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 …
An exhibition to tell and celebrate the American pioneer of photojournalism. At the musei Civici in Bassano del Grappa until 2 May 2022!
“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 …
“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 …
For an Italian summer, the suggestions of our editorial staff for some day trips of sun and culture, to suit all tastes.
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 …
ART WILL (MAYBE) NEVER BELONG TO EVERYONE. A manifesto by Édouard Louis and Ken Loach Read More »
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 …
How Social Change Can Arise From Artistic Projects Read More »
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 …
Settima Onda: the continuous performance of art, architecture and social relations Read More »
