Who is Luca Rossi

Germano Sartelli in Imola, a beautiful exhibition for one of the greats of the 20th century in the world

The Civic Museums of Imola are dedicating a major exhibition to Germano Sartelli (Imola, 1925 - 2014) for the 100th anniversary of his birth: Germano Sartelli. The Enchantment of Matter, curated by Claudio Spadoni. A beautiful exhibition. Can one say...
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Irony exhibition at MAMbo in Bologna kills a fundamental aspect of irony

After Mozzarella in Carrozza, a large work by Gino De Dominicis that opens the exhibition Facile Ironia at the MAMbo Museum in Bologna, the path is fragmented into many works that tend to get lost and unremarkable within a setting where red and yello...
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The controversy against Giannelli and Lodola in Florence? Crocodile tears of insiders.

There is a lot of talk about some artworks deemed "not appropriate" and installed in the historic center of Florence, in the specific case of Emanuele Giannelli and Marco Lodola. It is rightly criticized that these works have plummeted from the sky w...
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Reducing VAT on works: the art world's crocodile tears

The failure to decrease VAT is certainly a problem for the Italian art market, which is losing competitiveness with galleries from France, Germany and around the world. But this is not the pincer that suffocates the art market, especially if we think...
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What do art and the art system do in the face of the world's problems?

The art system is entrenched above ivory towers and artists are forced to produce harmless and reassuring interior furniture, what I called in 2009 evolved IKEA. There is now a fair a week and there are only "gathering" places, there are no longer pl...
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Curators are now the real artists, and artists are weak. But this needs to be reversed

As has been the case for many years for the "elected" curator on duty, the newly appointed curator of the Venice Biennale 2026 International Art Exhibition, Koyo Kouoh, is presented as if she were a super-director, a super-author, but in reality the ...
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The best and worst of contemporary art 2024 according to Luca Rossi

For several years there has been little point in doing the classic "best of" referring to contemporary art. This is because we have been going through, for at least fifteen to twenty years, a neo-mannerist and transitional phase. Lists, with the best...
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Rome, Divario gallery closes: "cultural and commercial function together? It's unsustainable."

After just five years of existence, the Divario gallery in Rome has closed. It had been founded in 2019 by entrepreneur Filippo Tranquilli and over the years had stood out for a refined proposal, centered particularly on photography, with mostly youn...
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