80 artworks traces the artistic path of the great Spanish artist

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1827) was born in Fuendetodos, a small village in Sierra Gorda, in Aragon region. He took his education and his first major commission in Zaragoza - the frescoes for the Nuestra Señora del Pilar Church - then, in 1774, after his journey in Italy, he is based in Madrid to realize the cards for the Santa Barbara royal tapestry.

In February 1996, the “Collezionismo a Torino” opening in the Castello di Rivoli, exhibition curated by Ida Gianelli with a selection of works by six private collectors, including Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, who I remembered for “English art today” in the Galleria Civica di Modena and “Campo 95” at the Corderie dell’Arsenale in Venice (both in 1995), allowed me to publish the interview on n.42 of “ARTE&CRONACA”. From that conversation the design approach of the young and brilliant collector emerged.

19 installations, some of them with colossal dimensions, investigate the relationship between believing and seeing

The Argentine artist, Leandro Erlich, debuted in Italy with a solo show that is already recording a record turnout. How he managed to bring one million visitors to the museums in the last two exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Tokyo, is already understood by the first work placed inside the courtyard of the Royal Palace: Bâtiment, an installation born in 2004 in Paris and here revived.

A great anthological exhibition questions the boundaries between plasticity and immateriality, interaction and meditation

On October 7th, an exhibition dedicated to the Anglo-Indian artist Anish Kapoor (Mumbai, 1954) opens in Palazzo Strozzi; an exhibition created by himself with the curator Arturo Galansino.

The exhibition, with 115 works, retraces the entire creative process of the master

There are paths in the lives of some artists that mature from their youth, and then break into a precise moment and determine the theme and language that will represent them forever. This is the case of Mark Rothko (1903-1970), a Latvian artist, who arrived in the United States as a child and naturalized American, who profoundly marked post-war abstract research.

In addition to the most famous performances, on display sculptures and installations too

Stories of bodies. Pages and canvases instead of flesh, ink and painting instead of blood: the vicissitudes of those who preceded us come mostly written or drawn. Thus, it is natural to confuse the story of a person who is in that confused point beyond space and time, beyond the fog of memory, with the story of his mind.

Laws are often disregarded and people move freely, with a dark sense of impunity in the anarchic web. Combining all this with the art system is no easy feat. This is gradually being discovered by galleries but, above all, by auction houses that are experiencing it online on a daily basis. The freedom of bidding, albeit screened by a documented pre-registration, exerts a hidden, sometimes unstoppable force that results in a tangle of bids.

200 artworks trace his peculiar artistic career

Ketchup, syrup, tobacco, coffee, egg white, chili sauce, beer, mustard, cheddar cheese, gunpowder: Ed Ruscha’s shopping list is, of course, archetypal of 1960s American popular culture. Even today, in the collective imagination relaunched by the film stereotype, the west coast is easily associated with endless road trips through diners, hotels and palm trees.

On the occasion of the Bergamo-Brescia cultural capitals celebrations, two major exhibitions of the master in October at the Cavernago castle and in November at the Bellini Pinacoteca in Sarnico

Angelo Brescianini began the process of reassessment with critical deepening only recently. Now, two of his public exhibitions are scheduled for the celebrations of Brescia-Bergamo Italian capitals of culture 2023.

Emblematic bronze presences, these sculptures will remain on display until 2024

Those arriving by train to Pietrasanta meet outside the station an imposing sculpture realized with candid marble: a gently arched and carefully polished block, characterized and solved by a very large central hole: a mysterious window inserted in a contrasting concept of outside and inside, a question to be addressed to those who arrive, to those who leave and to those who linger in calamitous admiration.