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Andrea Romano, Potsherds of Gazes (second book)

by Stefano Pirovano

A 13 drawings book is the last chapter of a series Andrea Romano has dedicated to the way in which...

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Gaimbattista Tiepolo, “Martyrdom of San Bartolomeo"

Giambattista Tiepolo: escaping the museum room

by Antonio Carnevale

Tiepolo's painting lives outside museums, inseparable from the places for which it was created. Here is a comprehensive map.

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Artist-run spaces in Europe today

by Piero Bisello & Stefano Pirovano

A landscape of artist-run spaces active in Europe today, testimonies from the interstice between institutions and market.

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Antelami. Settembre

Benedetto Antelami: praise of gravity

by Silvia Tomasi

Benedetto Antelami carves the most spiritual and quotidian figures in the heaviest Medieval stone, founding blocks of cathedrals and cults.

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Art hotels: cultural experiences wanted

by Stefano Pirovano

It's time for alternatives, not only to art fairs. We analyze art hotels as places for artistic experience beyond mere...

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Giant Polaroid, innovation or preservation?

by Chiara Agradi

A brief history of the Giant Polaroid, the largest transportable Polaroid ever built, which put together the art of photography...

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Tatjana Danneberg

Painting + photography according to Tatjana Danneberg

by Piero Bisello

Tatjana Danneberg grabs fragments of real life, turning snapshots and drawings into complex paintings. Steyerl's poor image lives again.

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A mistaken perspective on the Renaissance

by Antonio Carnevale

Wrong, defective, crooked perspectives: they were not painters' mistakes, but ways to represent thoughts and mysteries in the Renaissance.

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Raphaela Vogel: unification of the manifold

by Stefano Pirovano and Sonia D'Alto

Expressionism, monumentality and manifold in the works of Raphaela Vogel, before her solo exhibition in Milan.

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Broken intentions: on damaged contemporary art

by Piero Bisello

Collectors and museums worried about broken artworks should remember that artist's intentions can fix many issues, including material ones.

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Gustave Van de Woestyne, The Children's Table, 1919. Courtesy of Museum Van Buuren, Brussels.

The quotidian avant-garde of Gustave Van de Woestyne

by Evelyn Simons

Symbolism and everyday blend in the work of Belgian master Gustave Van de Woestyne, a modernist who was able to...

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Villa Lena

Villa Lena (Evstafieva) + Jerome Hadey: a cultural experience

by Stefano Pirovano

A residency for artists, a hotel and a farm coexist at Villa Lena, supporting each other thanks to Lena Evstafieva...

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Rodolpho Parigi

Rodolpho Parigi: an interview with the virtuoso

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Rodolpho Parigi can paint whatever he wants. But the big problem, even for him, is choosing what is really worth...

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calder comb MoMa collection

What are combs for besides untying knots?

by Silvia Tomasi

The answer to combs collecting lies in the artists' creativity, from the Etruscans, to Füssli, Man Ray, Picasso, Dalí, Calder...

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At the show with the artist: Jennifer Tee and Renaissance Rugs

by Piero Bisello

We speak with Jennifer Tee about Renaissance rugs, using history of textiles to reflect on the appropriation of visual cultures...

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Adriaen Coorte Rijksmuseum

The symbolic, erotic, and lunar asparagus

by Silvia Tomasi

Through Flemish painting, Manet, Max Ernst, Andreas Gursky, and Hannah Levy, we start to believe that the asparagus has feelings...

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Marina Pinsky, Truck with wall drawing (detail), 2020. © Eden Krsmanovic / Courtesy of the artist and CLEARING New York, Brussels

Marina Pinsky: it’s the images that are worth repeating

by Julia Mullié

An encompassing essay on Marina Pinsky's oeuvre, unfolding her critical narrative of images, technology and local histories.

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Luigi Zuccheri, Untitled (Cespuglio con faina, calabrone e frate), 1950/55, tempera on board, 40x45 cm.

Luigi Zuccheri, the accidental modernist

by Sofia Silva

A 20th century, ancient Venetian painter who found himself modern by chance, Luigi Zuccheri pushed localism to the limit.

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A suspicious dialogue between artists Francesco João and Sven Sachsalber

by Stefano Pirovano, Francesco João, Sven Sachsalber

Artists talk to each other pretty often, and so do Francesco João and Sven Sachsalber about controversial sports figures, biking,...

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Antonello Cristo alla colonna

The figure of the rope between gore, eros and faith

by Silvia Tomasi

Goya, Lady Gaga, Man Ray, Giulio Paolini, Georg Baselitz, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Antonello & co., all tied together to...

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Bathing for gourmets: an interview with Leonard Koren

by Piero Bisello

We look into fine bathing and the pleasure of inefficiency through an interview with artist, aesthete, and polemist Leonard Koren.

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Veronese part

Why take an artwork from the place it was made for?

by Antonio Carnevale

Bringing works of art out of museums and back to their places of origin is what we should do: the...

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Not afraid of craft: the Van der Kelen Logelain school of decorative painting

by Piero Bisello

We feature the Van der Kelen Logelain school of decorative painting in Brussels, a recognized springboard for important contemporary and...

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Francesco Clemente, iconology of “il mio corpo è rosso per formaggio”

by Stefano Pirovano

Francesco Clemente painted 'Il mio corpo è rosso per formaggio' around 1980, the year of his first participation in the...

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Diego Perrone

No leap is ever into the void

by Silvia Tomasi

A saga of artist jumps through the work of Hsieh, Mureșan, de Dominicis, Perrone, in the wake of Yves Klein's...

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At the show with the artist: Gabriel Kuri on Lucio Fontana

by Piero Bisello

An exchange with Gabriel Kuri on Lucio Fontana's "Ambiente Spaziale," exploring the boundaries of installation and sculpture in both artists'...

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Who says crises foster creativity?

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

For those who still believe that suffering yields good art, we show that plagues, wars, and oppression have never been...

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Jaanus Samma, the many gay histories of Modern Eastern Europe

by Agata Pyzik

Emerging artist Jaanus Samma deals with stories of homosexuality in his home country of Estonia, both under the Communist regime...

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An open letter to Italian museums: the web is your vaccine

by Conceptual Fine Arts

Media dilettantism and digital ignorance can harm Italian museums, which should be aware of their cultural role in society and...

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Emerging artists to watch: Kaoru Arima and his facial (un)recognition

by Piero Bisello

Kaoru Arima's pictures of faces are paintings for an alternative, straightforward portraiture: romanticism no more; agendas no more; ego no...

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Emmanuel Nassar: art is the illegal exercise of all the professions

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

We sat down with Brazilian Pop master Emmanuel Nassar to talk about art, symbols, advertising, and the importance of visiting...

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