Unconventional, asymmetrical shots. Views play upon enlarging anatomical details. Not faces, but details of faces, glimpsed upon as if they were landscapes.
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.
Contemporary art at the heart of a city’s cultural debate. A community that suddenly wonders about the presence of an outcrop sculpture in its main square, next to the towers of a castle from the ‘200. It happened in these months in Naples, opening new and unexplored pages, sowing doubts and uncertainties.
If you have friends who are art lovers, surely some of them will have, sooner or later, pronounced the term “Bansky”, a misspelling of the name of the famous and mysterious street artist Banksy. It’s one of the most common verbal mistakes in the era of “rather than” misused. But have you ever tried to type “Bansky” on Google? The digital brain will answer you with a familiar riddle: “Maybe you meant Banksy...”.
At this point the question is: how does he know?
An alchemist of light and colour, able to cross ages and movements without losing his authenticity, Riccardo Guarneri is undoubtedly one of the most sensitive interpreters of the painting of the 20th century, which for over seven decades has shaped the contemporary language, and today he carries the breath of his 91 years, spent interweaving art with the sounds of music.
What does not invent, to drag people into museums. After opening the doors to nudists happy to feel, by virtue of the Adam’s costume adopted for the occasion, artworks among the artworks, now it is the turn of the perfumed exhibitions. Paintings to see and smell, in short.
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The Macro Museum offers, until February 16th, 2025, the exhibition “Yard” by Allan Kaprow (Atlantic City, 1927), focusing the entire exhibition on a single work, precisely Yard. Created in 1961, the installation represents a milestone in the evolution of 20th-century visual arts.
In conjunction with the Jubilee (September 17th, 2024 / January 10th, 2025) and a year after death, at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome is taking place a large Fernando Botero retrospective (curated by his daughter Lina and Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz - until January 19th, 2025). On view, more than 120 artworks made in about sixty years of activity, including a Homage to Mantegna (1958) only recently discovered and never exhibited.
Milan celebrates Enrico Baj in the centenary of his birth (he was born in the Lombard capital on October 31st, 1924) with a large retrospective, entitled “BAJ. Baj chez Baj,” held in the Hall of Caryatids of Palazzo Reale until February 9th, 2025, curated by Chiara Gatti and Roberta Cerini Baj (Electa catalogue).
