Maria Lai (1919-2013), “poetess of the impalpable”, was born in Ulassai, a village threatened by winds and landslides; an expert of Sardinian traditions, Salvaore Cambosu, taught her the value of poetry and freedom.
In order to understand Penck’s style and poetic is necessary to cite some key biographical elements.
The great London retrospective of 2002 definitively celebrated Lucian Freud as a hero and offered the world the opportunity to talk about this eighty- year-old man with illustrious relatives and acquaintances, starting from his grandfather Sigmund and his two wives, Kitty Garman, daughter of Jacob Epstein and the heiress Caroline Blackwood.
“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.
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.
“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.
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
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.
