THE ITALIAN ISSUE (April – May) out now
ENZO MARI The Intellectual Work: Sixty Paperweights
curated by Barbara Casavecchia
New Issue Featuring:
ART: Marcello Maloberti by Sabine Folie; FUTURA: Patrizio Di Massimo by Hans Ulrich Obrist; SPECIAL PROJECT 01: Jan De Cock; ON EXHIBITIONS: Germano Celant by Paola Nicolin; ENIGMA No.6 by Meris Angioletti; ART: Gianfranco Baruchello introduction by Eva Fabbris, interview by Maurizio Cattelan; EMERGING ARTISTS: Rossella Biscotti by Moosje Goosen, Andrea Sala by Noah Stolz, Giorgio Andreotta Calò by Eva Fabbris, Alex Cecchetti by Chris Sharp, Seb Patane by Caterina Riva; SPECIAL PROJECT 02: Matthew Brannon; PIONEERS: Ketty La Rocca by Simone Menegoi; ART: Massimo Grimaldi by Elena Volpato; SPECIAL PROJECT 03: Rob Pruitt; DESIGN: Lili Reynaud-Dewar on Ettore Sottsass by Joanna Fiduccia; ART: Lara Favaretto by Adam Carr; SPECIAL PROJECT 04: Francesco Vezzoli & Stefano Tonchi; LITERATURE: Curzio Malaparte by Ian Kiaer; MAPPING THE STUDIO: Berti, Previdi, Trevisani, Tuttofuoco by Luca Cerizza; LAST QUESTION by Enzo Mari.
MAIN THEME: The Italian Anomaly, edited by Luca Cerizza, featuring: An Incomplete Modernity by Luca Cerizza; The Impolitic Community by Maro Scotini; Love Like God by Alessandro Rabottini; My Dark Places by Barbara Casavecchia.
MONO: Roberto Cuoghi. The Rules of Vision by Marcella Beccaria; Six Short Stories by Roberto Cuoghi; The Inverted Life of Roberto Cuoghi by Massimiliano Gioni; Interview by Andrea Viliani.
Kaleidoscope is the first European free magazine of contemporary art and culture, a bimonthly publication with a circulation of more than 70,000 copies distributed across an international network of 25 countries at a total of 400 points of distribution, to an audience of up to 300,000 readers. Kaleidoscope’s initiatives include a project space, located in our headquarters in Milan and animated by a rigorous and highly selective program.
The upcoming exhibition will open in Milan on April 13 (through April 30), on the occasion of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Enzo Mari (Novara, 1932), master of Italian design, presents a new installation especially conceived for the spaces of Kaleidoscope. Titled The Intellectual Work: Sixty Paperweights and curated by Barbara Casavecchia, it brings together for the first time a wide selection from his personal collection of paperweights, objets trouvés gathered over the course of a lifetime, that Mari considers paradigmatic of his own practice. “They are not a simple collection of mirabilia. They’re rather thinking tools, small bachelor machines, pawns of a never-ending chess game. (…) Every object and work created by Mari functions as an allegory: of the human ability to “do” (poiein) and of the possible virtuous transformations of society. (…) Paperweights correspond perfectly with his poetics, his non-stop search for the essence of form—not in theory, but in praxis”. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication realized in collaboration with the designer, featuring a critical essay by the curator and photographs by Carlo Lavatori. The exhibition was produced in collaboration with P+P Studio.
Among past exhibition projects: Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys (May-June 2009), Salvatore Arancio (September-October 2009), The Gutenberg Pavilion – Episode 1: Book Works (November-December 2009), Architecture and Its Discontents, a film program curated by Adam Szymczyk (March 2010).
The space also features an extensive stock of international art, architecture, design and fashion magazines available to browse or buy.
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