Balzac in his robe • Paris: Unique Rodin exhibition at the homonymous museum

An exhibition focusing on the Monument to Balzac by Rodin

A simple plasterboard robe folded on itself. Domestic, almost poor. Forms a little clumsy, yet powerful, evocative, abstract, avant-garde. The Rodin Museum celebrates a little-known artwork of its collections: the Study of the Robe for Balzac by Auguste Rodin.

Elegance of the mise en place • Spotlight on Mario Luca Giusti, founder of the homonymous Maison

His creations are the expression of a balance between refined forms and innovative materials

Elegant, sophisticated, eclectic. Refined designer Mario Luca Giusti redesigns the mise en place by investigating the perfect harmony between classic and contemporary. The creations become an expression of an absolute balance between refined shapes, sometimes regal, and innovative materials: glasses, carafes, trays and plates with bright colors, made of synthetic crystal, bring back a romantic grandeur.

Responsability of the gaze• Milan: Saodat Ismailova on view at the HangarBicocca

Main research theme: cultural identity, colonial heritage, the relationship between man and environment

A complex construction of temporal space sequences is the exhibition “A Seed Under Our Tongue” at Pirelli HangarBicocca, curated by Roberta Tenconi. It is the first anthology, in an Italian institution, of the Uzbek artist and filmmaker, Saodat Ismailova, a young witness of the post-Soviet era.

The art of absurdity and lightness • Turin: Great retrospective exhibition for the centenary of the birth of Mario Merz

The large retrospective is hosted at the headquarters of the foundation that bears his name

The Mario Merz Foundation hosts until February 2nd “Something that removes the weight that retains the absurdity and the lightness of the fable”, a title taken from the artist’s writings, awarded in 2003 in Japan by the prestigious Praemium imperiale. A first part of the exhibition, opened last February, was accompanied by the presentation of the “Catalogue raisonné. Mario Merz.

Password: adaptation • London: Saatchi proposes Samoylova

Recurring themes of her work: climate emergency, criticism of consumerism, commercialization of women

Anastasia Samoylova is among the visual artists who have received increasing attention in recent years. Born in Russia, then moved to the US, she jumped to the honors of the art chronicle for the glib and hyper-realistic shots (FloodZone) that portray the devastating effects, in 2017, of hurricane Irma in Florida.

Artist to be copied • New York: An exhibition to reflect on Mondrian’s legacy at the Guggenheim

De Stijl, neoplastic, abstract, mystical, theosophical and anthropophous: difficult to return to words his simplicity

De Stijl. Neoplastic. Abstract. Mystical? Theosophical and anthroposophile.

It is almost impossible for words to return the simplicity of Mondrian. They always complicate everything, too much, the words. Adjectives should fall. Nouns should fall. And metaphors should fall, fall like leaves in autumn.

When pain becomes art • Milan: Edvard Munch’s great exhibition at the Palazzo Reale

Over 100 artworks remind the Norwegian painter, 80 years after his death

 

Palazzo Reale hosts until January 25th, 2025, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the death, a great anthology (one hundred works including paintings, drawings and prints) by Edvard Munch, entitled “Il grido interiore” curated by Patricia Berman.
Among the major interpreters of the symbolist period of the 80s and 90s of the nineteenth century, the artist is still capable of causing deep dismay.

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