Exhibition reviews Ancient art Galleries of Italy Milan
The Renaissance man is guided by certain absolutes toward which he also strives through the liberal and practical arts, but he ultimately discovers a new dimension—that of the aesthetic value of ugliness—which asserts itself through…
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Works and artists Mark Rothko Modern Art Twentieth Century
After Mark Rothko’s death, the critic Harold Rosenberg, a theorist of Action Painting, wrote an obituary for the painter in *The New Yorker*, in which he described him as a “reductive theologian of painting.” He intended…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art Venice
Today, overindulgence in food is no longer the joyful Rabelaisian utopia of the “Land of Plenty”; rather, it represents a symptom of inner turmoil, an emotional void, or a pathology linked to consumption and control over the…
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Opinions Contemporary art Marina Abramovic
To think of engaging the viewer in a performance where the medium is silent motionless by slowly raising her gaze toward him and thereby transmitting an energy that makes that space a temenos, a sacred enclosure: this is a rather primitive…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art Georg Baselitz Painting
The upside-down man: Baselitz's icon that the German artist turned into a kind of brand. So too in this latest exhibition Heroes of Gold that opened at the Island of San Giorgio curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the new president of the…
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Works and artists Marc Chagall Modern Art Twentieth Century
If one steps outside the Chagallian interpretive scheme that interweaves Chassidic Judaism and a certain ethnic-religious idea of fairy-tale reality that finds in the flying sweethearts and in certain upside-down world situations typical…
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Opinions Art Criticism Contemporary art
What is art? Blessed Tolstoy who had the ready and certain answer: that which comes from the people. I, on the other hand, while working for two or three decades as an art critic, find myself like Augustine about time. If no one asks him…
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Opinions Contemporary art Modern Art Twentieth Century
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…
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