"I am the true Etruscan": with these words, Arturo Martini asserted the deep connection between his sculptural work and the art of an ancient civilization. This relationship will be the focus of the exhibition *Arturo Martini. I Am the…
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Social realism versus abstraction, political commitment versus the freedom of the painterly gesture: the comparison between Renato Guttuso and Emilio Vedova serves as the starting point for exploring one of the most vibrant periodsin…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art Modern Art Poor Art Turin Twentieth Century
The phrase that is almost automatically associated with Marisa Merz’s name is “the only woman of Arte Povera,” a definition that risks establishing her uniqueness solely to exploit it as symbolic capital for the…
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Exhibition reviews Blue Palace Edward Hopper Modern Art Pisa Twentieth Century
It’s very hard to take your eyes off *Soir Bleu* within just a few minutes. Visitors to the exhibition dedicated to Edward Hopper at Palazzo Blu in Pisa know this all too well . After the introductory section on the early career of…
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"By the way, there's a Georgia O’Keeffe painting in the closet." That single sentence—spoken almost in passing by a woman in her Manhattan apartment—was enough to bring to light a painting by the famous American artist that had…
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Take a ring, cut it, twist one of the two ends, and close it again. The result is a ribbon that no longer has an inside or an outside—a continuous surface that can be traversed without ever encountering an edge. Max Bill (Winterthur, 1908…
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After setting a record in London with the sale of her extraordinary collection of Surrealist art and design, Pauline Karpidas (Manchester, 1943) returns to the spotlight at Sotheby’s with another chapter in her collecting story: a…
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Thirty works by Mario Sironi are being added to the national collection and will form the core of a new museum dedicated to one of the leading figures of 20th-century Italian art. In fact, the Mario Sironi Museum – Sironi Studies…
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