Interviews

“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

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 (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

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

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 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

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

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

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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Warhol in Ferrara, 50 years later: the legacy of the exhibition that anticipated the identity debate

Until July 19, 2026, Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara is hosting the exhibition Andy Warhol. Ladies and Gentlemen, which recalls the exhibition with which in 1975 the great American artist presented his celebrated series precisely at Palazzo dei Diama...
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Giampaolo Abbondio, gallerist at the Biennale: the quality of the work must prevail over the rest

With the presence of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons at the Venice Biennale 2026, the Giampaolo Abbondio Gallery enters the exhibition itinerary through the work of an artist with whom it has had an ongoing relationship for over twenty-five years. Founde...
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Laurent Poma, the out-of-norm bodies that challenge our gaze. Choral interview with photographer

The body today is one of the most guarded and debated territories of our time. Measured, judged, corrected, exhibited or hidden, the contemporary body is traversed by aesthetic, political and social tensions that determine its value and visibility. T...
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Interview with Chiara Teolato, director Venaria Reale: "The Reggia? A permanent cultural garrison."

Chiara Teolato has been director of Venaria Reale and the Consortium of Royal Savoy Residences since the end of 2024: a year and a half of work under the banner, one might say, of dialogue. Dialogue with the territory, with the public, with European ...
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Ahmet Güneştekin speaks: "Today the artist must not only make works, he must make memory visible."

Kurdish-Turkish artist Ahmet Güneştekin (Batman, 1966) returns to Italy with a new solo exhibition following his recent show at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. Entitled Sessizlik / Silence and curated by Sergio Risal...
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Amina Saoudi at the Biennale: story of an underrated artist that legitimizes Koyo Kouoh's exhibition

In the shortlist of ten Arab artists competing in the 61st Venice Art Biennale, including such well-known ones as Kader Attia and Walid Raad, only three artists are from an earlier generation, born between the 1940s and 1950s: Palestinian Vera Tamari...
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When the work becomes art. Interview with Sergio Lombardo

At the doorway of Sergio Lombardo's Archive in Rome there is still a marble plaque designed now decades ago together with Palma Bucarelli and Cesare Pietroiusti where it is inscribed in red "Jartrakor, experimental space and center for the study of a...
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