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Daniel Buren in Pistoia: an opportunity to rethink his entire journey. What the exhibition looks like

The figure of Daniel Buren (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1938) emerges on the contemporary scene with an authority that transcends mere historical recognition to embody an artistic practice that continues to renew its language after more than fifty years of...
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Sex and loneliness are intertwined and complementary. What Tracey Emin's exhibition in Florence looks like.

In a Florence that in recent years has been trying to reshape its identity by counterbalancing the extremely rich historical legacy of which it is the custodian with massive forays into the contemporary (just think of the recent installation in front...
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Agnes Questionmark, if an artist manipulates the body by fusing flesh and technology. What the exhibition in Lucca looks like

"Mutation," wrote Francesca Alfano Miglietti in the preface to Mutant Identities. From Fold to Plague: Beings of Contemporary Contaminations, Costa & Nolan, 1997, "is the anarchic dimension that does not recognize the linearity of a species evolu...
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Mark Manders, when writing with objects instead of words. What the Sandretto exhibition looks like

As a rule, we are accustomed to bring under the umbrella of conceptual art a varied catalog of artistic expressions in which instances related to the constructive process and speculative scheme that determine the work are predominant over the aesthet...
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Inhabiting the home of one of the great masters of art. Alessandra Spranzi at Casa Morandi

Artists' house museums are precious places that are difficult to design because of the oxymoronic need to let visitors enter (with due security measures), a space that was originally private, to make traceable and legible the imprints of the creative...
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Davide Benati, the poetry of a translocated nature that flourishes on a humus of paper and canvas

To visit an artist's studio is to have the privilege of being invited into a secret garden, into which one must tiptoe so as not to disturb the subterranean germination of the works to come, which hover there in little more than a potential state. Th...
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Cen Long, a dissident outsider in contemporary Chinese art

Zeng Fanzhi, Zhuang Hui, Chen Zhen, Liu Wei, Liu Bolin, Sun Yuan and Peng You, Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Cai Guoqiang, Chen Zhen, Huang Yongping: these are probably the first names of artists that the Western art-loving public considers as the most represe...
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Vera Lutter, unique photographs that make the real ambiguous. What the exhibition at MAST in Bologna looks like.

That the aura of the work of art no longer derives from its uniqueness is a fact that has been acknowledged ever since Walter Benjamin, at the turn of the two world wars, published the famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproduc...
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