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.
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.
Spanish enfant terrible artist Santiago Sierra is notorious for creating morally violent situations with paid “actors” thus making a crude critique of the capitalist operational model.
Cildo Meireles is one of Brazil’s most respected and international artists. He is known as a conceptual installation artist.
Studio Banana interviews Carmen Cantón, one of the most peculiar Spanish women-artists.
Damián Ortega is one of the most respected contemporary artists from Mexico. His work often deals with everyday objects that are reconfigured in a way that the spectator starts questioning their original meaning.
Polish artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates large-scale slide and video projections of politically-charged images on architectural façades and monuments.
Kate and Tom aren´t getting very well recently.