Tag Archive for: contemporary art

Jose Dávila / Tension, Compression and Balance
Art&Culture | Interview
A virtual visit to Jose Dávila' studio in conversation with Maria Abramenko. Trained as an architect, Jose Dávila creates minimal installations and photographic works with a reference to 20th century avant-garde art and architecture.

Lawrence English / The language of sound
Art&Culture | Soundscapes
Lawrence English, Australian composer and curator in conversation with Maria Abramenko. Talking about art, his curatorial practice and his latest album.

Robert Longo / Art as weapon against dark times
Art&Culture | Interview
Robert Longo in conversation with Maria Abramenko about art, its creation and perception.

Oleg Dou / Pale, bone-chilling and delicate
Art&Culture | Interview
Russian artist Oleg Dou in a conversation with Maria Abramenko about his art, concept and future plans.

Jonathan Vivacqua / Distortion & Inclination
Art&Culture | Interview
Italian artist Jonathan Vivacqua in conversation with Maria Abramenko about his past and future works.

Tadao Cern / Black Balloons
Art&Culture | Interview
Black, clean and monumental: Lithuanian artist Tadao Cern in conversation with Maria Abramenko about his creative process and inspirations.

Between life and death / Nicola Samorì
Art&Culture | Interview
Deformed, defaced and destroyed, Nicola Samorì’s obscure, Baroque-inspired oil paintings are skillful reproductions of classical portraits and still lifes on canvas, wood or copper, systemically assaulted by the artist’s hand or knife in an attempt to provoke the status quo of the history of art. Interview by Angelica Moschin.

Sarah Moon / Time at work
Art&Culture | Interview
Haunting, mysterious, unknowable and blurred fairy tales by master of photography Sarah Moon and a conversation about her latest simultaneous exhibitions at the Fondazione Sozzani and at the Armani/Silos in Milan. Interview by Angelica Moschin.

Tightrope Walking
Art&Culture | Interview
A talk with Haegue Yang about her first Italian solo show “Tightrope Walking and Its Wordless Shadow” on view at La Triennale di Milano. Interview by Angelica Moschin.

Chiharu Shiota
Art&Culture | Interview
Objects are not just objects sometimes. The poetic of common challenges the audience. You can be surprised, you can get emotional, angry, astonished, just looking at a filled room, without knowing why. Often the meaning of it is a visual mystery. Interview by Sara Dal Zotto.

Self-aware images / Screens by Fabio Mauri
Art&Culture | Words
His monochrome canvases simulate the display of the filmic images; they do not materialize an image, but do prepare the frame in order to contain it, opening the door of our visual perception, intended as a topos of all the possible representations. A piece on Fabio Mauri's Screens written by Larisa Oancea.

Notes to youth and riots
Art&Culture | Words
Punk In Britain: Simon Barker (Six) // Karen Knorr And Olivier Richon // Dennis Morris // Jamie Reid // Sheila Rock // Ray Stevenson // John Tiberi on show in Milan until the 28th of August, 2016 at Galleria Carla Sozzani. Words by Anca Macavei, photo by Bianca Sara Scanderebech.