Renata Boero (Genoa, 1936) is counted among the leading female figures in the art of the second half of the 20th century, active on the international scene since the 1960s. Her artistic research focuses on a fine line between the creative gesture and...
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Painter, historiographer, architect. Outstanding collector of anecdotes. Polemicist at times. Court artist. And also inventor of iconographies. It is the latter, perhaps, that is the least known aspect of Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574...
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In the middle of the night, on an ink-black canvas, emerges a phallic figure standing alone on a calm sea, illuminated by a blazing sunset. It is Sea Dick (2022), one of the most recent works by Tala Madani, an Iranian-American artist who for years h...
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Some call it Kundalini, some identify it with the Dragon, and some consider it a cosmic principle. In some religious traditions it takes the form of the Ouroboros, a symbol of eternal return. Within our imagination, the serpent has always exercised a...
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Arnaldo Pomodoro has recently left us, and perhaps, alongside the catalog of his production, an event deserves to be remembered that for his entire life linked him to his homeland, Montefeltro. Indeed, in 1975 Pomodoro began the work that Argan calle...
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At the heart of the contemporary digital landscape, Petra Cortright moves like a cybernetic gardener, sowing pixels and reaping emotions. Born in 1986 in Santa Barbara, California, and educated between California College of the Arts and Parsons The N...
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Since Neolithic times, since at least 6000 B.C., the islands of the Aegean Sea and the lands bathed by it have been found to be inhabited. The political, economic, religious and artistic forms that developed until 2000 B.C. are given the name Cycladi...
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It is hard not to get the impression that something is about to explode when one is confronted with a work by Jamian Juliano-Villani. And it is not just the visual density, the well-orchestrated chaos of references and images, but a deeper tension, a...
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July 4 marksAlice Day, an anniversary that commemorates the afternoon in 1862 when Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, destined to become known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (Daresbury, 1832 - Guildford, 1898), first told the story of a little girl named Alic...
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It has only been discovered in recent years that Donatello 's David (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; Florence, 1386 - 1466) once, when the bronze sculpture was kept in the Medici collections in their palace on Via Larga, today's Palazzo Medi...
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Enzo Cucchi would say that we have plunged into the age of window dressing. A noun that, it seems, seems to be particularly welcome to those who ply the trade of painter: Italo Cremona used it more than sixty years ago. It was 1958, Cremona was writi...
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There is an emptiness that nails, made of all that we have chosen not to be, all those versions of us that we have left behind out of fear, out of inertia, out of survival. An emptiness that does not show itself violently, but creeps in like a subtle...
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Rain muffles edges, blurs lines, deactivates the habitual geometry of things. It produces a different topography of the visible, in which the solidity of forms surrenders to a softer logic, more available to error and variation. Volumes become thinne...
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Lucretia 's is a tragic story. It is a story of rape in ancient Rome, but also of honor violated. And it is a story that ends in tragedy because so strong is the shame at the thought of being unjustly considered an adulteress, she who was completely...
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An innate sweetness pervades the works of Simone Cantarini (Pesaro, 1612 - 1648), painter of contrasts: restless and rebellious was the man, delicate and elegant his painting. And in his art, even the sacred becomes poetry. Or rather: of an openly " ...
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Serena Fineschi. "Assisting the Darkness" is a public art project whose genesis goes way back. It was born in 2014 on the occasion of my work Stato di Grazia (State of Grace), in which I interrupted the public and monumental lighting of the entire hi...
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