Month: November 2015

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Artissima

Agnieszka Gratza

This report from Turin at the time of Artissima appeared on artforum.com: “SOME OF THE OTHER FAIRS need to step it up,” artist Hugo McCloud declared as we stood outside of the brightly lit Lingotto Oval on the opening night of the twenty-second Artissima. Formerly a skating ring built for the 2006 Winter Olympics, the pavilion is nowadays oval in name alone. Artissima director Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, whom I had run into earlier at the plush VIP Lounge styling itself as an “Opium Den,” took me up to a suspended observatory kitted with design furniture, where the jury members for … Continue reading Artissima

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ARTBO

Agnieszka Gratza

This report from ARTBO 2015 and Bogotá Art Month appeared on flashartonline.com: Renata Lucas, “Sin título” (2010). Courtesy of Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil. “Colombia is having a moment,” says MoMA’s Director of Adult and Academic Programs Pablo Helguera, echoing the upbeat mood at the Corferias Convention Center, where the ten-year-old ARTBO — Bogotá’s most prestigious art fair — is held at the start of October. The fact that at least four other fairs are taking place concurrently in the capital city and beyond to coincide with the start of the “Art Month” provides a measure of local artistic and … Continue reading ARTBO