By Michele Robecchi
In December 2003 Thomas Hirschhorn dropped a bomb in the room by announcing that he would no longer exhibit in his home country. The page-long statement was motivated by the election of Christoph Blocher, number two of the ultra-conservative Swiss People’s Party, to a full member of the Federal Council the very same [...]
Lingotto Fiere - Turin
By Michele Robecchi
With over 47,000 visitors over three days, the 17th edition of Artissima has been unanimously declared a winner. It’s a remarkable result, if one considers the unfortunate time of the year in which the Italian art fair takes place, right at the end of a long string of sister events [...]
By Michele Robecchi
The idea is not exactly new — in the past decades quite a few artists, including Larry Clark, Rebecca Horn, Isaac Julien, and Julian Schnabel, have given it a shot, with mixed results. Others, like Chantal Ackerman, Matthew Barney, Andy Warhol, and some Fluxus artists just paved their way through it by simply [...]
Michele Robecchi is an Italian writer and curator based in London. Former Managing Editor of Flash Art (2001-2004) and Senior Editor at Contemporary Magazine (2005-2007), he is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Christie’s Education and an editor at Phaidon Press, where he edited monographs on Marina Abramovic, Francis Alÿs, Jorge Pardo, Stephen Shore [...]
