“In 1997 I had what I refer to as my oil epiphany. It occurred to me that the vast, human-altered landscapes that I pursued and photographed for over twenty years were only made possible by the discovery of …
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PHotoEspaña 2012 @ Various – Madrid
Photo is…. something hard to define. That’s why maybe the organisation launched a couple of months ago a social media campaign asking for people to define this art… anxiety, emotion, sensation, adventure… more than 300 ways to define …
Yutaka Takanashi @ Fondation HCB – Paris
Yukata Takanashi has always photographed Tokyo and many other cities from far away, very far away; but still managing to penetrate the uncorrupted parts of Japan, all those places where the money didn’t took over. For the first …
↓ Isola Art Center
In 2007 the City of Milan & the Texas-based corporation Hines destroyed the industrial building known as the Stecca degli Artigiani, where from 2003 to 2007 a group of artists, musicians, critics, curators, philosophers and inhabitants experimented with a center for art and for the neighborhood. They had to look for an alternative…
And so Italian artist Bert Theis came up with “Some hypotheses”… “new spaces of freedom”… alternatives of where the new art center could be settled. In fact, from 2007 Isola Art Center is the first “homeless” art center, that develops its own activities hosted by spaces in the Isola area: cultural associations, shops, a restaurant, shop window security gates, sidewalks, squares. The community is working to retake new spaces for art and for the area in the not-so-distant future.
If you get the chance to see his exhibition (recently @ Club21 London), do, his propositions may not always be mind-blowing, but they’re certainly not ordinary, and many times they’re closer to reality that we’d love them to.
isola being demolished