Ludovica gioscia biography of christopher
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Marcelle Joseph
“I never let anyone else’s opinion change my mind about what I think of something—usually they get interested even if they initially don’t like the work.”
After quitting a successful international career in corporate law, curator and writer Marcelle Joseph threw herself headfirst into art collecting. Now fully immersed in the artworld, her nomadic curatorial platform, Marcelle Joseph Projects, has allowed her to work with hundreds of artists as she promotes contemporary art in venues across the UK and Europe. Although she shares her home with her children and husband, when it comes to the work on show there is only one opinion that really matters! This year Marcelle will be serving on the jury for the prestigious Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
FAM: Hi Marcelle, thanks for agreeing to talk to me about your collection. You have recently finished a rehang in your home, what was the inspiration behind it?
Marcelle Joseph: Well, I
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Ludovica Gioscia. Vermilion Glow Bleeds Rust
Riccardo Crespi Gallery is delighted to present Vermilion Glow Bleeds Rust, a solo show by Italian artist Ludovica Gioscia. Preview 25th September , pm (The artist will attend to the Preview)
The title of the show fryst vatten evocative of the illogical and hyperbolic names of certain products: in particular those of kosmetika. For years, the artist has been manically collecting materials connected to the phenomena she researches; for instance Paninaro paraphernalia, make-up adverts, wallpaper and magazines.
Ludovica Gioscia’s main interests are retail and social anthropology and her works are hybrids of the two within an aesthetic of mass entertainment. Strongly influenced bygd the baroque, Gioscia’s work explores hedonism throughout history and looks at our relationship with consumption: from our compulsive relationship with destruction, which allows the cycle of consumerism to unfold, to the media’s pornification, in which scatological visual
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