We are pleased to announce the first edition of Napoli Gallery Weekend, a public event dedicated to contemporary art, featuring three days of joint openings by Neapolitan galleries. NGW_Lista_Gallerie_Programma
Gary Hill exhibition "A Question of Perception” shows how the American media conceptual artist has been revealing the essence of image and language through the medium of video for more than five decades. With forty-six works spanning five decades, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has the largest collection of works by Hill in Germany. In the last few years, several more recent installations have been added to the holdings and are now being shown for the first time in this exhibition.
Marzia Migliora and Tobias Zielony take part in “Art Routine for Well Being” the new group exhibition at Spazio Leonardo in Milan. The exhibition features 25 video works by international artists from the Videoinsight®️ Collection, a prestigious selection of artworks with significant psychological impact. The aim of the exhibition is to promote mental and physical wellness through art: a fundamental tool for fostering personal growth and evolution.
Domenico Antonio Mancini, with his installation Sei Dieffenbachia, is the second artist selected to activate SCONFINA. Mancini’s intervention arises from the urgency of exploring a political issue close to his heart: the right to housing, linking it to the history of public social housing and its accessibility. In Sei Dieffenbachia, Mancini translates his political reflections into a poetic work, addressing the need for intervention, whether publicly or collectively. By doing politics without explicitly talking about it and flipping the relationship between objects, the artist invites passersby on Via Aleardi to take action.
A rare glimpse into the creative flow of South African artist William Kentridge’s imagination: enter his studio in “SELF-PORTRAIT AS A COFFEE POT,” his new 9-part series. All episodes come streaming exclusively from October 18 on MUBI.
Over the past few years, the Fundació Sorigué has built the most prominent collection of William Kentridge’s work in Europe. This collection reflects the most significant themes of his work and includes examples from his most iconic series. The main theme of the exhibition is Kentridge’s creative process. He is renowned for his unique approach to blending different forms of expression, such as drawing, hand-drawn animation, film, music, dance, and set design. Through his creations, Kentridge explores the complex history of South Africa and, more broadly, the nature of human emotions and memory.
On Friday, October 11, Alfredo Jaar’s work “Tho or three things I know about Monsters” (2016-2019), placed on the facade of the Lancia-Chiribiri parking lot in Turin, Italy, opened. Alfredo Jaar’s light work is a red neon sign with a historic quote from Antonio Gramsci, “The old world is dying. The new one is slow to appear. And in this chiaroscuro monsters are born.” The event is part of the TUTTOLIBERO project by Fondazione Merz and MAUTO - Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile, for the City of Turin, with the support of GTT and IREN.
The Municipality of Fabriano presents to the public “Artificio Naturale” (2011), an environmental sculpture by Paolo Icaro acquired for the collection of the Pinacoteca Civica Bruno Molajoli in Fabriano. The project, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, is promoted by the Municipality of Fabriano and developed in collaboration with the Ermanno Casoli Foundation, with support from the PAC2022-2023 - Contemporary Art Plan, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture.
Gary Hill’s “Continuous Happening” exhibition is hosted at the University City Art Museum of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China. This show dives into Hill’s distinctive exploration of language, the body, and technology through immersive installations featuring video, sound, and performative elements. The exhibition focuses on the “materialization” of language, translating complex linguistic structures into visual and auditory forms that flow together dynamically. Through layering imagery, text, and interactive technology, Hill challenges traditional perceptions, creating a continuous tension that reflects his fascination with consciousness and sensory experience.
From October 9, 2024, Pinault Collection presents a major exhibition dedicated to Arte Povera at the Bourse de Commerce. Between heritage and influence, the exhibition features over 250 historical and contemporary works from this major Italian artistic movement of the 1960s.
From October 10th, 2024, to February 2nd, 2025, Palazzo Reale in Milan presents Ugo Mulas. The Photographic Operation, one of the most extensive and detailed retrospectives dedicated to one of its most important authors. Curated by Denis Curti and Alberto Salvadori, it offers an innovative perspective with its main narrative focus on the city of Milan, captured in its many facets.
