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.
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.
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.
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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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.