The Palazzo Strozzi and Ai Weiwei

Wednesday October 5th, 2016 , Contemporary Art, Events and Exhibitions

Ai Weiwei, Reframe (2016) – Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze. IMAGE SOURCE: firenze.repubblica.it

THE PALAZZO STROZZI AND AI WEIWEI: HISTORIC PALACES AND THEIR RIGHT TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT DAY

Ai Weiwei and the Palazzo Strozzi. 22 orange rubber boats anchored to the Palazzo Strozzi’s windows in Florence which will disgust art lovers, who want to see art always inside a museum.

The first Italian retrospective dedicated to the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, dissident and persecuted by the government of Beijing for his opinions on the regime, will run at the Palazzo Strozzi, displaying old and new works by the artist, including “Reframe” created with rubber boats used by migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

The Nabis, Gauguin and the italian avant-garde painting

Tuesday October 4th, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

MY VISIT TO THE EXHIBITION “THE NABIS, GAUGUIN AND THE ITALIAN AVANT-GARDE PAINTING”

This hot autumn with its sunny days makes everything more beautiful and makes you feel you are still on holiday.
Rovigo doesn’t escape from this magical atmosphere and the exhibition “I Nabis, Gauguin e la pittura italiana d’avanguardia” (“The Nabis, Gauguin and the Italian avant-garde painting”) on view at Palazzo Rovarella is the right occasion for you to plunge into a journey made up of colours and emotions.

Intense colours, total absence of details, an explosion of violent emotions, simplicity.
The exhibition “I Nabis, Gauguin e la pittura italiana d’avanguardia” (“The Nabis, Gauguin and the Italian avant-garde painting”) is all this.
The exhibition draws inspiration from a famous sentence by Gauguin, who declared with strength “ I want a simple painting, very simple”.

Wildlife Photographer of the YearWildlife Photographer of the Year

Sunday October 2nd, 2016 , Contemporary Art, Events and Exhibitions

Zsolt Kudich, great egret awakening

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

Looking at pictures of uncontaminated landscapes and animals living in spectacular natural environments has a strong impact on me.
They’re powerful images, and some of these memorable pictures will be exhibited from October 1^st to December 4^th 2016 in Milan in the exhibition Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the annual wildlife photography competition owned by the Natural History Museum in London, which is in its 51^st year.

Simone Geraci. ROT

Saturday October 1st, 2016 , Contemporary Art, Events and Exhibitions

ROT. SIMONE GERACI’S SOLO EXHIBITION

From September 29^th to October 22^nd 2016 the Burning Giraffe Art Gallery in Turin will host Simone Geraci’s solo exhibition entitled ROT.

Simone Geraci (born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1985) is a young painter, an engraver, an illustrator, who works with national and international art galleries and with many publishing houses. Continue reading

bacon in Treviso: the story behind the exhibition

Tuesday September 27th, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

Francis Bacon – Immagine da blackcablondon.net.

BACON IN TREVISO: THE STORY BEHIND THE EXHIBITION

Bacon in Treviso. There are artists I love deeply, and I hurry to visit the exhibitions dedicated to them, no matter where the next exhibition will be arranged.
Instead, there are artists I always try to avoid, but at the same time they are a magnet for me, and I think of them and think them over, and the more I think of them the more they unsettle me, and I can’t help thinking about that.

Francis Bacon is the artist who more than others is capable of unsettling me (I’ve already talked about the exhibition dedicated to Bacon that will take place in Treviso from October 15^th 2016 to May 1^st 2017).
It will be the chance for me to deal with his works once and for all, and to lose myself in his visions.
This exhibition has aroused my curiosity and I can hardly wait for this autumn. In this post I’ll explain you why.