Vittoria Coen

Miart 2024: but is there really little subject matter or is it winking at the market?

"Gran traduttor dè traduttor d'Omero," wrote Ugo Foscolo about the man of letters Vincenzo Monti. Here is the thought that came to my mind about Miart, Edition 2024. In the maze of the route between the various pavilions, the galleries are no...
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The total project. A brief history of the dialogue between art and design

Talking about the relationships between artists and designer-designers is both easy and complex at the same time. There are many Italian and international examples, and now even in design history textbooks the paths and implications have begun to be ...
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The critic must stand alongside the artist without presuming to overpower him or her

Before talking about the role of the art critic or the journalist who deals with art events, I would like to at least mention the fragility of the current art system that has undergone not a few difficulties in recent years, a system that until not s...
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Let's start again! Miart 2021 between expectations and hopes

After the summer interlude, after the Salone del mobile and Design week, with some apprehension about possible new restrictions, MIART opens its doors in attendance with just under 150 galleries, most of them Italian, as was easy to predict, and even...
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Westernism: how Eastern artists see us and our art history

The great voyages of Western explorers and the resulting colonizations in the most remote and unknown geographical areas ultimately paved the way for what we still call Orientalism or exoticism. Born out of trade and exchanges between nati...
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