Anna Madia: Sleepwalking

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Anna Madia, graduated in Painting at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin in 2002. In 2011, she’s among the artists selected by Vittorio Sgarbi for the Italian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennial (Piedmont Region). In 2010 she won a triennialy workshop at the Ginkgo Contemporary Art Centre in Troyes (France) and in 2009 she became «tutor in painting» at the Albertina Academy

Matthieu Bourel: Duplicity

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“Power of images and their combinations. Therefore all kinds of diversions. As well in music, sounds or films. Playing with elements, to make it mine. In Collage, I like to watch every picture as the point of departure for a story. Various durations, gathered in one. to evoke a fake history or inspire nostalgia for a period in time that never truly existed.

Yamamoto Masao: Shizuka

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Shizuka (Cleanse) Living in the forest, I feel the presence of many “treasures” breathing quietly in nature. I call this presence “Shizuka.” “Shizuka” means cleansed, pure, clear, and untainted. I walk around the forest and harvest my “Shizuka” treasures from soil. I try to catch the faint light radiated by these treasures with both my eyes and my camera. In Tao Te Ching ,

Alessio Iacovone: Luminosity

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Artist’s identities are constituted by a multitude of signs, that combined together create a personal alphabet of images. Regardless the subjectivity of their meanings, these images generate symbolic significance that is ascribable to primitive shapes. The allegoric dimension plays an essential role in Alessio Iacovone’s artworks, alongside with the investigation of the relationship between personal experience and traditional symbolisms. The artist interprets them through

Jonathan Callan: Booking

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A Conversation between Jonathan Callan and Ryan Gander.

JC’s Studio. 12-02-2008

Ryan Gander: When were you last in the studio before today?

Jonathan Callan: Yesterday. I have a routine which is fairly regular, I drop the kids off at school at 9.00 am, come here and work, if it’s my turn to pick them up then I work till 3-30

Iwajla Klinke: Impressions of an Elegant Serenity

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“With a cast of colorful characters who would do justice to any repertory stage, Iwajla Klinke infuses portrait photography with the magic and elegance of its early years, when one of its primary goals was to document and celebrate ritual moments in an individual’s life. The snapshot aesthetic of the last century and the ubiquity of digital images today has diminished the ceremonial aspect of

Predrag Pajdic: The Pandorian

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Predrag Pajdic (born 1965) is a London-based artist, art historian and curator. He is the founder and editor of the art photography blog “The Pandorian,” and his work has been shown internationally and at solo and group exhibitions worldwide. He also writes about and lectures on contemporary art, photography and fashion. After high school, he moved to London to study fashion design at Central St.

Motoi Yamamoto: Return to the Sea

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A pioneering contemporary artist, Tokyo-born Motoi Yamamoto carves monumental two dimensional sculptures of entire oceans, shattered planets, typhoons, mountain ranges, fractured staircases and vast plains of brain-like coils using just the one medium: SALT. Although striking, his works are far from being merely aesthetic. Every one of the artist’s saltscapes is an experience in its own right, and one of a highly metaphysical nature

Nemo’s: Before and After

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Nemo’s piece of art “Before and After” shifts the consideration and the use of Street Art, focusing on the interaction of the audience and the friction of time. Nemo’S, on one hand, works site specific like other artists, and on the other hand experiments and carries out an innovative technique. After the first layer of paint, NemO’S covers the surface with a layer of glue

Stefano Russo: Homo Mechanicus

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“To a child who is fond of maps and engravings, the universe is the size of his immense hunger. Ah! How vast is the world in the light of a lamp! In memory’s eyes how small the world is!” Charles Baudelaire

The vaguely Bohemian beauty of objects and bagagges, the powerful horizontality of data and repertoires, the immense emptiness that images create around them filling