Valentina Medda
Healing interventions for domestic wounds
Santarcangelo Festival_2019
Variable dimensions
acupuncture needles, house walls
Courtesy and photo credit: Claudia Borgia

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH VALENTINA MEDDA

“All you do is highlight what’s already there,” you once told me.
You hurt me – it sounded like an accusation.
But in the end…isn’t that what really matters – highlighting the existing?
Who am I to create? What needs to be created?

[Healing intervention for domestic wound_intervention#1 | NY, 2015]

Bianco-Valente
Terra di me
2018
Fine art print
Permanent collection Sicily Foundation, Palermo

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH BIANCO-VALENTE

Man, since the dawn of time, has felt the need to tie groups of stars together with imaginary lines, effectively invisible in the night sky. The artist’s work is based on these same principles: making the invisible visible, suggesting, evoking, bringing out the infra-thin network of connections that binds events, people and places together, in space and time. Continuing to ask the questions that seem to have no answer, continuing to search for the true meaning of existence, practicing the playground of philosophers and men of faith, constantly searching for new perspectives from which to observe the existing.

Ornaghi & Prestinari
Cristalleria
2021
Crystal sculpture photographed
Courtesy Ornaghi & Prestinari  

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH ORNAGHI & PRESTINARI

Is it legitimate to extrapolate a sentence from a speech, untie a word from the others, a few moments from one’s whole life?

New worlds in old worlds,
new words in old words,
new worlds in old words,
new words in old worlds.

It could be said that all life does is moving things. Even speaking implies moving the air with sound.

Irene Fenara
Supervision
2022
Inkjet print
82×110 cm
Courtesy the artist, UNA, Piacenza, ZERO…, Milan

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH IRENE FENARA

It is said that the minimum height to notice the earth’s curvature is about 20 km from the height of the sea. In the stratosphere the eyes may water a little, and create halos, blurs and haze in the view, the colors become vivid and we wonder what a camera lens is telling us about the relationship between our planet and what we are looking at.

Gabriele De Santis
Doppio Titolo: Linea d’aria; Sweet dream, 2021
Digital collage
Dimensions variable

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH GABRIELE DE SANTIS

I’ve been thinking for long to transport my artworks or even an entire exhibition using my bike. It would be certainly slow, but gentle with the environment and long the way I would have enough time to think or even make more artworks.
If my bike had wings and it could fly as a parrot, I would need to pedal for just 6917 km from my studio to reach the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Artworks could fit in my handlebar basket, like Elliot and E.T. Dreaming is sweet.
[Cartoline Faticose 04]

Roberto Pugliese
Critici Ostinati Ritmici
solenoids, circuits, microcontrollers, cables, sensors, internet connection
2010
Courtesy Studio la Città, Verona
Photo credit: Michele Alberto Sereni

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH ROBERTO PUGLIESE

Nature, a superior and mystical intelligence, is constantly mortified by one of its creations, the human being who, like a tumor, attacks his own organism. Just as nature allows man to exploit it, at the same time it has made sure that man, by evolving, endowed himself with a conscience and sensitivity, weapons that nature uses to defend itself. Sometimes human sensitivity translates into inspiration and leads to artistic production, which has the duty and the power to be a witness to society, a means of communication through which a common conscience can develop.

Göksu Kunak a.k.a. Gucci Chunk
AN(A)KARA
2021
Photo credit: Ethan Folk
Courtesy the artist

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH GUCCI CHUNK

The creation of visual images of the East
belongs to the imagination of
the Western mind.

A legal bullet
A dead body

Welcome
We provide
Personalized
Selective
Westernization
Are you tired of being ashamed of your traditional identity?
Did you have trouble voicing that you’re actually Muslim?
Are you afraid that Islam will take over your democracy?
Do you have fear of degeneration as a result of too much Westernization?
We’re here to guide you
The A List Health Hack
Look & feel your best
From a Sick Man to
The New Man

He is so handsome, right?

Applause!

Jessica Stockholder
The studio August 2021
Photo credit: Jessica Stockholder
Courtesy the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH JESSICA STOCKHOLDER

Privacy
Me & You
You and Me
And Vitamin D
The sun also rises
Birds flying out to sea
The furnace sound cries
Softly pushing into Sunday
Headlines floating on devices
Settled softly down between us
Foods & drink move slowly through
Bodies who are hosting winding tube
As on appliance, time blinks by, on stove
Blood takes its walk-through veins in house
While on the couch the bodies hold whose gaze
One instant after instant & the next out the window

Benedikt Hipp
Feste Eigenschaften elastischer Körper
2021
diptych, oil on MDF
176 x 270 cm each
Courtesy the artist and Monitor Roma, Lisbona, Pereto

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH BENEDIKT HIPP

In the last year in Rome as a scholarship holder at Villa Massimo, I continued my experimentation in the pictorial and sculptural field, investigating primordial figures and parts of bodies, places of transformation and transition. The body is a recurring theme in my work. I move between painting, sculpture and objects – between fiction and material. Sometimes this interaction seems to be analogous to the daily conflict between our ideas, our flesh and our bones. This conflict is where we live. Regardless of our origins or where we are on this planet, we all share that eternal in-between field.