Flash Art Italia no. 332
April 2017
We are pleased to announce that the April 2017 edition of Flash Art Italia is now available at kiosks and selected bookstores throughout Italy. This issue contains a thematic section titled “For another Made in Italy,” dedicated to alternative histories and new readings of the experiences of Italian design.
Venice Biennale Special
Edited by Sara De Chiara
Christine Macel on the 57th International Art Exhibition VIVA ARTE VIVA; Cecilia Alemani on the Italian Pavilion; the national pavilions; the collateral events; Udo Kittelmann on The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied at Fondazione Prada – Ca’ Corner della Regina; Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana.
In primo piano
Notebook of a kinetic artist
Richard Anuszkiewicz by Getulio Alviani
Pino Pinelli interviewed by Giorgio Verzotti
“My colors not only lie flat. My red, for example, is the sum of different tonal gradations that I modify, adjust and elicit until I obtain the maximum sonorousness, the highest pitch. Painting fascinates and seduces.”
–Pino Pinelli
For another Made in Italy
Fashion Paradigms of the 1970s by Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo
Crafting a Design Counterculture: the Pastoral and the Primitive in Italian Radical Design by Catherine Rossi
Inhabitable Art: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Postwar Italy by Alessandro Bava
Avant Craft: Jewelry Between Art and Design by Alba Cappellieri
Biography of Italian Streetwear by Alessandro Manzi
The Shade by Riccardo Beretta
“Leaving the paternal home I learned contamination. To pierce an inlay doesn’t, in fact, entail breaking its compositional narrative but rather renders it more complex. In my works, the combination of materials is no longer strictly two-dimensional but proceeds by leaps of matter.”
–Riccardo Beretta
Making Clothes for the Friends Around the World by SUNNEI
“Numerous magazines have written of us in terms of ‘new Made in Italy.’ We like to think that they are not simply referring to the idea of young people producing in an old village in the Veneto, but rather to the approach—spontaneous and informal—that is really and truly Italian.”
–SUNNEI
Dear Chisel by Andrea Sala
“In my works enamel glaze, patinated plaster, hand manipulation and other techniques relating to the applied arts are chosen to amplify the aesthetic effect of artifacts that collect in their very form the stories of their making.”
–Andrea Sala
Clasterfuck by Formafantasma
“Understanding the intrinsic meaning of objects allows us to know and to externalize ourselves better. In this sense, the craft gradually assumes a near-symbolic value, for which the ‘handmade’ object embodies a more sustainable method, more honest and human to produce.”
–Formafantasma
Brand New
Shiny Rooms: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giuseppe Gabellone, Alessandro Agudio by Michele D’Aurizio
Reviews
Milan: Diego Perrone, Massimo De Carlo; Mario Nigro, A arte Invernizzi; Yuri Ancarani, Zero…; Mario Milizia, Viasaterna; Giangiacomo Rossetti, Federico Vavassori; Cremona: Mat Collishaw, Interno 18; Turin: Salvo, Norma Mangione; Meran: Exhibition Paintings, Kunst Meran; Venice: Graziano Folata, Massimodeluca; Bologna: Peter Buggenhout, Palazzo De’Toschi; Ornaghi e Prestinari, Casa Morandi; Capannori (LU): Camera #4 Il Naufragio, Tenuta dello Scompiglio; Rome: Francesca Leone, MACRO; Annette Messager, Villa Medici; Naples: Tomaso Binga, Tiziana Di Caro; Colloquio Mitico, Fonti; Bari: Pino Pipoli, Doppelgaenger; Modica: Artists Against MUOS, Laveronica.
