Quick wits saved a man’s life last month when a crane boom came down onto him in Nanjing UK rental company Clear View has ordered three Ruthmann truck mounted platforms US crane rental company Crane Service Inc has ordered another Liebherr LG 1800-1.0 wheeled lattice crane Haulotte has appointed Guillaume Van Hoeck as managing director Europe Czech crane rental company AG Transport has ordered an 800t LR 1800-1.0 lattice crawler German sales and rental company Kunze has added Elma cranes to its portfolio An historic 19th-century villa immersed in the landscape around Vigliano Biellese (Biella) becomes a setting suspended in time yet accommodating the radical expressions of artists of distant origins and contexts It is an initiative of the Mendes Wood DM gallery with branches in New York and Brussels since 2017 The gallery frames its exhibitions in venues off the beaten track and unexpected settings we encounter the site-specific Grand Entrance by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy who explores the ephemeral grand Renaissance balls of the Medici—for example to Christina of Lorraine in 1589—based on the drawings and etchings of Bernardo Boutalenti The American-born Parisian artist’s gigantic canvases act like perspectival backdrops in the rooms shaping the space in novel and surprising ways an exhibition joins five Italian and Brazilian women artists in a focus on politics and gender On display are the works of Anna Bella Geiger (Rio de Janeiro who militates around themes of racial conflict They are flanked by the Italians Mirella Bentivoglio (1922-2017) whose verbal-visual pursuit strays into sculpture; Nedda Guidi (1927-2015) with ceramics as a unit of spatial measurement; and Clemen Parrocchetti (1923-2016) who expressed her feminism in Italy through tapestries Matthew Lutz-Kinoy: Grand EntranceRebel Archivescurated by Sofia GottiVilla Era The exhibitions are open by appointment only.To reserve: ermanno@mendeswooddm.com or silvia@silviamacchetto.com and website in this browser for the next time I comment Abitare.it e Style.corriere.it rifiutando tutti i cookie di profilazione ad eccezione di quelli tecnici necessari Naviga il sito di Abitare.it con pubblicità profilata e senza abbonarti By subscribing you will reject all but technical cookies on Iodonna.it By clicking "accept" you will allow to process your personal data by us and third parties and be able to browse Abitare.it website without a subscription.