Workout in the Limbo: On Michele Gabriele and Alessandro Di Pietro’s Tiziano e Giorgione

Prepared with nothing but the title—Tiziano e Giorgione—one is both compelled and halted by the head-on confrontation between the two Continue reading →

Manifesta. Chasing a European identity in time of crisis.

When in 1996 Hedwig Fijen and Jolie van Leeuwen developed the concept for the first edition of a nomadic biennial, Continue reading →

Samara Scott: Developer

There is something in the water at Battersea Park. You might be forgiven for wondering what has gone wrong with the water Continue reading →

PreHuman

0 The idea of citizenship is generally linked to a geographic location or belonging to a nation-state, implying a set Continue reading →

What can we learn from Ariane Prin‘s RUST collection?

During the London Design Festival 2015 I discovered Ariane Prin’s freshly launched hand- made homeware collection RUST at Herrick Gallery Continue reading →

Magical Surfaces: The Uncanny in Contemporary Photography

When in 1919 Freud developed the concept of the ‘uncanny’, he dedicated a long part of his dissertation to clarifying Continue reading →

An art essay written by a parrot: Valerio Nicolai at Treti Galaxie

When philosopher Davide Dal Sasso came to visit the Valerio Nicolai solo show Permanent Transformation of a Magician in Ant Continue reading →

It is Probably Better to Start from Zero

A window is multifunctional, on practical and also metaphorical levels. It can be a barrier that separates the public from Continue reading →