Who is Davide Landoni

When the Palio di Siena is a work of art. The artists who painted the banner

As the sound of the mortar shell rampages through the shell of the Piazza del Campo, the horses, with their respective jockeys on their backs, appear under the Torre del Mangia and make themselves known to the contradaioli thronging around. All, hand...
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History of Italian art from 2000 to the present. Part 4: contemporary Italian painting

We know full well that the theory of the eternal return of the same developed by Nietzsche does not represent a regular philosophical exposition, much less a potential scientific hypothesis, so much as a dark prophecy. But as in dystopian novels, whi...
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History of Italian art from 2000 to the present. Part 3: video and performance

The stubborn need to connect audiences and works, to bring art closer to enthusiasts, has primarily driven artists from the 2000s onward to decline their creativity in a distinctly three-dimensional sense. To make, in essence, mainly sculptures, vide...
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History of Italian art from 2000 to the present. Part 2: relational art, openings on society

In a relationship, it is evident, there must be at least two subjects. It follows that, especially in an age such as ours, pervaded by pluralism and individualism, one cannot help but understand social relations as a communication between the individ...
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For a history of Italian art from 2000 to the present. Relational art, intimist perspective

The element that most of all makes it difficult to be an artist, or to work in art, nowadays is fragmentation. Indeed, with the dawn of the new millennium, the idea of current or movement has definitively waned, with artists moving essentially autono...
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Continuing to spit on Hegel. Antidote to trivializations about violence against women.

Rummaging through the many communiqués that reach the editorial office every day, I learned that this year Mantua's Festivaletteratura will dedicate two meetings to Carla Lonzi, a fundamental art critic and unparalleled theorist of second-wave fem...
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