September 21, 2023No Comments

Discovering The Blue Flower by MOVIMENTO

The emerging collectible design gallery Movimento on the occasion of Lake Como Design Festival presents a selection of 11 designers that redefine the colors and aesthetic of the ‘Sala della Musica’ at Villa Olmo where the exhibition “The Blue Flower” is held.

The Blue Flower exhibition by Movimento, ph Marcello Maranzan

MOVIMENTO is a nomadic gallery representing emerging designers and artists from different parts of the world. The artworks are on view on the gallery's website and during events hosted by the gallery (i.e. Merging and Emerging in Porta Venezia during Milano Design Week 2023) and design exhibitions or fairs. Virtually, MOVIMENTO is a place where design enthusiasts, collectors, architects, interior designers, and the general public can discover and purchase some of the best designs from around the world. Movimento is a project curated by Artefatto Design Studio

The Blue Flower exhibition by Movimento, ph Marcello Maranzan

The festival brings to life events, talks, and exhibitions that take place in historical, little-known or forgotten locations. For the first time, the Villa Olmo historic residence opens its doors to bring together designers, artists, publishers, and galleries of modern and contemporary design

Movimento in the Sala Musica of Villa Olmo, with the project curated by Artefatto Design Studio, addresses the theme "Naturalis Historia", the leitmotif of the festival, a direct reference to the homonymous work by Pliny the Elder. 

With "The Blue Flower", Movimento, takes inspiration from the father of the romanticism movement in literature Edmund Burke, and his essay on the beauty in nature. The exhibition explores unexpected ways to surprise the viewer & finds beauty in objects that deceive the eye. 

The Blue Flower exhibition by Movimento, ph Marcello Maranzan

The blue flower is a much-used symbol in romantic literature. In a world where nature is mostly made up of various shades of the color green, the blue flower represents the rare, the unexpected, and the unique. This is how the 11 international designers with "The Blue Flower" have chosen to use their creations to explore and narrate new unconventional attitudes towards beauty. 

As soon as you enter the room a sculptural Sofa by Italian furniture brand Secolo shows the viewer its back: round shapes made of solid wood and covered by light fabric. When Sofas are usually relatively insignificant on the back, this one is made to be seen and appreciated in 360°. Its beauty emanates a peaceful feeling.

The Blue Flower exhibition by Movimento, ph Marcello Maranzan

Walking through the installation two pieces surprise for their unexpected material. Two lounge chairs by German designer Pablo Octavio, which seem to be solid rock, leave the viewer astonished when they discover the chairs are actually made of soft foam. “Lapis Lazuli” is a soft, comfortable chair that has been carved by hand. As a result, every piece is different from the others in order to reach this seemingly rough stone appearance.

Lapis Lazuli by Pablo Octavio. Ph Marcello Maranzan

Lifting your gaze, a textile mirror appears — the “Oval Maxi Mirror” made by central-american design studio Caralarga. The mirror is part of the so-called “Repurposed” Collection, a series of decorative pieces made with cotton cuts recovered from textile objects. These cotton fibers can be brushed or messed up according to one’s mood of the day.

Oval Maxi Mirror by Caralarga; A Walk in the Forest N°14-15 by Juliana Maurer.
Ph Marcello Maranzan

Passing the mirror, a delicate 15mm optical glass side table hides itself by blending in with the lime-green moquettes. “ICED” glass table by architect and designer Heike Buchfelder is a sculptural expression of a moment of transition when water undulates between solid and liquid forms, floating on the surface of moving water.
The white optic glass slabs are sandblasted by hand. The result is a natural wave effect matte on the treated side and glossy on the other. The manual processing gives each table a unique surface structure and character, making each piece one-of-a-kind. 

ICED-SB1 by Heike Buchfelder. Ph Marcello Maranzan

At the end of the room is an elegant side table, by Taiwanese designer Anderson Hsu, which stands out for its architectural minimalism. “Revelo” plays with arches and the calming quality of repetitive elements. The geometries are translated and inverted into texture and negative space. The small travertine sculpture seems to mock the famous Roman building “Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana”, a square colosseum built in 1940 and completed after the second world war, placed in the heart of an area in Rome called “EUR”. The building looks like a rational Colosseum and is now a symbol of that district of Rome.

