Perhaps the spirit of the Biennale is destined to change. The world in which we live has changed, the so-called "art system" is showing cracks that were once unsuspected, and the figures animating it-artists, critics, curators, public and private ins...
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I scroll through contrarian and self-defensive comments. Too much. I would like to disassociate myself a bit from the general mobilization. Undoubtedly, there has been a lack, on the curatorial side, of any cultural-diplomatic sensitivity or tact, an...
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It used to be an underground gesture, an illegal act, a visual urgency that broke into the urban fabric to contest, to disturb, to dialogue. Today, street art fills the pages of art magazines, is commissioned by public administrations, attracts touri...
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We live in an age when everything is photographed. Breakfast, sunsets, concerts, dogs, cats, plates of pasta. And it is absolutely normal thatart , too, enters this continuous flow of images. Yet, incredibly, right here we encounter the highest wall:...
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There is some lateral significance to be found in the fact that the Italian state has decided to invest nearly $15 million, or 12.5 million euros at today's exchange rate, to purchase Antonello da Messina'sEcce Homo that everyone, even those who have...
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In a measure signed by Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, the Central Institute for Cultural Heritage Risk Management (ICRI), incardinated into the Department of Protection (DIT), was created. The garrison serves to give an ordinary structure to the ...
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I have been attending Arte Fiera Bologna since 2006. At the time I was a gallery assistant, beardless and without any experience, one of those who learn by snooping around, standing on the sidelines. I remember that first edition well: there was snow...
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Contemporary art, since its beginnings, has often made provocation one of its favorite tools. To provoke means to stir, to shake, to destabilize. To trigger a friction between the work and the viewer. To break aesthetic, moral, political customs. But...
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We are in Calabria, a land of millennia-old history and traditions, and in the footsteps of Mimmo Rotella, an artist of international prominence born in Catanzaro in 1918. His creative "genius," recognized among the most extraordinary minds on the co...
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The former Slaughterhouse in Rome is an extraordinarily interesting space. First of all, for its history, which has its roots in the ancient (and lost) bet of a capital also industrial, of which today almost only vestiges remain: the Gazometro, the C...
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It was Feb. 20, 1909, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti leapt onto the front page of Le Figaro, after first publishing in a number of Italian newspapers (starting with the Gazzetta dell'Emilia on Feb. 5) a text that still vibrates like a battering ram, ...
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The current difficulties of Italian art are of three kinds: in part they are inscribed in the general difficulties of contemporary art, marked by a reduction of interest at the global level; in part they are connected to problems that the Italian sys...
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Entering a museum and being confronted with a nude no longer scandalizes anyone. On the contrary: the nude body, celebrated for centuries, is at the very heart of art history. Yet, just move a detail, make the image more explicit, more direct, closer...
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We implore readers to do an exercise this weekend: take your favorite mode of transportation, take a trip to the countryside, look for a chicken coop, and look at it. For those who don't know where to find a chicken coop, there is the alternative: go...
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To enter a major European museum is often to experience a contradiction. On the one hand, wonder: Greek statues that do not seem to have lost an iota of their power, intact Egyptian sarcophagi, gleaming African bronzes. On the other the doubt that cr...
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A few years ago, we were in the midst of Covid, Angela Merkel said during a speech to the Bundestag that as a young woman she had chosen to study physics at university because scientific evidence cannot be abolished. A seemingly unassailable assertio...
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