Galleria Franco Noero

Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana is officially open!

When invited to make a new commission for the Three Chimneys, ’s first sense of the building was that it should be left empty, transforming the now-defunct hydroelectric power plant into an industrial sculpture through an act of artistic denomination.
For Nelson, the venue’s importance lies not in its interior, but in the totemic nature of its exterior: a megalithic statement of power, not only from the perspective of energy, but also on political, economic, environmental and, above all, human levels. In response to this, he elected to intervene in the framing of the venue, reclaiming its brutalist attitude while manipulating the visitor’s (singular, personal) relationship to it.
To do so, Nelson built a shack with the remnants of demolished houses, old warehouses and other salvaged materials. His intervention, located on the periphery of the site, appears to have been here for many years, home perhaps belongs to a former worker or squatter. There is no sign saying that it is a work of art – it just exists, as if it has always been here. The visitor is invited to enter and become its unknown inhabitant.

Until November 24, 2024
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Image: Mike Nelson, Un Intruso (uninvited, into chaos), 2024

interviewed by Malcom Pagani for the “Dicono di te” podcast

Francesco Vezzoli grows up amidst the love of his parents and grandmothers. From his parents' adult friends - whom he observes carefully from childhood - he learns to decipher the language of politics. His first trip, undertaken at the age of 17, takes him to Los Angeles.

He thinks it is difficult to find a self-definition while being constantly bombarded by inputs from the society in which we are immersed. In this interview, he tells about his path in the art world, which has allowed him to structure a career from which he would never think of withdrawing.

The new episode of “Dicono di te” is available on all free audio platforms and at the link in bio.

@​​malcompagani

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Yahon Chang | Existence and Extinction
September 26, 2024­­, performance 7:00 pm
Galleria Franco Noero, Via Mottalciata 10/b

Galleria Franco Noero is pleased to announce the performance by the Taiwanese artist , which will be hosted in the Gallery space in via Mottalciata.
The gallery will open to the public from 6 pm, the performance will start at 7 pm.

The existence of human beings is related to God, whereas the extinction of animals is related to humans.
Yahon Chang's solo exhibition at Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, intends to create a local dialogue mode with the gallery space through unique paintings, sculptures, and installation works, this Exhibition aims to interpret his concept of "existence and extinction" concerns and thoughts on life issues.

Yahon's artistic creation has long focused on the modern experimentation and expression of traditional Chinese ink painting, as well as the concern and expression of contemporaneity, especially the two issues of "alienation of humanities and society" and "deterioration of environment and ecology".
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SAVETHEDATE
| “Houseboat for Ho” Publication Launch

On September 12, 2024 from 5-8 pm, Simon Starling will host the release the publication “Houseboat for Ho” at Café Pegasus, Den Frie, Copenaghen. At 6 pm Starling will read extracts from the publication accompanied by images from the book.

This beautifully designed and illustrated publication documents the realization of an award-winning public artwork on the West Coast of Jutland, Denmark. Built between the 15th of August and the 10th of October 2023, “Houseboat for Ho” was developed by the artist Simon Starling specifically for the low-lying village of Ho, in an area directly threatened by climate change-induced sea level rise.

Developed in collaboration with the graphic design team , Zurich and with a lyrical introduction by writer Dan Richards, this timeless, hardcover publication, illustrated by the artist’s own photographic images, documents the transformation of a pile of reeds into an Ark-like vessel.
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Some installation views of the stunning artwork “The Psychedelic Sun”, 2024 by , on view at Festival del Paesaggio running around Villa San Michele and the historic centre of Anacapri until October 20, 2024.

The coloured lenses are mounted on metal using exactly the same technique as Gothic leadwork windows. They are brought together in an organic array of transparent colours, forming a new constellation that can be brought into focus with the naked eye.
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running until Sunday!
at Castello di Montemagno / 10am -19pm

With this installation, Francesco Vezzoli not only evokes the past, but also reworks it, questioning the relationship between authenticity and artifice. The sculptures, reinterpreted in a modern key, become metaphors for a dialogue between different epochs, an ongoing conversation between what has been and what has become, in which art mirrors the social and cultural dynamics of the present.

