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Visit at the 10th art biennial of Havana

The biennial is running until end of April 2009. The theme of this year is “Integration and Resistance in the Global Age”. Havana is a highly cultural city, I had the chance to be there when the biennial started and I can report on some of the exhibitions I saw.
What stroke me is the biennial’s [...]

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Indian Highway at the Serpentine gallery

The Serpentine gallery is currently hosting an exhibition about Indian contemporary art, Indian Highway. Here is the theme:
“Some of the artworks in the exhibition have been selected for their connection to the theme of Indian Highway, reflecting the importance of the road in migration and movement and as the link between rural and urban communities. [...]

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About curating: Jeff Koons at Versailles

The Jeff Koons exhibition in the Chateau de Versailles illustrates how important the process of curation is in the reception of art. Curation is a relatively recent discipline, at least in our shared consciousness. It can be defined as the process of selecting and organizing artwork in order to further knowledge.  A curator is thus [...]

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Frieze art 2008 – review

Last weekend was the weekend of the year for art admirers in London, with numerous events and fairs being held in the megalopolis. The Frieze art fair is the leading and biggest one. What draw my attention were the projects commissioned by the fair and some examples of this years’ trend to photography and sculpture.
A [...]

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It was a pleasure for me to see the New Art from China Exhibition at the Saatchi gallery. It reminded me the 798 art district I visited a year ago in Beijing. Chinese contemporary art is easily accessible. I think because it summarizes so well Western contemporary art in its attempts to adapt it to [...]

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