Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as dothe black dots representing towns and villages on a map.(Vincent Van Gogh, Letters to Theo)
"We can only see what we know." Ernst Gombrich already argued this in Art and Illusion. And we see little, b...
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Who, then, was Gian Lorenzo Bernini? In front of the long, uniform, sumptuous gallery of portraits gathered in the rooms on the first floor of Palazzo Barberini, one might be tempted to dismiss the feeling that Bernini was a man who disdained any for...
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What is Baroque? It is an attitude, and as such it transcends time, becoming a category. This is argued by Cristina Acidini, one of the curators of the exhibition recently opened at the Museo Civico San Domenico in Forlì. If we no longer think...
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One of the reasons why many contemporary art exhibitions are refractory to the general public is that they make the viewer feel a bit stupid. Of course, the more sensitive and knowledgeable viewers are, the higher their threshold of tolerance with re...
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Let us pretend, for the next five lines, that the adjective "retrospective" referring to an exhibition is nice to read and above all has some classificatory potential, some determinative value. Well: the "retrospective" exhibition of an artist workin...
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Anaesthetics of the laceration in which intimacy and dramaturgy, monumentality and maniacal attention to detail, references to the (especially Flemish) masters of the past and crude actuality coexist: these are the hallmarks of the sculptural practic...
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Keeping the attention of visitors along the entire path of an exhibition is no easy thing, especially when investigating a historical-artistic period, such as Neoclassicism and its major protagonists, to which a conspicuous number of exhibition proje...
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Nicolo Barabino proved that Mary of Nazareth is a woman made of verse and ink, that her image is a profoundly human construct, is the badge of devout, radiant, delicate consummation. He, however, had no knowledge of it; he was just a painter who had ...
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CC, an exhibition by the American post-minimalist artist Michael E. Smith, hosted in the basement of Bologna's Palazzo Bentivoglio that sees the double curatorship of Simone Menegoi together with Tommaso Pasquali, confirms itself among the most inter...
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Sicily, distant motherland but indelible matrix of many paintings. And Rome, city of birth and election, vital meeting point for art and family existence. But also launching pad to the international horizon, Parisian and American, before and after Wo...
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A few days ago, we were roughly at the beginning of the second week of the Olympics, Aldo Cazzullo wrote in the Corriere that "Milan is not at all pervaded by Olympic fever," and that after the inauguration the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games were "flowing ...
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"Infesta mihi credite signa ab Syracusis illata sunt hunc urbi" (Livy, XXXIV 4, 4). With these words, in 195 B.C., Cato, a spokesman for the most ardent conservatism, railed against the vast amount of cultural artifacts the Romans moved from Syracuse...
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Piazza Mignanelli has been filled with mirrors since Joana Vasconcelos brought us her I'll be your mirror, the work that, if you will, acts as an overture to her solo show Venus, set up a few meters ahead in the rooms of PM23, the Valentino Garavani ...
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... and the knight saved the princess from the terrible dragon. It sounds like thehappy ending of one of those fairy tales we used to read to each other as children, already under the blankets, before falling asleep, but in fact the story of St. Geor...
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If there is one thing Anselm Kiefer is not afraid of, it is confrontation with the past: whether it is his personal experience or the installation of works in historically highly connoted contexts, the artist always manages to trigger short circuits ...
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In order to enter the ascetic universe of Bartolomeo Cesi it is necessary to abandon on the threshold any sort of prejudice connected with the times and places in which he painted, it is necessary to clear one's mind of any preconception about the ar...
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