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In our 5 To See for 26-28 May, we reflect on the innovative methods that artists use to communicate with contemporary audiences.
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Exhibitions
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Describing his choice to present Skulptur Projekte Münster every ten years, the project’s cofounder and artistic director Kasper König says, “Ten years are perfect: Westphalian and laid back, campfire instead of beacon.”
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The fifth edition of the once-a-decade Münster Sculpture Projects, taking place in the north German town of Münster from June 10 to October 1, has released its participating artists list.
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Possibly because of their short life spans, biennales are often obsessed with the need to redefine past, present and future.
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MoMA PS1 presents the first survey of Lara Favaretto (b. 1973, Treviso, Italy), comprising works from the past fifteen years alongside new pieces made specifically for the show, including a new site-specific installation that extends through all of the galleries.
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Remembering is not Enough is the first exhibition curated by Artistic Director Hou Hanru who has worked with the curatorial staff of MAXXI Arte
Read MoreMoMA PS1 presents the first survey of Lara Favaretto (b. 1973, Treviso, Italy), comprising works from the past fifteen years alongside new pieces made specifically for the show, including a new site-specific installation that extends through all of the galleries.
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After 18 years in business, Berlin’s Klosterfelde gallery announced in a letter to its mailing list that it will close.
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There were times when we thought we’d never get here,” admits Anna Mattirolo, the director of the art programme at Maxxi, Italy’s first national museum
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The first European colonists in the New World disappeared leaving behind the settlements and a paper note with the words 'Gone to the Croatan'.
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The small English seaside town of Weston-super-Mare will soon be home to a permanent programme of artworks by artists and architects of international
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Artissima opened yesterday in Turin, and the art fair's 18th edition once again confirms its unique focus on emerging art.
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Two years ago the historic pier at Weston Super Mare caught on fire, resulting in a catastrophic blaze. It was the second time the tourist attraction had burnt down
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Launching in September 2010, Wonders of Weston will feature artworks by six internationally renowned contemporary artists
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Born in 1973 in Treviso, Italy, Lara Favaretto lives and works in Turin. Favaretto’s projects are occasions for the artist to collaborate with an audience in order to co-script magic realist scenarios that will either take place in actual space or simply unfold in thought. Her sculptures, videos, performances and photographs are meeting points. They are sites where dormant ideas await trial by public improvisation. Favaretto’s works often call for a celebration without cause around objects stripped of any possible mysticism – their banal functionality laid bare as an absurd failure that inspires tragic-comic surprise. Her work “Twistle” (2003) is composed of a paper party whistle tied to a pressure tank, which is hooked up to a timer set to release enough air to mechanically blow the whistle at regular intervals. For her 2007 Frieze Art Fair commission “Project for Some Hallucinations”, Favaretto invited the Queen of England to visit the Fair. In her absence, Favaretto pinned the Queen’s letter of decline to the trees inside the tent and staged an imaginary procession by periodically playing a soundtrack of applause.
Lara Favaretto has presented solo exhibitions at Nottingham Cotemporary, Nottingham UK and Aspen Museum, Aspen, USA (2017), at MAXXI Roma (2016), Rennie Collection, Vancouver (2015) and Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket, Copenhagen, Denmark (2014), Klosterfelde, Berlin (2006 and 2009), Galleria Franco Noero, Torino (2006) and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino (2005) as well as a special commission for the Frieze Art Fair, London (2007). Her work has also been shown as part of “Making Worlds / Fare Mondi”, 53rd Venice Biennial, Venice (2009), “Provisions for the future”, 9th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (2009), “Fisicofollia”, Performa 09, New York (2009), “50 Moons of Saturn”, T2-2nd Torino Triennial at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino (2008), “Revolution-Forms That Turn”, 16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (2008) and “Cinq Milliards d’Années/Une seconde une année” at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006). She has been awarded the Prize for Young Italian Art 2004-2005 at MAXXI, Rome (2005) and the Premio Furla per l'Arte (2001).
Lara Favaretto is represented by Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, and Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
