Ettore Favini | BAT Chile
Bienal de Arte Textil – Chile
30 September – 19 November, 2023
“Entendemos el textil como metáfora de lo comunitario, de lo colectivo y de lo universal.”
Developing a project like the Biennial of Textile Art (BAT) has nothing to do with the desire to highlight or reposition something. Nor is it about recovering objects that have been lost in the history of art or wanting to relocate them outside the domestic space. Because textile objects have always existed outside the traditional places of circulation. No one is unaware that we are witnessing...
Nicole Colombo | Arbiter | November 2023
Homo Elegans – A fine line between intimate comfort and outrageous practicality
By Daniele Fenaroli
The eternal struggle between desire and comfort shapes the creativity of Nicole Colombo, author of this issue’s cover. Who fixes her attention on hair and its representation. […] Starting from an anthropological approach, her works bring to the spotlight the struggle between the desire for comfort and the need to deal with discomfort, the dichotomy of every human being, perpetually unbalanced by nature […] there is an undeniable...
Ettore Favini | Galleria XXV Aprile, Cremona
Permanent view
The river, by encyclopedic definition, is nothing but a perennial waterway. In this regard, observing the Po river in recent years, it is noticeable how unsuitable the adjective perennial is now. Hence Ettore Favini‘s reflection on how often we tend to systematically devalue the resources and nature around us. With this in mind therefore, the work is a coldly geographical representation of the river’s course that reflects, on the one hand, on how climate change is changing the river, but also aims, on the other hand,...
Ettore Favini | Satelliti | Curated by Giorgio Galotti
Renata De Bonis, Ettore Favini, Anders Holen, Matteo Nasini, Alice RonchiCaccia al Piano, Bolgheri – Castagneto Carducci, Italy 10 June – 25 November, 2023
The project aims to start a widespread story that will probe the relationship of the history and spaces of the Caccia al Piano winery, through a dialogue conditioned along an axis of interventions by artists invited to showcase, through their site- and project-specific works, the intimate connection one can posit between the movements of the cosmos and the process of vinification....
Ettore Favini | Cremona Contemporanea Art Week
27 May – 4 June, 2023
In the evocative setting of the former Frazzi Area artist Ettore Favini exhibits two works that lull us underwater like the flow of a river. And it is the river that gives the title to Favini’s work, Il Fiume che piange which tells us about the local reality of a polluted Po river whose banks are in need of maintenance, consisting in four cotton tapestries made by collaborating with Cremona’s middle schools trying to raise awareness of the environmental issue of water, a theme that Cremona holds dear...