Contemporary photographer Massimo Vitali is one of the most famous photographers belonging to the New Italian Realism movement. Invited by the notebook brand Moleskine, he created a notebook exhibition which details of his large scale images.
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La simulación del caos: arte italiano contemporáneo” agrupa a artistas como Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Pivi, Piero Golia, Alighiero e Boetti, Vanessa Beecroft, Francesco Vezzoli, Rudolf Stingel, Massimo Vitali, Luisa Lambri y Tatiana Trouve/ “The Simulation of chaos: contemporary italian art” is an exhibition of works by Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Pivi, Piero Golia, Alighiero e Boetti, Vanessa Beecroft, Francesco Vezzoli, Rudolf Stingel, Massimo Vitali, Luisa Lambri and Tatiana Trouve. 
Piero Manzoni was an Italian conceptual artist who died in 1963 at the early age of 29. In his short carreer he managed to become a witty enfant terrible whose “Merda d’artista” (Artist’s Shit) became a flagship of the conceptual art movement of the 1960’s. Base Magica is a podium for a living sculpture. A curator from the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis talks about this piece. 
Greek artist Jannis Kounellis joined early in his career the Arte Povera movement. His work often uses ephemeral materials and makes use of historical or industrial sites. This video interviews shows him at work in one of his installations. (black out after 3 minutes). 
Alberto Burri was one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century (1915-1995). His work consisted mainly of sculptures, mural paintings and installations close to the Arte Povera movement. Combustione Plastica was as much a sculpture as a performance. 
Mimosa is an interactive artwork displaying behavior that mimics responsive plant systems. 
Waldemar Januszczak takes us through the “Making Worlds” exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale. It features the work of Mexican artist Hector Zamora, and Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso. 
The young Mexican artist Hector Zamora has an obsession with flying and floating objects. “Sciame di diribili” is a video installation that creates a fiction about a festival of zepelline dirigibles over Venice and infiltrates the city as an event that never happened. 
Mexican artist Teresa Margolles’ work deals with violence as raw matter. “What else could we talk about?” at the Mexican Pavilion in the 2009 Venice Biennale, chronicled the violence provoked by the battles of drug traffic organizations and their prosecution in Mexico at the present. 
Susumu Shingu is a Japanese sculptor. He is a living legend of kinetic art together with Calder and Tinguely. He moved to Italy in the 1960’s and stayed there ever since. In this video he explains (in Italian) the relevance of bringing nature and mind together through a water-propelled kinetic sculpture. |
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