Roberto Daolio, a prominent Italian critic and curator, argued that form is already concept. There’s no getting around it: the form we give to a work is never merely a shell, but inevitably embodies the idea from which that work…
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The news making the rounds these days is that IKEA, the low-cost furniture giant, has created a line of artwork to be sold in its stores. Back in 2009, I had already coined the term “Evolved IKEA” to describe a whole series of…
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Interviews Contemporary art Maurizio Cattelan
Fifteen years later, Luca Rossi returns to interview Maurizio Cattelan. Back then, there was a retrospective at the Guggenheim; today, there is NIGHT at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In the meantime, the art world has changed, the…
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There are museums that add works of art. And then there are museums that raise questions. The FAMM—Femmes Artistes Musée Mougins —definitely belongs to the second category. Founded from Christian Levett’s collection, the museum is…
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The contemporary art market of the last twenty years is based on a huge lie. This is demonstrated by an obvious fact: many of the leading so-called contemporary art galleries must sell modern art—roughly from the time of Van Gogh through…
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Opinions Contemporary art Venice Biennale
But why does the Venice Biennale always disappoint us and include a series of random oddities that the outside world views with a mixture of amazement and disgust? The controversy between fan bases took center stage at the Russian…
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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…
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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…
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