Today, at 18.30 pm, Kelly Nipper will be at DOCVA Documentation Center for Visual Arts to talk about her practice. The American artist, on the occasion of her show at Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, will delve into her work Weather Center, based on the investigation of time, motion and dimension.
Above: Weather Center, the third of three performance studies connected to the artist’s ongoing project “Floyd on the Floor”.

Ride the Wave Dude – Krõõt Juurak / Mårten Spångberg from F.I.S.Co. festival on Vimeo.

Held in various locations in Bologna, F.I.S.Co.10, the tenth edition of the internation festival of contemporary performing arts, will host polymorphic experiences of multidisciplinary nature, including dance, performance, vision and critical observation. The festival begins this evening with the performance of Giant City, a spectacle by Mette Ingvartsen which investigates the physicality of mobility, change and transformation which confront bodies in contemporary cities. The video above is an excerpt from Ride the Wave Dude, a work by Krõõt Juurak and Mårten Spångberg that will be presented at Spazio Carbonesi on April 23.

Thomas Houseago
The Moon and the Stars and the Sun
15 April – 5 June 2010
Michael Werner Gallery, New York

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Fourteen works by Samuel François, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine and Renato Leotta.

Until April 26, 2010
Room, Milano

White Ink, Boris Mrkonjic’s first solo show in London, will be visitable until May 23 at Ibid Projects.
The exhibition shows how history and its relationship with narration plays an important role in Mrkonjic’s practice. Through appropriation, alteration, and montage of wellknown materials in sculpture and works on paper, the German artist disrupts the usual historical narratives and constructs new meaning through recombined fragments.

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In this frantic days of Salone, Fuori Salone and whatnot, we suggest you to take a trip to Lambrate and have a look at 13.798 grammi di design – an exhibition for which more than 40 designer were invited to compare themselves with the weight of creativity. The show, curated by Maria Cristina Didero and Susanna Legrenzi, will inaugurate this evening at Lambretto Art Project in Milan. In the pictures above, you can have a peek at the magazine that we have produced for the show.

The Sirens’ Stage is a multi-layered exhibition by Etienne Chambaud developed by The David Roberts Foundation in collaboration with Kadist Art Foundation in Paris and Nomas Foundation in Rome. The show is based on mechanisms of writings and transcriptions: a collection of fragmentary narratives, playing with accumulations and disappearances, survivals and hauntings.

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The Festival of Contemporary Art was founded to provide the opportunity to stop and think about the content, ideas, messages and interpretations that the world of art offers us every day. Above all it is a place where the contemporary art system – artists, curators, museum and gallery owners – has the opportunity to meet and express their thoughts.

The third edition of the festival, entitled OPERE/works, which will take place from May 21 to May 23, aims to focus on works of art, at the centre of the debate and the relationship that viewers have with contemporary art.

The video above is an excerpt from the second edition, On biennials/ Tutto sulle biennali, which offered a journey around the world of recurring exhibitions. Isabel Carlos, Okwui Enwezor, Lorenzo Fusi, Chus Martinez, Philippe Van Cauteren and Carlos Basualdo discuss the topic “The Biennials of Curators”.

Through an exploration of errors and mistakes, this exhibition – visitable until June 19 at Museo Marino Marini in Florence - contemplates a rethinking of the processes through which a work is created, by questioning the very elements which have been fundamental in the construction of the contemporary world. Featured are the sculptures of Sunah Choi, Kit Craig, Isabelle Cornaro, Simon Fujiwara and Tim Davies, Falke Pisano, Alexandre Singh, and Simon Wachsmuth. And if you won’t make it, we’re already hard at work on the catalogue.

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In modern times animism – a social and psychological mechanism coined by 19th century anthropologists by means of which nature and things were endowed with souls – has evolved around two opposed and yet complementary processes: animation and objectification. This interesting exhibition, visitable until the 2nd of May at M HKA, Antwerp, meditates on the paradoxical status of objectification in modernity, investigating in particular the way in which modernity conceived of the boundary between life and non-life, the subjective and the objective.

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Nils Bech and Sergei Tcherepnin have worked together on the soundtrack of Tobias Madison’s first film, Yes I Can! The Movie, presented for the first time at the Swiss Institute of New York. Tomorrow, at 8 pm, the two artists will perform in concert, accompanied by projections by Madison, at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma in Milan, on the occasion of the last of a series of four appointments curated by the Zurich-based collective Paloma Presents.

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—-Bharti Kher
—-inevitable undeniable necessary
—-20 March – 15 May 2010
—-Hauser & Wirth, London

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