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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"Poor, black, working class, and a woman to boot": this is how Carrie Mae Weems defined herself in her master's thesis at the University of California, San Diego, made between 1978 and 1984 and which later became the series Family Pictures and Storie...
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The museum, the home of the muses as an open space for sharing with the public, and not a mausoleum where they sing, celebrate and mummify their work. This is how Bianca Pucciarelli in Menna, aka Tomaso Binga, showed up at 94 years old, wheelchair-bo...
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Anyone wandering through the rooms of the major exhibition that the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento dedicates to Giacomo Francesco Cipper cannot help but notice a certain insistence on objects and a certain insistence on smiles. It is perhaps th...
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If it is true that in the birth of many artists lurk the "causes" of their becoming such (Roberto Longhi said that one is born a critic, but one becomes an artist), it could be said that for Leonor Fini the familyimprinting was the reason for her ent...
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In a Florence that in recent years has been trying to reshape its identity by counterbalancing the extremely rich historical legacy of which it is the custodian with massive forays into the contemporary (just think of the recent installation in front...
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The Civic Museums of Imola are dedicating a major exhibition to Germano Sartelli (Imola, 1925 - 2014) for the 100th anniversary of his birth: Germano Sartelli. The Enchantment of Matter, curated by Claudio Spadoni. A beautiful exhibition. Can one say...
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The cigarette elegantly in his right hand and his body slouching against the back of the armchair, on his face a mixed expression of disenchantment and melancholy. Thus, in 1942, Piero Martina portrayed Carlo Levi. Or was it the antifascist painter a...
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Cannibal. At times he had apostrophized himself thus, Pablo Picasso, with lucid consciousness of his own carnal experimentation in continuous search for ever new forms, for unprecedented materials, with an unmistakable stylistic signature that made h...
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The curators of the Felice Casorati exhibition at Palazzo Reale, through June 29, are the same ones who followed the edition of the Piedmontese artist's general catalog 30 years ago: Giorgina Bertolino and Francesco Poli. They are joined by Fernando ...
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One work alone, the Poldi Pezzoli'sEcce Homo , would be enough to understand what kind of artist Andrea Solari was. All it would take is that Christ so ideal and so deeply human, somewhere between Antonello and Leonardo, between the lenticular exacti...
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With Tracey Emin we all love better. Tracey is perhaps the first artist since Frida Kahlo to transform the last taboos such as vulnerability and illness into a new artistic expression by transcending the current academic hierarchy. If feelings and em...
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"All the statues of marble and metal and of every other matter, the office of the Madona illuminated in gold by the said Giulio Clovio et all his libraria in his palace in Rome from whence they cannot be moved or lent or sold or alienated in any way"...
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After Mozzarella in Carrozza, a large work by Gino De Dominicis that opens the exhibition Facile Ironia at the MAMbo Museum in Bologna, the path is fragmented into many works that tend to get lost and unremarkable within a setting where red and yello...
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