Who is Luca Rossi

Art Italy is like the national soccer team: off the world stage. Problems and solutions

In the catalog of Exit, an exhibition on "young Italian art" curated by Francesco Bonami in 2002 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Massimiliano Gioni, now curator at the New Museum in New York, defines young Italian artists this way: "Italy ...
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Biennial without Italians...of course! But have we seen them, the Italians?

Yes, there are, Italian artists: they are the ones helped and trained in Italy and who have been taking Italian Council grant funding for more than 10 years. And we also have their mentors who, with pats on the back and useless power plays, help them...
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Does Biennale 2026 have no Italians because the curatorial team inherited an unfinished list?

I reached out via Instagram to Rory Tsapayi, a member of the Venice Biennale curatorial team who, since May 2025, has been overseeing the implementation of this year's international exhibition . After the death on May 10, 2025, of artistic director K...
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Luca Rossi grades more than 60 contemporary artists: here's the Michelin Guide-or 2026

If there are different prices in the art market evidently there will be different "values." Value is different from price, but it contributes to it along with other elements. But why doesn't anyone talk about it? Around the market and art fairs ther...
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When debris blooms. Miyazaki transforms Imola into a garden suspended in time.

After exhibitions by Bertozzi & Casoni and Germano Sartelli, Imola vibrantly and intelligently continues an interesting journey into modern and contemporary art. The works of Keita Miyazaki (Tokyo, 1983) enter the rooms of Palazzo Tozzoni(Keita M...
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Cattelan's banana goes back to 1.50 euros: the crisis of the contemporary

On the night of Sotheby's auctions, the most striking result is not the Klimt painting sold for $236 million but Maurizio Cattelan's postmodern toilet at only $12 million with an auction base of $10 million. This means that the gold toilet only total...
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Artissima: selling at the fair is not necessarily good news

No one believes it, but contemporary art could be a way to train new eyes. The problem is that in exhibitions, fairs and biennials we always see the same works, homogenized, interchangeable winking, strange little things, surreal painting, unusual ob...
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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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