Pointillisme numérique
PHROOM HOME Projects Interviews Book Reviews Moving Images Essays TV Exhibitions Artists About Submission Newsletter POINTILLISME NUMÉRIQUE text by: Fabrizio Bellomo websiteFacebook thanks to: METRONOM History teaches us. The history of art also teaches us some things that could probably be applied to the future story of the years we are living in. «… […]
Feminism on Instagram
Excellences & Perfection is an art performance appeared for the first time in 2013 on Instagram. Amalia Ulman, the young author, stages a recounting of events on her Instagram profile where her followers can witness the metamorphosis of a simple country girl who decided to leave her small town in order to move into a big […]
Til Nordus
Til norðurs We share the curiosity and the desire to travel, to constantly discover new places, even better if “isolated” from the rest of the world. We often do not have time to return, that we are already there to plan our next trip. For us Iceland is the point of arrival, as if it were […]
Eleonora Gugliotta
Eleonora Gugliotta’s Ambienti project is characterized by a series of photographs of different places she delicately appropriates to create her installations and perpetuate her research. With extreme and at times liturgical caution, she makes us look at specific places of abandonment that characterize the Italian landscape. Every portion of the landscape or trace of life […]
Giovanni Oberti
Giovanni Oberti (Bergamo, 1982, lives and works in Milan). He studied at Accademia Carrara of fine arts of Bergamo where he graduated in 2006. His work has been exhibited in Italy and abroad, among which: Laghi di aceto, TILE project space, Milan, 2016; Onorarono, Munich Kunstverein, curated by Chris Fitzpatrick, Munich, 2015; I fiori in […]
An attempt to find larks – 2 sound pieces
An attempt to find larks – 2 sound pieces Serena Porrati and MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit University of Oxford SCIENCE (METHOD) A group of scientists from the Anatomical Neuropharmacology Laboratory in Oxford have been recording brain activity through the analysis of electrical signals produced by neurons. By inserting a tiny glasselectrode into the brain, it […]
Notes for an exhibition that I will never hold
“Nothing is true; everything is permitted” Hassan-i-Sabbah Notes for an exhibition that I will never hold “…something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we’re shown a photograph of it…” (“On Photography” – Susan Sontag) The U.F.O photography is wonderful. From the amateur attempt made with a plate till the perfect picture, retouched thanks to […]
“I prefer the wrong ones”
“I prefer the wrong ones” We often read that the first exhibition in which the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibited color photographs was the one in may 1976 dedicated to the work of William Eggleston. Well, it’s not like that. The MoMA exhibited color photographs for the first time in March 1943, […]
THE HOBBYIST
THE HOBBYIST HOBBIES, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE HOBBY OF PHOTOGRAPHY What happens when photographers and artists incorporate hobbies into their work as a means of challenging artistic practices and hierarchies? How do hobbyists describe their passions photographically, not least today in our era of digital communication and online blogs? This is the first major exhibition to […]