What unites the three artists is the common provocative and nonconformist vocation

At Palazzo Albergati is ongoing the exhibition “Jago-Banksy-TvBoy and other countercultural stories”. The title already foreshadows the provocative and nonconformist vocation of the exhibition, and it is no coincidence that it has been chosen to create a dialogue between the most famous street artist in the world and the most acclaimed Italian artists in the field of public art.

With a 28-gauge shotgun, he shots on the canvas on which he places containers of color

IN THE SILENCE OF THE VALLEY AT THE FOOT OF THE MATTERHORN, THE ARTIST REFLECTS ON THE SENSE OF THE EXISTENCE

. In the introductory text of the “Bing Bang” catalogue, published for the personal exhibition of Gabriele Maquignaz (Aosta, 1972) at the Lattuada Gallery in Milan, Guido Folco writes about how the artist is trying to subvert the expressive order of our time, with courage and a measured recklessness, the typical features of a visionary man.

THERE ARE MORE THAN 200 ARTWORKS, WITH LOANS FROM THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM IN PITTSBURGH AND FROM THE RONALD NAMETH ARCHIVE

He designed shoes successfully for the I.Miller society, but in the early 1960s Andy Warhol had the idea to interpret the illusion of the contemporary: this, after being deeply impressed by the Las Vegas neon signs. This is how American Pop Art was born. It was heir to what was the English one that, at the beginning, had used poor materials. However, the Warhol’s serigraphs on photographic matrix on one side mimed a sort of advertising consumerism (e.g.

Beautiful enough to pass out. These are not just a lover’s words before her beloved. For psychiatry, if the enchantment is caused by a work of art, it is a real illness: the Stendhal syndrome.

An insight into Turkish contemporary art of the last thirty years

At the exhibition/ project “Mediterraneo per l’arte contemporanea” opened in Bari on March 16th, 1989 during the 14th Expo Arte edition at Fiera del Levante, I could meet Beral Madra. I was looking for the creativity common roots of the countries bordering the Mare Nostrum.

The artist reaches an historical building with an unauthorized exhibition through a multimedia approach

On display models, celebrities from the world of art and show business, but also tramps, mentally ill and napalm victims

At the Palazzo Reale, fashion photos and portraits show images of models in splendid clothes, among celebrities from the world of art, show business and politics. These are Richard Avedon’s shots, the New York photographer (1923-2004) who revolutionised the way we understand fashion photography by bringing to the forefront the importance of the relationship between subject, photographer and audience.

The anthology displays the entire career of the multimedia artist

The total art theorised by Wagner was music and images, the artistic avant-garde transferred it into life, and 20th century music, from jazz to rock, projected into the contemporary collective consciousness.

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A 64 meters long exhibition that allows to know the polish artist whole production

In the 1960s and 70s, the plastic art was reshaping its guidelines between minimalism, arte povera (poor art), earth art and the different body art tendencies. During the Cold War in Poland, Magdalena Abakanowicz (Falenty 1930-2017) gave life to innovative expressive forms.

Sculptor, performer, dancer: his work can be considered as a continuous weaving activity

You say beauty and I can deal with it. Beauty is no longer an absolute value for at least two centuries, perhaps three, although in our country it is difficult to accept. Beauty is changeable. Beauty has been used to exclude, to set criteria. Well, out. Yet one can not do without. Saying that it is no longer an idol, it does not mean that beauty is completely removed, as the eminent critics noted such as Arthur Danto did. It means questioning its chances of existence nowadays.