Contemporary Art Criticism - Finestre sull'Arte

Michael Armitage and the painting that heals the wounds of history and the present

There are surfaces that embrace color, and then there are surfaces that put it to the test. When you stand before a painting by Michael Armitage (Nairobi, 1984), the first thing you realize is that the paint, there, had to carve out its own space. Bo...
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Organisms on the Threshold. Enrico Minguzzi's hybrids, an expanding painting.

Enrico Minguzzi's cabinet of curiosities is a humble and shy little doodle, a shrine half a meter or so high, with a lock that struggles to close, a glass cabinet hidden in the white half-light of an antechamber of his house in Bagnacavallo. A house ...
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Jadé Fadojutimi: if painting is flesh transformed into gesture

It was unclear whether it was day or evening. The light, filtered through heavy curtains, caught in the pigments still fresh on the canvas, shone in the pools of petrol blue, faded in the somber purples. Jadé Fadojutimi stood there, brush dow...
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Pol Taburet, one of the most dissonant and magnetic voices of young European painting

"Once upon a time" a painting that did not want to reassure. A painting that scratched, that whispered through mute faces and animal paws, a painting that hid behind veils of color and allusions, as if each canvas were the thin curtain between a worl...
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Giulia Andreani, painting as a living archive to destabilize

There are colors that are remembered. Carmine red, cobalt blue, Veronese green. Then there is Payne's gray: a hue that seems made not for shouting, but for remembering. Giulia Andreani employs it as if it were a form of language. Not a hue, but a cod...
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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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