Revelo by Anderson Hsu. Ph Marcello Maranzan

The exhibition captures the equilibrium of pastel colors placed on an acid green that pretends to be more aggressive than it actually is. The outcome is an elegant space where a contemporary vision gives a sparkling twist to the neoclassical decorated room of Villa Olmo.

February 5, 2023No Comments

Wake-Up Call exhibition by Luca Staccioli: an intimate journey through childhood memories

ArtNoble gallery, Luca Staccioli's Installation view. Ph credit Michela Pedranti
ArtNoble gallery_Luca Staccioli_Installation view, ph credit Michela Pedranti

Wake-Up Call solo exhibition by Luca Staccioli at ArtNoble Gallery is now on view until March 9, 2023. Wake-Up Call recreates an intimate playground, a path made by the artist’s alter-ego child self, where all the objects are the result of the fervid imagination of this child. The place for play and re-imagination offers the visitor a sci-fi reality, with distorted objects presented in different scales: too small, too big, and always imperfect in their external finish. Here, our child-self is evoked and present, our inner child finds familiar objects and wants to play with them recreating infinite stories and scenarios. Until the bell rings and the shrill Wake-Up Call reawakens us all. 

ArtNoble gallery, Luca Staccioli, Reality Check. Ph credit Michela Pedranti
ArtNoble gallery_Luca Staccioli_Reality Check_ph credit Michela Pedranti


As a child, I remember not linking playing with dolls or Barbie. I would rather play with toy cars or the “Piccoli Fiammiferini” (Little Matchstick Dolls, invented between the ‘70s and the ‘80s) instead, and creating for them long itineraries using the vastity of my entire home. The itinerary included a lot of useful stations: a table to eat at, a market to go and shop food, a garden to play, an animal fence, a bed where to sleep and rest, and so on, with new stories all the time. Here at ArtNoble Gallery on the occasion of Wake-Up Call show of Luca Saccioli, my inner child is strongly awakened and called back from a past life I barely remember. My moments of childhood entertainment vividly came back to life. And consequent joy and excitement. When exposed to the act of play and the use of  imagination, our mind enters a status of trance, it is kidnapped by the flowing images and a fictional world unexpectedly appears, where to take shelter in memories and dreams. 

Wake-Up Call has the power of putting us in that same trance our mind used to go, when we were playing as children. Looking at the drawn road marking on the floor, we are immediatly dragged in a fantasy world populated by the artist’ recreated toys. Ceramic sculptures of different scale and dimensions are installed in the path, now as tools to play with, now as landmarks tracing destinations of a distorted journey. Among the sculptures, we find scattered shopping carts on the ground, remains of an alienating playground that, instead of being a spontaneous and carefree construction of identity, is actually eroded by consumption. 

The series Checkout, in fact, aims to evoke a reflection on nowadays exaggerated consumption. The compulsory shopping, which aims at buying, possessing, having, and showing off, with a consequent obsession for what is new or not (yet) ours. In Luca Staccioli’s fictional world, the hyper-present and hyper-fast icon of online shopping becomes a fetish, as fetishized are the goods it contains.

Suddenly, the path becomes a bridge from our childhood to our present adulthood awakened by what is brutal and real: the imperfection of the present. 

ArtNoble gallery, Luca Staccioli, Traffico 1, ph credit Michela Pedranti
ArtNoble gallery, Luca Staccioli, Traffico 1, ph credit Michela Pedranti

On the wall, can be found the photographic series Familiar Stories (returns), which immortalizes maquettes of domestic places, that are reconstructed in play-doh and inhabited by paper figures from archival photographs of prisoners, redrawn and shaped by the artist. The anonymous characters are decontextualized from their unknown origins, externalizing History and its oppressive presence. The artist imagines a child who, browsing through family albums, finds figures of war and violence and turns them into object-actors in his game. The instant of the game, stopped by the photographic shot, reveals the nightmares hidden in everyday life, the theatricalization of intimate places in social networks, and our being puppets of a play already written. In dialogue, also on the wall, drawings from the series Studio per una protesta: cieli in which prisoners and everyday memories free themselves, dive, and dance together, opening up the imagination of new possibilities.

