Author Archives: Anna Triboli

Book: The Speed Book By Aram Bartholl

By Anna Triboli | Published: Friday March 16, 2012

Some time ago I wrote about the question “How to democratize art?”. Aram Bartholl’s work is maybe one of the best examples of how to engage a large group of people with contemporary art. Bartholl meticulously tore down those boundaries built around the image of the ‘artwork’ as something far from our everyday lives, converting people [...]

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Book: Delicate — New Food Culture

By Anna Triboli | Published: Friday February 10, 2012

Food is something serious and eating is not only a physical need or routine. The characteristics of food are often based on a rich world of different cultures, ceremonies and social interactions. If eating is an aspect of our lives that we can’t take lightly, cooking is the creative part of it — a true form [...]

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So Long 2011, We’re Not Going To Miss You

By Anna Triboli | Published: Saturday January 7, 2012

Some days ago, the Spanish collective Luzinterruptus decided to say goodbye to 2011 with an original installation. With the artwork entitled ‘Lo que hemos perdidos en 2011′ (‘What we’ve lost in 2011′) they asked their friends to write down the most important thing they lost in the last year on a piece of paper. All messages [...]

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Guided By Music

By Anna Triboli | Published: Sunday December 11, 2011

The National Gallery of Denmark launched an interesting project involving art and music some months ago, that breaks the intangible screen that usually divides us from the modern art world. The institute asked several Danish musicians to compose a track based on their interpretation of some of the major works released by Danish and Nordic artists between 1750 [...]

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How To Democratize Art

By Anna Triboli | Published: Monday November 21, 2011

How many times have we heard that art is far from people’s lives, that is something extraneous to the real world? Unfortunately, too much. How can we get people closer to it, making it easy and friendly? Although being difficult, there are a pair of nice examples… Does anyone remember the old, american-style cigarette machines? [...]

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Even Money Joins The Protest

By Anna Triboli | Published: Thursday October 20, 2011

In these dark times of crisis, everyone should participate to the emerging protests all around the world. Only if everybody stands up and gives voice to his dissent, things can change for good. Each one can do it in his own way, no matter how. Occupy George, for instance, is a great example of symbolic act. [...]

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A Plastic Archipelago

By Anna Triboli | Published: Tuesday September 20, 2011

To recycle is one of my daily rules. That is why this installation by the British artist Russel Thoburn caught my attention. Experienced in working with recycled materials, this time he created a floating island made from plastic tops, a sort of colorful carpet, placed on a canal of Hackney Wick Fish Island, in the [...]

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Outsiders

By Anna Triboli | Published: Sunday September 11, 2011

The Venice art Biennale has become an internationally acclaimed charming and entertaining world as a sort of huge luna park for grown-ups, placed in a matchless scenario. The 2011 edition just left me some good memories of a few amazing works spread between the precious frames of the two main locations: Arsenale and Giardini. One creation that [...]

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Memories Left On The Asphalt

By Anna Triboli | Published: Tuesday August 9, 2011

Candy Chang doesn’t miss a hit. Once again she created a great public project for the community, this time in Turku, Finland, European Capital of Culture 2011, as part of the programs Flux Aura and Artist as Neighbor. Chang transformed a pedestrian path that leads to the local university into an interactive installation to share [...]

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Colors Against Cuts

By Anna Triboli | Published: Saturday July 30, 2011

Under the financial crisis, the ones who pay for the problems of governments and markets are usually the same as the ones responsible for making possible the development of a country, and not only under an economic point of view. I’m talking about health, education and culture. We are sadly used to see politicians trample [...]

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