Interviews


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A Day with Maurizio Cattelan (and a great interview by Luca Rossi): “Provocation? It’s no longer a risk”

A Day with Maurizio Cattelan (and a great interview by Luca Rossi): “Provocation? It’s no longer a risk”

Fifteen years later, Luca Rossi returns to interview Maurizio Cattelan. Back then, there was a retrospective at the Guggenheim; today, there is NIGHT at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In the meantime, the art world has changed, the market has ch...
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MIRA, a New Voice for Latin American Art. An Interview with Director Manuela Rayo

MIRA, a New Voice for Latin American Art. An Interview with Director Manuela Rayo

MIRA Latino Art Fair, a project launched in 2024 with the aim of giving greater visibility to Latin American contemporary art, is today one of the most interesting art fairs dedicated to artists from emerging countries. It was founded and is directed...
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Why "Guernica" Continues to Speak to Us (But Will Eventually Be Forgotten). An Interview with Luca Nannipieri

Why "Guernica" Continues to Speak to Us (But Will Eventually Be Forgotten). An Interview with Luca Nannipieri

Pablo Picasso’s*Guernica* is one of the most recognizable symbols of 20th-century art. But what truly makes a work of art a classic? And how long can its fame endure throughout history? In his new book, *Pablo Picasso’s Guernica: The Rise...
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Germany, the New Travel Destination for Italians: Here's How It Won Us Over

Germany, the New Travel Destination for Italians: Here's How It Won Us Over

Agata Marchetti is the director of the German National Tourist Board Italia, the German National Tourism Board, where she has been responsible for promoting Germany in the Italian market since 2024. With over nineteen years of experience within the o...
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Luxury and Cultural Heritage: The Future of Placemaking According to Balich Wonder Studio

Luxury and Cultural Heritage: The Future of Placemaking According to Balich Wonder Studio

Valentina Saluzzi is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and Director of Events and Brand Experiences at Balich Wonder Studio, an international group specializing in the design and production of major events, ceremonies, and brand experiences. After...
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Interview with Giovanni Ozzola: “My horizons are my works: a way to explore the unknown and ourselves”

Interview with Giovanni Ozzola: “My horizons are my works: a way to explore the unknown and ourselves”

On the occasion of the tenth Lerici Music Festival—an initiative that, for the third year, presents an unprecedented dialogue between contemporary art and music, curated by Carlo Orsini and organized in collaboration with Galleria Continua— Villa Mar...
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Why Painting Can Still Change the Way We See Things. An Interview with Lena Keller

Why Painting Can Still Change the Way We See Things. An Interview with Lena Keller

Lena Keller (Heidelberg, 1980) belongs to a generation of artists who came of age during the transition from analog to digital, but her painting defies any technological simplification. In her work, landscape is not presented as an objective reality ...
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“With Opera Navarra, We’re Completing the Heritage Value Chain”: An Interview with Beppe Costa and Attilio Navarra

“With Opera Navarra, We’re Completing the Heritage Value Chain”: An Interview with Beppe Costa and Attilio Navarra

The recent acquisition of Fratelli Navarra by Opera Laboratori and the resulting creation of Opera Navarra represent a significant development in the Italian cultural heritage sector, particularly in the field of restoration. The merger, presented ye...
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“Knowledge comes before conservation and promotion.” Filippo Perissinotto speaks

“Knowledge comes before conservation and promotion.” Filippo Perissinotto speaks

With a career spanning subsidized finance, conservation restoration, and the cultural economy, Filippo Perissinotto, president of Art Events—a company specializing in the organization of cultural events—has, over the years, developed an entrepreneuri...
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Donald de Decker: When Art Is Used to Listen to the Sound of Images

Donald de Decker: When Art Is Used to Listen to the Sound of Images

Donald de Decker (ddd) is a visual artist and graphic designer originally from Brussels. At the heart of his work lies the Acousma project, which emerged from his encounter with acousmatic music and has gradually evolved into an exploration of the co...
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The Invisible Worlds of Sofia Bersanelli: Mystery as the Subject Matter of Art

The Invisible Worlds of Sofia Bersanelli: Mystery as the Subject Matter of Art

Sofia Bersanelli (Milan, 1993) explores, through her artistic practice, the nature of the image and the power of the language that underpins it. In this interview with Gabriele Landi, she traces the origins of her artistic sensibility, which arose fr...
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An Italian Art Historian in the U.S.: An Interview with Davide Gasparotto, Curator at the Getty Museum

An Italian Art Historian in the U.S.: An Interview with Davide Gasparotto, Curator at the Getty Museum

Since 2014, Davide Gasparotto has served as Senior Curator of Painting and Chair of Curatorial Affairs at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The institution, founded in 1954 by J. Paul Getty, has been governed since 1976 by a much more complex structur...
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We interviewed Maurizio Cattelan's banana

We interviewed Maurizio Cattelan's banana

We found ourselves face-to-face with *Comedian*, Maurizio Cattelan’s famous banana on display at MAXXI. For many, it’s simply a provocation; for others, a million-dollar masterpiece. We decided to take it all the way, taking the work incr...
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Giving Shape to the Invisible Forces That Move Through the World. An Interview with Nina Carini

Giving Shape to the Invisible Forces That Move Through the World. An Interview with Nina Carini

In the work of Nina Carini (Palermo, 1984), matter is never an inert presence: it is an organism permeated by tensions, energies, and processes of transformation that continually challenge the boundary between the visible and the invisible, presence ...
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“We will promote Tuscan museums off the beaten path”: Carlotta Brovadan speaks

“We will promote Tuscan museums off the beaten path”: Carlotta Brovadan speaks

In her new role (assumed on February 4) as regional director of the National Museums of Tuscany, Carlotta Paola Brovadan is tasked with leading the region’s museum network, coordinating institutions ranging from the major museums in Florence to...
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All about the new Association of Art Historians: president Silvia Mazza speaks

All about the new Association of Art Historians: president Silvia Mazza speaks

With the birth of AStArte, the National Association of Art Historians, a new phase of discussion on the role of the profession within the Italian cultural system opens. In this interview, Silvia Mazza, an art historian, journalist, curator and presid...
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