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.
There are moments in the history of culture that mark the beginning of a new era. This is the case of 1997 for contemporary fashion. The Palais Galliera, the Paris fashion museum, dedicated to the history of clothing and Haute Couture, hosts until July 16th an exhibition dedicated to this fateful year, a synthesis of the fashion of the 90s and a moment hinged on the new millennium.
Some memories fade away, others are reinforced, almost consecrating themselves in time. Corrado knows well. He is the protagonist of this novel, who decides to retrace his steps obliterated by a long absence. The title “Without Ritanna” highlights this void left by an ancient history, abruptly interrupted, to which man, weakened by old age but determined and enigmatic, remains bound by a powerful narrative thread.
“I’m repeating myself”. It is difficult for an artist to admit as the repetitiveness is part of the practice. Especially nowadays, when the recognizability of a style is so crucial to the fortunes of an artwork and a career. This scenario is central to contemporary artistic production and accelerated by the internet, where the visual offer is so high that standing out from the crowd becomes even more important.
“The solid material is, first of all, the thought that directs us towards a goal, a meaning”. With this expression Bruno Ceccobelli intends to address to a “material” that emerges from a past of symbols, rituals, memories that are linked to a culture that belongs to him as a precious gift, sometimes as a relic to be flaunted through allegories that can lead to an esotericism, a religio that measures, perhaps unconsciously, the steps of existence. It is no coincidence that the term “solid material” indicates a Neoplatonic spiritual thought close to Theosophy.
Novello Finotti (Verona, 1939) is among the last great artists that Italy can boast. In love with sculpture in a physical way, almost carnal, for him the stone is full joy, morbid and gentle desire, tactile lust that survives in “another” dimension in which the idea is no longer only impalpable “because it is made of the same nature of dreams’’ but so real as to leave dismay even the most navigated observer.
Open to meraviglia: Yes, just a wonder to be able to agree with all, journalists and intellectuals from usually antithetical visions. Only that this time sharing is not based on appreciation, but indignation. The thumbs towards is unanimous and categorical for the advertising campaign released by the Ministry for Tourism and the Enit to promote what at the time of Goethe was called Grand Tour, the journey undertaken by the European aristocrats to perfect the culture and which had as its main destination Italy. Times change and, with them, habits and tastes.
