Who is Maurizio Cecchetti

Maurizio Cecchetti

Maurizio Cecchetti è nato a Cesena il 13 ottobre 1960. Critico d'arte, scrittore ed editore. Per molti anni è stato critico d'arte del quotidiano "Avvenire". Ora collabora con "Tuttolibri" della "Stampa". Tra i suoi libri si ricordano: Edgar Degas. La vita e l'opera (1998), Le valigie di Ingres (2003), I cerchi delle betulle (2007). Tra i suoi libri recenti: Pedinamenti. Esercizi di critica d'arte (2018), Fuori servizio. Note per la manutenzione di Marcel Duchamp (2019) e Gli anni di Fancello. Una meteora nell'arte italiana tra le due guerre (2023).


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Restless renaissance and viaticum padani, from Brescia to Ferrara

Restless renaissance and viaticum padani, from Brescia to Ferrara

by Maurizio Cecchetti , written on 15/01/2025
Categories: Exhibition reviews
In recent decades, historians have declined some historical categories in the plural. Thus the monolithic and imperious Renaissance, with a capital letter, has begun to break down into multiple renaissances, where the adjective regionalist has gained...
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Michael Sweerts, from the vestiges of Rome to the shadows of the East.

Michael Sweerts, from the vestiges of Rome to the shadows of the East.

by Maurizio Cecchetti , written on 04/01/2025
Categories: Exhibition reviews
He must have been quite a guy, this Sweerts. From a Flemish family ennobled by the textile trade, Andrea, G. De Marchi and Claudio Seccaroni recall today in the catalog of the exhibition, still running in Rome until Jan. 18 at the Accademia di San Lu...
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The revolution of the circle in Marina Apollonio

The revolution of the circle in Marina Apollonio

by Maurizio Cecchetti , written on 07/12/2024
Categories: Exhibition reviews
The word "abstractionism," in the arts, is in danger of being a meaningless word. And not because, conversely, "figurative" makes sense. On the contrary. It is a confusion that came about with the avant-gardes who, having faith in the new, considered...
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, the decisive instant of the South

Henri Cartier-Bresson, the decisive instant of the South

by Maurizio Cecchetti , written on 16/11/2024
Categories: Exhibition reviews
Henri Cartier-Bresson's travels in Italy are journeys, especially to the South, recounted in photographic "reportages" that have a vague ethnographic flavor. The tone with which the French photographer approaches our worlds is somewhat reminiscent of...
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Why Helen Frankenthaler's painting was "without rules." What the Florence exhibition looks like

Why Helen Frankenthaler's painting was "without rules." What the Florence exhibition looks like

by Maurizio Cecchetti , written on 28/10/2024
Categories: Exhibition reviews
The most poetic and coldest painting at the same time on display at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (through Jan. 26) in the exhibition Helen Frankenthaler. Painting Without Rules, is titled Mornings and dates from 1971. The American painter was 43 years...
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The skin of the chameleon and Bertozzi & Casoni's memento mori

The skin of the chameleon and Bertozzi & Casoni's memento mori

by Maurizio Cecchetti , written on 14/10/2024
Categories: Exhibition reviews
New technologies, including those of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence that seeks to simulate dialogue capabilities with a human interlocutor by giving the impression of exercising, precisely, a critical factor that makes the conversation credible...
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Unlikely eulogy of Botero: that is, of the Botero we would like to see

Unlikely eulogy of Botero: that is, of the Botero we would like to see

by Maurizio Cecchetti , written on 24/09/2024
Categories: Exhibition reviews
The years in which Fernando Botero appeared in the art world, that is, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, were for Colombia marked by a social climate where violence was the order of the day (as, for that matter, is the case today with the domination...
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Frank Lloyd Wright, the crisis of the prophet

Frank Lloyd Wright, the crisis of the prophet

by Maurizio Cecchetti , written on 13/09/2024
Categories: Books
He considered architecture to be America's "blind spot." That dot that moves across the retina and becomes a disturbance that prevented his countrymen from seeing well how important architecture could be in the development of democratic society. For ...
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