...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 opposed to an actual reality is explored and...

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 recent works invite us to reflect...

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 experience to become an artist. Failures...

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, with the formation of...

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 Colours and Notation were conceived starting from the...

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 the Linenhall Gallery in 2019, but...

Not in modern memory has a time like 2020 restricted artists' right for movement and physical connection. We ask, what examples currently rethink the conventional four walls approach to presenting work? Valeria Ceregini, Jas Singh and Ciara Finnegan discuss. This event in collaboration with...

This new body of works of Judy Carroll Deeley is still concerned with the word ‘paraphernalia’, whose etymological meaning comes from the ancient Greek parapherna, and then later from the medieval Latin paraphernalis. Today this word has largely assumed in English a completely...

Lecture organised by Areacreativa42 and chaired by Valeria Ceregini, art historian and curator, hosted a lecture on Lan Art during the group De Natura at Villa Vallero (corso Indipendenza 68, Rivarolo Canavese). - October 2018