Who is Maurizio Cecchetti

Maurizio Cecchetti

Maurizio Cecchetti è nato a Cesena il 13 ottobre 1960. Critico d'arte, scrittore ed editore. Per molti anni è stato critico d'arte del quotidiano "Avvenire". Ora collabora con "Tuttolibri" della "Stampa". Tra i suoi libri si ricordano: Edgar Degas. La vita e l'opera (1998), Le valigie di Ingres (2003), I cerchi delle betulle (2007). Tra i suoi libri recenti: Pedinamenti. Esercizi di critica d'arte (2018), Fuori servizio. Note per la manutenzione di Marcel Duchamp (2019) e Gli anni di Fancello. Una meteora nell'arte italiana tra le due guerre (2023).


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Avant-garde and modernism: the double soul of twentieth-century Italian art

Avant-garde and modernism: the double soul of twentieth-century Italian art

There is what literary critic Charles Russell called the "binary tradition" of the twentieth century: avant-garde and modernism. The former is driven by an unshakeable belief in the progressive reunification between society and the artist (he speaks ...
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Roberto Longhi today between myth, writing and the challenge of contemporary criticism

Roberto Longhi today between myth, writing and the challenge of contemporary criticism

In the last decade, studies aimed at rereading the historical and critical work of Roberto Longhi have been several. A sign that Longhi has entered the phase of the historical process that will have to establish or not his definitive canonization. An...
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The magnificent eight: those art critics who no longer exist today. What the exhibition that exhumed them looks like

The magnificent eight: those art critics who no longer exist today. What the exhibition that exhumed them looks like

That principle that Roberto Longhi brings to bear to distinguish Caravaggio from the great men of the fifteenth-fifteenth century, whom he least liked because they often represented the power of the Italian centers over the mistreated periphery, and ...
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Leonor Fini maga en travesti

Leonor Fini maga en travesti

If it is true that in the birth of many artists lurk the "causes" of their becoming such (Roberto Longhi said that one is born a critic, but one becomes an artist), it could be said that for Leonor Fini the familyimprinting was the reason for her ent...
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Casorati to reconsider the appropriateness of talking about "magic realism." On the Milan exhibition

Casorati to reconsider the appropriateness of talking about "magic realism." On the Milan exhibition

The curators of the Felice Casorati exhibition at Palazzo Reale, through June 29, are the same ones who followed the edition of the Piedmontese artist's general catalog 30 years ago: Giorgina Bertolino and Francesco Poli. They are joined by Fernando ...
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But are we sure that Narcissus is the prototype of the self-portrait? What the exhibition in Forli looks like

But are we sure that Narcissus is the prototype of the self-portrait? What the exhibition in Forli looks like

Is the selfie the end point that closes the circle of the self-portrait as it has developed since the very attractive but also very false idea that an artist is hidden in every man? Riccardo Falcinelli, for example, has sought answers to the question...
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Everything is serious if there is irony. What the exhibition at MAMbo in Bologna is like.

Everything is serious if there is irony. What the exhibition at MAMbo in Bologna is like.

The biggest mistake one can make in making an exhibition of artworks that should have irony as its common thread is to explain where it lurks by overwhelming it with words and reflections. But, on the other hand, what to do? Irony is a "celibate mach...
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Roberto Matta, the avant-garde suspected of kitsch.

Roberto Matta, the avant-garde suspected of kitsch.

When one considers that the birth of American comics lasted, roughly, from 1933 to 1938, and peaked with the myth of Superman, it is not surprising that Roberto Matta's interest in comics was, so to speak, of the first hour. And on the other hand, it...
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