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Denicolai & Provoost and six artist comics

by Piero Bisello

What are artist comics really? A selection of six best examples from the collection of Belgian artist duo Denicolai &...

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larissa de jesus

Larissa De Jesús Negrón’s path to enlightenment

by Veronica Gisondi

"Things tend to build up and then you’re left with a bunch of anxiety and jealousy that you don’t understand."...

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Alternatives from the periphery: Pierre-Olivier Rollin and the BPS22 (an interview)

by Sonia D'Alto

How do global politics from the province look like? An interview with Pierre-Olivier Rollin, the director of BPS22 in Charleroi

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Luca Pacioli Summa

Luca Pacioli and the mathematical Renaissance

by Antonio Carnevale

The Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli is the crystalline symbol of his shattered dream: an orderly word expressed in numbers

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Elene Chantladze: where art lands

by Stefano Pirovano

An artist by instinct and not by profession, Georgian Elene Chantladze shows the self-confidence of an established master

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Ser Serpas walks

by Dora Budor

Ser Serpas skims the surfaces of the streets and lots, "attempting to rip something from the refuse piles"

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Horace Pippin is a misunderstood realist

by Sofia Silva

Labels such as "primitive," "naive," and "folk" can conceal prejudice and racism. Horace Pippin was a realist instead

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Frankenstein Magazine is out for a game

by Stefano Pirovano

If you are tired of being stuck at home, a comic book with no comic book artist is there to...

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To the zodiac and back

by Silvia Tomasi

Phaethon changes sex, the gods are sick, the Earth is burned, the seas are drained: the zodiac is all these...

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jean katambayi mukendi

Some of Jean Katambayi Mukendi so far

by Piero Bisello

Some the most salient aspects of the Jean Katambayi Mukendi's art, between Lubumbashi, Brussels and New York

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HC: thinking with more than one mind

by Francesco Tenaglia

What or who is HC, really? "Its humorous approach proved to be a pretty efficient tool to create unexpected situations."

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Carlo Crivelli

The annoying fly and symbolic paintings

by Silvia Tomasi

Flies buzz around a few Renaissance, Netherlandish and Baroque paintings, full of jokes, meanings, and hellish symbolism

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Mike Winkelmann alisas Beeple

Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, is not Roger Federer

by Stefano Pirovano

Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple is the first artist to sell a blockchain-based artwork at a main auction house. But it's...

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Raffaela Naldi Rossano’s invocation of the ancestors

by Sonia D'Alto

Raffaela Naldi Rossano shows how genius loci and personal memory come together in the search for an alternative society

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The best six art fabricators

by Piero Bisello

Here is a list of the world's best art fabricators, showing that behind the most ambitious works there is often...

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Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

Bringing light and liberation: Dalila Dalléas Bouzar

by Ricko Leung

Dalila Dalléas Bouzar questions colonialism and patriarchy, trying to turn art into an instrument of liberation

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Page composed by hand in Tallone font

The typographic utopia of Tallone Editore

by Antonio Carnevale

A journey to the printing atelier of Tallone Editore, where a Renaissance approach to publishing mix with the present

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Marta Gnyp’s explanation of the art world today

by João G. Rizek

Marta Gnyp's The Shift has come to its second edition. Is the art world still a place of speculation, navel-gazing,...

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Chalisée Naamani

Chalisée Naamani presents fashion

by Piero Bisello

Chalisée Naamani's painterly installations expose what surrounds her today: the fashion-of-the-day that is not necessarily fashionable.

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Digital old masters in actuality

by Piero Bisello

Digital old masters are a thing now more than ever, but much is still to be learned. We look at...

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Giangiacomo Rossetti: painting as a form of hospitality

by Stefano Pirovano

We interpreted the paintings of Giangiacomo Rossetti with the help of their author and a fundamental exhibition in New York

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teatri del Polesine - Adria Theater

Theaters in Polesine: a trip between two rivers

by Antonio Carnevale

Off the beaten paths, we embark on a journey to the theaters in Polesine, a forgotten part of Italy dear...

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sophie gogl

Sophie Gogl: relating to the smiley face

by Julius Pristauz

On Sophie Gogl's love for turns, seeking what's behind her gimmicks and reaching the top of the pyramid of needs

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Antiphonary

The best six antique book dealers

by Antonio Carnevale

Our selection of six best antique book dealers, spanning different locations, specializations, approaches and histories

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On the creative mentality of Patrick Weldé

by Stefano Pirovano

By turning the countryside into a creative frontier Patrick Weldé finds a powerful antidote to urban clichés and fashion disillusionment

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Othman Lazraq

Othman Lazraq, director of MACAAL in Marrakech (an interview)

by Ricko Leung

Is MACAAL the ultimate contemporary art museum on the African Continent? An interview with its director Othman Lazraq sheds some...

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keto logua

Double flowers: on the work of Keto Logua

by Céline Mathieu

Originally from Tbilisi and now in Berlin, Keto Logua takes botany, petals and sexes to speak of multiplicity, ambiguity, and...

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Who was Jef Geys?

by Dirk Snauwaert

A brief overview of late Belgian artist Jef Geys, spanning key projects, approaches, methodologies, and complexities

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"Valet de deniers", Anonyme, Milan

Tarot cards: the pocket-sized Renaissance

by Silvia Tomasi

First recorded in 15th century Italy, tarot cards have reached today's collections following strange paths and through a few discoveries.

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herman

In memory of Herman Daled, beyond his collection

by Catherine Mayeur

A few weeks after his passing, we delve into Herman Daled's seminal involvement with art, an engagement that went much...

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Barockhaus, Görlitz

Ancient books, an introduction

by Antonio Carnevale

Niche within a niche, ancient books from the Renaissance are very much alive today, torn between objects of fetish and...

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