Interviews

"Autonomous museums: here's what would be the real change to consider": interview with Lorenzo Casini

Icom in Prague provided a new definition of what a museum should mean. But from a purely legal point of view, how should the spearheads of the state museum system be framed? The reference is to autonomous museums. On them the Meloni government contin...
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"Beauty is emotion and disturbance." Conversation with sculptor Andrea Marini

Andrea Marini was born on April 19, 1948, in Florence, Italy, where he received his baccalaureate in art and later his degree in architecture. He still lives in Florence and carries out his creative activity in an industrial-type space in Calenzano (...
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Slamming the MACRO on the front page: how to make the museum a magazine. Interview with Luca Lo Pinto

After five years, it's time to take stock for Rome's MACRO, directed by Luca Lo Pinto. In a few months, Rome's contemporary art museum, born a little more than 20 years ago in a former brewery in the capital, will have a new director. Lo Pinto's MACR...
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Inquiry into regional state museums, part one. Fabrizio Sudano (director museums Calabria) speaks.

After the review on autonomous museums, Finestre Sull'Arte continues its in-depth study on state museums by launching one dedicated to the Regional National Museum Directorates (DrMn), peripheral articulations of the General Directorate of Museums. T...
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Elisa Belloni's puppets, creatures between visual narratives, stories and legends

Elisa Belloni is an artist whose creative vision is distinguished by a strongly multidisciplinary and multimedia approach. Her career is nourished by an ongoing exploration of artistic techniques, from traditional arts to stop-motion to children's il...
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What the dark Rome of the 1980s was like. Interview with Dino Ignani

A few months ago, an important selection of the Dark Portraitscycle by Dino Ignani (Rome, 1950), one of Italy's greatest photographers, became part of the collections of the Capitoline Superintendency of Roma Capitale. This important nucleus is on d...
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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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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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The aesthetics of destruction: conversation with Loredana Longo

Loredana Longo (Catania, 1967) is an Italian artist and sculptor who has built her research around the aesthetics of destruction, a theme that has marked her work for more than two decades. Her practice, which ranges from sculpture to installation, p...
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When the bank becomes a museum. Michele Coppola, director of the Galleries of Italy, speaks.

In recent decades, Intesa Sanpaolo has created a complex cultural system that aims to promote art and culture in our country. Progetto Cultura - this is the name of the project - includes four museums located in historic palaces, the Gallerie d'Itali...
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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 to explore the complexity of the Egyptians: talks Paolo Marini (Egyptian Museum)

Paolo Marini is an Egyptologist whose career is distinguished by the link between academic research and curating international exhibitions. A graduate and Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Pisa, Marini has developed an interest in Egyptian g...
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"Irony is survival, in art as in life." Conversation with Chiara Lecca

Chiara Lecca (Modigliana, 1977) graduated in 2005 in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and in 2008 took part in the Fondazione Spinola Banna per l'Arte residencies in Turin. She focuses her research on the relationship between man and...
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How the art market is changing: more content, less appearance. Conversation with Caretto&Occhinegro

An art market that looks more at content and less at appearances, much more prepared and attentive to quality. This is the major change that gallery owners Massimiliano Caretto and Francesco Occhinegro, owners of the Caretto&Occhinegro gallery, a...
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Love in the time of digital art. Interview with Kamilia Kard

Kamilia Kard is an artist and lecturer born in Milan in 1981. Her artistic research explores issues of human perception in the context of hyperconnectivity and digital communication. After graduating in Political Economy from Bocconi University, she ...
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Is the Biennale's "Strangers Everywhere" slogan divisive? Claire Fontaine answers.

Claire Fontaine is a duo founded in Paris in 2004 by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill: one of their works, Strangers Everywhere, inspired the title of the international exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale, curated by Adrian Pedrosa. Raja El...
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