Roberto Daolio, a prominent Italian critic and curator, argued that form is already concept. There’s no getting around it: the form we give to a work is never merely a shell, but inevitably embodies the idea from which that work…
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A ceremonial brass trumpet from Uzbekistan, Chinese and Southeast Asian wind instruments, gongs, drumheads, and twenty-meter-long pieces of fabric suspended in space. At the Tate Modern in London, sound takes shape through objects…
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Exhibition reviews art and fashion Contemporary art Valentino
At PM23 in Piazza Mignanelli in Rome—where the Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti Foundation hosts its cultural initiatives—the exhibition *AURA. Valentino Garavani and Ewa Juszkiewicz* begins with absences. The walls feature…
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What makes a face human in the age of artificial intelligence? This is the central question of *Magnifica Humanitas*, Matteo Basilé’s exhibition scheduled from November 12, 2026, to January 22, 2027, atthe Italian Cultural…
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Exhibition reviews Bologna Contemporary art
Anyone who spent time in Bologna in the 1990s surely remembers a stylized goose with long, jointed legs that chased itself from one street to another across walls, doorways, roll-up doors, and electrical cabinets—whose appearances seemed…
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What if a painting were so large that it couldn’t be displayed in a museum? That’s what happened with Anselm Kiefer’s Schwarze Flocken (2007), a painting 11.2 meters tall and 7.1 meters wide that, due to its size, had…
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Interviews Contemporary art Handicrafts Paleontology Prehistory
Born and raised in Carrara, Mariaelena Mariotti—known by her artist name, Mother of the Dinosaurs—is enjoying increasing success with her realistic dinosaurs, incredible sculptures that take shape in her studio in the Apuan Alps and are…
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A meeting of two great artists, separated by five centuries but united by their ability to challenge the conventions of representation. This is the heart of *Untitled (Leonardo and His Five Grotesque Heads)*, a monumental painting by…
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