The installation is completed with a special floral composition, strategically placed next to the sculptures. This bouquet, inspired by 19th century floral paintings, adds a further layer of meaning to the work. Flowers, a recurring element in the art of the time and in Vezzoli's own installations, symbolise ephemeral beauty, vanitas and the natural cycle of life and death. However, in this context, Vezzoli inserts them as the decoration of an antique salon of ideal and surreal beauty, ironically emphasising the absurdity of the human attempt to preserve and adorn what is by its nature destined to change and vanish.

Discover the complete agenda of the five days of Panorama Monferrato at www.italics.art.
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Courtesy the artist and Galleria Franco Noero
Thanks to Ezio Fontana X Franco Curletto
Ph Cosmo Laera

Panorama Monferrato is realized under the patronage of , the Ministry of Culture () and .official. Main partner: . Media partner: art

OPENING |
Festival del Paesaggio
7 September - 20 October 2024
Opening: Saturday 7 September, 18:30
Villa San Michele and the historic centre of Anacapri

From 7 September to 20 October 2024, the spaces of Villa San Michele and the historic centre of Anacapri will once again be inhabited by the works of Italian and international artists with the 8th edition of the Festival del Paesaggio di Anacapri, a project conceived and curated by Arianna Rosica and Gianluca Riccio.
The protagonists of the 2024 edition, entitled “L’ANIMALE CHE DUNQUE SONO”, borrowed from the posthumous essay by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, are Rä Di Martino, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Claire Fontaine, Gael Lambie, Jim Lambie, Liliana Moro, Giulia Piscitelli, Marta Roberti, Sissi and Emilio Vavarella with works that explore the meaning of the human in a world increasingly governed by artificial intelligences.

For the occasion, artist Jim Lambie presents two special projects: “The Psychedelic Sun” (2024) and, with Gael Lambie, the project “Axel's Dream” (2024).
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"Fare un giro" Curated by Allegra Pesenti
Supernova, Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome
12 September – 29 October 2024
Opening: 12 September 2024, 6:30 pm

The work of Arturo Herrera confronts the conflicted legacy of abstraction with modernist strategies of fragmentation and repetition. For Fare un giro, the artist has chosen to activate the Supernova space on Piazza di S. Maria in Trastevere in Rome with a focused selection of serial and individual works that evoke associative relations to past and present, and emphasize the physicality of materials both within and around the works themselves.

The subtle juxtaposition of realities in Herrera’s visual language is drawn from his extraordinary archive of found imagery. Two series on view for the first time in this exhibition were produced during the artist’s residency at the American Academy in Rome between September and November, 2023.

Fare un giro, which translates loosely to ‘going for a wander,’ references Italian sites and cities in a presentation that is specific to place and space.
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has been commissioned by MANIFESTA 15 Barcelona Metropolitana to produce new work for this year's biennale.

The 15th edition of Manifesta, scheduled to run from September 8 to November 27 this year, has revealed its programme and complete list of participants. Spanning more than 16 venues across 12 cities in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, this edition will delve into the legacies of the region’s built and natural environments, their connections to other parts of the world, and potential improvements.

The 80-day programme will be divided into three clusters: ‘Balancing Conflicts’ (Llobregat Delta), ‘Cure and Care’ (Collserola Mountain Range and the Vallès area), and ‘Imagining Futures’ (Besòs River and the northeastern coastline), with artist featured in with a new commission for Les Tres Xemeneies (The Three Chimneys), an old hydroelectric power plant in Sant Adrià del Besòs and the most prominent building of Barcelona’s skyline.

