Interviews

"Art is a question that triggers other questions." Conversation with Paolo Cavinato

Paul Cavinato's (Asola, 1975) research focuses on space and its perception: in his work, the observer becomes an integral part of the work. After graduating in Scenography from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and taking a film direction course in Mila...
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"This is how we communicate Pompeii and the new discoveries": interview with director Gabriel Zuchtriegel

"Pompeii is the world capital of archaeology." This is according to the director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, who has led the institution for three years. A lot has been accomplished in this period: new excavations have be...
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Vincenzo Bellelli (Cerveteri-Tarquinia director): "here's how the Park has changed thanks to automia."

The Cerveteri-Tarquinia Archaeological Park became autonomous as of 2021. Since then, thanks to autonomy, this important complex, which brings together the Cerite National Archaeological Museum, the National Archaeological Museum in Tarquinia, and th...
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"The unknown is my greatest challenge." Conversation with Maurizio Faleni

A life dedicated to the search for the light-color relationship, with different modes and relevant reflections dedicated to the study of pure painting, with restless artistic experiences with studies on color and painting especially of the Italian ma...
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From Pompeii we should expect new, exciting discoveries. Archaeologist Giuseppe Scarpati speaks.

New, important discoveries are coming from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and in particular from the Insula dei Casti Amanti, which last May 28 opened to visits with an elevated pathway offering a brand new perspective on the excavations. Particu...
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"Gio Ponti popularizer of Italian making." Stefania Cretella, curator of the exhibition on the designer in Faenza, Italy, speaks.

Why is Gio Ponti considered the inventor and popularizer of Made in Italy? What innovations did Gio Ponti bring to the production and development of Made in Italy in ceramic manufacturing? And how does the famous designer and intellectual fit into th...
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Luca Pancrazzi: "Painting? It's a window. And it is the main ring of art."

A conversation to learn more about the art of Luca Pancrazzi (Figline Valdarno, 1961). After his academic studies in Florence, Pancrazzi traveled to the United States where he met Jo Watanabe and worked in his studio making graphics and wall-drawings...
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The tangled case of Italian paintings "deported" to Belgrade and never returned

The story of eight ancient Italian paintings sounds more like a period thriller than a court case. Instead, it is an episode that really happened and on which the word "end" has not yet been put, despite a ruling by the Court of Bologna filed on Febr...
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Biennale award-winning artist speaks: 'Palestine and statelessness without pavilions? The Biennale's statute should be changed."

Samia Halaby (Jerusalem, 1936) is the only Palestinian artist in the main exhibition of the Venice Art Biennale. Her 1969 painting Black is Beautiful, a tube crucifix that cites Optical Art but could just as well be an enlargement of a detail of Fern...
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"There is still a desire to collect ancient art in Italy." Antiquarian Flavio Gianassi speaks.

How is the situation of the antiques market in Italy today? What about internationally? How has antiques changed in the last 20 years? Is antiques valued enough today? We talked about this with Flavio Gianassi, who in 2013 founded and since then has ...
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"This is how we will transform the Imperial Forums." Labics interview on the new promenade

The Labics studio, founded in 2002 by Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori, won the international competition to design the grand promenade of the Imperial Forums in Rome. Launched by Roma Capitale, the competition saw the participation of 23...
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Taxidermy explained by expert: "we are a little bit sculptor, a little bit painter, a little bit chemist"

"A sculptor fascinated by the life that flows around us." This is how one of Europe's leading taxidermists describes himself, working with museums and artists around the world, with his animals brought to life one by one so they can be admired foreve...
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Introducing children to art with figurines. Daniela Re, co-founder of Artonauts, speaks.

A successful initiative, born in 2021 and already in its fifth chapter. We are talking about Artonauts, the sticker album dedicated to the history of art, which, after the first album ("From Preistoia to Gauguin") and subsequent chapters ("The Twenti...
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A comprehensive museum on Leonardo: here is the Leonardo3 Museum. Paria director Massimiliano Lisa

The Leonardo3 Museum, the innovative museum entirely dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci in Milan's Piazza della Scala, has just crossed the finish line of its first eleven years. In this interview, director Maximilian Lisa told us how the museum has evol...
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Antonio Iommelli (director Museums Palazzo Farnese): in Piacenza to bring museum and city into dialogue

Antonio Iommelli (Naples, 1985) has been director of the Civic Museums of Palazzo Farnese in Piacenza since July of last year. An art historian and scholar of the Baroque, before taking on this important position he worked for three years at the Gall...
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With my photography I try to convey lightness. Conversation with Beatrice Pediconi

Beatrice Pediconi lives and works in New York City. Her education took place between Paris at the University of La Villette, and Rome, where she graduated in Architecture in 1999 from "La Sapienza" University. Her work has been shown in international...
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