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 […]
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DISTANFEERISM, KAZUKI TAKAMATSU, 2018
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 […]
GAIAMOTHERTREE, ERNESTO NETO, 2018
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 […]
POOLSIDE MUSE, MADELEINE GROSS
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.
ARTE COME RIVELAZIONE EXHIBITION, BY LUIGI E PEPPINO AGRATI COLLECTION, MILAN, 2018
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 […]
NUDE BODIES, SPENCER TUNICK, 2018
American photographer, better known for his shots of masses of naked bodies immortalized in common urban background scenes. Spencer Tunick is the artist who imposed a new obligation on consumers and users of digital photography: the naked body. Millions of volunteers, common people, activists, etc. engaged by the artist, they come together in a performative […]