Quartz Studio inaugurated Examination of the origins, the first solo show in Italy by the German artist Isa Melsheimer (Neuss, Germany, 1968). For the exhibition, the artist made a site-specific installation inspired by XX century Italian architecture. ...
Federica Giallombardo and Ola Vasiljeva
When we come into the presence of a work by Ola Vasiljeva (Latvia, 1981), what immediately strikes us are the daring, towering glimpses, which with their poetics of objects illusorily overstep ceilings and walls filling them with light, colours, wonder; t ...
Lisa Parola and Giuseppe Gabellone
In the last few decades, within the field of visual arts, sculpture has been relegated to a nearly ancillary role, for a long time passed over by some reinterpretations of specific historical avant-garde and neo-avant-garde forms. Under such a redefinitio ...
Elena Bordignon and Lisa Andreani
On the occasion of The Bubble Boy (Needs to Hug), the exhibition by Riccardo Previdi (Milan, 1974) at Quartz Studio in Turin, we have been going into some aspects of the artist's work with the curator Lisa Andreani. The artist focused on the story of Davi ...
Davide Dal Sasso and Jorge Macchi
Jorge Macchi (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1963) is one of the most prominent artists in the Latin American contemporary art scene. Winner of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2001, his works have been exhibited in several internat ...
Anna Daneri and Maurizio Camerani
Anna Daneri: The exhibition plan you have conceived together with Massimo Marchetti for Quartz Studio was born from a recent research aiming for meddling with the experimentations you carried out in the Seventies, often in form of collaborative projects, ...
Marco Scotti and Jonathan Monk
Marco Scotti: In this interview I would love to discuss with you about football and art. Football and conceptual arts could seem very distant at a first glance, but in your work they are both part of a unique, coherent discourse… What has been your first ...
Gernot Wieland – Bio
Gernot Wieland (Horn, Austria, 1968) lives and works in Berlin. Wieland studied at Universität der Künste, Berlin and Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna. He has recently participated in Videonale, Festival for Video und Time-Based Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn ...