Surely, the image of the flames rising high in Piazza Municipio in Naples is even fascinating in its powerful destructive force. A show that leaves breathless and dismayed, as unstoppable lava flows that overwhelm everything, as it must have happened with the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 d.c. in Pompeii and Herculaneum, just a few kilometers from here.
Until May 30th it is possible to visit “Kosmos e Kaos. L’Origine è la Meta”, a solo exhibition by Massimiliano Pelletti (Pietrasanta, 1975) at Ersel, a private Bank space, always engaged in important cultural projects, based in Milan (curated by Barbara Paci and Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, in partnership with the Galleria Barbara Paci in Pietrasanta).
Salzburg, the Austrian city known for being the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and for its prestigious music festival, is closely associated with modern and contemporary art.
The XL Biennale di Venezia vernissage, in 1988, beyond its usual manifestation as the time/place of art, allowed me to re- find Tony Cragg in the Pavilion of Great Britain, the English sculptor. I remembered the artworks presented just the year before in Kassel during Documenta 8, and the Greek critic Démosthènes Davvetas.
Gian Maria Tosatti presents two pictorial cycles at Pirelli HangarBicocca. Ritratti (2020) is realized with 4 big paintings onto a number of media which remind the advertising posters: iron panels assembled and installed on pipe structures. The artworks, spread along the Shed space, play with the light filtered by the windows creating a mirror effect. Gold and rust, opposing elements here symbolically juxtaposed, remind the man’s critical conditions.
Each sign is made by two essential elements: the signifier which is a practical element perceptible by senses; the significance, an abstract element, a concept linked to it. In each sign, the connection that combines signifier and significance is the result of an agreement between the creator and the user. The signs do not exist as single units: they combine each other according to precise rules, they are organized into codes. So, the issuer and the receiver must know the code that has been used, in order to make the communication possible.
We often hear about NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), a technology that has made possible the explosive expansion of digital art in the last 3 years, but almost never consider the huge revolution of decentralization that blockchain technology has introduced to the art world.
In recent times there is much talk about artificial intelligence, especially since Italy has banned the famous platform ChatGPT. Unfortunately, in Italy there is sometimes a tendency to exaggerate and distort the concept of protection of individuals: this is exactly what is happening regarding the regulation of privacy and access to certain technologies related to data analysis. Let’s focus on the case of artificial intelligence software called ChatGPT, produced by OpenAI, that has been prohibited by the Privacy Authority.
One of the most compelling contemporary artists is showing at the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin with works from his latest monumental project, “Déplacé∙e∙s.”. Intesa Sanpaolo is organizing the French artist’s first major solo exhibition by staging large- format canvases chronicling a series of journeys to the countries currently most scarred by crisis and war.
“La pace preventiva” (“pre-emptive peace”) is the exhibition title with which Milan celebrates the Michelangelo Pistoletto 90th birthday, that is extended from Palazzo Reale to three other landmarks of the city.