Private View: 5 – 7 September 2024
Exhibition Continues: 8 September – 24 November 2024

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Image: Mike Nelson, preparatory drawing for 'Un Intruso (uninvited, into chaos)’, 2024

opens tomorrow!
A region-wide exhibition curated by Carlo Falciani
4 - 8 September 2024

We are excited to participate in the fourth edition of Panorama ITALICS with a special site-specific project by exhibited at Castello di Montemagno.

The exhibition curated by Carlo Falciani is inspired by the principles of “La civil conversazione“ a work written by Stefano Guazzo (born in Casale Monferrato in 1530) and published in 1574. Winding through vineyards, castles and churches, the exhibition is like a journey in stages through the towns of Camagna, Vignale, Montemagno and Castagnole, creating an original narrative that brings together the ancient, the modern and the contemporary. Once again, it explores an extraordinary corner of Italy.

Discover the complete agenda of the five days of Panorama Monferrato at www.italics.art.
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Panorama Monferrato is realized under the patronage of , the Ministry of Culture () and .official. Main partner: . Media partner: art

Happy birthday !

“Francesco by Francesco: Happily Ever After”, 2002 (detail)

to visit “A Model Epilogue: Tomorrow I walked to a dark black star”, the exhibition by held at , on view until September 8, 2024.

The exhibition becomes at once medium–object–subject, working together to tap into how we perceive things, and subsequently transform them. This reverse way of mounting an exhibition of an artist’s work in an existing exhibition, consisting in the addition of a layer to something already existing, gives way to an exploration of the potentials of both a group show and a solo show, disturbing and expanding their respective frames and temporalities.
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“Still Phaethon Falls” by is part of the exhibition “NEW ECOLOGIES”, an important public project which extends beyond the .chemnitz museum and involves the whole city. The exhibition will be on view until September 29, 2024.

Simon Starling's masked and moving straw puppet was originally part of the 2022 exhibition “Metamorfuoco” - roughly translated as "transformed by fire" - at the Galleria Estense in Modena, Italy. In an animated and lavishly illustrated lecture developed especially for Chemnitz, the straw man introduces himself - a storyteller, pedagogue and mask-wearing representative of Starling himself.

Installation Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz, Theaterplatz 1, Chemnitz, Germany
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Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/graukarte.info © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

“The Uprising”, 2022 is one of the work exhibited at The Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin on the occasion of the exhibition “Period of Change” by

This incredible work features likenesses of contemporary inventors and intellectuals whose ideas have transformed society. Cut-outs depict Gandhi, Bill Gates, Martin Luther King, the inventor of the cellphone, and Martin Cooper; all people who have tried to instigate revolution and change. In Gallery 2 a script by the artist is brought to life through a woman’s voice, tracing and interconnecting figures from Marie-Antoinette and Leon Trotsky to the singing of Josephine Baker and Lenin giving a speech.

Installation view at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dublin, 2024. Photo: Louis Haugh. Courtesy of the artist and The Douglas Hyde.

The collection titled “Thirteen pocket poems” with poems by Barry Schwabsky and illustrated by , consists of 13 handmade unique books with handset type and individual collages and silkscreens realized by the artist.

The works will be published by Gervais Jassaud.
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Ph. Luisa Porta

’s work, “Salò Chest of Drawers (three)” is on view at the NMNM - Nouveau Musee National de Monaco for the exhibition “Pasolini en clair-obscur”, on view until September 29, 2024.
While Pasolini preferred to describe himself as a writer, his work in cinema occupies a central place in his oeuvre. In the first part of the exhibition, clips from his movies flanked by works from artists such as Morandi and Pontormo, explore the way in which he drew on the work of painters from the past to compose his sequences, the second part of the exhibition shows how the writer-director symmetrically inspired those who came after him.
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Installation views, “Pasolini en clair-obscur”, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Sauber – 17 Avenuex Princesse Grace, March 29th - September 29th 2024
Photo: © Neil Bicknell

The issue “Study Volume 7 - On New York Dwellings” by .magazine features, among others, the Financial District studio of , photographed by Adrian Gaut and creative partner Akari Endo-Gaut.

