Opinions Contemporary art Naples
Fabrizio Plessi (1940 – 2026) inaugurated the newly restored Venice Pavilion in the Biennale Gardens in 2011 with a large and magnificent installation consisting of 12 vertical wooden boats, tilted by a few degrees, through which…
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Opinions Contemporary art Transavantgarde
In this same journal, I had occasion to read in a recent critical reflection that art in Italy in the 1980s would be reduced to five artists and a single movement (I quote verbatim: "theItaly of the 1980s, the Italy of the…
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Of course, the first reaction at the end of the Venice Biennale press conference In minor keys, in a warm (and loud) voice, was surprise: "Not even an Italian artist!" But almost simultaneously, in a low voice (having reflected just enough…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art
Just over thirty-five years have passed since Paolo Canevari held his first solo exhibition in New York: it was 1989, the 1980s had evaporated, consuming everything or almost everything, Basquiat and Warhol had died of AIDS and overdose…
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Andy Warhol, the artist who exalted in works and thought the art of making money and immortalized the dollar icon, years ago had entered the collection of the former secretary of the Rifondazione Comunista party, Fausto Bertinotti, who had…
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In Florence's Piazza della Signoria for about five centuries, every day of the year, a clothed woman has been about to cut off the head of a man, inert and asleep at her feet, whose head she holds by the hair. If a feminist movement had…
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Opinions Contemporary art Italian Council
The question to ask in order to evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of the goals and initiatives implemented by the Italian Council is one: have they really contributed to increasing the presence of Italian artists in international…
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