Up to the sky

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of the original. While this practice came to define much of the 80s postmodern art, its legacy for the 90s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative. Artists working today freely manipulate their representations of the empirical world or invent entirely new cosmologies. They process their subject matter through conceptual systems or use digital processes to alter their images. Some directly intervene in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world and establishing their quiet presence in it; others fabricate entire architectural environments for the camera lens. This current state of the arts and its recent history are represented via more than 150 works by 55 artists, including Nam June Paik, Kara Walker, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Fischli & Weiss, Ann Hamilton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida H fer, Thomas Ruff, J rge Sasse, Thomas Struth, Olafur Eliasson, Roni Horn, Gabriel Orozco, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Matthew Barney, Gregory Crewdson, Anna Gaskell, Sam Taylor-Wood, Oliver Boberg, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Vanessa Beecroft, Wolfgang Tillmans, Patty Chang, Trisha Donnelly, Stan Douglas, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, John Pilson and Gillian Wearing.

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Bosz

Ferdinando Scianna
Franco Sciardelli

Gabriella Nessi Parlato, Gianni Berengo Gardin
Edition Raetia

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Edizioni Nava

Giuliana Scimé
Edizioni Nova Milano

Isabel Muñoz
Leonardo arte

Albert Saladini
jazz à juan

Francesco Radino
Baldini & Castoldi

"Inside" riassume alcune fra le numerose esperienze che Francesco Radino ha vissuto in Giappone e in varie località dell'Europa, Stati Uniti, Medio Oriente e può essere considerato una sorta di diario di viaggio. In molte fotografie il tema della natura, che può presentarsi in forma addomesticata così come allo stato selvaggio, riveste un ruolo di primaria importanza. Ma emerge anche, da queste immagini, la sensibilità dell'autore per le architetture materiche e il loro gioco d'insieme. L'autore utilizza i luoghi che attraggono il suo sguardo per coinvolgere lo spettatore nelle sue riflessioni sul rapporto tra natura, civiltà e cultura.

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Gabriele Cappelletti arte contemporanea

Luigi Erba
Fotografia Italiana