Contemporary Art Criticism - Finestre sull'Arte

Petra Cortright, pixel art and emotions. But where does the artist end and the software begin?

At the heart of the contemporary digital landscape, Petra Cortright moves like a cybernetic gardener, sowing pixels and reaping emotions. Born in 1986 in Santa Barbara, California, and educated between California College of the Arts and Parsons The N...
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Jamian Juliano-Villani's art: how to reject good taste and a reassuring consistency

It is hard not to get the impression that something is about to explode when one is confronted with a work by Jamian Juliano-Villani. And it is not just the visual density, the well-orchestrated chaos of references and images, but a deeper tension, a...
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Living Works, Maurizio Faleni's new work: seeing beyond the visible

Maurizio Faleni's new work shines in the great hall of his Livorno studio, under the light of an early June morning that enhances the aluminum surfaces of his Living Works, living works, the most recent chapter in a research that has always questione...
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Enrico Amici, when photography is resonance and relationship with what surrounds us

"What is essential is invisible to the eyes," wrote Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This is the secret that the fox reveals to the Little Prince, an invitation to go beyond what is seen on the surface, which may perhaps at first glance seem insignif...
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The poetics of disappearance, from Rachel Whiteread to Francesca Woodman and beyond

April 2025. Coachella. A legend appears on stage and time does not stand still. During one of the festival's most anticipated evenings, Benson Boone (a young artist who grew up in a system that favors accessibility over emphasis and continuous st...
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When contemporary mosaic is a hymn to life. The art of Enzo Tinarelli

To see Enzo Tinarelli's mosaics it is necessary to see his painting; to see his painting it is necessary to get lost in the midst of his mosaics; to grasp the soul of his art, it may be useful to review a contribution that, it was the early 2000s, Va...
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Giuseppe Veneziano, Beyond provocation. When art is profound without being obscure

There is a widespread idea, almost a stereotype, about Giuseppe Veneziano. He is often labeled as a provocateur, an artist who uses simple, direct, almost populist images. But all you have to do is sit with him, talk to him, listen to his take on art...
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The mild abstractionism of Gabriele Landi

For some time now, Gabriele Landi has taken to making cardboard or aluminum sculptures that always start from thin, light, simple sheets. They have inaugurated a new strand in his research, a refined, constant quest, always striving to explore the bo...
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