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Antony Gormley exhibits in the MACRO in Roma

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Roman

British sculptor Antony Gormley is obsessed with the human body in relation to space. For more than 40 years of artistic career, Gormley has been exploring the connection body-space in his great scale facilities such as Another Place, Domain Field and Inside Australia. Most interestingly, Gormley bases on his own body and subjectivity, to invite the viewer to be part of that intimate perspective, and to give a collective projection. Gormley´s art has been exhibited in some of the most important institutions in the world such as the Tate and the British Museum in England, Kunsthalle zu Kiel in Germany and the National Museum of Modern History in China in Beijing. Now his riveting work arrives in Rome with his first exhibition at the MACRO entitled “Drawing Space”, which opened on October 26 and will remain open until February 6, 2011. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Anna Moszynska, the exhibition presents approximately 80 drawings, which were devised since 1981, representing an important aspect in the career of Gormley, as well as four recent sculptures. Fascinated by the penetration of the human being in imaginative, emotional and concrete space, in these drawings the artist focuses on the human body as a starting point, and from there he explores how we relate and orientate to space. But Gormley also feels a strong interest in these critical moments in which human beings start to get disoriented and lost, when they feel that space pervades. More info at: http://en.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/antony_gormley_drawing_space Heloise Battista If you don’t want to miss the work of this important artist, we recommend you to rent apartments in Rome Until February... read more

Ferran Adria and cuisine as art: new frontiers

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Interactions between contemporary art and other disciplines are evident, they have become increasingly frequent. Boundaries are blurred and it is not possible to draw a line separating these two different disciplines anymore, including art as “fine arts” or “decorative arts”, between design and art, between art and cuisine. Cuisine? Is it possible to propose cuisine as art? The answer is yes, of course, if one considers a certain trend in contemporary art that has turned into a “relational aesthetics”, as defined by the French critic and curator Nicolas Bourriaud. It is about highly artistic practices that strongly involve the audience (creating specific relationships with the work, which ceases to exist as such without the participation of an audience) and that have recently turned to the world of cuisine, that is to say: a social aggregation situation and union par excellence. The first one to open this trend was the Thai Rikrit Tiravanija, leading directly his wok to galleries and cooking for the visitors. Tiravanija´s work has not been brought into discussion regarding art, since from its beginning it was intended to be considered an artistic action, and it is known that the aim of the author is now one of the few opportunities we have to discern what is art and what is not (although in some cases it seems that also this distinction is no longer relevant). What is questioned regarding the work of Ferran Adrià is somewhat different. When, in 2007, he was invited to the international art fair Documenta 12 (Kassel) his participation sparked contrasting feelings and some anger among the ´orthodox´ artists that were left... read more

Exhibition by Jamie Shovlin at the MACRO in Rome

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Roman

The artist Jamie Shovlin is obsessed with that delicate and fragile line between reality and fiction, memory and history. Born in 1978 in England, he held his first exhibition in 2004; since then he has risen to fame thanks to his intricate and conceptual works that caught the attention of one of the most famous and controversial collectors of our time, Charles Saatchi. One of his most famous works is probably “Naomi V. Jelish”, 2001, an extensive and detailed archive of drawings and newspaper clippings of a girl of 13, who allegedly disappeared under very mysterious circumstances. A striking work because of its dark tale at first glance that seemed to be based on real events and then ended unveiled as an elaborate fiction by the artist. And it is this tension between reality and myth that has always attracted the artist and which uses as a base for all his works. The human being’s capacity of facing this alleged reality with the most absurd or noble idealism and its need to build narrative tissues, completely fictitious in its background and which form the basis of any identity, whether it be social, cultural or political. And that´s how Shovlin does in his work, based on constructing and using different materials and media such as video, photography, text to highlight the fantasy, history and memory are made of the same material: human imagination. On October 26 the MACRO in Rome celebrated the opening of “Hiker Meat”an exhibition that presents the latest feat of Shovlin. In it, the artist strikes again with an interesting audio-visual collage which, again, takes us into... read more