Luca Zuccala

Correction, contraction, normalization: how was the art market in 2023

Correction, contraction, normalization. Like a "tik tok tak" we scan the three downward magic words of the 2023 art market. Three key terms repeated in a machinelike fashion and reproduced as a mantra whenever there was a need to draw conclusions aft...
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From Magritte to Leonora Carrington: Christie's big sale of surrealist art

The Tower of Pisa is dyed indigo, supported gently by a feather. Like a caress, as high as the leaning bell tower, intense enough to keep it standing. It rests with its usual tilt in a desert that fades on the horizon to a pink, fuzzy, suffused sky. ...
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There is an exhibition in New York that is bringing Italian art of the 1950s and 1960s to the U.S.

Among the various routes that connected Europe and the United States in the postwar period, there was one that was particularly dear to the art world: Rome-New York. In the 1950s, as artists, writers and intellectuals returned from exile and prison c...
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The engineer in love with flowers. The still lifes of Juan Manuel Grasset

Can a flower tell the story of an era? Yes, if at that time the flower could be worth as much as a house and in each of its petals were condensed lives, values, ideals, aspirations. The tulip, symbol of the Netherlands, before the outbreak of the fam...
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Art criticism is dead, very dead, buried

That art criticism is dead, very dead, buried, is self-evident. That no one except the very small and self-referential contemporary art clique gives a damn is even more blatant, total. Not that this is a good thing, indeed it is tragic albeit...
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If contemporary art is to be, let it be powerful and jaw-dropping. On Damien Hirst in St. Moritz.

The term Escapology refers to the ability of an artist, usually a magician, to free himself or herself from physical constraints. WhenEscapology becomes "Mental," the liberation is the result of the artist's sublimation through a symbolic mat...
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Let's not complain if they don't take us seriously: contemporary art and quarantined social-performances

An incessant noise pervaded the quarantine of the magical art world by saturating the system's social of choice, Instagram, on a daily basis. A constant background buzz, peaking daily at 6 p.m. in a profluence of murmuring red wheels ("stories" a...
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Can there be a history of seventeenth-century art without Caravaggio. Alessandro Morandotti speaks

Gallerie d'Italia, Milan presents The Last Caravaggio. Heirs and New Masters. Naples, Genoa and Milan (a review of Windows on Art will be published in the coming hours. Three Cities in Comparison) to frame and illustrate the artistic events that ...
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Maurits Cornelis Escher's precious structures on display in Milan

Dandelions, beetles, quartz. A dewdrop. Minutiae of nature composed of precious geometric structures, crystalline garments. Constructions contemplated as astonishing architectures, filtered into the algebraic lattices of the mind to be engraved. Ligh...
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The classical dream of Salvador Dalí

Cold light. Sidereal hallucinations. Surreal shadows of the psyche stretch and dilate on the banks of the Arno River until next February. Pisa, Palazzo Blu: A labyrinthine, cobalt-toned installation illuminates the vestiges of Salvador Dalí's ...
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My grandfather's blood is in his work. Interview with Joan Punyet Miró

A Punyet between Joan-Miró and her grandson is done. Joan Punyet Miró is the deity of Successió Miró and the spokesman for Joan's poetics. A cultured grandson of art without snootiness, as soon as he is asked about his grandfather his e...
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