Floriana Piqué

Sep 18, 2024 | theartsection.com | Floriana Piqué

Born in Dresden in 1932, in 1962 he moves across the borders to West Germany and bases himself in Dusseldorf. Since then, Richter starts using magazines, brochures, catalogues, photographs, frames of films as sources for his painting and quite immediately the procedure of blurring appears, something that, in time, will become a signature for his work and a metaphor for oblivion. As if time kept depositing insubstantial layers, veils on objects, human beings, memories.

Sep 17, 2024 | theartsection.com | Floriana Piqué

Foreigners Everywhere 60th Biennale di Venezia John Akomfrah, Still from Listening All Night To The Rain, 2024, commissioned by the British Council, All artworks are courtesy of Lisson gallery and Smoking Dogs Films © Smoking Dogs Films Resonances 60th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2024 British and German Pavilions ​ by Floriana Piqué ​ Yael Bartana: Farewell, 2024 as part of Light To The Nations, 2022-2024, Video, 15.20 Minutes / Single channel Film still, German...

Sep 16, 2024 | theartsection.com | Deanna Sirlin |Tanya Augsburg |Floriana Piqué

Sonia Boyce, Room 1 in the British Pavilion featuring four performers - Errollyn Wallen, Tanita Tikaram, Poppy Ajudha, Jackie Dankworth, British Pavilion 2022, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Photo: Cristiano Corte © British CouncilArtist Activistby Floriana PiquéSonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, with items from Boyce’s archive of memorabilia relating to black women in the British music industry.

Sep 12, 2024 | theartsection.com | Deanna Sirlin |Tanya Augsburg |Floriana Piqué

Simone Leigh, Brick House, 2019, Bronze, 16 x 9 feet, Entrance to The Milk of Dreams in the ArsenalePhoto: Deanna SirlinThe Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani for the 59th Biennale di Venezia, not only shows that the “Future is Female” but also informs the viewer that the Past was female as well. Alemani borrowed the title of this exhibition from the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s (b. 1917, UK – d.

Sep 12, 2024 | theartsection.com | Floriana Piqué

We enter the British Pavilion through a calm Doric colonnade that induces a contemplative mood. Stillness. The Giardini is a place full of life, art, and crowds during the long summer of the Biennale, so it feels unfamiliar to see the site of such a celebration of plenty from a completely different perspective.