Néstor Reencontrado shocks any visitor to the Reina Sofía who has a clear understanding of the limits of art. It is not difficult, once you understand that you are not entering an exhibition, but an enveloping and complete atmosphere. N...
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Toward the end of the exhibition that Collesalvetti's Pinacoteca Comunale "Carlo Servolini" is dedicating, until Oct. 2, 2025, to Aleardo Kutufà, a singular, versatile genius who has fallen into oblivion, appears awork, a chromotype by Marcel-...
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The name Marino Marini is associated with a well-defined subject with ancient origins: the rider riding his steed. Today we know that the domestication of the elegant equine took place some 5,500 years ago in Central Asia, and a very deep relationshi...
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Francesco Hayez's Pontremoli is suspended in the dream of a romantic Middle Ages, the first of Italy, made of immaculate castles and knights, velvet-clad ladies and blazing armor. Hayez, however, had never been to Pontremoli. Or if he was sometimes e...
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From the Paleolithic masters who painted the bison race in the Lascaux caves to the "dynamic" little dog in Giacomo Balla's 1912 painting, painters have always dreamed of depicting movement. And they have often succeeded, thanks to tricks of perspect...
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Time to climb from the Blue Venus beach to Villa Marigola (a couple of hairpin bends under the holm oaks, asphalt road with strategic bends to offer escapes in case of two-way crossings), time to look at Lerici from the height of the villa's Italiana...
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Of some places we have an idea that comes from the films we have seen, and even more from the series. Definitely of the United States, perhaps because the film production all comes from there. So in our imagination the police wear the uniforms from P...
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That Versilia is no longer what it once was should be clear to everyone by now. Those who think otherwise should be suggested a ride along the waterfront between Carrara and Viareggio on any summer day (except Saturdays, when there is still a minimum...
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Global. The juxtaposition of the adjective with the Baroque artistic season in Rome in the title of the exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, through July 13, communicates with the force of synthesis the sense of the scholarly project curated by ...
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Two exhibitions pay tribute to Mario Giacomelli on the centenary of his birth. In Milan, Mario Giacomelli. The Photographer and the Poet is staged at Palazzo Reale, promoted by the City of Milan - Culture and produced by Palazzo Reale and Archivio Ma...
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It is sculpture, despite the fact that it is a video that conveys it, the language that characterizes Adrian Paci's new, extensive project. No man is an island, the exhibition that marks the second installment of the series conceived by Cristiana Per...
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In 1958 the famous American magazine Life devoted an extensive feature to sculptor Louise Nevelson (Kiev, 1899 - New York, 1988) on the occasion of Moon Garden Plus One, or that exhibition held at the Grand Central Moderns Gallery that would represen...
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That principle that Roberto Longhi brings to bear to distinguish Caravaggio from the great men of the fifteenth-fifteenth century, whom he least liked because they often represented the power of the Italian centers over the mistreated periphery, and ...
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The figure of Daniel Buren (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1938) emerges on the contemporary scene with an authority that transcends mere historical recognition to embody an artistic practice that continues to renew its language after more than fifty years of...
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Puffy, full, fake, soft, touchable clouds. Folds that look like wet metal. Ivory faces, slightly flushed, delicate, expressive. He is the easily recognizable artist Malosso, and it is probably also to this recognizability that we owe the success that...
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Philip Roth's celebrated literary masterpiece, American Pastoral, tells the story of Seymour Levov and his family, second-generation Americans who, with great difficulty, manage to build a respectable position for themselves in U.S. society, embodyin...
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