Luca Sposato

Rogue Nostalgia. The archaeology of the present on display at the Italian Pavilion

Not even Cecilia Alemani, the current artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale, at the time of her curatorship for the Italian Pavilion in 2017, risked the choice of the sole artist for one of the largest and most conspicuous department...
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The Garden of Art. The new exhibition and the new course of the Pecci Center in Prato.

Thearchetype of the garden in the history of the arts has continually fostered that subtle semantic exchange between symbolic representation and ideological function, across a spectrum of propositions ranging from mythopoetic needs to social ...
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Jeff Koons in Florence: creative helplessness. The exhibition? An exhibition of luxury objects

"Aesthetics without ethics is cosmetics." Frank U. Laysiepen One gets the impression that (much) of today's art wants to establish itself as a champion of the people, a colorful banner guiding the people in the name of that individual freedom...
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Pecci Center, an Italian-style querelle. And the loser is the museum

The emotional charge that has been investing the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato these days, and still is, carries a mellifluous polarity, as it belatedly refers to the fate of a museum complex ripe (or burdened?) with a goo...
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Art as environment. The birth of a thought, remembering Volterra '73

The current historical moment advocates a reflection on some themes referable to the perception of landscape and artistic language, in the hope of delving into new methods of investigation and on the case of re-discussing some that are far fr...
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