The Soul of Matter
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...
José Heerkens. Paint to Write
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...
A Snake, A Ladder
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...
The astonishment of colour
Shozo Shimamoto The astonishment of colour, 2021 The astonishment of colour includes essays An antelitteram artist, From Gutai to maturity (an anthology in essence) and The Bottle Crashes as a dramaturgy of colour. This catalogue, in association with the Pari&Dispari...
Rethinking presentation – Adapting to a new landscape
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...
Judy Carroll Deeley. Plantationocene
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
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
Panel Discussions
A discussion with the curator Valeria Ceregini and artists Beata Piekarska-Daly & Shane Finan give an artist talk about their practice and the touring exhibition Over Nature chaired by artist and curator Bernadette Hopkins. - February 2020 A panel discussion organised by TACTIC 2019...
Earthrise
PAV series EARTHRISE Ecological vision on both sides of the wall, 2019 Curated by Marco Scotini Through PAV's editorial and exhibition project they tried to reinsert the ecologist discourse within its brief history: using a minor genealogy, concerning the pioneers of the relationship between art...
Over Nature
Over Nature, 2019 Over Nature offers the most narrative and perceptive aspect of every art practice to give a view of artists' perception of Nature. Each of them demonstrated intellectual awareness of Nature through their different media and...