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Artist spotlights, reviews, insights, and art world news from our team.

Gian Maria Tosatti at Pirelli HangarBicocca and CIAC Foligno
23May202330th July 2025
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Gian Maria Tosatti at Pirelli HangarBicocca and CIAC Foligno

The artist who represented Italy at the last Venice Biennale currently has two major exhibitions in Italy open through July 2023: NOw/here at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan and Spazio #09 – Mi Ricordo at Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea in Foligno. Installation view of Gian Maria Tosatti, NOw/here (2023), Courtesy of HangarBicocca. NOw/here at Pierelli Hangar Bicocca in Milan is curated by Vicente Todolí and features the latest large-scale works by Gian Maria Tosatti, produced in relation to the site’s architecture. The space was once a Pirelli factory now converted into a contemporary art space in 2012.  Tosatti’s Portraits feature gold...

David Tremlett ‘Jazz Cascade’: The 50th Anniversary Of Umbria Jazz
20May202330th July 2025
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David Tremlett ‘Jazz Cascade’: The 50th Anniversary Of Umbria Jazz

Two new works for major British-Swiss artist David Tremlett in Umbria. The artist was commissioned to design the official poster for the 50th anniversary of Umbria Jazz, one of the most prestigious and long-standing jazz festivals worldwide. David Tremlett, Jazz Cascade, 50th Anniversary of Umbria Jazz. The new work ‘Jazz Cascade’ was unveiled at the same time as the new site-specific architectural intervention in Perugia, the  Artist’s House project.  Tremlett notes, “I’ve never been good with titles for my works, so when I thought about the project for Perugia, I had to really commit myself. I knew that this place...

Stezaker/Tremlett at Artvisor, London
30April202329th August 2023
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Stezaker/Tremlett at Artvisor, London

“Walls, sculptures and drawings can talk and tell stories, they can echo.” – David Tremlett “There is something very odd, even unnerving about cutting through a photograph. It sometimes feels like I am cutting through flesh.” – John Stezaker We are pleased to announce a two-person exhibition of leading British artists John Stezaker and David Tremlett curated by Piero Tomassoni, held at Artvisor in London from May to September 2023.. David Tremlett, Spaces #1, 2023 John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his provocative collages and conceptual use of photography and found images. Having begun his career in the early 1970s, he became...

“The Ideal City”, a talk by Piero Tomassoni at the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino
27March202329th August 2023
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“The Ideal City”, a talk by Piero Tomassoni at the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino

In a captivating and thought-provoking event held at the prestigious Palazzo Ducale of Urbino, Piero Tomassoni delivered a talk on the topic of “The Ideal City” on the invitation of the Colnaghi Foundation and of the Italian Association of Family Businesses (AIDAF), whose associate companies include major household names from all industries, and together produce nearly 15% of Italy’s GDP. The historic walls of the Palazzo Ducale, itself one of the prime example of ideal urban space in the Renaissance, were the perfect setting for unraveling the complexities surrounding the concept of an ideal city. The talk commenced with a...

a painting from the Hermann Nitsch retrospective
15March202318th August 2023
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Hermann Nitsch at Pace Gallery, New York

Selected Paintings, Actions, Relics, and Musical Scores, 1965–2020 On 16 March 2023, Pace Gallery New York will open a retrospective of the Viennese artist Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022). The exhibition, entitled Hermann Nitsch – Selected Paintings, Actions, Relics, and Musical Scores, 1965–2020 is a celebration of the artist’s contributions to the avant-garde and a testament to his enduring legacy. The retrospective initially began as a collaboration with the artist, however, after his passing last April, the solo exhibition became a way to honour the completion of one of Nitsch’s final projects. Hermann Nitsch, Schüttbild, 1992 © Hermann Nitsch Foundation Nitsch was an interdisciplinary...

14March202322nd July 2025
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London exhibitions to look forward to in 2023

Joseph Beuys: 40 years of drawing and SENSE: Beuys / Gormley at Thaddeus Ropac On view through 22 March 2023 at Ely House, this exhibition, the first major one dedicated to Beuys in London in 20 years, presents almost 100 works on paper by the German artist. The works exhibited span four decades and show how drawing was, for Beuys, not a preparatory stage for other projects, but a way of thinking, a primary technique that encloses a complete creative process. Installation shot from Joseph Beuys: 40 years of drawing, Thaddaeus Ropac, London. Presented along with Joseph Beuys: 40 years...

Francesco Jodice. West, at Galerie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse
01February202322nd July 2025
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Francesco Jodice. West, at Galerie Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse

The WEST project by the Italian artist Francesco Jodice (b. 1967, Naples) is the subject of an exhibition curated by Matteo Balduzzi at the Galerie Le Chateau d’Eau, a public art space in Toulouse, France. With the WEST project, Jodice tells the story of the rise and fall of the American economic model and its image, investigating the origins of the current crisis of the liberal model over a period between the beginning of the Gold Rush (1848) and the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers (2008). Begun in 2014, WEST consists of three long journeys through a few of the states...