Contemporary art - Finestre sull'Arte

“The curator and the critic work in the service of something else.” An interview with Gabriele Salvaterra

Living on the threshold, without having to choose which side to take. This is perhaps the image that best captures the way Gabriele Salvaterra views curating, art, and even his own role within the art system. As a curator, critic, and museum professi...
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Mahama's boats are arriving in Naples, but has the receivership forgotten about Plessi?

Fabrizio Plessi (1940 – 2026) inaugurated the newly restored Venice Pavilion in the Biennale Gardens in 2011 with a large and magnificent installation consisting of 12 vertical wooden boats, tilted by a few degrees, through which cascades of “e...
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Italian art is present on the international scene, but no one talks about it

I can certainly say that I have been a fairly regular participant and observer of the art world since the mid-1980s. I therefore believe I have a fairly consistent perspective over the medium to long term, but I am well aware that I am not in a posit...
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“The Venice Biennale Has Always Been a Political Space”: An Interview with Adina Drinceanu

Can the Venice Biennale also be interpreted as a relationship between artistic experimentation, the market, and systems of cultural support? That is what curator Adina Drinceanu attempts to do in this interview with Noemi Capoccia, in which she offer...
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There is an artist who brings wounded trees back to life. His work is on display at Sala Baganza

In 2004, during a trip to Calabria, the artist Brunivo Buttarelli (Casalmaggiore, 1946) came across an olive tree devastated by arson: it had been burned from the inside and seemed beyond saving. Buttarelli, however, interpreted it differently: not m...
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Matera and the Invisible Sea: An Exhibition Explores the Mediterranean Through Art and Artificial Intelligence

From October 3 to December 8, 2026,Matera will host *The Sea Is Closer Than You See*, a site-specific group exhibition dedicated to the relationship between contemporary art, digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and Mediterranean culture. T...
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2026 Strait Biennial, “Mutations”: Four Months of Art to Depict a Changing Mediterranean

The Mediterranean as a constantly evolving space, shaped by environmental, social, technological, and cultural changes. This is the starting point for the third edition of the Biennale dello Stretto, running from September 18 to December 13, 2026. Th...
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An igloo by Mario Merz in front of the Candiolo Cancer Institute to mark the Foundation’s 40th anniversary

A work by Mario Merz greets visitors upon enteringthe INOC—the Candiolo National Oncology Institute: *Doppio igloo di Porto*, featuring the Fibonacci sequence, was chosen to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Allegra Agnelli Foundation for Cancer ...
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