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 idea, whic...
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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 Cini Foundatio...
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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 of the fairy...
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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, he knows, w...
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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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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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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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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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