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 […]
On the border between attraction and repulsion are Jason Briggs’s porcelain sculptures. Clearly allusive to a sexuality to be discovered. The artist invents amphorities fused together and allusive to the various sexual characteristics of the female and male body. Briggs gives life to porcelain sculptures that attract you to touch them but on the other […]
Discover with us the world of the mixed-media artist Madeleine Gross. She uses the color with mastery, blending harmoniously in the photographic context. His artworks are delicate but at the same time with character, unique in its kind.
Today we are talking about “Arte come rivelazione” exhibition in Gallerie d’Italia, Piazza Scala, in Milan. More than 70 artworks by one of the most important art collection of the second half of the twentieth century. The collection was born in the late sixties from the passion for art of Peppino Agrati, with Luigi conceives […]
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