On March 17, 1805, Napoleon proclaimed the Kingdom of Italy. Two works – a painting and a marble relief – were realized in those years. They tell the story of his coronation, in different ways, but both depicting a single man in charge.
Slow motion and acoustic alterations. For Bill Viola, the video treatment makes it possible to see invisible reality. The exhibition at the Palazzo Reale explores the artist’s experimentation over time.
A focus on art exhibitions in Italy this spring. Tosatti in Milan; Eliasson at Castello di Rivoli; Dylan in Rome; Cattelan in Florence, and so on. Plus, a reference to London.
Many personalities who helped building and livening up the post-war cultural world have passed away in this 2020. For each of them, we suggest a project, a book, an exhibition, a website, to transfer a small part of the enormous cultural legacy they left us.
From street furniture elements, to epicentres of a new sociability, to artistic and technological expressions, a selection of fountains redesining public space and that have become iconic and representative symbols of cities around the world.
The day after the devastating Syria-Turkey earthquake, works such as Silvestro Lega’s ex-voto lunettes and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s Earthquake in the Crimea remind us when art has told of natural disasters and catastrophes. Those tragedies seem unstoppable over the past few years.
We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment
We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.
Milan hosts one of the most important masterpieces by Masaccio, Crucifixion – a work that anticipates contemporary times. On display at the Diocesan Museum in a breathtakingly theatrical setting that reconstructs the dismembered and partly lost Pisa Altarpiece.
From ancient times, art has celebrated this festive season in which roles are subverted, telling its different nuances. At the Carnival and Pierrot’s Embrace – two works of art painted a few decades apart – do so exemplarily.
In 1916 Kandinsky painted perhaps the most famous place of the Russian nation. Today the story of that incredible and pivotal painting is linked to the hope that all squares – even those devastated by war in Ukraine – will shine again.
Integrated into a context and experienced by the community, these are works that are not merely a means of cultural dissemination but represent the icon of a metropolis: from the Statue of Liberty to Cattelan’s finger in Milan to some works of the master of the genre, Anish Kapoor.
Extreme climate events continue to intensify due to climate change, and works of art depicting the fury of natural elements, such as those by John Steuart Curry and Thomas Cole, are highly topical.
A year of photography between history and experimentation – from Frank Horvat in Paris to Lee Jeffries in Milan. The Pompidou displays the never-before-seen works of Moï Ver, and in New York, a new edition of MoMA’s New Photography awaits.
The Baptism of the Lord, whose celebration closes the liturgical season of Christmas, is the protagonist of a wonderful portrayal painted by Piero della Francesca. Faithful to the Gospels, it is an example of the Sansepolcro artist’s refined construction of images.
