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Ai Weiwei MASK is a project devised to raise funds for COVID-19 humanitarian causes. 

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Ai Weiwei MASK artworks can be purchased as single works; as series of four; or as a complete set of twenty which includes the artist’s iconic Study of Perspective series. Made in the artist’s studio in Berlin, each work is silk-screened by hand on cloth face masks. In addition, each package includes a signed artist’s statement. The artworks are not recommended for medical use and no liability is assumed if they are used for this purpose. The masks are not washable.

All proceeds benefit the COVID-19 humanitarian and human rights emergency efforts led by Human Rights Watch, Refugees International and Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The masks are available until June 27 on www.ebay.com/aiweiweimask. 

Ai Weiwei MASK is produced by Ai Weiwei studio and curated as an independent project by Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator, Asian Art and Senior Advisor, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 

An online exhibition offering a remote live experience of Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s piece “Dear”. 

“Art Tease” presents this work by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu from behind closed doors in their Beijing studio. The work, part of the 58th Venice Biennale, will be accessible from June 1 - 4 as the installation self-activates. See the work here https://www.icrax2020.org

The Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence has been reopened and the exhibition “Sustainable Thinking” has been extended until 16 January 2021.

"Sustainability" defines man's ability to "satisfy the needs of the present without compromising the possibility that future generations will be able to satisfy their own”. Pascale Marthine Tayou’s Poupées Pascale is part of the exhibition; these crystal sculptures are made from a multiplicity of materials, combining craftsmanship and industrial production, the rural and urban context and tradition and progress.

Salvatore Ferragamo Museum 

Piazza di Santa Trinità 5R , Florence, Italy 

www.ferragamo.com/museo/it/ita

Congratulations to Etel Adnan who has been awarded this prize for “Time”, published by Night Boat Books and translated from French by Sarah Riggs. As well as being a successful artist, Etel Adnan is an accomplished writer, and in this collection of poems, each poem acts as a small measure of time, a moment in which the author presents us with a continuous discovery of the present. 

Keep Calm and CONTINUA! This is a message from some of our Italian staff during these long months of quarantine. In this time of separation, we have been united with each other and with our friends, visitors, collectors and artists, thank you all for your support. 

Good news! From 19th May 2020, Galleria Continua San Gimignano will be open by appointment only, respecting health regulations. From the same day, 19th May 2020, Galleria Continua Roma will be open, respecting health regulations, 4pm - 7pm Tuesday - Saturday as well as by appointment. 

In order to protect our visitors and our team, we kindly ask you to wear a face mask during your visit and use the hand sanitizer available at the entrance.

We have missed having you around and we can’t wait to see you again!

Zhanna Kadyrova presents her works at La 58° Biennale di Venezia “May You Live In Interesting Times”.

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The 2nd edition of Continua XXL Online presents Zhanna Kadyrova and her works “Market” 2017 – 2019 and “Second Hand” 2014 – 2019. Both are projects that have spanned a number of years; in this instance, we explore them in the context of the 58th Venice Biennale “May You Live In Interesting Times”.

“Market” saw the produce of a typical street market made from stone, cement and tiles displayed in the Arsenale section of the Biennale, provoking thought around the notion of art as a tradeable commodity. “Second Hand” held in the central pavilion of the show, is a work that according to its place and circumstance changes aesthetic. Kadyrova used tiles repurposed from a Venetian hotel to make her clothes and linens, some of which, in the typical Venetian style, were hung outside.

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