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    MARZIA MIGLIORA
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    NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2024
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    Marzia Migliora
    Lo spettro di Malthus
    2020
    Disegno di progetto digitale
    Courtesy: l’artista; Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano / Napoli


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 PAROLE CON MARZIA MIGLIORA

    My work method can be compared to an attempt at excavation: progressively removing layers of history to reveal what is hidden or barely visible, and bringing to the surface what is submerged, connecting it to the present in an effort to spark new reflections.

    FRANCESCO PEDRINI
    [= FRANCESCO = PEDRINI =]
    NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2024
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    Francesco Pedrini
    Alrededor de un suspiro
    2024
    Assemblage: disegno 50×70 cm su carta cotone 220 gr, pigmenti, grafite, carboncino
    Stampa su carta fotografica 21×29,7 cm
    Courtesy: l’artista


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH FRANCESCO PEDRINI

    Quetzalcōatl is venerated as the god of wind, merchants, the arts, crafts, and knowledge. He had a shell carved into his chest, highlighting its star-shaped outline and spiral interior, symbolizing the wind, the afterlife, and the earthly realm. Ehcātl (the name of Quetzalcōatl in his form as the wind god) fell in love with a woman, but the world lacked love. So, to be loved in return, he breathed his spirit onto the world: the rains, the sun, the stars, and everything we know came into motion. The universe of events shifted so that she would love him.

    LOUIS DE BELLE
    [= LOUIS === DE === BELLE =]
    NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2024
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    Louis De Belle
    Chiuso per ferie
    Agosto 2024
    Dimensioni variabili
    Courtesy the artist


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH LOUIS DE BELLE

    I have always been fascinated by hidden doors, secondary exits, and secret passages. Perhaps because they lead to something yet unknown. More than crossing these thresholds, I am interested in the way they fit into their context and the paradoxical fact that they are designed to remain unseen. Photography might be their antagonist, precisely because it proves the existence of what it captures. This image is from a series I am creating in Florence and aligns with the Italian August theme: closed for holidays.

    ANTON GIULIO ONOFRI
    [= ANTON === GIULIO = ONOFRI =]
    NEWSLETTER JULY 2024
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    Anton Giulio Onofri
    Lido di Pesaro
    23 giugno 2024
    iPhone 15 Pro
    Photo credit Anton Giulio Onofri


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH ANTON GIULIO ONOFRI

    Summer has arrived. In the photo, you can see the beach of a seaside resort in Pesaro, taken two days after the solstice. The sea is the Adriatic, so this photo captures a sunrise. I took it with my iPhone after an all-nighter spent chatting about the past and future with some friends from the International New Cinema Festival, which had wrapped up a few hours earlier with a big party on the rooftop terrace of the hotel where I was staying. The sunrise convinced us all that it was time to go to bed. As of now, this is my most recent photo.

    CLAUDIA LOSI
    [=== CLAUDIA ==== LOSI =]
    NEWSLETTER JUNE 2024
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    Claudia Losi
    Amuleti, 2020
    Argilla, pigmenti e mani amiche
    Courtesy l’artista e collezione privata
    Photo credit Andrea Rossetti


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH CLAUDIA LOSI

    So many words fit in a hand
    A hand that grips to a choke

    So many words gather in the wind
    Wind that moves to emptiness

    So many words die on the lips
    Lips that kiss to whiteness

    So many words flow through the teeth
    Teeth that bite to rend

    So many words we would like to repeat
    Ever so slowly, a blow to the death

    So many words we could repeat
    Ever so slowly, a blow to the death

    ELISA MONTESSORI
    [== ELISA ==== MONTESSORI ==]
    NEWSLETTER MAY 2024
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    Elisa Montessori
    Senza titolo
    2022/2023
    Tecnica mista su carta catramata
    449 x 100 cm
    Prospekt, 2023, a cura di Cecilia Canziani e Marta Roberti
    Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Cracovia e Varsavia