At the end of this path full of enemies and distractions, a ceramic castle stands on the wall,  memory of ancient artistic techniques (the bassorilievo for instance), and representing for us the final destination of this fictional journey: our salvation. In this story, we are the knight; the stops on the way are the obstacles we need to overcome and beat. Consumerism here is the great villain, who temps us (the knight) along the way, and we need to overcome each temptation in order to arrive at the final step and let the good win over the evil. 

Driiiiiiin, suddenly, we hear a sharp noise. A bell rings and the time for playing is over: the final Wake-Up Call brings us back to the inevitable here and now.

Text by Eleonora Confalonieri, Sunday February 5, 2023

ArtNoble gallery_Luca Staccioli_Castello (di sabbia_)_ph credit Michela Pedranti

October 26, 2020No Comments

REA! Art Fair: scopri gli artisti

il team REA!

Dal 30 ottobre al 1 novembre 2020 arriva REA! Art Fair alla Fabbrica del Vapore di Milano. Una fiera d’arte indipendente per artisti emergenti. L’ampio spazio, uno dei contesti più vivaci e creativi della città e dal forte respiro internazionale, mette in mostra i 100 artisti contemporanei selezionati dal team curatoriale di Rea! Art Fair e disposti in 6 sezioni.

Reattiva, aperta, radicalmente nuova, ReA! sfida il mercato dell’arte adottando un nuovo e dirompente approccio per una fiera indipendente dedicata all’arte emergente. Gli artisti avranno la possibilità di esporre le proprie opere, promuovendo direttamente il loro lavoro.

Clarissa Schnitzer, (b. 1987) and Robert Utech, (b. 1988)

Con la sua prima edizione, lanciata con una campagna di raccolta fondi su GoFundMe, ReA! Art Fair si propone, sulla scia di esperienze internazionali già di successo, di portare anche nella città di Milano un’idea nuova di fiera, che non si concentri sulle gallerie ma sugli artisti. Una sfida che permette ai 100 selezionati di far parte di un progetto unico: un’occasione in cui promuovere e presentare sul mercato la propria arte, senza intermediazione.
Organizzata dal team dell’associazione culturale ReA Arte, fondata da un gruppo di giovani imprenditrici della cultura, ReA! Art Fair ha come obiettivo quello di superare il modello tradizionale di fiera, supportando − in un mercato sempre più sfidante − vendite trasparenti, affiancate da un’adeguata rappresentazione e un giusto valore delle opere. Prendendo posizione al fianco dei giovani artisti e degli studenti di arti visive, ReA! Art Fair creerà un dialogo tra nuovi meritevoli talenti, i collezionisti, il pubblico e numerose istituzioni cittadine, nazionali e internazionali, con lo scopo di continuare anche a manifestazione ultimata.
Con un intreccio delle sue sei sezioni − Fotografia, digital art, performance, pittura, scultura, installazioni − ReA! Art Fair proporrà un progetto unico, definito dalle curatrici Maria Myasnikova, Tuğana Perk, Laura Pieri, Paola Shiamtani e Pelin Zeytinci, che si svilupperà come un unico flow interattivo e sensoriale di opere d’arte, interconnesse tra di loro. Tutte le opere esposte saranno in vendita e i proventi sosterranno direttamente gli artisti e la loro pratica.

Steven Antonio Manes (b. 1993)

La selezione di REA! Art Fair prevede un totale di 100 artisti, tutti indipendenti ed emergenti, provenienti diversi paesi del mondo (Stati Uniti, Lituania, Giappone, Thailandia, Germania, Inghilterra, Paesi Bassi), per un totale di 29 artisti internazionali e 71 nazionali. Saranno inoltre presenti alla fiera 4 guest artists: Myasnikova Maria, Rebor, Martini Matete, Jaffer Shahina.

