In our third year online, we had once again ten artworks of the month, some a little bit older, some brand-new. Even though Bolognese exhibitions were on focus, we had the occasion to visit some exhibitions and art fairs outside the city. Moreover, we went to the Venice Biennale, the Florence Biennale and the Bolognese Biennale Foto/Industria.
January
Starting the New Year with a “Work Break”, we glanced into a time before the Internet and all the electronic devices entered in our common life. Barbara Müller-Kageler’s painting from 1974 expresses a feeling of tranquillity that is nowadays mostly lost.
February
Even though Donatella Lombardo’s “Partitura n.1” was created in 2016, the artwork of February referred to medieval music by Hildegard von Bingen and traditional textile handicraft.
Nevertheless, the Bolognese Art week catapulted us directly into the presence. We visited the Arte Fiera (here and there) and the SetUp Contemporary Art Fair.
April
After an involuntary break in March, we went again a little bit back in time by Gloria Li Mir’s painting “Acylique bleu émeraude” from 1986.
The Milan art fair, miart 2017 underlined its anchoring between modern and contemporary art.
In the Bolognese gallery Spazio Testoni, Paolo Ghilardi abandoned the canvas with his paintings and the “Archivio Paolo Ghilardi e Alberto Zilocchi” in Milan reunited with Ghilardi, Marcello Morandi and Alberto Zilocchi three artists from the international workgroup for constructive art.
May
Margarete Michel reached out her “Helping Hands”, an ephemeral monumental sculpture.
The Art Cologne (Germany) celebrated her fiftieth birthday
and we gave our first impressions of the 57. Biennale di Venezia.
Moreover, the Bolognese Gelateria Sogni Di Ghiaccio conceived the group exhibition “Family Matters” in eight chapters. We were there, when Giacomo Giacomo took over the place.
June
With her mural collage “Busca una pista, inventa la historia” (Search a track, invent history) Lourdes de la Riva offered an unusual witness of animal intervention on paper.
In Bologna opened the Palazzo Pallavicini to the public: a hidden germ of neo classicism with an eventful history.
By the retrospective catalogue about L’orMa’s oeuvre, we went on the research of the surprising beauty in the various work of this young emerging artist.
July
Kirsten Klöckner made “Compliments” for everyone by her multiple of the same name.
Three national participations of the Venice Biennale considered space: the British Pavilion with “folly” by Phyllida Barlow, the Greek Pavilion with the “Laboratory of Dilemmas” by George Drivas and the Argentinian Pavilion with “The Horse Problem” by Claudia Fontes.
August
Summer break
September
Monique Thibaudin made in “Orchidées sur fond Bleu” (Orchids on blue background) references to Boris Vian, Marcel Duchamps, Yves Klein and others …
With the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, Italy, we undertook a journey “From the Cavern to the Moon”.
and the autumn season started in Bologna with eight new exhibitions.
October
Thyra Schmidt created during her residency at the pink factory in Hongcheon, South Korea “Two friends leave the room and walk in different directions”.
462 artists coming from 72 countries participated at the XI. Florence Biennale.
Besides the main exhibition and the national pavilions in the Giardini and the Arsenale at the 57. Venice Biennale, there were many exhibitions throughout the city. We visited Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Bolivia, Ivory Coast and Guatemala.
November
Katia Miranda loves plastic bags and showcases them in an unexpected way.
Just before the Venice Biennale closed, we revisited the Pavilions of Italy, Canada and Australia, which dealt all – in one or the another sense – with water, reflexions and histories.
December
This year’s Bolognese Biennale Foto/Industria had 14 exhibitions, focussing on art, technology and innovation. The shows of Alexander Rodchenko, Lee Friedlander and Mimmo Jodice showed working people in different times and with a different artistic view. Josef Koudelka’s photos impressively illustrated the impact of industrialisation on our landscapes.
Matching the season, Véronique Champollion offered a Madonna with Child as artwork of the month.
Just in time, at the end of the commemoration of 100 years of the October Revolution, the Bolognese Museum of Modern Art opened the exhibition “Revolutija: from Chagall to Malevich, from Repin to Kandinsky”.
Thank you for following us in 2017. We hope you’ll be again our guest in 2018!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
