More than 120 works, including some unpublished ones, cover 60 years of his artistic production

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.

On view 50 works to illustrate his long artistic path from the years '50 to the years 2000

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).

Novello Finotti is one of the most famous living plastic artists and representative of the old school of sculpture, which knew how to treat the material and loved doing so, experimenting without ceasing new technical and formal solutions, never aiming at themselves.

With over 200 artworks it is the first major monograph in Europe dedicated to the American photographer

Indistinct silhouettes
cross a deserted square forming a composition of lights and shadows. A face framed by neon lights, absent gaze towards the void. Body fragments fill the whole image, like an abstract plot.

On view a series of site-specific installations with the themes dear to the artist: geometric figures, games of lights and colors

Most of modern art, its currents - dada, abstract expressionism, gutai, to cite some examples - have often claimed in the gesture and in all the many forms that separate the concrete uniqueness of the particular from the abstract generality of the universal one of the fundamental criteria for defining its raison d’être. Understandable.

It will not be easy to forget the Paris Olympics. Those unrepeatable locations, the magic of the brazier in the gardens of the Tuileries, the participation of a young, cheerful, enthusiastic audience, able to be passionate about any event, the performances of characters such as Céline Dion, Tom Cruise, the thousand personal and political stories often blossoming around the five circles will remain a lively, eccentric, and provocative fever that will accompany us for long months.

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A life travelling between Germany, France and Italy to the continuous discovery of itself

Loving the works of Bernard Aubertin is easy because beyond all knowledge his total monochromes, the idea of the pungent smell of his brulé and his realistic totality enter into the soul. Bernard left us with the sad feeling of a melancholy existence in which only the creative act made man truly so.

With the autumn, the exhibition season starts again. There are many exhibitions not to be missed (according to the organizers). There is only the embarrassment of the choice, combined with that other embarrassment that usually precedes every public appearance: what do I wear? 

The closure of Art Basel 2024 marks the beginning of the summer season, during which the proposal of the artworks necessarily takes place only in galleries and cultural exhibitions. Finally, one might say. After a binge of fairs and auctions, there is now time to reflect on what will be the next steps of the market in autumn.