I 100 artisti selezionati per REA! Art Fair sono:

Adamou Elena; Arta, Raituma; Asai, Sayaka; Barletta, Nausica; Bellini, Gaia; Bislacchi; Brandimarte, Antonio; Camani, Martina; Caruso, Beatrice; Cecchini, Alessandra; Cescon, Stefano; Cestrone Lavinia; Chinchue, Alisia; Cichon, Magdalena; Cogliati, Leo; Colombini, Luna; Cordier, Pauline; Costanzo, Alessandro; Cro, Dominique; Cubas, Gianella; D’Amico, Michele; Dardano, Valeria; Del Gatto, Cecilia; Di Bonaventura, Cecilia; Draghi,Alessandra;
Dicker, Ana; Elson, Alexander; Falco, Clarissa; Fasso, Damiano; Fava, Ernasto; Figuccio, Valerio; Freedman, Naama; Furlan, Giulia; Garita, Robert; Gentzsch,L.R; Gibertoni, Fabian; Granziera, Maddalena; Gromoll, Kim; Guarda, Alessio; Gugliotta, Eleonora; Guillaume, Elise; Haas Sebastian; Hay, Emily; Haywood, Xander; Huang, Jueyuan; Ivanova, Anna; ILAZ; Ishakoglu, Sirma; Jonhardsdóttir, Jana; Kenneally, Anna; Koloosova, Anna; Knowels, Jeremy; Lemberg Lvova, Anastasia; Lotti, Noela; Manes, Steven Antonio; Marchetti, Mattia; Martins Natacha; Massa, Benjamin Mario; Miners, Jade; Moffat, Freya; Morout Penelope; Narcisi Fabrizio; O’Dononvan, Elinor; Orazio, Teresa; Pacelli, Francesco; Papanti, Lorenzo; Papp, Mattia; Perera, Alejandra Valeria; Piras, Yara; Pleuteri, Aronne; Prasse, Antonella; Roaro, Eleonora; Rubegni, Luca; Rubin, Clara; Russo, Valentino; Sa’ Fernandes, Eurico; Salomone, Sergio; Sambo, Giovanni; Schnitzer, Clarissa e Utech, Robert; Selvaggio, Alessio; Semi Audiovisual; Shaposhnikova, Lena; Shuai, Peng; Simone, Jerusa; Siniscalco, Gabriele; Spolverini, Agnese; Stavley, Jonathan; Sugamiele, Mattia; Temchenko, Alisa; Ventura, Chiara; Vera,Vera; Vicentini, Fabiano; Vinci, Alessandro; Wu, Mengyuan; Xu, Yang; Zancana, Vincenzo; Zapf, Margherita; Zicari, Nuccio; Zornetta, Giacomo; Zotti, Federica.

Dominique Cro (b. 1993)

Durante la fiera, a sottolineare l’impegno verso la creazione di un dialogo con la città e le figure operanti nel settore artistico, saranno organizzate diverse panel discussions su temi attuali e di dibattito nel mondo dell’arte odierno.
Il programma di REA! Art Fair 2020 prevede anche l’assegnazione del Premio ReA! 2020.

Selezionati da una giuria esterna, gli artisti finalisti riceveranno insieme al premio la possibilità di esporre le loro opere a Milano e sviluppare le loro competenze con un workshop offerto da The Artists and the Others, partner di REA! Art Fair.

REA! Art Fair è patrocinata dal Comune di Milano e collabora con numerose istituzioni cittadine e regionali. Tra i nostri partner: Artsted, Attiva, Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Hub Art, MF Manifutura collective, MoCDA (Museum of Contemporary Digital Art). I media partner di REA! Art Fair sono: Artebella, Art Nomade Milan, Artribune, The Artists and The Others, Tha Art Gorgeous, Future young talent, Milano Beat Radio.

