The monumental painting *Tribute to Rosa Luxemburg*, created in 1992, spans over 40 meters and almost completely envelops a circular hall, where the windows offer a view of the plains of Québec and the St. Lawrence River. It is…
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Travel France Modern Art Twentieth Century
“If only I could be the dust on the road and the feet of the poor could trample me.” I’ve often thought about these lines by Fernando Pessoa lately, but especially while walking across the floor of Alexander…
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The large canvas titled *Il grano della bonifica lucchese* was the work with which Alfredo Catarsini (Viareggio, 1899–1993) entered the 1940 Cremona Prize, the national competition in which he had placed second the previous year…
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In the hands of Edgardo Mannucci (Fabriano, 1904 – Arcevia, 1986), iron, copper, brass, and bronze become tools for giving form to energy. After his figurative beginnings and engagement with the artistic movements of the first half…
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In 1965, Carol Rama (Turin, 1918–2015) exhibited in the Sala Ghibellina of the Palazzo Comunale in Pistoia: it was the first exhibition dedicated to the artist by a public museum. More than sixty years later, the Tuscan city is once…
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From Sicily, ravaged by Mafia violence, to images that challenge the boundary between photography and reality: CAMERA—the Italian Center for Photography in Turin— is dedicating a dual exhibition to two leading figures in Italian…
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Between the late 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century, Barcelona was a creative hub where artists and architects experimented with new forms of expression, giving rise to a movement that would change the course of art…
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For Mimmo Rotella (Catanzaro, 1918 – Milan, 2006), tearing was never merely a gesture: removing a poster from a wall meant appropriating an existing image, taking it out of its context, and transforming it into something else. In the…
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