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Nebojša Despotović brings 40 works exploring the craft of painting to Bassano del Grappa

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

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

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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Smoking kills, and so does the algorithm: my social geometry against the fog of “likes”

Smoking kills, and so does the algorithm: my social geometry against the fog of “likes”

When I began collecting my first RAUs (Urban Archaeological Finds) in 1995, I was searching for traces of a daily life that was slipping away: the remnants of a civilization devoted to consumption and, ultimately, to a slow self-destruction. I walked...
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Stanislao Di Giugno transforms the chimera into a new entity made of paint and bronze

Stanislao Di Giugno transforms the chimera into a new entity made of paint and bronze

In mythological tradition, the chimera is a creature composed of parts belonging to different animals: it is, therefore, a hybrid organism in which disparate elements cease to be merely separate fragments and become something new. It is precisely thi...
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Paintings of Everyday Family Life: Young Robertina Makes Her Debut in Trento

Paintings of Everyday Family Life: Young Robertina Makes Her Debut in Trento

There are objects we look at every day without really seeing them anymore: a package on the kitchen shelf, a smartphone, a product bought at the supermarket, a cosmetic, a souvenir, the elements that appear in the background of a photograph. They are...
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Ai Weiwei fills the lawn of the Sydney museum with 500 combat helmets: it is his new artwork

Ai Weiwei fills the lawn of the Sydney museum with 500 combat helmets: it is his new artwork

Five hundred military helmets—all identical only in appearance—span forty meters across the lawn in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney. Made of cast iron, they faithfully reproduce various models of 20th-century combat helmet...
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Ileana Sonnabend and the Contemporary Art Boom: 50 Works on Display in Rome

Ileana Sonnabend and the Contemporary Art Boom: 50 Works on Display in Rome

She was one of the most influential figures in the recent history of contemporary art, who recognized the value of the most innovative artistic explorations well in advance and fostered a dialogue between the European and American art scenes. She is ...
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