Interviews

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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Here's how an archive turns 90 years of history into visual excitement

With the new edition of The Exhibition on Display. Ninety Years Between History and the Future, scheduled to take place in Florence from April 25, 2026 at the Fortezza da Basso (Florence), the narrative of the Handicrafts Exhibition confronts an anni...
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Manuela Cirino, the sculpture that wants to challenge matter and time

Always interested in an investigation of the idea of sculpture declined in open forms, which also uses different media such as photography, drawing and words, Manuela Cirino (Carate Brianza, 1962) talks about her art in this conversation with Gabriel...
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MUCIV: the megamuseum the Ministry bet on. Interview with Andrea Viliani

Arriving at Eur is already, and without the aid of technology, an augmented reality experience in itself. A scenography, rather than a neighborhood, out of scale, monumental, rationalist designed in the 1930s to host and celebrate, as had happened in...
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Twenty years of Rolli in Genoa. Councillor Montanari speaks: "The UNESCO site is everyone's property."

The UNESCO site "Le Strade Nuove e il sistema dei palazzi dei Rolli di Genova" is celebrating its twentieth birthday: for Culture Councillor James Montanari, however, it must not be a tourist label or an economic asset. Indeed, if there is a lack of ...
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Between visible and invisible, the phantasmagorical world of Elena El Asmar

Until May 2, 2026, Building Terzo Piano in Milan is hosting the exhibition Le Fantasmagoriche, a solo show by Elena El Asmar (Florence, 1978), curated by Marina Dacci: on display are more than forty works, including sculptures and wall works on glass...
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The Italian who protects Versailles: interview with Danilo Forleo, head of preventive conservation at the Reggia

What does it mean to leave Italy at a very young age to pursue the dream of working in art? And what does it mean to work inside one of the world's iconic art venues today? Danilo Forleo tells us, who today, at 42, holds the position of preventive co...
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Nino Springolo, the secluded painter beyond the avant-garde: interview with the curators of the major exhibition

From March 14 to November 1, 2026, the Bailo Museum in Treviso is hosting the exhibitionNino Springolo (1886-1975) and "the two companions," curated by Fabrizio Malachin, Eleonora Drago and Manlio Leo Mezzacasa. The exhibition, promoted by the Civic ...
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"The museum is a place where we allow ourselves time to question." Interview with Nadia Righi

The director of the Diocesan Museum, Nadia Righi, looks at the museum as one looks at a question that never stops working under the skin, something that does not allow itself to be closed within the walls of a building nor within the tranquility of l...
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"Photography? It's an overused term now! Here's what should be done." Federico Rui speaks

How is photography doing today? We discuss this with Federico Rui, a gallery owner who spans more than 30 years of transformations in the contemporary art system, while maintaining a lucid and independent gaze. Rui started his own activity in the art...
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