The Drawing Hall, the space that presents contemporary drawing at the centre of its investigation, opens on 4 October with Paradossi dell’abbondanza (Paroxes of Plenty), the solo exhibition by Marzia Migliora curated by Alberto Fiz, on view until 17 November 2024. As it is customary for this space located on the outskirts of the city of Bergamo, the exhibition project focuses on drawing as a fundamental research tool for production in the contemporary visual arts.
Electric Op is the first major exhibition to examine how the Op art of the 1960s and 1970s related to not only industrial machinery, but also the new electronic media of the dawning post-industrial era. At the very moment that Op artists began making works that short-circuit our optical systems, new video and digital technologies began reformatting the nature of images and how we see. Could it be more than coincidental that the undulating lines of Op art resemble electronic video signals, or that its grids suggest the pixilated structure of digital screens? In fact, many Op artists would turn to using these technologies, some as early as the late 1960s, while at the same time, many of the first video and digital artists openly turned to Op art for inspiration. In this way, Op art became more than just the final chapter of modernist geometric abstraction; it was also the first artistic movement of the global Information Age, heralding the transformation of vision from a mode of embodied perception to an algorithmic process executed by the computer systems that produce and process images today.
Gary Hill has tagged the exhibition Loop Through, referring to a singular work as well as being suggestive of a path or circuit from which to experience the selected works.His multimedia installations, performances and video works incorporate a wide range of materials and technologies, along with diverse linguistic concerns. From his early experiments with video and sound to his complex intermedia installations, Hill has consistently challenged conventional notions of perception, engaging audiences with artworks that operate on multiple levels. The installations range from silent projections of “being” and confrontations with physicality, to ambiguities between inside and outside. The works have been strategically placed to reflect all the industrial spaces that constitute the heart of the Art & Design District Palma, with a total of six industrial spaces and eight installations.
Cutting Clouds is a program featuring actions linked by the common denominator of the ephemeral and the impermanent. The title refers to Cloud Scissors, a work conceived in the early 1960s by George Brecht. A few cards dictating places, times, and modes provide the instructions for a possible combined happening, drawing on multiple events: random directions to follow in order to shift creative boundaries through play and experimentation. The tools bequeathed by Brecht thus provide the stimulus for an exercise in imagination. In the liminal spaces of the museum, interventions and works present a potentiality, an idea of incompleteness by adopting various media—video, painting, poetry, graphics, photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, and performance. Cutting Clouds reflects the movement of clouds that flow fluidly and take shape through our gaze, changing yet never repeating, thus evolving through operations that aim to trigger potential creativity by appreciating the random, the improvised and the indeterminate.
On stage at the San Carlo Theater in Naples is the one-act tragedy “EleKtra” extracted from Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto from Sophocles' 'Electra'. The sets and costumes are by artist Anselm Kiefer.
A Shadow of a Shadow is a survey of 17 performances created by Kentridge from the late 1980s to the present, from his interpretations of King Ubu—the outrageous protagonist from Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi (1896)—and Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, to Kentridge’s original works such as The Head and the Load (2018) about Africa and Africans in World War I. On view are objects and artworks produced for the development and presentation of these performance projects: drawings, stage backdrops, animations, puppets, props, costumes and installations inspired by theatrical illusions. The title of the exhibition is drawn from a play by thirteenth-century playwright and puppeteer Ibn Daniyal, who fled Iraq to escape the Mongol invasions. Prompted by the sense that the world was ending, Ibn Daniyal created shadow plays that ridiculed authorities and exposed corrupt social mores
Salta art presents a public intervention by renowned Chilean artist Alredo Jaar curated by Espacio Temporal at Sorry Square, Munich as part of Various Others. The exhibit in Sorry Square will present Alfredo Jaar’s installation Chiaroscuro, 2024.
