Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

Works from the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam on display in Ferrara to explore the revolution in landscape painting

Monet, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Mondrian: these are names that mark the milestones of an epochal turning point in the history of European art. In less than eighty years, between the 19th and 20th centuries, painting shifted from the direct observation of...
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Chiara Camoni, *The Flowers of Evil*: The Dark Side of Flowers in Rome

The flower as form, matter, and symbol, but also as an ambiguous, obscure, and potentially destructive element. This is the starting point for *I fiori del male*(The Flowers of Evil), a project dedicated to the work of Chiara Camoni, presented by Soc...
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Kengo Kuma in Assisi: A Nest for Dialogue with St. Francis. “It’s a source of help in the times we live in”

On the night of October 4, 1226, Francis of Assisi, surrounded by his brothers, breathed his last; having been ill for some time and extremely debilitated, he was in the infirmary adjacent to the Porziuncola, one of the places that witnessed him as t...
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A monumental stained-glass window and 40 years of research on light: Brescia dedicates an exhibition to Father Costantino Ruggeri

A monumental stained-glass window, paintings, collages, drawings, and liturgical vestments chronicle the artistic and spiritual journey of Father Costantino Ruggeri, a Franciscan friar, painter, sculptor, and architect originally from Franciacorta. F...
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Uzbekistan's First Permanent Center for Contemporary Art Opens

Uzbekistan ’s first permanent center for contemporary art has opened. This is taking place in the capital, Tashkent, where an industrial building constructed in 1912 to house a diesel station and a tram depot has begun a new life, and what was...
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Bertozzi & Casoni at the Bagatti Valsecchi House: The Beauty of Decay

The ceiling of the Bagatti Valsecchi library is right before our eyes: if you try to lift your chin, you’ll see the frescoes and grotesques in their proper places, motionless, exactly where they’re supposed to be. Then, as you lower your ...
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Bruno Fantelli and the plan for a Kunsthaus in a castle in Monferrato: the artist speaks

For the artist Bruno Fantelli (Cles, 1996), painting does not seem to have come about as a sudden choice, but rather as the continuation of an inclination cultivated since childhood: drawing, building, and modifying whatever was in front of him. Trai...
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Kate Newby brings her “anti-relics” to the former Chiesa delle Dimesse in Thiene (Vicenza)

From September 26 to November 7, 2026, the Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo Foundation for Contemporary Art will present ,in the former Chiesa delle Dimesse in Thiene, in the province of Vicenza, “The leaves were brighter than the grass,” a solo exhibiti...
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