Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

Alex Da Corte: When America Becomes a Disturbing Dream—The Dark Side of Pop

Alex Da Corte was born in Camden, New Jersey, one of the poorest cities in the United States, and grew up in New Jersey, Pittsburgh, and Caracas. This biographical detail is not merely incidental: it is the center of gravity of his entire body of wor...
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Luca Rossi Wins Art Verona's Sustainable Art Prize with His "Hidden Works"

Can a work of art elude the gaze and still continue to exist as a work of art even if no one sees it? This is one of the questions at the heart of Luca Rossi’s work. An artist and regular contributor to *Finestre sull'Arte*, Rossi’s *Hidd...
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Letizia Battaglia and Davide Tranchina: Photography Reflects Reality—A Dual Exhibition at CAMERA Torino

From Sicily, ravaged by Mafia violence, to images that challenge the boundary between photography and reality: CAMERA—the Italian Center for Photography in Turin— is dedicating a dual exhibition to two leading figures in Italian photography, Letizia ...
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Piero Gilardi, from Art to Social Activism: An Exhibition on His Political Work at the PAV in Turin

On Friday, October 30, 2026, at 6:00 p.m., the PAV Parco Arte Vivente in Turin will open the exhibition *Piero Gilardi. “From Art to Life,” an exhibition curated by Marco Scotini, is dedicated to a crucial period in the career of Turin-based artist P...
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Gen Z spends the most on art (but doesn't want to show off their collections)

People under 30 —or, to use a term that’s currently in vogue, Gen Z—are the generation that spent the most on art in the first half of 2026. Not only that: among collectors under 30 surveyed by Art Basel and UBS, one in eight spent over a milli...
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Nebojša Despotović brings 40 works exploring the craft of painting to Bassano del Grappa

THE BANK ETS Foundation—Institute for Contemporary Painting Studies in Bassano del Grappa, in the province of Vicenza—presents *The Painter’s Craft*, an exhibition dedicated to Nebojša Despotović (Belgrade, Serbia, 1982) and curated by C...
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Heinz Mack Returns to Venice with 36 Paintings: Light and Color from a 95-Year-Old Artist

Now 95 years old, one of Germany’s greatest artists, Heinz Mack (Lollar, 1931), continues to explore the relationship between light, color, and form. It is precisely this exploration—developed by the German artist over more than seventy years o...
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Svenja Deininger: Forms Poised Between Abstraction and Figuration at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome

From October 13, 2026, to January 30, 2027, the Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome presents *On Leaning*, an exhibition of new works by the painter Svenja Deininger, focused on a painterly practice that rejects a predetermined starting point and procee...
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