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Just some images to remember a strong exhibition "Utopia for sale" curated by Hou Hanru at Maxxi in Rome . O peni ng event on 14th o f February 2014 . Amie Siegel, "Lot 248", 2013, HD video (6mins). Courtesy of the artist and Simon Preston Gallery, NY The show is an homage to American artist Allan Sekula who died few months previous the show .   Artists: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Noël Burch, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Cao Fei, Libero De Cunzo, Adelita Husni-Bey, Li Liao, Pier Luigi Nervi, Allan Sekula, Amie Siegel.  Amie Siegel, "Provenance", 2013, HD video (40mins). Courtesy of the artist and Simon Preston Gallery, NY Li Liao, "Spring Breeze", 2011 (left). Digital video. Courtesy the artist. "Consumption", 2011 (right). Uniform. Courtesy Alan Lau Collection, Honk Kong Cao Fei "Whose Utopia?", 2006. video (20mins) Courtesy the artist and Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing Cao Fe...

  --> Laboratorio in gallery: “Memoires - Archive / Works of Sala 1” presents "Money Talks" by César Baracca. An archive preserves the past, its traces and memories lie within a repository of human knowledge it is also a dynamic place for critical engagement and creative invention. It also offers the ability to create new ideas and different interpretations in the multifaceted world of art. This is what gallery Sala 1 intends to propose through this new project “Laboratorio: Memoires - Archive / Works of Sala 1”: a space in which to reflect and create alternative visions, researched through photographs, documents and texts. Under the supervision of Mary Angela Schroth (Director of Sala 1), an international team of young historians investigates, re-organizes, photographs and analyses the collection of the gallery, then re-interprets new ways of understanding some of the selected works. The contemporary artists participating in the Laboratorio are: Ed...

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair (second year) just ended at Somerset House in London. 4 days of full immersion on Contemporary Art from Africa. From the opening night on October 15th to the closing day on Sunday 19th we could discover and enjoy amazing artists' works, talks, studio and collectors visit, guided tours and a series of parallel events! Touria El Glaoui, the Fair's founder, did a wonderful job. The Fair is growing embracing estimators and collectors. I met also people who came to London especially for 1:54 (which is a great success considering that it is taking place at the same time of Frieze). It is emotional now to look at some of the precious moments at the fair. I really enjoyed the talk between Marlene Smith and John Akomfrah, introduced by Koyo Kouoh (Raw Material Company).

At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: or the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant. We are in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. An old Sugar factory, Domino Sugar Refinery, dated from 1882, a refinery that was producing sugar for nearly half of the entire Unites States, stands on the East River. The refinery stopped functioning in 2004. Nowadays it is a symbolic monument that it is about to be destroyed. Visitors entering the enormous space will be greeted by a 35.5 feet high sphinx-like figure by well-known African-American artist, Kara Walker. The sugar-coated sphinx will stand in the space for one more week. “Watching Kara Walkerʼs work come to life in the unadorned, expansive space of the Domino factory, with its molasses covered walls and natur...