With Colored Content: never apologize and never explain

wieteke heldens

WITH COLORED CONTENT: NEVER APOLOGIZE AND NEVER EXPLAIN

Wieteke Heldens (NL/USA) will show new work made during her two months residency at Fusion Art Gallery in Torino.

On view will be among other things “Content drawings” on used paper bags from Torino, “The Italian Legend” on canvas and “The day that Donald Trump is elected the 45th president of the United States” with egg tempera.
Never apologize and never explain is a motto from Carl Andre that Hanne Darboven often used.

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Eternity in art

Andrea Prandi artista contemporaneo

Andrea Prandi, Panspermia (2015)

ETERNITA’ NELL’ARTE (ETERNITY IN ART): A NEW ART EXHIBITION FEATURING ANDREA PRANDI

Eternità nell’arte (Eternity in art) is the new art exhibition featuring the contemporary artist Andrea Prandi.

I knew him in Venice on the occasion of the exhibition Il Cinema nell’Arte (“The world of Cinema in art”), and this time his works are displayed in Rome in the Basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati, from November 12th to December 18th 2016.

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Tancredi: my Weapon Against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass

Tancredi Parmeggiani, 1955 Foto Arnold Newman / Getty Images

Tancredi Parmeggiani, 1955. Foto Arnold Newman / Getty Images

TANCREDI: MY WEAPON AGAINST RHE ATOM BOMB IS A BLADE OF GRASS

Tancredi. During her long life dedicated to art Peggy Guggenheim placed under contract only two artists: the American Jackson Pollock and the Italian Tancredi Parmeggiani.
The first one became famous all over the world, was a proponent of the abstract expressionism, and the inventor of the technique of drip painting which characterizes his most important works. Tancredi, instead, is an artist who during his life didn’t manage to stand out as he deserved.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice dedicates to Tancredi Parmeggiani a beautiful exhibition running from November 12th 2016 to March 13th 2017.
I saw this show, and it allowed me to understand the artworks created by this artist I, frankly, didn’t know, but it also gave me the chance to examine in depth a new aspect of the life of Peggy Guggenheim.

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