REA! Art Fair30 ottobre – 1° novembre 2020Vernissage 29 Ottobre ore 19.30 (su invito) Fabbrica del VaporeVia Giulio Cesare Procaccini 4, Milano Ingresso gratuito con prenotazione*, clicca qui.
* REA! Art Fair è in regola con le disposizioni del DPCM del giorno 25 ottobre in quanto classificati come mostra d’arte. L'evento si potrà svolgere in totale sicurezza rispettando le vigenti norme di contenimento del contagio da COVID-19.
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October 18, 2020No Comments

Intervista a Riccardo Angossini, the Address Gallery

Dodicesima puntata de “il salotto creativo” ospite il giovane gallerista che ha aperto a Brescia uno spazio espositivo unico e dedicato ad artisti emergenti e lavori talvolta sperimentali. Durante l’intervista Riccardo ci porta a scoprire gli spazi all’interno della mostra “S/S/P di Oliviero Fiorenzi e Roberto Alfano” due artisti in dialogo che affrontano temi attuali. Tra i sogni di Riccardo dar luce alla propria patria e supportare i numerosi brillanti artisti italiani

Guarda qui l'intervista!

October 18, 2020No Comments

Interview with Lise Arlot, Feralhorses

10th episode of “il salotto creativo”. Guest is Lise Arlot, co-founder and Art Director of online platform @feralhorses for co-owning museum-quality artworks. Lise explains that the idea behind is to democratize the inaccessible art world, while give an opportunity to diversify personal financial assets and start collecting art

Click here for the Interview

October 18, 2020No Comments

Intervista a Matteo Lanfranchi, teatro contemporaneo

Settima puntata de “il salotto creativo”. Ospite Matteo Lanfranchi direttore artistico e founder di @effetto_larsen pionieri di una forma di teatro definita contemporanea e partecipativa, che pone al centro le relazioni umane. Si uniscono al progetto Europeo “in situ” che promuove forme teatrali in spazi pubblici. Tra i progetti in corso “pop-up civilization” e “facciamo i conti” incontri aperti a tutti che hanno luogo sulla piattaforma Zoom.

Guarda l'intervista qui!

July 8, 2020No Comments

Intervista ad Alberto Lina, arte & tech

Giovane, appassionato di tecnologia e affascinato dalla Silicon Valley, viene introdotto al mondo dell'arte da un amico, nonché attuale socio, Marco. Da quell'incontro nasce un progetto all'avanguardia chiamato Artupia che unisce arte e nuove tecnologie creando un e commerce globale in cui il prezzo delle opere d'arte in vendita viene automaticamente generato da un algoritmo che tiene conto di diversi fattori tra cui, materiali, dimensione e popolarità all'interno della piattaforma.

Tra le collaborazioni: Landor Global con cui hanno sviluppato la brand-identity, Disney in occasione dell’uscita del film Mary Poppins e il recente servizio di realizzazione di opere d’arte custom made.

Il motto di Artupia?

Create a world where everyone can leverage the emotional power of art to inspire and be inspired

Guarda l'intervista qui!

March 29, 2020No Comments

Londra

Rubrica di viaggi (mentali)
Chi l'ha detto che tra le mura di casa non si può viaggiare?

Ecco a voi una piccola guida con le illustrazioni di Anna, per continuare a viaggiare in compagnia. Segui il cappellino rosso di Eleswim tra città, musei, viaggi mentali e cibo.

Londra by Anna Obert
Eleswim traveling to London by Anna Obert
London Skyline
London Skyline from the Shard, March 2020

Per molti stranieri residenti all’estero non è stato facile scegliere cosa fare a fronte del lockdown a catena di ogni Stato e decidere se affrontare l’odissea per tornare al proprio paese oppure, armarsi di pazienza e rimanere fermi. Io sono tornata nella mia città natale, sebbene Londra sia stata la mia casa per questi ultimi due anni e mezzo. Doverla abbandonare così di fretta è stato sicuramente difficile. Tutto questo però non impedisce né a me, né a voi di tornare a visitarla, almeno con il pensiero. Cosa c’è di più bello di una passeggiata lungo il fiume, con i grattacieli a far da sfondo, la pioggerellina tenue abituale compagna, i runners, gli skaters, i fastidiosi bikers a fare da contorno… dove saremo diretti?

St. Paul Cathedral, Millennium Bridge, London
St. Paul Cathedral, Millennium bridge view from Bankside, London, UK

Risalendo River Thames si arriva al Millennium Bridge, ponte pedonale che sta prorpio di fronte a... La Tate Modern!

