About Us
Magazzeno Art Gaze is a contemporary art gallery that ceaselessly tries to exceed its own limits.
Magazzeno Art Gaze was born in 2016 in Ravenna’s Darsena, industrial district of the city, the only link between the city centre and Adriatic Sea. The space chosen by Alessandra Carini is an ex-sulfur warehouse, in Italian magazzino dello zolfo, from which the gallery takes its name.
At the beginning of 2020 the gallery settles in the historic city centre. The building from 1836 is frescoed by Romolo Liverani, one of the most known Romagna painter of the 19th century. Inhabited in the central wing, the space is a warm and cozy home-gallery that goes beyond white cube idea, creating a dialogue between contemporary art and modern art.
Alongside, the gallery takes part to various national and international art fairs, curates exhibitions outside the gallery’s spaces and promotes different projects as Equidistanze | Residenze Artistiche (residency programme) born in 2020 during the pandemic.
Magazzeno is a contemporary art gallery where the curatorial practice comes before the commercial aspect, where we always try to enhance every artist and their research, through an intense and constant dialogue. From the very beginning the line of the gallery favors artists and productions that deal with political themes, but from December 2023 political art, meant in all its possible declinations, is the only handled by Magazzeno.
In 2024 the gallery moves to the centre of Bologna
Founder
Alessandra Carini
After obtaining a Master in Cultural Events Management released by Palazzo Spinelli (Florence) and a Degree in Visual Arts and Performance at the University of Venice (IUAV), she followed a course offered by the School for Curatorial Studies and promoted by the AplusA Gallery (Venice).
Alessandra studied with some of the most prominent scholars of the contemporary art world, such as: Francesco Bonami, Gilberto Zorio, Stefano Arienti, Angela Vettese and Alberto Garutti. Her career begun in 2008 when she created the Dada Design concept store.
Also, she worked as an independent curator and event organizer for the Ninapì-Nesting Art Gallery, the Lucca Digital Photo Festival and some booths at Venice Biennale. In 2016 Alessandra founded Magazzeno Art Gaze and in 2020 project Equidistanze | Residenze Artistiche.
She is co-curator of Deriva Festival, Arte, Paesaggio, Città, and collaborates with Subsidenze Street Art Festival. Moreover, she co-hosts “The Art Is On The Table” radio program. In 2021 Alessandra takes part to the MAP scientific committee, which is Faenza’s outdoors museum of modern and contemporary artworks.
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Magazzeno Art Gaze welcomes artists, collectors, curators, institutions and anyone interested in contemporary art.
Contact us for exhibitions, collaborations, press enquiries or further information about the gallery.
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