinear narratives and reaffirming the centrality of the physical object in contemporary practice. Curated by Piero Tomassoni, the exhibition takes place in the garage of the new Mayfair landmark building 60 Curzon, evoking the seminal contemporary art show Contemporanea, held in the underground parking of Villa Borghese in Rome exactly fifty years ago. Works on display by Mario Merz and Vincenzo Agnetti act as a symbolic link and homage to the...
Artvisor is thrilled to announce Carlos Garaicoa‘s latest solo show, Resistencia, opening during Frieze week on 10 October at Artvisor in London. The exhibition unveils the enigmatic photographic works of acclaimed artist Carlos Garaicoa (b. 1967, Cuba). Taking his Cuban heritage as a point of departure, Garaicoa connects aesthetics to meaning within urban spaces and architecture. Central to his practice is an examination of structures — especially and most visibly those that make up our built environment. On a conceptual level, Garaicoa draws on the web of linguistic, political, social and artistic structures on which society itself is ‘constructed’. Through...
Pursuing the series of exhibitions dedicated to the relationship between Art and Architecture, Zuecca Projects and Artvisor present the first solo show in Venice of the artist Giuliana Balice. The exhibition “Giuliana Balice: l’ordine geometrico e la seduzione dell’architettura” (Giuliana Balice: the geometric order and the seduction of architecture), curated by Italo Tomassoni, will be hosted at Squero Castello, from 6 October to 25 November 2023. Coinciding with the final months of the Architecture Biennale 2023, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s sculptural production (from the late 1960s to the 2000s), highlighting her close ties with two of the fundamental...
German artist Anselm Kiefer has created a new series of works that conclude the final part of a grand trilogy of immersive and ambitious exhibitions for his latest exhibit at White Cube Bermondsey in London. In this exhibition, Kiefer reimagines the famously experimental last novel by James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, as an immersive symphony of naturalist destruction through the mutation of the novel into a non-linear dreamscape. Installation view of ‘Anselm Kiefer – Finnegans Wake’ White Cube. Photo ©Artvisor ‘Anselm Kiefer – Finnegans Wake’ is an impenetrable work of wordplay, full of puns and metaphors, synecdoches, harsh realities, and deceptions....
The Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea (CIAC) in Foligno hosted a conversation between Artvisor founder Piero Tomassoni and artist Gian Maria Tosatti last month. Together, they examined today’s relationship between art and the city. The event was held in conjunction with Tosatti’s site-specific solo installation at CIAC Spazio #09 – Mi Ricordo and his Italian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale History of the Night and Destiny of Comets, of which the CIAC was a Major Supporter. The dialogue started with an introduction to the Venice Biennale and the architectural entity of the Italian Pavilion as a platform. Tosatti produced the large-scale...
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