Contemporary Art Criticism - Finestre sull'Arte

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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Roberto Cuoghi's art, a challenge to staticity

Contemporary art, by its very nature, is a terrain of constant experimentation and redefinition of the boundaries of self and creativity. Few artists have been able to explore these boundaries with the intensity and radicality of Roberto Cuoghi, a ma...
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Tommaso Buldini, the surreal painting of an artist with a prolific subconscious

"Anything can happen" in the worlds of Tommaso Buldini (Bologna, 1979), to quote his own words borrowed from the last scene of Fanny and Alexander borrowed, in turn, from Strindberg. "Everything is possible and probable", even that devils coexist wit...
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Andrea Fontanari, the poetry of the everyday

From the window of Andrea Fontanari's studio, one can see the gentle ridges that separate the Valsugana from the Adige Valley. In summer, the mountains of Trent are clothed in an emerald green that competes in intensity with the more ringing green of...
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Nicola Bolla's painting, from Pigment Paintings to LP paintings

Everyone knows For the love of God, the diamond-covered skull that Damien Hirst executed in 2007 garnering worldwide praise and acclaim. How many, however, know the artist who most likely inspired it? One has to look to Piedmont, where Nicola Bolla w...
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The fascination of color to discover light and the supersensible. The painting of Maurizio Faleni

If you want to start finding a motif for your own artwork, look at a stain on the wall. This was the suggestion that Leonardo da Vinci, in his Treatise on Painting, gave to young artists: the example came to him from a friend of his, a certain Sandro...
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The dreamlike expressionism of Francesca Banchelli

One could start from a first, single noun to introduce the art of Francesca Banchelli (Montevarchi, 1981), one of the most interesting names in young Italian painting: "encounter." It is perhaps the first word that comes up every time you look at her...
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Imitatio, tempus, vanitas. The art of Bertozzi & Casoni.

Among the factories on the industrious industrial outskirts of Imola, at the edge of an interminable sequence of cultivated fields that accompany the highway towards Forlì and the shores of Romagna, hides the factory that sees the birth of...
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