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH ELISA MONTESSORI

    “…Venturing into the forest,
    or rather getting lost.
    Knows it from every side
    and has winged flight,
    unfolding while migrating
    slowing down while returning.
    Feels free on the hook of the branch
    among its shadows and half-lights
    the green twisted arches
    in the enveloping descending silence
    and shatters at every moment…”

    STEVE PICCOLO
    [= STEVE ===== PICCOLO =]
    NEWSLETTER APRIL 2024
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    Steve Piccolo
    Order
    2024
    Spontaneous assemblage of miscellaneous waste produced by squatters of a building in Milan, photo and graphic intervention by artist
    Photo Credit and Courtesy the Artist


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH STEVE PICCOLO

    In this world of noses
    to the ground
    sky unseen

    In this world
    grinding to a halt
    crawling on all fours
    now makes more sense

    In this world of
    substitutes for love
    how can I make decisions?

    In this world of
    artificial brains
    nothing will change
    the chains remain

    Can this world of
    bold assertive style
    raise a smile?

    In this world of
    systems within systems
    how do I know where I stand?

    And in a world of
    self-fulfilling lies
    why should I tell the truth?

    How will I know what you mean
    if you won’t define your terms?

    JANIS RAFA
    [= JANIS === RAFA ==]
    NEWSLETTER MARCH 2024
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    Janis Rafa
    The Space Between Your Tongue & Teeth
    2023
    3-channel video, 9 min
    Courtesy the Artist


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH JANIS RAFA

    In a horse’s mouth there is an area where no teeth grow.
    A vacuity of space exists along with the interdental space.
    And in this break,
    within the gap left in between the incisors and premolars,
    there’s an artificial portal,
    allowing tame,
    imposing control,
    forcing discipline.

    The bit, this irresistible jewel,
    is now hosted by the horse’s mouth,
    beholding a system of expansion.

    Your back left teeth grew like mountains.
    Opened holes in the gums.
    You couldn’t eat.
    Your body wouldn’t listen.

    Your teeth a sign of torture.
    Your mouth a proof of resistance.

    I betrayed your mouth endlessly.

    [Ioanna Gerakidi and Janis Rafa]

    NABUURS&VANDOORN
    [== NABUURS == VANDOORN =]
    NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2024
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    Nabuurs&VanDoorn
    Revelation 03
    2022
    Fine Art Print on baryta cotton rag paper mounted on dibond
    120 cm x 180 cm


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
    99 WORDS WITH NABUURS&VANDOORN

    Exactly at the moment we participated in the residency dedicated to Vincent van Gogh, climate activists from “Just Stop Oil” attacked his work Sunflowers at the National Gallery, London UK. In response, we performed 10 Geoseances in the natural environment around Van Gogh’s birthplace. The landscape where Vincent walked and about which he wrote beautiful letters on nature. In GeoSeances (2022), we present a comprehensive exploration of the significance of Vincent van Gogh’s signature. Through digital appropriation, we projected his signature from the painting Sunflowers (1888) onto the landscape, reviving a seemingly forgotten connection between his signature and nature.

    EFFE MINELLI
    [=== EFFE == MINELLI ==]
    NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2024
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    Effe MinelliThese butterflies came back from hell to see you2023Mixed media Photo credit: Paolo Biava


    THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART99 WORDS WITH EFFE MINELLIThings that scares me and things that scares me not.I’m scared of admitting my fears.I’m scared of getting rejected after sharing my feelings for someone.I’m scared when all the love disappears or it mutates into hate and bitterness.I’m scared of gossiping, of banal peoples and their sharp tongues.I’m scared of misunderstanding, judgement, stigmatization and discrimination.I’m scared of loneliness.I’m not scared to embrace my fragilities.I’m not scared of telling the true and always follow my hearth.I’m not scared to receive and to give love.I’m not scared of standing up for human and animal rights.I’m not scared of change of mutation and regeneration.I’m not scared of crying.

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