by Valeria Ceregini | Jun 12, 2023 | text
…and thence we came forth to see again the stars. Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy – Inferno XXXIV, 139 Gillian Lawler’s solo exhibition Edgelands revisits her interest in liminal space, a threshold through which an imagined reality as...
by Valeria Ceregini | Feb 12, 2023 | text
Today we should reconsider our past and plan for a future that has never before been so uncertain. The appearance of a global war with nuclear potential makes our life very unstable, and the research and work of contemporary artists fit into this war query. Their...
by Valeria Ceregini | Apr 21, 2022 | text
All painting is an accident. But it’s also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.Francis Bacon (1909 – 1992) The making process behind any artwork hides a series of pitfalls which are at the basis of any...
by Valeria Ceregini | Feb 22, 2022 | text
I wondered what one experienceswhen one crosses the border.What does one feel? What does one think? Ryszard Kapuścinski, Travels with Herodotus, 2008. We are currently living in a ‘globalized’ era where all subjects are increasingly embedded in global ‘mediascapes’1,...
by Valeria Ceregini | Mar 24, 2021 | text
Words in art are words,Letters in art are letters,Writing in art is writing,Messages in art are not messages,Explanation in art is not explanation.Ad Reinhardt, Art in Art is Art as Art, 1966. The series of paintings Written...
by Valeria Ceregini | Mar 23, 2021 | text
Sarah Wren Wilson A Snake, A Ladder, 2021 AN UNSEEN SHOWA book made possible2020 A Snake, A Ladder is a limited-edition artist book documenting Sarah’s studio practice in the year of a global pandemic, 2020.Sarah’s work was selected for exhibition in...