Exhibition reviews

Agnes Questionmark, if an artist manipulates the body by fusing flesh and technology. What the exhibition in Lucca looks like

"Mutation," wrote Francesca Alfano Miglietti in the preface to Mutant Identities. From Fold to Plague: Beings of Contemporary Contaminations, Costa & Nolan, 1997, "is the anarchic dimension that does not recognize the linearity of a species evolu...
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Bernini total artist: what the double exhibition at Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia looks like.

The gilded frames, the mirrors and paintings, the screaming sculpture heads tell of the pomp required by the patrician and the collective effort of the artists to please the gentleman. It is, was, the carriage that, thanks to Giovan Lorenzo Bernini's...
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Mucha and Boldini in Ferrara, a glittering exhibition

Sparkling exhibition the one dedicated by the city of Ferrara, in the splendid Palazzo dei Diamanti, to the lovable painting of Mucha and Boldini for this long and captivating spring of 2025. A happy idea that rediscovers a European painter of such h...
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In how many ways can silence be depicted? What the Hammershøi exhibition in Rovigo is like.

In what different places and in how many different ways can silence be depicted in a painting? In fact, silences are not all the same: there is the silence of domestic quiet, there is the silence of contemplation, the silence of anticipation of a joy...
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Tracey Emin, The Body at the Center. Palazzo Strozzi's major exhibition

Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude is the first major exhibition dedicated to the British artist in Italy. At Palazzo Strozzi in Florence it will be possible to visit until July 2025 an exhibition with more than sixty works, created over a period of time ...
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Palazzo Barberini and Caravaggio. In the bedlam of the blockbuster exhibition of the year.

One struggles beyond measure to catch a glimpse of an exhibition in the exhibition halls of Palazzo Barberini, where for just over a week the public has been admitted to a new, unfailing, unmissable Caravaggio epiphany, organized to coincide with the...
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But are we sure that Narcissus is the prototype of the self-portrait? What the exhibition in Forli looks like

Is the selfie the end point that closes the circle of the self-portrait as it has developed since the very attractive but also very false idea that an artist is hidden in every man? Riccardo Falcinelli, for example, has sought answers to the question...
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Rome finally celebrates "Titina of nights": what the Titina Maselli exhibition looks like

She resolutely pursued her own, painterly journey to the end of the night. And, from the pitch bottoms of simple things, immersed in the darkness of the metropolis, she managed to ignite her palette. To shoot acid colors and elevate acrobatic athlete...
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Mark Manders, when writing with objects instead of words. What the Sandretto exhibition looks like

As a rule, we are accustomed to bring under the umbrella of conceptual art a varied catalog of artistic expressions in which instances related to the constructive process and speculative scheme that determine the work are predominant over the aesthet...
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Everything is serious if there is irony. What the exhibition at MAMbo in Bologna is like.

The biggest mistake one can make in making an exhibition of artworks that should have irony as its common thread is to explain where it lurks by overwhelming it with words and reflections. But, on the other hand, what to do? Irony is a "celibate mach...
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Hokusai in Pisa, many masterpieces and some uncertainty

The Hokusai exhibition that opened at Palazzo Blu in Pisa on Oct. 24, 2024, and will be open until Feb. 23, 2025, is now nearing its close. Once again, the patrician palace overlooking the Arno River has offered in the fall-winter period, a major exh...
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Bologna compares Guido Reni's two Atalantes. What the exhibition at the Pinacoteca Nazionale looks like.

There should be queues on Via delle Belle Arti, in front of the entrance to the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna, which for two months has granted faculty to the city, to Italy, to everyone, d'admire displayed side by side the two versions of Guido Re...
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Inhabiting the home of one of the great masters of art. Alessandra Spranzi at Casa Morandi

Artists' house museums are precious places that are difficult to design because of the oxymoronic need to let visitors enter (with due security measures), a space that was originally private, to make traceable and legible the imprints of the creative...
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Roberto Matta, the avant-garde suspected of kitsch.

When one considers that the birth of American comics lasted, roughly, from 1933 to 1938, and peaked with the myth of Superman, it is not surprising that Roberto Matta's interest in comics was, so to speak, of the first hour. And on the other hand, it...
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An art of shadow and silence. What the exhibition on Raoul Dal Molin Ferenzona in Collesalvetti looks like.

More than fifty years have passed since Dario Durbè could still write that Raoul Dal Molin Ferenzona was an artist who was "unfortunately forgotten and difficult to reconstruct due to the lack of biographical news and documentation." It can be...
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Restless renaissance and viaticum padani, from Brescia to Ferrara

In recent decades, historians have declined some historical categories in the plural. Thus the monolithic and imperious Renaissance, with a capital letter, has begun to break down into multiple renaissances, where the adjective regionalist has gained...
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