On display 30 works realized in solitude without assistants during lockdown

“Cherry Blossoms”, the first Damien Hirst exhibit in Paris, will be on view until the 2nd of January at the “Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain”. The English artistar, known as the leader of the Young British Artists, has accustomed us to shocking and provocative works since the early 90s. Starting from the skull covered in diamonds or the shark in formaldehyde, up to the showcases of medicines, the subject of death has always been his faithful travelling companion.

On view Nobuyoshi Araki’s photos taken three years after his wife’s death and the film Luanda-Kinshasa by Stan Douglas

For a year, the exhibitions proceed at the Bourse de Commerce the new museum which Francois Pinault offered to the French capital in order to present his collections, adapting the old Stock Exchange Building, in the Halles quarter. The Japanese architect Tadao Ando has established a dialogue between form and epoch, interpreting the circular matrix of the building.

Alfredo Rapetti Mogol, also known as Cheope, paints words. Fascinated by ancient alphabets, he is a songwriter who wrote the lyrics of internationally acclaimed songs, but he is also a relevant visual artist. Below, you will find his landmarks, his artistic legacy and his future plans.

IN HIS BESTIARY, EVEN MIGHTY RHINOCEROSES
HARNESSED AND SUSPENDED IN THE AIR

“Jeff Koons marry me”: This surprising message appeared in big letters on December 14th on the Renaissance facade of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, where Koons’s exhibition “Shine” is taking place. More than 100,000 visitors, until now: is it possible that someone (we use the female form, considering the curriculum of the master) between a Rabbit, a Balloon dog and a Hulk has fallen in love to the point of asking for his hand? And in such a blatant and inconsiderate way, too.

Lucio Amelio: the versatile character who was able to change Naples

Artists of the caliber of Twombly, Pistoletto, Pascali, Manzoni and Warhol have been in his gallery

The exhibition of nine artists, including Franco Gelli from Lecce, put together by the lively florentine artist Fiamma Vigo under the name “set di numero” and inaugurated on the 11th of March 1967 was the occasion for my first meeting with Lucio Amelio and his Modern Art Agency, which had opened just two years earlier with “Reisegeschichten”, the personal exhibition of the Berliner Heiner Dilly, located in

Barilli reflects on his long career

Literary and art critic, university professor and painter: he is a prominent figure in the Italian culture scene

The Bologna of the early ‘60s, the lively Bologna of Dozza, Lercaro, Morandi and Mandelli, as well as Anceschi and the Arcangeli (Nino the musician, Gaetano the poet, Bianca the painter who called herself Rosalba and Francesco the historian, known to his friends as Momi), was the right place and time to meet one of the three souls of Renato Barilli, precisely the art and literary critic.

Paris • At Espace Lafayette-Drouot we can immerse ourselves in the work of Banksy

The exhibition shows on the walls images of his most famous works

The mystery of Banksy has contributed to his dazzling fame. His illegal works of art scattered around the world arouse interest

There are artistic experiences that make followers and detractors but do not leave one indifferent, given their impact. This is the case of Banksy, the British artist who has brought Street Art back to the heart of the international scene.

London • At the Barbican a great retrospective of Isamu Noguchi

150 artworks on display highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of the artist: sculptor, designer, set designer, architect and landscape architect

Isamu Noguchi’s physical appearance is a map of his history. The sweet and inaccessible mystery behind his gaze recalls that of his mother, an American writer, and the firmness and depth is similar to that of his father, a Japanese poet.

Rome • Anthological exhibition of Alberto Biasi at the Ara Pacis

60 works exposed, from the reconstruction of the environment of Light Prisms to the recent experimentations

“Le Trame was born for a practical reason related to my youth when my father suggested that I get a diploma as a silkworm breeder. On that occasion I learned the technique to safeguard these worms which consisted in the use of perforated paper. Playing with these sheets I realized that their overlapping dynamic created moving concatenations of light”.