Tate Modern
Tate Modern by Anna Obert

Maestoso complesso in mattoni rossastri, la Tate Modern si sviluppa lungo il Tamigi, opposta alla cattedrale di St. Paul, ma attenta a non rubare la scena. La prima volta che ho messo piede qui dentro mi sono ritrovata in un ingresso spaziosissimo, la Turbine Hall, che all’epoca (due annetti fa) ospitava il pensiero di Superflex, una collettiva di designers che progettando spazi ricreativi, hanno voluto offrire spunti di gioco ed incontri, sotto l’altissimo soffitto in ingresso. Ne ha parlato anche Dezeen

Superflex installation, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, October 2017

La Tete Modern ha ospitato mostre spettacolari dalla sua apertura nel 2000 ad oggi. Siamo fortunati abbastanza da poter godere di un’ampia trasposizione online delle sue sale, con racconti e spiegazioni utili. Come la libreria multicolor dell'artista Afro-Inglese Yinka Shonibare CBE, opera che racconta come il Regno Unito di oggi sia frutto di ondate migratorie continue, un mix di etnie e culture differenti che da anni popolano le sue terre, a volte solo di passaggio, a volte per restare.

May 2019, The British Library of Yinka Shonibare
Olafur Eliasson Exhibition, Tate Modern, July 2019

Tanta cultura mette fame... Dopo ore al Museo, fisico o virtuale che sia, è ora del ristoro.

Che fare quindi ora? Non ci resta che mangiare… 

Fish & Chips by Anna Obert

The End.

January 23, 2018No Comments

Welcome 2018!

Welcome 2018! This week London is going to be so vibrant: full of art exhibition openings and ready to get this new year started.

TODAY (the 23rd of January):

The Franco-British artist and filmmaker Charlotte Colbert opens her large-scale, multi- screen-sculpture exhibition at UNIT9 in Shoreditch, London.

Entitled ‘Benefits Supervisor Sleeping’, the installation is a filmed, multi-screen portrait of Sue Tilley, the legendary model for Lucian Freud’s famous paintings of the Benefits Supervisor, soon to be exhibited in Tate Britain’s  ‘All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life’ (28 Feb – 27  Aug, 2018).

Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, Charlotte Colbert, 2017

Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, Charlotte Colbert, 2017

Charlotte Colbert
‘Benefits Supervisor Sleeping’
Charlotte Colbert, 2017
corten steel, LCD screens, moving image
132 x 265 x 80 cm.
UNIT9
The Huntingdon Estate
Ebor St / Bethnal Green Rd
London E1 6JU

TornabuoniArt presents Piero Dorazio - Chromatic Fantasies (1948-82).

This is the first London solo show of the Italian abstract painter Piero Dorazio (1927 – 2005) in a generation. The exhibition will span 35 years of the artist’s career, from his early, cubist-inspired paintings to his large-scale abstract explosions of colour. It will also retrace his influences, from Giacomo Balla to the Abstract Expressionists whom he met during his numerous stays in the USA.

Tre acque, Piero Dorazio, 1972

Tre acque, Piero Dorazio, 1972

Piero Dorazio
Tre Acque [Three Waters]
1972
oil on canvas
138x361cm


TORNABUONI ARTE
46 Albemarle Street
London, UK W1S 4JN

Cardi gallery opens Claudio Verna solo show, Italian Artist from the 60's.

At the peak of his artistic expression his style reach articulates from absolute rigour, to an intense emotional involvement, both reflected on canvas through the use of colour with high saturation and brightness.

CLAUDIO VERNA Pittura, 1974/75, oil on canvas, 140x180 cm, (N.CAT. 385)

Pittura, Claudio Verna, 1974/75

Claudio Verna
Pittura, 1974/75
Oil on canvas
140x180 cm
(N.CAT. 385)

Cardi Gallery | London
22 Grafton Street
London, UK W1S4EX

 

Those are only 3 of the many openings happening this week in London, but to have a complete overview of all the beautiful upcoming art exhibitions, let's have a look at this brilliant website:

http://newexhibitions.com/current/

Enjoy!

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