Thursday, January 16th at 6:00 PM, at the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri in Bologna, the exhibition "TORRI : TERRA" by Grazia Toderi and Gilberto Zorio, curated by Cristina Francucci, will be inaugurated.
The exhibition will be open to the public from January 17th to February 5th, from Thursday to Sunday, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, except on February 6th, 7th, and 8th, when it will be open from 5:00 PM to midnight, and on February 9th, from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
Directed by William Kentridge, with design and puppet-mastery by Handspring Puppet Company, this irreverent encounter with the "Faustian Pact" remains a powerful metaphor for our times. With music by Warrick Sony and the late and much revered James Phillips underscoring William Kentridge’s glorious animations.
Wael Shawky’s work “I Am Hymns of the New Temples” is part of the 16th Sharjah Art Biennale, from 6 February to 15 June 2025. The Biennial theme, to carry, entails understanding our precarity within spaces that are not our own while staying responsive to these sites through the cultures that we hold. It also signifies a bridge between multiple temporalities of embodied pasts and imagined futures, encompassing intergenerational stories and various modes of inheritance. What do we carry when it is time to travel, flee or move on? What are the passages that we form as we migrate between territories and across time? What do we carry when we remain? What do we carry when we survive?
On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, William Kentridge will be installed as a Foreign associate member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts by Erik Desmazières, member of Engraving and Drawing section.
On January 30th at 6:00 PM, the Lia Rumma Gallery in Milan will host the presentation of "Marzia Migliora. Sette mostre immaginifiche 1993-2024", the first monograph dedicated to the artist. Both the artist and curators Matteo Lucchetti and Anna Cestelli Guidi will be present at the event. Conceived as a concept book, it reinterprets Marzia Migliora's body of work through seven recurring themes in her practice. The book features seven exhibitions on paper, each curated by a different curator who imagined them set in significant locations from the artist's life, creating a personal emotional geography that spans Italy, from her hometown of Alessandria to the salt mines of Sicily. Edited by Anna Cestelli Guidi and Matteo Lucchetti, the book compiles over thirty years of the artist’s work.
Wael Shawky’s practice spans film, performance, drawing, and sculpture. In his latest theatrical film, Drama 1882 (2024), which debuted at the Egyptian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), Shawky examines the 1882 Urabi Revolution and Egypt’s resistance to British colonialism. This eight-part musical, reimagines the chain of events leading up to the revolution, examining primary sources to dispute the traditional Western settler narrative, suggesting that seemingly insignificant events, such as a café altercation involving a donkey keeper, could have been orchestrated by Britain as a pretext for their attack. Drama 1882 merges real and imagined histories into a musical critique that underscores the necessity to reevaluate history. Outdoor amphitheatre: Monday–Thursday, 4:00–10:00 PM; Friday–Sunday, 4:00 PM–12:00 AM; not available Wednesday 4–Saturday 8 December 2024 Indoor theatre: daily until Monday 13 January 2025, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM, unless there is other programming; not available Saturday 8–Sunday 9 December 2024 Language: Arabic, English | 45 minutes
Thursday, January 16th at 6:00 PM, at the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri in Bologna, the exhibition "TORRI : TERRA" by Grazia Toderi and Gilberto Zorio, curated by Cristina Francucci, will be inaugurated. The exhibition will be open to the public from January 17th to February 5th, from Thursday to Sunday, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, except on February 6th, 7th, and 8th, when it will be open from 5:00 PM to midnight, and on February 9th, from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
