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Mark Manders, when writing with objects instead of words. What the Sandretto exhibition looks like

As a rule, we are accustomed to bring under the umbrella of conceptual art a varied catalog of artistic expressions in which instances related to the constructive process and speculative scheme that determine the work are predominant over the aesthet...
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Inhabiting the home of one of the great masters of art. Alessandra Spranzi at Casa Morandi

Artists' house museums are precious places that are difficult to design because of the oxymoronic need to let visitors enter (with due security measures), a space that was originally private, to make traceable and legible the imprints of the creative...
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Davide Benati, the poetry of a translocated nature that flourishes on a humus of paper and canvas

To visit an artist's studio is to have the privilege of being invited into a secret garden, into which one must tiptoe so as not to disturb the subterranean germination of the works to come, which hover there in little more than a potential state. Th...
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Cen Long, a dissident outsider in contemporary Chinese art

Zeng Fanzhi, Zhuang Hui, Chen Zhen, Liu Wei, Liu Bolin, Sun Yuan and Peng You, Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Cai Guoqiang, Chen Zhen, Huang Yongping: these are probably the first names of artists that the Western art-loving public considers as the most represe...
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Vera Lutter, unique photographs that make the real ambiguous. What the exhibition at MAST in Bologna looks like.

That the aura of the work of art no longer derives from its uniqueness is a fact that has been acknowledged ever since Walter Benjamin, at the turn of the two world wars, published the famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproduc...
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The Ettore Fico Museum in Turin: a museum that buys works by young people. Interview with director Andrea Busto

Enhancing the intrinsic museum vocation of disused industrial buildings in large cities is one of the most interesting areas of contemporary urban planning, as illustrious examples in Italy and abroad demonstrate, such as theabroad, such as the Fonda...
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Wael Shawky in Venice shows that you can be "Foreigners Everywhere" without hypocrisy

Foreigners Everywhere, Foreigners Everywhere, the theme identified by curator Adriano Pedrosa for the 60th edition of the Art Biennale, is extremely timely food for thought with respect to the contradictions of the globalized world, where goods circu...
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Anselm Kiefer at Palazzo Strozzi puts us at the center of his mental universe

For some time now, Florence has been striving to redesign its artistic identity by opening up to the contemporary, not an easy inclusion in a city whose imagination is universally linked to the historical wonders of which it is the repository. Exempl...
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