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Barbican Curve, London. Walking through the dark passage along the gallery, the visitors and the space are illuminated by oscillating pendulum-like elements and guided by the sound. With their last work, Momentum, United Visual Artists (UVA) are offering a fantastic immersive experience: a way to forget about time and space. Elements like dark and light, sound and movement are combined together to communicate at a different level of perception. The visitor is taking his own time to walk along the 'curve' becoming immediately an essential part of the work. All photo credits: United Visual Artists: Momentum (Installation images), © Bethany Clark/Getty Images, courtesy Barbican Art Gallery United Visual Artists (UVA) is a London based art practice that combines a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, installation, live performance, and architecture. The studio was founded in 2003 by Matthew Clark, Chris ...

Panic/Picnic, 1999 Etching and crayon on printed paper, 215 x 280 mm Cambio 1999. Untitled (Baedecker Portfolio), Lithograph and crayon on printed paper, 147 x 200 mm © William Kentridge, The refusal of time, 2010 William Kentridge, Untitled, (drawing for Black Box/Chambre Noire), 2005 Photo: John Hodgkiss Deutsche Guggenheim, © William Kentridge Artist biography (from Tate website). South African draughtsman, filmmaker and sculptor. Kentridge first studied politics and African Studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (1973–6) before studying Fine Art at Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–8). Throughout this time he was heavily involved in theatre. His interest in theatre continued throughout his career and clearly informs the dramatic and narrative character of his art as well as his interests in linking drawing and film. His work as a draughtsman has been expressionistic and dominated by pastel and charco...

Isaac Julien, EMERALD CITY / CAPITAL (Playtime) , 2013. Endura Ultra photograph, 160 x 240 cm. Image courtesy Victoria Miro, London, and Metro Pictures, New York. © Isaac Julien. Isaac Julien 's PLAYTIME,  recently opened at Victoria Miro gallery in London (24 January - 1 March 2014). The exhibition is on show in Mayfair and Wharf Road and includes the world premiere of a seven-screen installation, the two-screen documentary, KAPITAL and a series of photographic works. Isaac Julien, PLAYTIME , 2014. Seven-screen ultra high-definition video installation with 7.1 surround sound, 69:47 minutes. Image courtesy of Victoria Miro, London. © Isaac Julien. The artist research is addressing more and more to the effects of capital on people's life. PLAYTIME offers an insight of people dealing with the financial crisis, considering in particular the art world. As the gallery press release states: "Playtime is set across three cities defined by their role in r...

"We're going to Mars! With a spicegirl, two cats and a missionary". We are in Zambia, newly independent in 1964. Edward Makuka Nkoloso, a school teacher, unveils his most secret ambition through a newspaper's article: he wants to take Zambia to conquer the space at the same strength of US and Soviet Union. Unfortunately Nkoloso' space program failed to receive financial aid and never "blasted-off"!! 50 years later, Spanish photographer  Cristina De Middel , while searching for "impossible stories" on the net to find a good idea for a new project, came across this news.    Afronauts , De Middel's amazing photo project and self published book, was born after this impossible dream.   I caught images of this project flipping the pages of RearViewMirror magazine. The project was pointed to me by an artist friend who saw it at Fotografia Europea . Afronauts has been exhibited worldwide in New York, London, Lagos, Rome amon...