Who is Francesca Anita Gigli

Art is not just beauty: works are not passive. On the exhibition of works confiscated from the Mafia.

It has often been repeated, slavishly following a pure and forcibly utopian ideal, that art elevates and purifies the soul of the viewer lost in the world. But art has not been (and probably never will be) a mere site of that longed-for "beauty," or ...
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The art of stopping time: the portraits of Ugo Mulas

Since time immemorial, in human history, hands have made themselves eternal protagonists, ancient and irreplaceable tools that shape, transform, create and destroy by the mere force of gesture. In the photographic workshop of Ugo Mulas, these very sk...
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How error guided Cartier-Bresson in Italy. Interview with Clément Chéroux

The work of the famous French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is made up of glances, of moments captured at the wrong moment or mistakes made at the right time. It surely stems from a deep and enduring connection with Italy, from a keen eye for sq...
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How much more priceless in the world. The Immovable Existence of James Ensor

Livid and motionless, the North Sea stretches like an expanse of molten lead, shrouded in a gray haze that fades into infinity. The waves are flat, devoid of vigor, almost suspended in an eternal twilight and reflecting a melancholy-laden sky. This l...
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The Prison of the Mind. Mona Hatoum's art at the Bruges Triennial.

Theswing has always been among the freest and happiest games a child knows: it is a safe, public and impersonal nonplace where one pretends to fly while the air dishevels one's hair with irreverence and escape, dreams, seem to be a few inches closer ...
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Arnaldo Pomodoro's Labyrinth: a journey through history and the human psyche

"My entrance into the labyrinth is an invitation into the meanders of a path, where time is transformed into space and space in turn becomes time. " These are the words of the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro himself when we find ourselves inside his artwork,...
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Buried Secrets. The Murlo Archaeological Museum and ancient Etruscan civilization.

The roads along the Tuscan territory, those traced by the Etruscans, do not heavily modify nature, but rather go along with it, delicately following its boundaries, and gracefully fit into a landscape cradled in the past that, only at times and for a...
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Lorenzo Lotto and those anti-heretical paintings that perhaps inspired Pellegrino Tibaldi

A snow-white and almost lunar arm attempts to grasp a hand beneath him: it is thearchangel Michael, shrouded in the divine glow of a cloud, seemingly in a last desperate and vain attempt to save the brazen morning star, still in human and harmonious ...
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