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Anish Kapoor, Shooting into the Corner, 2008/2009, © Wolfgang Woessner/MAK

MIRAGES LXXII

This March is weird (!) Exactly one year the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 Pandemic, a year of Lockdown, Art has …

Yayoi Kusama, 2020 (detail), courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

MIRAGES LXXI

This February the landscape in art looks cloudy-hazy and fuzzy,with the majority of the Museums and the Institutions closed while the Galleries …

Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrar, In Search of Lost Foods, New York Times Magazine 2015

MIRAGES LXX

We wish you a Happy New Year, Safer and Brighter with one of the most auspicious works of Maurizio Cattelan  & Pierpaolo …

MIRAGES LXIX

December! The month of Reviews and introspection, a year that we, the younger ones, hadn’t ever experienced again, due to the COVID-19 …

MIRAGES LXVIII

November 2020 is different from all the others, even from last March, and this is because the lockdown takes place gradually, day …

Left: Alighiero Boetti, Catasta, 1967-92, 12 elements in eternity, 87x150x150 cm, Courtesy Tornabuoni Art. Right: Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale Attese, 1967, 61x50, cm, Water-based paint on canvas, Courtesy Tornabuoni Art

MIRAGES LXVII

October 2020, is very different from the other years. The embarrassment is obvious after the international lockdown of Spring 2020, some people …

MIRAGES LXVI

After an extremely difficult period that humanity has gone through and continues to go due to the COV 19 Pandemic, an optimistic …

Richard Long, Athens Slate Line, 2020, Shrine of Dionysos Eleuthereus, South Slope of the Acropolis, Athens, Duration: 21/7-30/9/20, Daily 8:00-20:00, free Entrance on Mon, wed & Fri 19:00-19:45 (Pre-registration required here), https://neon.org.gr

MIRAGES LXV

The Greatest “Great Walk Of Athens”, through “Athens Slate Line” (2020) by the legendary Land Artist, Richard Long at Shrine of Dionysos …

Liste Art Fair, Photo: Diana, Pfammatter, Courtesy Liste Art Fair Basel

MIRAGES LXIV

While almost everyone has been convinced that a new form was created in art where everything would be done online, since of …

Ursula San Cristobal, Desastres maravillosos (Videostill), 2019, © Ursula San Cristobal, Courtesy the artist and Video Art Miden

MIRAGES LXIII

The good news and the most important fact of this month, is that that the Galleries and the Museums in some countries …

Photo: Topp & Dubio • Topp&Dubio, All of a Sudden, © Topp & Dubio, Courtesy the artists and Platforms Project

MIRAGES LXII

After a very challenging but very productive April, since we opened  a dialogue with young and older artists through the columns: “IN …

Nancy Hold, Up and Under, 1987-98, Pinsiö, Finland, Sand, concrete, topsoil, grass, water, Mound: height ranges from 3.5 to 8 m, with a length of 192 m; Tunnels: length 74 m, with a diameter of 3 m, © Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York

MIRAGES LXI

At an era that everything seems to be collapsing all over the globe due the coronavirus pandemic, in this vortex Museums, Galleries …

Richard Long, Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery

MIRAGES LX

This month we will remember how the most important Art Fair for new and emerging Galleries, LISTE Art Fair, started25 years ago, …

DUCH COUNTRYSIDE

MIRAGES LIX

This month begins with two new and promising Media Partnerships with International Art Fairs in Spain: Art Madrid 2020 and JUSTMAD 2020 …

Christian Boltanski, Animitas (Small Souls) [video still], 2015, © Christian Boltanski, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

MIRAGES LVII

This month we will make long walks from Art Fairs to the major exhibitions and from the Traces to Architecture!!! Paris Photo …

*Photo: Palais d’Iéna, exhibiton simulation, October 2019. Giuseppe Penone, Matrice di linfa, 2008. Fir tree, resin, terracotta, leather, metal. 131 x 4500 x 212 cm. Photo © CESE Benoît Fougeirol © Palais d’Iéna, architect Auguste. Perret, UFSE, SAIF. Courtesy Archivio Penone and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris/London.

MIRAGES LVI

In the International Art Scene October is the month devoted to Paris. The whole city and we are living in the rhythm …

Enrico Castellani, Superficie blu, 1965, Oil on canvas, 182.9 × 273.7 cm, © Enrico Castellani, Courtesy the artist and Lévy Gorvy

MIRAGES LV

Except holiday season, August is full of exhibitions in summer resorts worldwide and also an opportunity for the visitors of big cities …

Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana, presented as part of the Young Architects Program 2019 at MoMA PS1, Photo: © Rafael Gamo

MIRAGES LIV

Over the years July is evolving in on the most dynamic months of the year in the field of contemporary art, not …

Sebastian Jefford, Aggresively indeterminate biscuit, 2018, Polyurethane foam, acrylic, latex, plastic snaps, plaster, bandage, chicken wire, cardboard, photo: Simon Veres, © Sebastian Jefford, Courtesy the artist and Gianni Manhattan- Vienna

MIRAGES LIII

June 2019, is full of art evens, since the 58th Venice Biennial titled “May You Live In Interesting Times” continues, but in …

Jannis Kounellis, Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro 2016. Photo Michele Alberto Sereni

MIRAGES LII

May is interwoven with major and important exhibitions-institutions historical or emerging. But the scepter is always held by La Biennale di Venezia, …

Victor Vasarely

MIRAGES LI

“The importance of art in our times is more imperative than ever… because life is so difficult, that our only real hope …

Kimsooja, Bottari-truck – Migrateurs, 2007-09, Color photograph, 128 x 182,5 x 25,5 cm light box. Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration Collection, Photo: © Thierry Depagne, Courtesy of MAC VAL and Kimsooja Studio

MIRAGES XLVIIII

Looking at Kimsooja’s artwork from the exhibition “Persona grata” at the Museums: Le Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne and le Musée national …