Day by day in art | April 19, 2022
Contemporary art in the Vienna Cathedral | Does the Madonna del Parto change house? | Pompeii and the grave robbers in the last book of Osanna | Farewell to Hermann Nitsch, pioneer of Viennese Actionism | The day in 13 news
New for installation the St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, which opens up more and more to contemporary art. In addition to the revival of Erwin Wurm’s immense purple sweater, the chief pastor Toni Faber has decided to further extend Billi Thanner’s neon tube staircase, while a sculpture of Giulia Bugramdepicting two hands shaking: “An invitation to solidarity and to a respectful and empathetic coexistence», The artist defined it. Made during the pandemic as a participatory work, the 3x2x1.5 m and 2.3 tonne work consists of one million 1 cent coins and was financed by crowdfunding (€ 27,000), by the industrialist Hans-Peter Haselsteiner ( € 70,000) and by the Henkel company, which supplied the glue. It will remain on display at least until mid-June. [Flavia Foradini]
Hybrid situations, aesthetic overlaps, between exhibition and set-up, between display and display design: they will be discussed on Wednesday 20 April, at 11, in the Aula Magna of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Pamela Bianchi (art historian, professor of art history at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Toulon and at the IESA in Paris) illustrates the theme of “dressing architecture”, to which he dedicated the book Dressing up spacestogether with Andrea Nacciarritiartist, who deals with his works in this innovative field of research. [Redazione]
Russian censorship continues to claim victims, and journalists, activists and artists are among the most exposed targets. It was this time that paid the price a St. Petersburg artist, Sasha Skochilenko, guilty of having replaced the price tags of some items in a supermarket with short news about the war and the bombing of Mariupol in particular. Preemptively incarcerated until May 31, you risk up to 10 years of imprisonment for creating dangerous attacks on public safety. [Sophia Kishkovsky]
New (and last?) Chapter for the story concerning the Madonna del Partofamous fresco of the mid-fifteenth century by Piero della Francesca, which will leave the Museum of Monterchi (Arezzo) to return to the chapel of Santa Maria di Momentana, the place for which it was built. This was established by a sentence of the Council of State, which aims to put an end to the controversies between the Municipality, the Diocese and the Superintendence regarding the adequacy of the exhibition venue, economic return for shopkeepers and use of the work. [Redazione]
Krista Kim, digital artist and founder of techism, the movement that brings together art and technology, created the Mars House, which is not on Mars, but on the internet. And on n. 100 of “Wired” says her about NFTs, Non-fungible tokens, and how to even manage to sell a virtual house at the same price as a real one (the NFT of the Mar House was sold for half a million dollars) . [Wired]
The book by Massimo Osanna The hidden world of Pompeii, written jointly with the archaeologist Luana Toniolo. Osanna, current director general of the Mibac Museums and director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, retraces, revealing secrets and background, the history of the excavations, started in 2017 on the advice of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Torre Annunziata, in the construction site of the suburban villa of Civita Giuliana , for some time in the sights of grave robbers but never violated. [ansa]
A still life hanging on the walls of a New South Wales private school in Australia could be a Dutch masterpiece of the ‘600 worth several million euros. To support him a pool of experts who recognized in the painting what appears to be the signature of Gerrit Willemsz Heda, son of Willem Claesz. Heda, an artist from Haarlem and one of the masters of the famous Dutch golden age. [artnet]
The names of the artists and artists who will take part in the Sharjah Biennial in 2023. Conceived by Okwui Enwezor (died in 2019) and curated by Hoor al Qasimi, director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, it will host over 140 artists from about 70 countries who will be divided among the 16 locations of the event, delayed by two years due to of the pandemic. It will be the 30th anniversary edition and among the authors involved are Mona Hatoum, Steve McQueen, Philippe Parreno, Doris Salcedo, Barbara Walker and, Nari Ward. [artforum]
Exhibitions you open
Tomorrow at Bonvini Gallery 1909 inaugurate «Extraordinary. Thirty innovators of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ”, an exhibition in which Lorenzo Petrantoni exhibits the works he has dedicated to unconventional women of the past, such as the American activist and writer Mary Phelps Jacob (who patented the bra) or Margareth An Bulkey, a British Army surgeon, forcing her life in men’s clothes throughout her life. medical profession. [Corriere della Sera]
Farewells
The journalist passed away at the age of 76 in Milan Giusi Ferré. He had no family ties with the homonymous Gianfranco, but fashion and costume were the sectors to which he dedicated his entire career, writing for “Epoca”, “Europeo”, “Io Donna-Corriere della Sera” . [Redazione]
He died on April 18 in Piacenza Piergiorgio Bellocchio, brother of the director Marco. He was 90 years old, he was a literary critic, and in 1962 he had been the founder of the “Quaderni Piacentini”, one of the reference magazines of the Italian left in the 60s and 70s. He had also been director of «Lotta Continua». [Redazione]
Hermann Nitsch, a pioneer of Viennese Actionism, died yesterday at the age of 83. Born in 1938 in Vienna, Nitsch had a very strong bond with Italy and would have been among the protagonists of the Venice Biennale which opens in a few days with his “20. Illness»(In the spaces of Oficine 800, Zuecca Project), the twentieth pictorial action originally created and presented by Nitsch at the Wiener Secession in 1987, part of his project for the Teatro delle Orge e dei Misteri. Read the article by Franco Fanelli. [Redazione]
At the age of 88 he died in Turin Antonio Maria Morocco, notary among the protagonists of the economic and social life of the Piedmontese capital. A fellow student of Carlo De Benedetti and Umberto Agnelli, he was on the Board of Directors of Reale Mutua Assicurazioni and Exor (the holding company of the Agnelli family), president of the Crt Foundation, of the Accademia Albertina and one of the founders of Castello di Rivoli. [Redazione]