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Art Basel 2014: Rosemarie Trockel and the fear factor

  Two years after Rosemarie Trockel’s solo retrospective at The Serpentine Gallery, where the work was firstly presented, the installation...

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Take a walk in Trisha Baga’s jungle before meeting her at Art Basel Statements 2014

  While waiting for the artist’s new 3D installation to be presented at Art Basel Statements we have visited Trisha...

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Giovanni Bellini, “The presentation in the Temple”, 1460 ca., tempera on panel, Museo Querini Stampalia, Venice.

Giovanni Bellini? Convince the guard to open the security cordon and let you take a closer look at the back of the painting

  Walking in Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Venice, and turning around its main church, you arrive in front of a...

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To architects the task of planning functional buildings, to artists that of creating functional symbols: Adrian Paci at the Venice Biennale Architettura 2014

  Symbols are among the fundamentals of any artistic language. Of course it doesn’t mean that any work of art...

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In Madrid to discover why Manet, Pollock, Modigliani, or Kokoschka have all been fascinated by El Greco’s painting

  On 24 June the exhibition “El Greco and Modern Painting” will open at the Prado, in Madrid. This show,...

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Karla Black’ solo show at Galleria Raffaella Cortese: have you ever drunk an excellent yellow wine?

  If we were asked to point out what Karla Black’s art practice is about we would answer that it...

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. Detail: Rodrigo de la Fuente, “El Greco”, Oil on canvas, 96 x 82.3 cm h (? ) . 1582 - 1585 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

The El Greco’s Library: link between form and information revealed at the Prado

  The Museo del Prado, the Biblioteca Nacional de España and Fundación El Greco 2014 is presenting the exhibition “El...

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Antonello da Messina, Ritratto d'uomo, 1476, Palazzo Madama, Torino.

Back to the XV century to discover what painting still aims at

  Then Adam, knowing the sin he had committed, and being nobly endowed by God, as the root and origin...

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Analysis of a Jack McConville’s panting: rustic joints or a disturbed classical idyll?

Painting is painting and Jack McConville (1984, Edinburgh) is a painter. This time however we won’t be talking about his...

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Would you say that this is a museum’s room? Welcome to the Galleria Rizzi in Sestri Levante, Italy

  Perhaps the art collection preserved in Galleria Rizzi, in Sestri Levante, is not as substantial as the ones in...

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Giovanni Da Milano (Como 1320 approx. - Florence 1369 approx.), Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, detail of the predella of the altarpiece with Madonna and Child with Saints (1355-1360 approx.) Prato, Museo di Palazzo Pretorio.

Bartholomew… so skinny, so conceptual

According to Christian iconography, the Apostle Bartholomew was martyred by being flayed alive. This savage torture has been depicted in...

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Graham Collins, car glasses and Frank Stella saying that what you see is what you see

New York based Graham Collins makes works that have reflective surface, reclaimed glasses from cars and other industrial materials. The...

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Painter Allegretto Nuzi from Fabriano: experiencing stop motion in the XIV century

  Hidden behind the choir’s stalls of San Venanzio’s Cathedral in Fabriano, Italy, there is a narrow passage leading to...

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Bangerz (PRISM series) 2014, Fiberglass, paint, 162 x 88 x 10 cm

Ed Fornieles: an exaggerated software makes the artwork moving too slow

  The two neat pieces by Ed Fornieles, recently appeared on Carlos/Ishikawa’s web site – currently the only artworks from...

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Baccio Bandinelli “Mercury" , before 1512. Marble. Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Sculptures

At the Bargello Baccio Bandinelli takes his revenge against Michelangelo’s supporters

  The first Baccio Bandinelli monographic exhibition – at the Bargello, Florence, until 13 July – allows us to rediscover...

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Discovering New Materialism thanks to artist Timur Si-Qin to regenerate your faith in the immaterial side

  It’s hard to say if what the contemporary philosophy calls “New materialism” will play the same role that other...

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The artist’s coach: Symmetry

  Art, of course, doesn’t concern only the realm of the visual. It is an experience that always involves the...

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Graham Green to prove that art is not a progression, but an addition creating a culture

  As Mr. Simchowitz has noticed, the pyramid recently presented by Peter Sutherland in occasion of his solo show at The Still...

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Giuseppe Pagano (Parenzo / Porec 1896 - Mauthausen 1945). Palestrina Pietà : whole and details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Rome 1938. Gelatin silver print. Florence, Biblioteca Berenson Photographic Archive , Villa I Tatti

Photography, Michelangelo and the “stone sickness” in his urine

  Since it was born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, photography has been looking at Michelangelo Buonarroti’s three-dimensional...

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Open for restoration: at the Oratorio di San Giovanni in Urbino for a rare sight on the frescoes by the Salimbeni bros

Built in 1365, the Oratorio di San Giovanni is one of the magnificent monuments that you come across when exploring...

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