By Michele Robecchi
Did you know that when The Guardian art correspondent paid a studio visit to Turner Prize finalist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in London last May, two men were loitering outside the building, mobiles in hand, one yelling, “Are you Becca?” at no one in particular? And that in The New Yorker’s obituary for [...]
Le Commun - BAC, Geneva
Curated by Michele Robecchi and Annie Serratí.
Conceived to explore the relationship between environment and musical composition, The Ship, Brian Eno’s first exhibition in Switzerland, will be presented at Le Commun in Geneva in concomitance with the 13th edition of Electron Festival.
Already a pioneer in the field of environmental music, [...]
By Michele Robecchi
One of the acknowledged limits of history, and as such the history of art, is that things are usually recounted along vertical lines. Whilst there is an undisputable logic in the method–evolutions and developments are much easier to read in this way–one of the downsides is that it tends to deny [...]
By Michele Robecchi
According to Luc Tuymans, photographer Katrijn Van Giel accusing him of plagiarism started when he received a phone call from the Belgian center-right tabloid De Standaard. The paper, on the trail of a story, announced that they knew Tuymans’ painting of populist politician Jean-Marie Dedecker was based on a photograph shot [...]
By Michele Robecchi
When the notion of ‘Expanded Cinema’ theorized by Gene Youngblood at the end of the 1960s became a major reference point for a young generation of filmmakers, it didn’t take long to realize that one of the consequences operating in such inter-disciplinary mode was that their work, still intended to be [...]
By Michele Robecchi
Like that of many of his peers who rose to global fame after meeting a premature demise, Amedeo Modigliani’s work has been over the years the subject of furious litigations, dubious authentications and endless debates about who has the authority to legitimately run (i.e. control) such hefty heritage. The dispute raged [...]
By Michele Robecchi
With the sole exception of Spike Jonze’s Her and Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, seven out of nine films in the running for Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards in March 2013 were “based on a true story.” Whilst this event reinforced the perception of a film industry unable to create original [...]
By Michele Robecchi
Twenty years ago this coming February, Derek Jarman succumbed to a fatal illness he bravely fought for almost a decade. Unlike many of his peers, Jarman never refrained from telling the world what got to him until the very last minute, and neither did he rely on the palliative of swapping [...]
By Michele Robecchi
On June 15, 1996, the Irish Republican Army detonated the biggest bomb ever inflicted upon the U.K. during peacetime, this time in Manchester. Placed in a Ford Cargo parked on Corporation Street, police first became aware of the explosive after an anonymous phone call to the local TV station Granada, giving [...]
