"Calabria, where I was born, for me is perfume, dazzling light, shadows." There was no more congenial place than Reggio Calabria and the National Archaeological Museum (MArRC) to celebrate with an exhibition in his hometown the creative genius of Gia...
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It may sound strange, but it has been thirty years since Nicolas Bourriaud, it was 1996, began to establish the contours of his very successful "relational art" formula, and until today no one, before the exhibition that invades the second floor of t...
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The lit candle and the color of the heat illuminating the hand, open to cover the flame in a gesture of protection and awe. The color play that adds artificial light to the light inside the painting. However, to make the spirituality of the image, th...
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It is by no means easy to organize thematic multimedia group exhibitions by enhancing the breath and specificities of multiple works without the end result being dissonant, and it is even more difficult to orchestrate curatorial reasoning on topical ...
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Just over thirty-five years have passed since Paolo Canevari held his first solo exhibition in New York: it was 1989, the 1980s had evaporated, consuming everything or almost everything, Basquiat and Warhol had died of AIDS and overdose (and many oth...
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There are exhibitions that risk penalizing an artist and exhibitions that risk penalizing an audience. Rarer, and more instructive, are those that manage to take both risks with such a coherent design that the error is transformed into an exhibition ...
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To crown Nan Goldin's more than 40-year career, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, in collaboration with the Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and the Grand Palais Rmn in Paris, has or...
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The figure of Jeff Wall (Vancouver, 1946) represents a decisive juncture in the history of contemporary photography: the artist, beginning in the late 1970s, was among the first to problematize the status of the topical photographic image, moving it ...
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Today, if we think about it, it is not unusual to come across female art gallerists: they welcome visitors to their galleries, in Italy as well as abroad, on a par with their fellow gallery owners, and even at the many art fairs that take place throu...
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Milan. In the deep darkness that precedes dawn - but in the glow of dawn we will discover another and more intense sense of bewilderment in the pictorial blackness that surrounds us - what strikes us about Nobu at Elba is the intense smell emanating ...
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We tend to associate Giovanni Segantini's painting with alpine landscapes, snow, and mountains. Angelo Conti, in Beata Riva, a fundamental treatise on aesthetics, said that Segantini was "the revealer of the mountain," because "no one like him ever h...
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A high and singular de Chirico Exhibition in Modena. A happy event that brings new light to a powerful beacon of art. We take this precious opportunity certainly not to bore the reader and dissert again on the innumerable volumes already expressed ar...
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It is hard to deny that this historical moment is particularly happy for the so-called "painters of reality," if there is still to be used that formula, invented in the 1930s and then made his own in 1953 by Roberto Longhi, who made itmade it famous,...
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Many will have been impressed by the Poland Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, featuring the participatory video installation Repeat after me II by the Open Group collective (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga). The protagonists of the two vid...
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The European visitor to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art who enters the unfamiliar and seductive space that is the American Wing, under its stained-glass windows that seem to seal off the works on display as if inside a crystal temple, cannot fa...
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There has been talk on more than one occasion on these pages about the increasing presence in exhibitions, biennials and art fairs of spectacular installations, of works that are immediately striking for their visual power but are often fragile or su...
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