Who is Francesca Anita Gigli

Francesca Anita Gigli
Francesca Anita Gigli, nata nel 1995, è giornalista e content creator. Collabora con Finestre sull’Arte dal 2022, realizzando articoli per l’edizione online e cartacea. È autrice e voce di Oltre la tela, podcast realizzato con Cubo Unipol, e di Intelligenza Reale, prodotto da Gli Ascoltabili. Dal 2021 porta avanti Likeitalians, progetto attraverso cui racconta l’arte sui social, collaborando con istituzioni e realtà culturali come Palazzo Martinengo, Silvana Editoriale e Ares Torino. Oltre all’attività online, organizza eventi culturali e laboratori didattici nelle scuole. Ha partecipato come speaker a talk divulgativi per enti pubblici, tra cui il Fermento Festival di Urgnano e più volte all’Università di Foggia. È docente di Social Media Marketing e linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea per la grafica.

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Inhabiting the void, against the noise of the world. When absence is not lack, but origin

Inhabiting the void, against the noise of the world. When absence is not lack, but origin

There is an emptiness that nails, made of all that we have chosen not to be, all those versions of us that we have left behind out of fear, out of inertia, out of survival. An emptiness that does not show itself violently, but creeps in like a subtle...
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Saul Leiter and the aesthetics of almost: when art turns time into emotion

Saul Leiter and the aesthetics of almost: when art turns time into emotion

Rain muffles edges, blurs lines, deactivates the habitual geometry of things. It produces a different topography of the visible, in which the solidity of forms surrenders to a softer logic, more available to error and variation. Volumes become thinne...
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The poetics of disappearance, from Rachel Whiteread to Francesca Woodman and beyond

The poetics of disappearance, from Rachel Whiteread to Francesca Woodman and beyond

April 2025. Coachella. A legend appears on stage and time does not stand still. During one of the festival's most anticipated evenings, Benson Boone (a young artist who grew up in a system that favors accessibility over emphasis and continuous st...
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Duties on artworks, galleries live in uncertainty. What they told us at Miart

Duties on artworks, galleries live in uncertainty. What they told us at Miart

Starting April 9, 2025, the United States will introduce a 20 percent tariff on a wide range of imports from the European Union. It's one of the first muscular moves of Donald Trump's second term, billed as an "economic liberation day," but one that ...
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The secret pleasure of looking: voyeurism, between art and forbidden books

The secret pleasure of looking: voyeurism, between art and forbidden books

Pleasure is a game of shadows and reflections that has always climbed into the impalpable fabrics of art, enveloping each work in veils of mystery and desire in which the gaze sneaks furtively from a curtain raised with studied lightness, from a smal...
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Art is not just beauty: works are not passive. On the exhibition of works confiscated from the Mafia.

Art is not just beauty: works are not passive. On the exhibition of works confiscated from the Mafia.

It has often been repeated, slavishly following a pure and forcibly utopian ideal, that art elevates and purifies the soul of the viewer lost in the world. But art has not been (and probably never will be) a mere site of that longed-for "beauty," or ...
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The art of stopping time: the portraits of Ugo Mulas

The art of stopping time: the portraits of Ugo Mulas

Since time immemorial, in human history, hands have made themselves eternal protagonists, ancient and irreplaceable tools that shape, transform, create and destroy by the mere force of gesture. In the photographic workshop of Ugo Mulas, these very sk...
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How error guided Cartier-Bresson in Italy. Interview with Clément Chéroux

How error guided Cartier-Bresson in Italy. Interview with Clément Chéroux

The work of the famous French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is made up of glances, of moments captured at the wrong moment or mistakes made at the right time. It surely stems from a deep and enduring connection with Italy, from a keen eye for sq...
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