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Stella Zhong and many confusing scales

by Piero Bisello

In its richness, a Stella Zhong painting, just like a Zhong sculpture or installation, is a little extra universe added...

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Aesthetic communities in the work of Pol Taburet

by Isabella Costabile

Through symbolic spaces like the yard and the trap house, Pol Taburet blends cultural awareness with entertainment’s aims

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International Galleries Alliance: the benefits of joining forces for the art market

by Stefano Pirovano

The new-born International Galleries Alliance could soon become a milestone in contemporary art's evolution. Here's why

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Guariento di Arpo relaxes perfection

by Sofia Silva

Guariento di Arpo's response to the authority of his Padua predecessor Giotto is one where grace blends with Gothic style...

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Sara Deraedt: sous vide

by Emile Rubino

Sara Deraedt paradoxically reinvests visuality by operating a shift of the discursive impulse away from words

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Evolution of a quasi-movement

by Stefano Pirovano

We look at a quasi-group of thirteen artists and what has kept them together in the last five years, rising...

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Defendente Ferrari, Sant’Ivo con due devoti, 1515 circa. Tecnica mista su tavola. Torino, Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica

Defendente Ferrari: escape from the Renaissance

by Silvia Tomasi

Defendente Ferrari keenly sought refuge in dreams during an era that instead celebrated the triumph of reality.

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Cosima zu Knyphausen and her imprecise skeletons

by Piero Bisello

The paintings of Cosima zu Knyphausen persuade you to ask what surrounds them, circulating motifs and subtle atmospheres, dismissing style.

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Ottaviano Nelli

Ottaviano Nelli the rough

by Antonio Carnevale

Here is an introduction to Ottaviano Nelli, the late Gothic painter from Gubbio who was famous for his rough mix...

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Naoki Sutter-Shudo, monuments and icons

by Samantha Ozer

In crafting speculative worlds on a shrunken scale, Naoki Sutter-Shudo dislocates us from the abstraction of the impending future, allowing...

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Wojciech Bakowski: dream-like narratives (an interview)  

by Veronica Gisondi

Dwelling on the possibilities of images, sounds, and words becomes a way for Wojciech Bakowski to dive into the boundaries...

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Henrik Potter: HINGE

by Céline Mathieu

The work of Henrik Potter is not the in-between. It is more the and and. It’s a mutuality, a literal...

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Hair air style from Middle Age to Botticelli

by Silvia Tomasi

Hair colour had a moral significance, the hairstyle a message of seduction or betrayal. And each hair became a story

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Marina Xenofontos, fluidity is a chrism

by Stefano Pirovano

Marina Xenofontos' poetic loops entail independent words, images and forms, that fluidity turns into a discourse

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Francesca Bertini

Italian silent film divas in their photographic postcards

by Esme Garlake

Many ordinary women saw Italian silent film divas as influences on daily dress and behaviour; much of this came from...

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Fin Simonetti

At the tender edge of violence: Fin Simonetti

by Veronica Gisondi

Spaces of worship constitute a fruitful field of inquiry for Fin Simonetti due to their symbolic value and particular function,...

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Frans Maseree

At the show with artist: Elena Ricci encounters Frans Masereel

by Elena Ricci*

Frans Masereel presents us with an intensely personal vision of life. It is a vision which shows an understanding of...

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The artistic fate of the wind

by Silvia Tomasi

Over the centuries, the wind has always been an iconographic presence for artists, touching upon fate, religion, chaos, love, and...

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Estrid Lutz and rootless cyberpunks today

by Piero Bisello

Estrid Lutz's dislike for finishedness, common beauty and constrains makes her a kin to previous renovators of punk attitudes (and...

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Vilnius CAC: an interview with the director Kestutis Kuizinas

by Denis Maksimov

From palace of culture to contemporary art centre, from Soviet art festival to Baltic Triennial: an interview with CAC director...

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On Giulio Romano’s tableware designs

by Esme Garlake

Tableware designed by Giulio Romano invites us to re-consider the false binary between works of art and functional objects.

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Joseph Yoakum and adventurous facts

by Sophie Varin

Joseph Yoakum has us going between the mundane quality of things in front of us and the extra-ordinary quality of...

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Paolo Pagani and the marvels of transformation

by Antonio Carnevale

Between failed aristocratic ambition and ungraspable styles, Paolo Pagani is the forgotten figure of Italian Baroque painting.

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Justine Neuberger: coughing up a strand of angel hair

by Céline Mathieu

Preferring her goofier, odder doodles, Justine Neuberger develops her swirly figures. "And then there is what the paint wants to...

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Latifa Echakhch and seeing things as if they’re vibrating (an interview)

by Haseeb Ahmed

Latifa Echakhch on her upcoming pavilion at the Venice Biennale, her recent inclusion in the Swiss Institute board, and intimate...

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Jeff Koons, “New Hoover Deluxe Shampoo Polishers

Symbol by symbol, dust piles up

by Silvia Tomasi

Read about artists' obsession with dust, from enigmatic depictions in 16th and 17th century painting to post-war imagery and symbols

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Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy and the Kunstinstituut Melly (an interview)

by Sofia Dati

Following the Name Change Initiative launched by Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Kunstinstituut Melly embarks on a new trajectory

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Every ticket wins: hyperpositivity in the work of Elif Saydam

by Miriam Bettin

Elif Saydam’s references are literal but overstimulating. The overflow of information makes you at times dizzy—and tired

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Josefine Reisch: if history is a stage

by Veronica Gisondi

Josefine Reisch and not letting yourself "become part of the killer story." An essay inspired by the carrier bag theory...

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Death helps life in the anatomical theatre

by Silvia Tomasi

Anatomical theatres were the literal and metaphorical houses of anthropocentrism. Are they resuscitating today?

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