Schiaparelli: the art of doubt, the magic of the unexpected
The doubt that pervades artistic creation. This is how Schiaparelli refers to Dante Alighieri for the new spring-summer 2023 collection.
The sculptures of Novello Finotti, transformation between dream, nightmare and reality
The fundamental peculiarity of Finotti’s sculptures is their metamorphism, everything can become something else: a heart can become a fist, the fingers of birds, asparagus a human torso.
Mona Hatoum: the universal tale of the individual
Mona Hatoum is a Lebanese artist who recounts her past experiences in her art. She talks about war but also about travel, migration and feminism, and this all makes her art extremely current.
Saturno Buttò’s painting: the human being as a divine sinner
An Annunciation in which the Virgin and the Angel toast happily with two glasses of red wine; a Salomè that seems to offer herself to the viewer as the main course of a macabre meal. These are some of the subjects -disturbing only at the first glance- that we find in the paintings of Satuno Buttò.
CANOVA. His Many Lives
An invite and a reflection: Antonio Canova’s tireless dedication for the arts deserves to be remembered and celebrated in original ways, capable of awakening and spreading a new interest in his central role for Neoclassicism.
Uncertainty derives from simplicity: Bruce Nauman
Pinault Fundation presents “Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies” at Punta della Dogana until November the 27th. The American artist with his performances and actions shows an immersive experience: his impetus and aggressiveness forces guests to pay close attention and promotes a deep reflection.
Ultravioletto: Industry from Patronage to its artistic Contamination
Art and industry form a well known combination in the contemporary art world, but how can machines designed for serial production and the exclusion of human intervention work with artistic sensibility and personal emotions? Ultraviolet is a project that not only answers this question, but also makes it its main cornerstone by creating a new way of interaction and establishing the basis for an unprecedented form of patronage and collaboration between two usually opposing worlds.
The Cancian Metaphor
Thanks to the exceptional expansion of the Bailo Museum, Treviso will now have a pole of primary importance for temporary exhibitions. To celebrate this event we propose a reflection about the Trevisan artist Sante Cancian and his relation with the city.
The Milk of Dreams. Dreams are wishes… of happiness
The Biennale is back: until November 27 the world of contemporary art will gather in Venice with 213 artists. We present a reflection on the theme of this 59th edition that we have been waiting for in the last years.
The continuous Metamorphosis of Pietro Mancuso
At first glance, it looks like a game. The sense of lightness of this work, S.T., 2013, come from the use of a lively palette, to represent a subject unconditioned by empirical reality. But deeper meanings can be found through a more attentive and patient analysis. Feminine figures linger with ease thanks to mechanical artifices. The …
RUTH ORKIN. LEGEND OF PHOTOGRAPHY
An exhibition to tell and celebrate the American pioneer of photojournalism. At the musei Civici in Bassano del Grappa until 2 May 2022!
Yayoi Kusama: a Reflection of Our Inner Persona
“I had several notebooks full of hallucinations. Recording them helped to ease the shock and fear of the episodes. That is the origin of my pictures.” – Yayoi Kusama, 2002 Famous for her polka dots, Infinity paintings and Infinity Rooms, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is one of the most influential characters in the …
Women in Comics. Why Comics “are -also- for girls”
It was immediately clear that the exhibition that took place last year in Rome (1 june – 13 July 2020) came from the USA: the white walls of Palazzo Merulana, the core of Esquilino district, were animated by a triumph of multicultural superheroines: a series of ninety boards and blow-ups by 22 female artists who, …
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Is Minimal Art Really Minimal?
“What you see is what you see” – Frank Stella By focusing on the question in the title I tried to consider a series of thoughts I found myself dealing with on why such a specific artistic movement has been addressed by many with the labels of ‘Minimal Art’, or ‘ABC Art’, ‘Object Sculpture’, ‘Specific …
Summerbites: a summer in episodes
For an Italian summer, the suggestions of our editorial staff for some day trips of sun and culture, to suit all tastes.
