Exhibition reviews


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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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Bourriaud's relational art to the test of the present. What the exhibition at MAXXI in Rome looks like.

Bourriaud's relational art to the test of the present. What the exhibition at MAXXI in Rome looks like.

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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Matthias Stom, an elusive Caravaggesque. What the Brescia exhibition looks like

Matthias Stom, an elusive Caravaggesque. What the Brescia exhibition looks like

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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Art in a state of emergency: PUSH THE LIMITS against the immobility of the present. What the exhibition looks like

Art in a state of emergency: PUSH THE LIMITS against the immobility of the present. What the exhibition looks like

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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Paolo Canevari, wounded history between the sacred and war. What the exhibition in Città di Castello looks like

Paolo Canevari, wounded history between the sacred and war. What the exhibition in Città di Castello looks like

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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Jack Vettriano at Milan's Permanente: instruction manual for a poorly functioning exhibition

Jack Vettriano at Milan's Permanente: instruction manual for a poorly functioning exhibition

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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Nan Goldin, when life becomes image. What the HangarBicocca exhibition looks like.

Nan Goldin, when life becomes image. What the HangarBicocca exhibition looks like.

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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Jeff Wall and the invention of the real: when photography becomes theater

Jeff Wall and the invention of the real: when photography becomes theater

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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Berthe Weill, the rebel who discovered Picasso and the avant-garde before anyone else. What the exhibition looks like

Berthe Weill, the rebel who discovered Picasso and the avant-garde before anyone else. What the exhibition looks like

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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