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By Nicole Brown, NYU Florence student
Finding contemporary art in Florence was not as challenging as I thought it would be. When I arrived in the city, my attention — like that of the majority of tourists — was immediately drawn to the history and classical art. But the idea of contemporary art in a Renaissance city fascinated me, and after I started researching, I found an incredible selection of contemporary exhibits.
I discovered that contemporary art in Florence can look very similar to contemporary art in New York or other parts of the world, but it can also look very different. What makes contemporary culture different in Florence is the interaction the modern art has with the city’s history. Buildings that have been standing for centuries are suddenly transformed into contemporary spaces.
I saw this initially at the Van Gogh Alive exhibit.
While Vincent Van Gogh is not a contemporary artist, the transformation of the Santo Stefano church into a room of moving projections on every wall is contemporary. Walking into the church was nothing like walking into the Uffizi or the Academia.
The Forte di Belvedere, built in the late 1500s, also showcases a number of contemporary art exhibits. The most recent is “Human,” a display of iron sculptures by English a
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Anni Albers at Tate Modern
Philippa Devas
Galleries and museums didn’t show textiles, that was always considered craft and not art. When it’s on paper it’s art. Anni Albers 1984
Anni Albers, one of the foremost textiles designers of the twentieth century, is finally getting long overdue recognition in a major exhibition of her work at Tate Modern. Three hundred and fifty items will be on display including drawings and prints. Her weavings, often referred to as ‘pictorial weavings’, played an important role in re-defining craft as an art form.
As a young female art student at The Bauhaus School in the 1920’s, with a preference to becoming a painter, she was encouraged to take up weaving, then perceived as women’s art and therefore a more suitable course for the female students, textiles would become her key mode of artistic expression.
Many of her designs were inspired by the work of her teacher, the artist Paul Klee and fellow student & husband, Josef Albers. Ironically her woven wall hangings, shawls and blankets became one of the most successful products to come out of the school.
Her truth to materials, adherence to hand-crafting traditions combined with her modernist geometric patterns and the inclusion of the new synthetics also informed
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