An item usually associated with sleep, the bed has accompanied us throughout human history. As an object, it responds to the appearance and shape of the human body, abstracting and stylising it in a form that imitates its erect, spread-eagled position. The depiction and role of the bed in art history have developed from a …
The Reason We No Longer Speak by David Douard (b. 1983, Perpignan) includes interventions by Los Angeles-based artists, Liz Craft (b. 1970, Los Angeles) and Jesse Stecklow (b. 1993, Cambridge).David Douard takes interest in systems of growth, decay and contamination, as well as technological and organic modes of degeneration. By creating systems of interconnected installations, …
This solo exhibition by Wael Shawky (b.1971, Egypt) features the artist’s epic video trilogy recounting the history of The Crusades from an Arab perspective.Inspired by The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, an essay by Lebanese historian Amin Maalouf, the works chart the Catholic Church’s numerous campaigns to take over the Holy Land in and around Jerusalem, …
In her works Rossella Biscotti (b.1978, Molfetta) strives to reactivate memories, opening past time up to new perspectives and creating contemporary reinterpretations in the light of the present. The solo show, the artist’s first in an Italian museum, traces some of the key stages in her career, with new works produced for the occasion and …
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Bringing together artists from various cultural terrains within Eastern Europe and the former USSR, the selection of works from the collection is a powerful tool for understanding the conditions of art production, its historicization and distribution in a region defined by a shared socialist context. Central to the exhibition is the recognition that what united …
The complete collection of 161 jewels from the Diane Venet collection, some of which never exhibited before, arrives for the first time in Italy. The jewels on display are true works of art signed by the greatest contemporary artists: more than a hundred modern and contemporary artists who have explored the world of jewellery and …
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