Until the 13th of February of 2022, the Whitney Museum in New York and the Philadelphia Museum in Philadelphia are celebrating one of the legends of American art, Jasper Johns, in a coordinated double exhibition.
The Museo Del Novecento in Milan will be hosting until the 27st of March 2022 “Mario Sironi. Synthesis and grandiosity”, an anthological exhibition of over one hundred works by the Master born in Sassari in 1885.
The Venetian exhibition of Di Myriam Zerbi Virgilio Guidi (1891-1984) is a pleasant and suggestive discovery of an artist with a rich and multifaceted production that has been unjustly neglected for years and that deserves the homage that Venice today pays tribute to him thanks to the collaboration of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa with the GR Art Studio.
It must be because of the pandemic, which has put a large part of the world’s population into misery. It must be that the artists, between cancelled or postponed exhibitions, fugitive collectors and lack of income, belong to one of the most penalized categories. It must be that, at times, poverty sharpens the wit. It has to be said that Danish artist Jens Haaning has come up with a solution to make some money.
Since the beginning of the 1900s, at a European level, we have been wondering about an amazing, subtle and intense theme . Is there one art form that guides all others? Is there really an unwritten classification? And what were the criteria for its compilation? In short, does poetry or painting, literature or photography develop greater appeal? And are the so-called minor arts really that? Or was it a subtle lie to curb their potential from the start?
If I say that the new art, the one that will characterize in part the post-virus era, has already begun and you can “enjoy it in a large exhibition at the Design Museum in London, many will accuse me of being a provocateur who, for no reason, sees the role of the artist invaded by that of the robot, who in reality invents nothing, but for the moment, by force of things and design, must start again from man: portraits, figures, landscapes a
Glimmer aroused by 6 x 11 cm of short meditations (Gardini, Il book is that thing): the book brought from the library home is a promise, but the one “waiting, waiting for us” and, winking, whispering “yet to be read,” is a reproach. Borges (The Library of Babel) imagines a fantastic universe full of books and Canetti (Auto da fé) that the bibliophile comes to eliminate the windows to give them more space! Our unread books, the anti library (Taleb, The Black Swan), are a pulsating organism of desires.
“Artists work when they play and play when they work”, Dino Buzzati wrote in the short story “Mestiere fortunato”. The phrase seems to have been conceived on purpose to define the research and methodological approach of Aldo Spinelli, conceptual artist and creator of games, who has always maintained that, after homo sapiens and homo faber, the time has come to give space to homo ludens because art has a primary function, that of entertaining.
“Beyond the Face” is the title of Audrey Guttman’s exhibition, hosted by Futura Art Gallery in Pietrasanta, until August 7th.
Is A.B.O. Theatron an ambiguous apotropaic formula? No, it is an acronym for Achille Bonito Oliva who needs no introduction; let’s quote his own words, which, like a thermometer, detect his temperature: “Critical agrarian. PartNeapolitan and part-Salernitan.
