Who is Luca Rossi

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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Keil Space's artistic revolution in Florence: the observer at the center as co-creator

To visit Keil Space in Florence, the space conceived by British artist Samantha Keil, is to glimpse the future, to experience and savor what we would like the future to be. The space, founded by Samantha Keil, a master of bronze from a long line of c...
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Bulgari Prize 2024 finalists: art that doesn't really impact

The three finalist works of the Bulgari Prize were presented in Rome at the Maxxi Museum. As has been the case periodically for the past few years, a few curators indicate a few artists and then an international jury defines the short list of finalis...
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Why nowadays ArtVerona is much better than Frieze in London

Let me explain why at this historical stage a contemporary art fair like ArtVerona is much better than Frieze in London. Despite the fact that this year the London fair seems to be seemingly relaunched. We are coming from a historical period, the la...
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