Who is Luca Rossi

If the kitchen understands contemporary better than art

From August 29-31 in theRomagna Apennines, the Festival of Recovery Times was held. The only event in Italy focused on circular cooking, integral use of raw materials and awareness. A conceptual and artistic attitude even before that in giving food f...
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By now in art, the stars are the curators, the artists are gone: a grotesque paradox

It happened again. The co-curators of the upcoming Documenta have been unveiled, after the chief curator Naomi Beckwith from the Guggenheim Museum in New York was announced last December. Once again, as has been the case for many years now, we are wi...
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Senator, Cenci and Arena: the state of deep crisis in Italian art.

If we relate three recent works by three Italian artists, we can understand what a completely uncritical system has produced over the past two decades: the usual Luna Park lights that Marinella Senatore presented at Art Basel Unlimited, Francesco Are...
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How does the money laundering system work in the art world?

I asked the artificial intelligence how money laundering related to the modern and contemporary art market works. In other words, how can it happen that money from illicit trafficking in drugs, weapons, or otherwise, or from the underworld, can be "w...
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Germano Sartelli in Imola, a beautiful exhibition for one of the greats of the 20th century in the world

The Civic Museums of Imola are dedicating a major exhibition to Germano Sartelli (Imola, 1925 - 2014) for the 100th anniversary of his birth: Germano Sartelli. The Enchantment of Matter, curated by Claudio Spadoni. A beautiful exhibition. Can one say...
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Irony exhibition at MAMbo in Bologna kills a fundamental aspect of irony

After Mozzarella in Carrozza, a large work by Gino De Dominicis that opens the exhibition Facile Ironia at the MAMbo Museum in Bologna, the path is fragmented into many works that tend to get lost and unremarkable within a setting where red and yello...
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The controversy against Giannelli and Lodola in Florence? Crocodile tears of insiders.

There is a lot of talk about some artworks deemed "not appropriate" and installed in the historic center of Florence, in the specific case of Emanuele Giannelli and Marco Lodola. It is rightly criticized that these works have plummeted from the sky w...
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Reducing VAT on works: the art world's crocodile tears

The failure to decrease VAT is certainly a problem for the Italian art market, which is losing competitiveness with galleries from France, Germany and around the world. But this is not the pincer that suffocates the art market, especially if we think...
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