Interviews

"A work of art is an apparition, a staging." Conversation with Concetta Modica

Concetta Modica was born in Modica, lives in Milan, works and studies on the present and its paradoxes, in particular the concept of the contemporary epic: the present as what remains of something, as a relationship with other artists, with matter, ...
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Giacinto Cerone, free and independent sculptor: interview with curator Marco Tonelli

From January 18 to April 27, 2025, the exhibition Giacinto Cerone is on view at the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza. The Necessary Angel, an anthological exhibition dedicated to Giacinto Cerone (Melfi, 1957 - Rome, 2004), a singular sc...
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A forest of construction sites: how the Ducal Palace in Mantua will become. Director Stefano L'Occaso speaks.

For the past few months Stephen L'Occaso has been reappointed as director of the Ducal Palace in Mantua, a vast complex that since 2021 has seen the opening of numerous construction sites aimed at seismic improvement and structural restoration: some ...
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What the press office of Italy's best 2024 exhibition does. Interview with Marco Ferri

The exhibition on Federico Barocci at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino (Federico Barocci Urbino. The Excitement of Modern Painting, June 20 to October 6, 2024, here our review), curated by Luigi Gallo and Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari wit...
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Working with clay: the seeds of Arianna Cordiviola. "A wonderful material."

Arianna Cordiviola has been creating interesting works with clay for years. She was born in Carrara in 1977, where she refined her artistic sensibility at the Artemisia Gentileschi Art School. She continued her education at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
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AI in the arts? Ease of use risks proliferation of poorly curated content. Lucio Arese speaks

A professional in the fields of design, music, visual art, and filmmaking, Lucius Arese (Milan, 1964) has been working in the visual arts and film industry since 2008. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with well-known artists, labels and bra...
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"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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