Handsome, young, often muscular, all, compulsorily, with a degree. They have qualifications, at least once, high- sounding: doctors in law, in literature, in pedagogy, in philosophy. The most rampant in communications science, marketing, or computer science. They are the candidates of the latest public competitions. They would be pleased for a job as a city official, or a teacher. Others, more ambitious, aspire to the judiciary, or diplomatic career. Incredible, but true: with an average ranging from 50 to 70%, these guys do not even pass the first test, the written one.

One of the most promising young Italian artists

Postponed due to the pandemic, the exhibition includes paintings and lithographs which dialogue with Japanese artwork

The history of encounters and sometimes clashes-between East and West is a tangled web of misunderstandings, emulations and propaganda. Above all, of ramblings on both sides.

Discovered 24.000 works: Titian, van Dyck, Tvboy and Giuseppe Veneziano among others

The prismatic eye of the medias, in the morbid curiosity that has passed through newspapers and TV, books and magazines related to the memory of Berlusconi, has not failed to recall the relationship of the Knight with art.

In the art, someone thought that the passing of an artist implies an economic recovery of the artworks, both historically and economically. This is a thought that follows a simple process. Necessarily, a stop in production causes an artworks reassessment. This is rarely done. The artist's image must be kept alive by gallerists, critics and actors from the art system, otherwise it will fade. Even a group of passionate collectors is not enough. That is a generous effort but useless.

Once upon a time, during an auction, people would challenge each other to the last breath. You clearly knew who was your opponent or, at the very least, the bidder who was least likely to yield. Often, you would settle at the back of the room  to better understand the moods of what was unfolding before you, without giving your opponents any advantage. Then, gradually, the practice of phone bidding became widespread. An opponent hiding behind a wire, with the support of a kind assistant, ready to intelligently stimulate his or her aspirations.

Men who converse, who weave relationships, seem almost like friends just for a few minutes. It happens, even between strangers. It happens, even in a summer of war.

The power of the image has now overtaken the written word. In our society, a photographic report on a sensitive subject is worth more than a hundred articles. And magazines at all latitudes make an immoderate, shameless and perhaps excessive use of them. Thanks also to the influence of the web, photos have become an everyday habit. Everyone shoots, posts and talks, with disarming simplicity and tireless continuity.

Among Eduardo De Filippo's memoirs, another extraordinary anecdote pops up. It is 1946, the war has recently ended. The playwright had finished the draft of 'Filumena Marturano' and took advantage of a family evening, among a few friends, to give it an intimate preview. At the end of a passionate, attentive and intense reading, he looked up from his notes and noticed that everyone was crying. Titina, his sister, came up to him and kissed his hands through her tears.

Generally speaking intelligence seems to have largely diminished. This problem doesn’t only stem from the politicians who represent us. There is a certain cultural flattening that leads, for example, every fiction to a constant and eternal reproduction. At first it was "Beautiful" that proposed itself as a daily mantra, today there are TV shows with serial numbers: 2,3,4,5, they go on as long as the public wants it, as long as the audience is able to bear it.