[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] At the time of this post, July 2018, this work can be seen in the Temples’ Valley in Agrigento, Italy. Agrigento is a wonderful city on the coast of Sicily, where many different ancient temples are still […]
[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] “Strumming my pain with his fingers. Singing my life with his words…” – The Fugees In the painting Klingsors Garten one can palpably see the skinning of the painted canvas. The hot lead that was poured on […]
[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] On Kawara was one of the most popular conceptual artists, and his Today Series, made of single Date Paintings, are exhibited all around the world. A single piece of the series is composed by a painting (the […]
Here is when artificial and natural come together, when humans and landscape are one only thing, when art and Earth are not distinguishable anymore: Land Art. Land Art has been called in many different ways, such as Earth Art, Earth Works, Environmental Art, but from here on we will refer to it just as Land […]
[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] Olafur Eliasson is an artist who is directing the Studio Olafur Eliasson, a centre of architectural research that is useful for the artist to create oustanding works of art. An example of what I just said is […]
In the Palais de Tokyo in Paris there was a very controversial exhibition until the beginning of May 2018. The main artists involved in the exhibition – called One and the Other – were Kader Attia and Jean-Jacques Lebel, but they wanted to include other artists as well as found objects with anonymous creators. I […]
The Fluxus movement is most famous to the people for the outstanding presence of Yoko Ono, known for her art and for her relationship with John Lennon. But Fluxus is much more, and it was the inspiration for many artists that came after it. Artistic and historical backgroud Fluxus was an art movement born in […]
Have you ever heard of Arte Povera? Have you ever wondered why it is not translated from Italian (it literally means “poor art”)? You will discover everything in the following paragraphs! Historical and artistic background The Arte Povera movement was born in Italy (you didn’t guess this, did you!) in 1967. Why do we have […]
Try to find the piece! Immediately surprising are the black and white details that frame the central plane of the painting. Can they be detected in the central coloured field? Is it a puzzle or are they maybe letters from an imagined alphabet that constitute a visual phrase in the middle? The CoBrA movement (created […]
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Can you stare at these work for more than 3 seconds? If you can do it without any problem, you are one in a million!
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This work by Louise Bourgeois is exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and when I saw it I felt like a punch in my stomach. The installation is formed by a circular room with two doors from which the visitor can look inside. In the room there are various elements: an iron bed, two […]
Naoshima is an island highly evaluated as an “art island”. In fact, Naoshima is full of artworks, site-specific installations and museums of contemporary art. The Benesse House Museum is a project of one of the most important architect in Japan and in all over the world: Tadao Ando. He designed also the Chichu Art Museum, […]
Yesterday we talked about Minimal Art, and we mentioned Barnett Newman. He wasn’t just part of Minimalists, but also of the Colorfield movement and of the Abstract Expressionism. This work is exhibited permanently at the MoMA, New York, and the label says: Vir Heroicus Sublimis, Newman’s largest painting at the time of its completion, is […]
As the name suggests, Abstract Expressionism comes from the ideas of Abstractism and Expressionism. Saying this is too reductive though, as Abstract Expressionism is much more! Historical and artistic background We can place Abstract Expressionism in a timeline going from the mid ’40s to the mid ’60s. For the first time, an important art movement […]
The Back Home series presents four different photographs of the members of a few families, posing in front of a reproduction of a cozy furnished house. The members of the families are all dressed up for a purpose and they seem to be prepared for an important moment. The families are composed by immigrants, and […]
Last winter this huge installation was visible in the Canal Grande in Venice. These enormous hands were in the position of “holding” the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel, a historical building in the very center of Venice. The artist, son of the actor Anthony Quinn and the Venetian Jolanda Addolori, was addressing the fact that the city […]
“Everything was forever until it was no more” is the title of the First edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA), which will be open for five months until 28 October starting from 2 June. On the occasion of the centenary of the Independence of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Eight locations, including […]
The famous duo formed by the artists Elmgreen & Dragset created a mermaid man named Han. Located in the port of the Danish town Elsinore, opposite the Kronborg Castle -famous for setting Shakespeare’s Hamlet- the sculpture was conceived as a contemporary masculine paraphrase of the Danish national icon, the Little Mermaid, representing a young boy sitting […]
Kazuki Takamatsu, one of the world’s leading artists of the new visionary figurative style, creates female figures that are white and gray, shaded, light, transparent, floating on black and saturated backgrounds. Young women represented as impalpable and elusive; unable to express their emotions, closed in their dark and hostile world from which they must defend themselves, perhaps […]
Ernesto Neto, one of the major contemporary Brazilian artists, was invited by Fondation Beyeler to create an installation for the Central Station in Zürich, Switzerland. The title of the artwork is GaiaMotherTree, it’s the biggest public art project of the Fondation Beyeler. It took over four years to make the installation that’s more than 20 meters […]
[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] Giuseppe Penone is an artist who works with natural elements and mostly trees. His care for nature and for life is overwhelming and very present in his artworks. We talked about another work of his in this […]
