Contemporary art

Twenty years after its creation, a massive work by Staccioli will be installed in the Maremma landscape

The imposing cor-ten steel work Untitled (Prospettiva Cielo), created in 2004 by Mauro Staccioli (Volterra, 1937 - Milan, 2018) for the Bodio Center in Milan, will be installed 20 years after its first exhibition in the "Valle d'Oro" in the locality ...
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Roberto Ghezzi brings his interventions in the landscape to Elba Island

'Canvases' in the landscape made with only natural elements, works of Land Art onElba Island: this is the project of Roberto Ghezzi (Cortona, 1978), as part of Anadyomene. Nascente dall'acqua, an interdisciplinary artistic residency initiative of the...
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Pesaro 2024 tells the micro and macro stories of its Quarters with 12 permanent and site-specific works

Twelve permanent works to tell the micro and macro stories of Pesaro's Neighborhoods: this is the goal of the project Dalle sculture nella città all'arte delle comunità, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, which stems from the historical mem...
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Rome, a site-specific work completely transforms the atrium of Metro A Vittorio Emanuele station.

Rome 's Metro A Vittorio Emanuele station reopened July 1 with a surprise: the station's atrium has been entirely transformed thesite-specific work Common Perspective (2024) by South Tyrolean artist Esther Stocker. More than 8,000 meters of black adh...
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This is Salon by Alison Saar, the official sculpture of the Paris 2024 Olympics

The official sculpture of the Paris 2024 Olympics was unveiled today in Paris : it is called Salon, is created by U.S. artist Alison Saar, and was selected by the IOC (the International Olympic Committee) and the City of Paris to forge the work that ...
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Italian Council, here are all the winners of the 13th edition

The 67 winning projects of the 13th edition of theItalian Council have been announced. This important competition is promoted by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity (DGCC) of the Ministry of Culture, with the aim of supporting the pro...
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New performance by Marina Abramović: 200,000 people in silence for 7 minutes at Glastonbury

"Let us give unconditional love to each other": it was with this intent that Marina Abramović yesterday silenced, for seven minutes, as many as two hundred thousand people, that is, the audience of the Glastonbury festival. It was a new performance ...
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In Brescia, Iannaccone Foundation presents a review against gender-based violence

From June 28 to Oct. 25, 2024, the spaces of RSA Vittoria in Brescia will host the exhibition Voice of Multitudes, curated by Daniele Fenaroli, conceived and realized by the Giuseppe Iannaccone Foundation in the context of the cultural battle against...
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Paper Mountains. In Carrara, Gabriele Landi's homage to the Apuan Alps.

From June 16 to Sept. 29, 2024, Carrara 's mudaC is hosting the exhibition Alle montagne (To the Mountains ) by Gabriele Landi (Schaerbeek, 1971), which offers the public a new in situ installation by the Ligurian artist, curated by Cinzia Compalati,...
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In Venice, here is Carsten Höller's new permanent work: the oval staircase of Palazzo Diedo

Inaugurated in Venice Venice Inclined Oval Staircase, the new permanent work by Carsten Höller that the public can walk through at Palazzo Diedo: it is an original project created for Berggruen Arts & Culture. This artwork, at once functiona...
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Treviso, project is studied for the preservation of street art works

Ca' Foscari University of Venice, with its experts in the field of Heritage Conservation Science, has signed an agreement with The Wallà project for the study and conservation of the murals created as part of the project, in the province of Tr...
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Francesco Arena wins the XXVI edition of the Pino Pascali Award

Italian artist Francesco Arena is the winner of the XXVI edition of the Pino Pascali Prize. For the first time in the history of the prize, the exhibition will be spread across the city of Polignano a Mare with a public art intervention curated by Br...
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A new space for contemporary art opens in Veneto: the Bonollo Foundation

There is a new space forcontemporary art in Veneto : it is the Sandra and Giancarlo Bonollo Foundation for Contemporary Art, which officially opened its activities with the opening of its exhibition space in the Dimesse Monastery in Thiene (Vicenza)...
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An artist's basketball court in Piacenza: here is Koté's playground

An artist's basketball court inaugurated in Piacenza: the playground by Antonio Cotecchia, a.k.a. Koté, commissioned by the City of Piacenza as part of a wide-ranging and integrated project to combat youth discomfort, was unveiled on June 6. T...
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Unsuspected creative: Mattia Morandi, former MiC press office chief, exhibits his works

From June 4 to June 21, 2024, in Rome, Fabio Mazzeo Architects is hosting at its headquarters on Via Giulia, inside Palazzo Baldoca Muccioli, the first event in a series of monographic exhibitions entitled Insospettabili Creativi. These exhibitions a...
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London, the tallest bronze pumpkin to date by Yayoi Kusama will be placed in Kensington Gardens

From July 9 to Nov. 3, 2024, near Round P ond, the lake in Kensington Gardens, the tallest bronze pumpkin to date by Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, Japan, 1929) will be placed and visible to all. Pumpkin (2024) is in fact 6 meters high and 5.5 meters in di...
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