Category: Works

My Art Guides, your compass to navigate the art world

My Art Guides are the ultimate and most comprehensive guides to the major international contemporary art events. Each guide comes in three formats: paper pocket guide, website and app both for iOS and Android. Each guide contains information on the most relevant exhibitions and events taking place during major international art gatherings including the Venice Biennale and Art Basel.
For each destination the Editor-in-Chief selects three prestigious names from the local contemporary art scene to form the Editorial Committee. The three members make their selection of art spaces, restaurants and hotels to be listed in the guide, guaranteeing the most valid and genuine of content curated by locals in the know.
The pocket guide has become a true “collector’s item”. The only guide distributed with Art Basel official material, it contains detailed maps, a “day by day, hour per hour” agenda and the index in alphabetical order make it simple and foolproof to use. Each guide has between 128 and 160 pages, and is divided into different sections: introduced by a citywide description and a guest artist’s interview, the guide contains info on the main event (fair or biennial) and its various sections, exhibitions and events in town, a top selection of art spaces, restaurants and hotels.

We have published printed guides in: Basel, Zurich; Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi; Hong Kong; Miami; Milan; Mexico City; Tuscany; Palermo; Paris; São Paulo; Seoul, Busan, Gwangju; Shanghai; Venice. To coincide with the first edition of Art Basel Paris, My Art Guide launched its first print edition in Paris in October 2022.

Immersive sound exhibition

May 20/21/22
5pm – 9pm
Pase Platform, Venice

Les Sécrets de L’Opéra is an original composition by Victor Nebbiolo di Castri and Valeria Zane crafted with the sounds of the workshops and studios of the Opéra de Paris, accompanied by the vocals of soprano Giulia Semenzato, the flute of Andrea Vecchiato, and the percussions of Paolo Bertoldo.
Thanks to the support of Pase Platform, the entire score has been produced in Venice, Italy, through the experimental application of an immersive sound system, a unique and powerful tool for three-dimensional sound spatialisation.

On the evenings of May 20-21-22, it will be possible to plunge into the soundscape of “Les Secrets de l’Opéra” at the Pase Platform studio, by appointment only.

The installation also involves the Opéra subway station in Paris: travellers and commuters could ride in the company of this composition and the craftspeople, technicians and engineers, as well as the dance- and music artists, of the iconic theatre after which the Opéra subway station got its name.

Visually, the passageways and platforms of the subway station will be decorated by silhouettes depicting the different crafts and specialties of the entire show workforce; styled by ITSOK agency, they have been crafted by Coll’o Doc, in their Parisian workshop. Aurally, by scanning a QR-code, travellers can plunge themselves through their own headphones in the sonic realm of the shows’ rehearsals, the scenery construction on stage, the carpenters’ workshop, the costumes atelier and all other specialties, including dancers’ and orchestra’s rehearsals, too.

The project was commissioned by RATP, the public transport company in Paris, France, produced by ITSOK agency with the participation of Opéra de Paris.

Official Collateral Event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Preview Days: May 20-21
May 22 – November 21, 2021
Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice

Taiwan’s Collateral Event for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (Biennale Architettura 2021) runs from 22 May to 21 November 2021 at Palazzo delle Prigioni. Entitled Primitive Migration from/to Taiwan, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) and curatorial teams Divooe Zein Architects and Double-Grass International Co., organized an immersive exhibition that tackles question posed by the biennale’s curator Hashim Sarkis, How will we live together?, which has taken on a new relevance since the outbreak of the pandemic.

Portuguese sailors once sailed past Taiwan and were in awe of the island’s beauty, hence praising it “Ilha Formosa” in Portuguese, for which it has become known. The profound interaction between Taiwan’s rich geological and ecological appearance, as well as its ethnically diverse cultures, has made the island a unique place to inhabit. On this occasion, the architectural proposition seeks to ask how Taiwan, with a current population of around 23 million, can maintain its unique way of living and its architectural culture whilst surrounded on all fronts by mountains, forests and oceans.

The presentation is unveiled through five existing architectural projects in Taiwan that explore the effects of human and nature interaction: Siu siu – Lab of Primitive Sense, Nature Monastery in Bali, Semi-ecosphere glass house for isolation and meditation, Lab of Primitive Sense and The Forest BIG.

During fall 2020, Vogue Mexico choose Venice as a location for a fashion photo shooting for Interlude Project. The latter is an Italian agency aimed to create tailored strategies to build and spread brands and talents’ identity. 

For the occasion, Lightbox provided the location scouting and on-place production assistance during the shooting, which happened in two fascinating Venetian palazzos, namely Palazzo Marchesa and the Hotel Danieli. 

Seltz is a craft beer produced by Birrificio Alveria in collaboration with Yeasteria, working to the production and communication of biodynamic wines and craft beers. Seltz is a gose beer enriched with Mothia salt and “verdello” lemons from Syracuse (Sicily).  For this peculiar beer, Lightbox conceived the bottles’ labels.

Yeasteria starts from the willing of Jacopo and Esmeralda, a winemaker and a brewer, to propose a new experience, different from conventional and pretentious wine tastings.
Yeasteria aims to explain wine from biodynamic and organic agriculture and craft beer to curious and enthusiasts through a responsible method. Waiting, conviviality, and simplicity are the core values of this brand, aiming to spread the knowledge of the artisanal work and the creation process behind the final products.

For Yeasteria, Lightbox created a new logo.

2 April – 18 May, 2019
Palazzina Bagni Misteriosi, Milan

The collective exhibition “Immersione Libera” curated by Giovanni Paolin features twelve young Italian artists  invited to create new site-specific works for one of the most fascinating places in Milan that was recently rediscovered and made accessible to the public. The exhibition, developed in collaboration with Galleria Continua, the Pier Lombardo Association and the Franco Parenti Theatre, aims to support and promote young artists in giving them assistance and space to express themselves.

Paolo Rosselli (Milan 1952) Italian photographer specialised in architecture will be in conversation with critic and journalist Manuel Orazi. The two will be talking about Rosselli’s practice and long experience photographing architecture and not only.

The talk will take place at Volvo Studio Milano on the 9th of September at 7pm. The talk will be in Italian and access only by RSVP writing at vip@lightboxgroup.net

Photos below are by Paolo Rosselli.

MARe Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest 04 September – 25 September, 2020 Inauguration: 04 September, h. 11:00 Christian Fogarolli’s Pneuma project explores mental health in contemporary society, the project develops in the light of the current global health crisis with the artist’s second solo exhibition at the MARe Museum in Bucharest. By exploring the immateriality and intangibility of mental illness, the artist’s research brings contemporary questions to the surface: are we still able to begin a process of de-stigmatisation and a reconsideration of mental illness? How do we view the binary condition that distinguishes ‘deviance’ from ‘normality’?