Exhibition reviews 61. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia Venice Biennale
At the 61st edition of the Venice Art Biennale, Austrian performance artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger (Vienna, 1986) returns to the spotlight. She does so within the Austrian Pavilion curated by Nora Swantje Almes by bringing…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art
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…
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Exhibition reviews Modern Art Twentieth Century
In 1958 the famous American magazine Life devoted an extensive feature to sculptor Louise Nevelson (Kiev, 1899 - New York, 1988) on the occasion of Moon Garden Plus One, or that exhibition held at the Grand Central Moderns Gallery that…
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Works and artists Contemporary art Contemporary Art Criticism
An image composed of 15 shots installed on backlit panels focuses, in a visual synecdoche, on a bullet-hit skull hole. The work is titled Bullet Hole and plays on perceptual destabilization. Up close it creates an interpretive…
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Works and artists Contemporary art Contemporary Art Criticism
"Anything can happen" in the worlds of Tommaso Buldini (Bologna, 1979), to quote his own words borrowed from the last scene of Fanny and Alexander borrowed, in turn, from Strindberg. "Everything is possible and probable", even that devils…
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Works and artists Twentieth Century
"Over the past two decades, Sanyu has become one of the masters of modern Chinese art. His paintings, which once attracted collectors primarily in Taiwan, have now won over a wide range of collectors throughout Asia. However…
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Michelangelo Poletti's collection, with an excerpt of eighty-five pieces belonging to that collection from the Emilian area and dated between the late 15th century and the 18th century, stands out as a unicum on a private but also national…
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Exhibition reviews Bologna Contemporary art Michelangelo Pistoletto Renaissance
In 2019 Michelangelo Pistoletto (Biella, 1933) gave a lectio magistralis at the Aula Magna of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna and dialogued with Silvia Evangelisti in a lecture on the Third Paradise in the Dams Auditorium. Two years…
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