The figure of Jeff Wall (Vancouver, 1946) represents a decisive juncture in the history of contemporary photography: the artist, beginning in the late 1970s, was among the first to problematize the status of the topical photographic image, moving it ...
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Today, if we think about it, it is not unusual to come across female art gallerists: they welcome visitors to their galleries, in Italy as well as abroad, on a par with their fellow gallery owners, and even at the many art fairs that take place throu...
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Milan. In the deep darkness that precedes dawn - but in the glow of dawn we will discover another and more intense sense of bewilderment in the pictorial blackness that surrounds us - what strikes us about Nobu at Elba is the intense smell emanating ...
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We tend to associate Giovanni Segantini's painting with alpine landscapes, snow, and mountains. Angelo Conti, in Beata Riva, a fundamental treatise on aesthetics, said that Segantini was "the revealer of the mountain," because "no one like him ever h...
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A high and singular de Chirico Exhibition in Modena. A happy event that brings new light to a powerful beacon of art. We take this precious opportunity certainly not to bore the reader and dissert again on the innumerable volumes already expressed ar...
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It is hard to deny that this historical moment is particularly happy for the so-called "painters of reality," if there is still to be used that formula, invented in the 1930s and then made his own in 1953 by Roberto Longhi, who made itmade it famous,...
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Many will have been impressed by the Poland Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, featuring the participatory video installation Repeat after me II by the Open Group collective (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga). The protagonists of the two vid...
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The European visitor to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art who enters the unfamiliar and seductive space that is the American Wing, under its stained-glass windows that seem to seal off the works on display as if inside a crystal temple, cannot fa...
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There has been talk on more than one occasion on these pages about the increasing presence in exhibitions, biennials and art fairs of spectacular installations, of works that are immediately striking for their visual power but are often fragile or su...
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Enzo Azzoni, a ninety-five-year-old Verbano photographer and runner who at his young age still continues to win Italian masters championships in track and field, is right. He is right when he says that we must not forget that today we can know and ap...
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After exhibitions by Bertozzi & Casoni and Germano Sartelli, Imola vibrantly and intelligently continues an interesting journey into modern and contemporary art. The works of Keita Miyazaki (Tokyo, 1983) enter the rooms of Palazzo Tozzoni(Keita M...
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The debate on the intersection of art and science has experienced a significant acceleration in recent years in exploring the aesthetic possibilities offered by emerging technologies, as evidenced, one example above all, by the section The Unfinished...
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Almost half of what is preserved at the Brera Art Gallery is due to the ideas and taste of a man, Andrea Appiani, who was well regimented within the Napoleonic bureaucratic apparatus. Right from the start: as early as 1796, the year of Napoleon's arr...
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It could have been titled Les Italiens de Paris the Belle Époque exhibition currently running at Palazzo Blu in Pisa until April 7, 2026, and indeed the subtitle reads "Italian Painters in Paris in the Age of Impressionism." In fact, the prota...
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An exhibition on Georges de la Tour is already an event even before it opens. And the one that has been running since mid-September at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris(Georges de la Tour. Entre ombre et lumière) was announced ...
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The history of Italian pointillism passes through Genoa. Pass through Genoa the social unrest that would later spill over into the arts. Passing through Genoa were the first Symbolist hotbeds that animated Italian painting in the latter part of the 1...
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