Exhibition reviews


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Alberto Calza Bini and Irene Gilli, an exhibition rewrites the story of an artist couple

Alberto Calza Bini and Irene Gilli, an exhibition rewrites the story of an artist couple

Let us pretend, for the next five lines, that the adjective "retrospective" referring to an exhibition is nice to read and above all has some classificatory potential, some determinative value. Well: the "retrospective" exhibition of an artist workin...
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Berlinde De Bruyckere, shaping pain beyond the skin. What the exhibition at Galleria Continua looks like

Berlinde De Bruyckere, shaping pain beyond the skin. What the exhibition at Galleria Continua looks like

Anaesthetics of the laceration in which intimacy and dramaturgy, monumentality and maniacal attention to detail, references to the (especially Flemish) masters of the past and crude actuality coexist: these are the hallmarks of the sculptural practic...
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When Milan was the workshop of Neoclassicism. What the Gallerie d'Italia exhibition looks like.

When Milan was the workshop of Neoclassicism. What the Gallerie d'Italia exhibition looks like.

Keeping the attention of visitors along the entire path of an exhibition is no easy thing, especially when investigating a historical-artistic period, such as Neoclassicism and its major protagonists, to which a conspicuous number of exhibition proje...
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Nicolò Barabino's Oliva, when a painting is social novel. What the Genoa exhibition looks like

Nicolò Barabino's Oliva, when a painting is social novel. What the Genoa exhibition looks like

Nicolo Barabino proved that Mary of Nazareth is a woman made of verse and ink, that her image is a profoundly human construct, is the badge of devout, radiant, delicate consummation. He, however, had no knowledge of it; he was just a painter who had ...
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CC: in the basement of Bologna, Michael E. Smith's eerie double.

CC: in the basement of Bologna, Michael E. Smith's eerie double.

CC, an exhibition by the American post-minimalist artist Michael E. Smith, hosted in the basement of Bologna's Palazzo Bentivoglio that sees the double curatorship of Simone Menegoi together with Tommaso Pasquali, confirms itself among the most inter...
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Fausto Pirandello, the drama painter who challenged figuration and abstraction: what the exhibition looks like

Fausto Pirandello, the drama painter who challenged figuration and abstraction: what the exhibition looks like

Sicily, distant motherland but indelible matrix of many paintings. And Rome, city of birth and election, vital meeting point for art and family existence. But also launching pad to the international horizon, Parisian and American, before and after Wo...
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Casa Italia's exhibition for Milan-Cortina was embarrassing: the public deserved better

Casa Italia's exhibition for Milan-Cortina was embarrassing: the public deserved better

A few days ago, we were roughly at the beginning of the second week of the Olympics, Aldo Cazzullo wrote in the Corriere that "Milan is not at all pervaded by Olympic fever," and that after the inauguration the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games were "flowing ...
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When Rome met Greece: what the Capitoline Museums exhibition looks like.

When Rome met Greece: what the Capitoline Museums exhibition looks like.

"Infesta mihi credite signa ab Syracusis illata sunt hunc urbi" (Livy, XXXIV 4, 4). With these words, in 195 B.C., Cato, a spokesman for the most ardent conservatism, railed against the vast amount of cultural artifacts the Romans moved from Syracuse...
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Venus in crochet: Joana Vasconcelos reinterprets Valentino. What PM23's exhibition in Rome looks like.

Venus in crochet: Joana Vasconcelos reinterprets Valentino. What PM23's exhibition in Rome looks like.

Piazza Mignanelli has been filled with mirrors since Joana Vasconcelos brought us her I'll be your mirror, the work that, if you will, acts as an overture to her solo show Venus, set up a few meters ahead in the rooms of PM23, the Valentino Garavani ...
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St. George from martyr to knight, the myth of Genoa. What the exhibition at the Royal Palace looks like

St. George from martyr to knight, the myth of Genoa. What the exhibition at the Royal Palace looks like

... and the knight saved the princess from the terrible dragon. It sounds like thehappy ending of one of those fairy tales we used to read to each other as children, already under the blankets, before falling asleep, but in fact the story of St. Geor...
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Kiefer stages the alchemists' opus mulierum. What the Milan exhibition looks like

Kiefer stages the alchemists' opus mulierum. What the Milan exhibition looks like

If there is one thing Anselm Kiefer is not afraid of, it is confrontation with the past: whether it is his personal experience or the installation of works in historically highly connoted contexts, the artist always manages to trigger short circuits ...
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Bartolomeo Cesi, Bologna rediscovers the poet of silence: what the Civic Museum exhibition looks like

Bartolomeo Cesi, Bologna rediscovers the poet of silence: what the Civic Museum exhibition looks like

In order to enter the ascetic universe of Bartolomeo Cesi it is necessary to abandon on the threshold any sort of prejudice connected with the times and places in which he painted, it is necessary to clear one's mind of any preconception about the ar...
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Jeff Wall, when photography challenges painting. What the exhibition at MAST in Bologna looks like.

Jeff Wall, when photography challenges painting. What the exhibition at MAST in Bologna looks like.

A man walks through downtown Vancouver carrying something in a paper bag. We also see him in profile as, in another moment of the story in which he is both protagonist and extra, he talks to a woman leaning against the wall of a house. A second woman...
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When art hacks AI and reality: what Hito Steyerl's The Island looks like at the Fondazione Prada

When art hacks AI and reality: what Hito Steyerl's The Island looks like at the Fondazione Prada

Big data, chatbots, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, predictive modeling, Internet of Things (IoT): the list could go on with a long list of neologisms coined in recent decades to designate the technological applications by which our collect...
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The incredible feat of Giovanni Pisano's pulpit: what the Pisa exhibition looks like

The incredible feat of Giovanni Pisano's pulpit: what the Pisa exhibition looks like

When there was the presentation to the press of the exhibition that the Opera della Primaziale of Pisa wanted to dedicate to the centenary of the relocation of Giovanni Pisano's pulpit in the cathedral, the piece that most attracted the attentions of...
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Versace comes home: classic myth and pop glamour. What the Reggio Calabria exhibition looks like

Versace comes home: classic myth and pop glamour. What the Reggio Calabria exhibition looks like

"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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