The rhythm of life in New York is a cacophony of ambition, culture, and relentless energy. It's a place where dreams are chased and where the cityscape itself feels like a living organism, constantly evolving and pulsating with the lives of millions.
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takes part in the group show “The Paradoxes of Internationalism (As Narrated by the Museo Tamayo Collection)”, on view until August 25, 2024 at Museo Tamayo.
This show reveals the contradictions and betrayals of internationalism that have spurred artists—including Tamayo himself—to question the social, political, and cultural constructs through which our notions of the ‘world’ are continuously reconfigured.
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Henrik Håkansson, “(CHRONICLES) Selva Lacadona”, 2008

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Photo: Marcus J Leith

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Gabriel Sierra, "La apertura del cubo", 2017
Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Some installation views of ‘s new exhibition, on view at until August 24, 2024.
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In the exhibition “Un monde commun” special attention is given to artists whose work echo contemporary issues, whether ecological, political or more poetic.

participates with the artwork “Nemausus”, named after the Latin name of the city of Nîmes, where it is displayed. Being made with denim cloth produced in the city and the sail of an Egyptian felucca, the work gestures towards the exchanges and travels happening in the Mediterranean.

The museum Carrè D’Art in Nîmes will host the exhibition until January 31, 2025.
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Amidst a world rapidly changing under the weight of climate change, the exhibition “I Feel the Earth Whisper” at invites us to contemplate the fragile beauty of the natural world and our profound interconnectedness with it.

is among the artists participating in the show, which is conceived as a reflection upon our relationship with the forests and unique ecosystems of the planet and on our historically rooted role as guardians of these vibrant living spaces.
The exhibition will be on view until November 3, 2024.
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Installation views, Sam Falls, Waldeinsamkeit, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, 2024
Photos: N. Kazakov

Nearly thirty years ago, began embroidering tears onto images of masterpieces, thereby creating his own museum, and confronting the ideology of the museum as an assertion of power.
The artist has since then extended his artistic path, which has led him to create a bridge between the reality in which we live and the history of art, directing his poetics above all to antiquity and its most solemn and sacral expressions.

The show is on view at the Correr Museum in Venice until November 24, 2024.
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Published by and edited by and Kajsa of Åbäke, “HOOK BOOK Almost 1000” is the new catalog which collects the over 700 hooks realized by the artist over the last years.
“Form follows function” is a principle of design which suggests that the shape of an object should primarily relate to its intended purpose. The sheer number and variety of hooks create a poetic frenzy of excited chaos. Between a whittled stick and large cast bronze, the materials and techniques run the gamut between low and high.

Author: Martino Gamper
Editor: Martino Gamper & Kajsa of Åbäke
Text by Deborah Levy
Design: Kajsa of Åbäke
Printed by: Die Keure
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participates in the yearly “Summer Exhibition” hosted by the in London. The group show is on view until August 18, come visit if you are in London!

This year’s theme of ‘Making Space’ is an expansive concept that is sure to inspire many unique interpretations. It could, for instance, be understood to reflect the importance of remaining open to ideas and being ready to accept new information into existing frameworks, perhaps allowing the creation of something new.
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Installation view of the Summer Exhibition 2024 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, 18 June - 18 August 2024.
Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry

Together with and , is part of the group exhibition “Pasolini en clair-obscure”, on view at the NMNM - Nouveau Musée National de Monaco until September 29, 2024.

The main focus of the exhibition is Pasolini’s work in cinema, which acted as the perfect sounding board for his political ideas. This aspect of his oeuvre is seen through the prism of the influence of classical and contemporary art on the aesthetic of his movies.
The show brings together around thirty international artists who paid tribute to him, many of them having worked on his films or having been inspired by him.
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Adam Chodzko, “Reunion Salò”, 1998
Installation views, “Pasolini en clair-obscur”, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Sauber – 17 Avenue Princesse Grace, March 29th - September 29th 2024
Photo: © Neil Bicknell