Vico Magistretti, Milanese Architect
At the Triennale in Milan an interesting retrospective on Vico Magistretti is currently underway. Organized in the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the exhibition gathers the whole production of the Milanese intellectual who trained between Switzerland and Milan and begun to operate after the World Warr II together with some of the big …
Through the looking glass: Picasso and Pirandello
– Head comic: “And the script? Where is the script?” – The Father: “It’s inside of us sir, the drama it’s inside of us, it is us”. From the third act of Six characters looking for an author. The time is 1905 and the place is Belle Epoque’s Paris. Against the backdrop of the Moulin …
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From connoisseur to specialist: the evolution of selling art
What do we reap when looking at an artwork? Astonishment, involvement, emotion or perhaps the much talked about Stendhal syndrome. Tommaso Marangoni takes on the question in his volume Knowing how to look: how to gaze at an artwork, where he creates a true guide to the observation of paintings and suggests that what we …
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the art of involving
In the history of art there are few artists who, as well as sharing common projects of life, have started a fruitful creative partnership; among the examples, such as Stieglitz-O’Keeffe, Abramovich-Ulay or Rivera-Kahlo, two spouses above all have placed the artistic projects conceived and created together at the center of their relationship: Christo and Jeanne-Claude. …
Panoramic Venice
And for a moment returns the will to live at a different speed Franco Battiato, Trains to Tozeur, 1985 In Campo Santa Maria Formosa in Venice, at the third floor of the Querini Stampalia Foundation’s Museum, “Panoramic Venice: the discovery of the infinite horizon” has just been inaugurated. The exhibition, curated by Pascaline Vatin and …
KURDISH R-ESISTANCE. Rendering the complexity
Photography as medium to render the complexity, resistance in Kurdistan through the shots of J. Laurence and M. Yazar.
ART WILL (MAYBE) NEVER BELONG TO EVERYONE. A manifesto by Édouard Louis and Ken Loach
In December 2019 a dialogue between the French writer Édouard Louis and the English filmmaker Ken Loach took place during the Studio-B Unscripted broadcast, in which the two authors answered questions from the audience and called into question the future of art at the time of the crisis of the left. This April, in the …
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NFT: artistic uniqueness transposed into the digital world.
<<Surely this sale will mark the beginning of a new chapter in the history of art, that of Digital Art>> the artist Beeple (Mike Winkleman) spoke in this way, quite prophetic, after having witnessed the selling of “his” Everydays: the first 5000 days by the British auction house Christie’s on the 11th of March 2021. …
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KISS ME, KISS ME, COVER MY BODY WITH LOVE !
oh, to get a glimpse of what heaven is! oh, to be able to touch love! oh, to close your eyes and feel all the colors of the world in a single kiss! Do you know the feeling of that moment when you perceive life and everything around you just feels right? When every single …
370 New World: a digital portrait of the current crisis
Videoart to reflect upon the contemporary social and economic breakdown and push us to find a new ecology in human relations
Morse Aesthetics
There is a kind of tiny, unexpected discoveries that happen at late night and stay in our minds for days: maybe you know the feeling too. So, some weeks ago, while surfing the web, I stumbled upon the curious character of Samuel Morse. Morse made history for his studies in the field of chemistry and electricity, …
How Social Change Can Arise From Artistic Projects
In the contemporary era a purely aesthetic art is considered, by some people, incomplete. To be complete, it should be communicative, participatory, it must be social art. But what does it mean for art to be social? How could a communitarian project be regarded as an artwork and why ‘the art hung up on the …
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Settima Onda: the continuous performance of art, architecture and social relations
Waves come in series of seven. The seventh wave is big enough to be able to drag us out, overcoming the strength of the others. Thus speaks Papillon, pseudonym of Henri Charrière, a 25-year-old Frenchman, imprisoned and sentenced to forced labor because of a murder he never committed and who tells his story in an …
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How we should move in the world: William Forsythe’s Duo
Duo is a 12-minutes dance choreography where William Forsythe inquires the logics of harmony held in the pas de deux. The artist questions the canon of this emblematic dance step with the suggestion of its very antithesis. In particular this piece is played by a couple of dancers of same sex, moving on the scene …
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Venetian crafts still exist: Papuni Art
I met Ninfa Salerno in a warm autumn afternoon when, standing on top of the bridge “dei Pugni”, I noticed the elegant showcase of her jewelry shop, a treasure chest overlooking the small venetian canal of San Barnaba, which divides the homonymous square from that of Santa Margherita. After a chat, Ninfa kindly offered to …
I Feel America and America Feels Me: How To Interpret Beuys
Sometimes meaningful artworks can be recognized without speaking any words, and Joseph Beuys was able to do just that in I Like America and America Likes Me. In May 1974 he held said performance at the René Block Gallery in New York City. He stayed there for eight hours each day, for three days, covered …
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