The year that has just passed has left us with words that draw a fragile line. Apparently, among a thousand thoughts, a strange, almost unconscious optimism pervades the country. Constantly, on television screens, in these first weeks, the images related to the first vaccinations: smiles, sweet declarations, the exit from the tunnel that finally seems clear, explicit in front of us.
You have been described as “the jester of the art system”. Do you think this definition fits you well?
“It’s the poet’s end of wonder” decrees Giovan Battista Marino, a great Baroque poet from Naples. Maybe we have become too little poetic and have forgotten excitement, the delicious capacity to experience wonder, but she is there, crouched and even though numb, ready to reawaken. We need beauty.
My collaboration with AW – ArtMag starts with this issue.
Alexander Iolas was without doubt one of the most important collectors and gallerists of the second half of the twentieth century.
We meet Mario Botta, certainly attracted by his fame as an architectural star but fascinated above all by his pure volumes, cylindrical constructions and by the use of stones and bricks
During this suspended time connected with Covid-19, I came across the catalogue of “Contemporanea”, the fair of the Association “Incontri Internazionali d’Arte” (International Art Meetings), founded by Graziella Lonardi Bontempo,
It’s hard to find an artist, in the postwar period, that can equal Bruce Nauman’s ability to turn any everyday item, any place, any obje
