Contemporary Art Criticism - Finestre sull'Arte

The mild abstractionism of Gabriele Landi

For some time now, Gabriele Landi has taken to making cardboard or aluminum sculptures that always start from thin, light, simple sheets. They have inaugurated a new strand in his research, a refined, constant quest, always striving to explore the bo...
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The art of Laure Prouvost, a weaver of confusion and poetry

Imagine you are walking through a museum, the floor creaking slightly under your feet. The soft but uneasy light reflects a kaleidoscope of colors off the walls, while a voice whispers something. You are not sure if it is inviting you or warning you....
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Mat Collishaw, flowers as fascinating enigmas.

An image composed of 15 shots installed on backlit panels focuses, in a visual synecdoche, on a bullet-hit skull hole. The work is titled Bullet Hole and plays on perceptual destabilization. Up close it creates an interpretive short-circuit that is b...
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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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