If you’re going to visit Vienna for the first time, you are in the right place. Here you’ll find a list of 5 things to do in Vienna if you love art, history and culture.
Here you’ll find the places I saw and the experiences I had when I visited the city, and my suggestions to better enjoy what Vienna has to offer.
5 things to do in Vienna Continue reading
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
How to choose the works of the Victoria and Albert Museum to see without missing out its masterpieces?
The challenge is enormous but someone’s got to do it. So here’s the list, that it will be certainly modified and widened in the future, also thanks to your suggestions (I’m looking forward to reading them in the comments) of the unmissable masterpieces.
Works of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London Continue reading
Composition 8 by Kandinsky
The painting Composition 8 by Kandinsky is one of the masterpieces you can admire at the Guggenheim Museum of New York.
The artist painted the work in Weimar, while teaching at the Bauhaus.
In this post you’ll discover a painting describing the relationship of strength and movement that can exist between geometric shapes and pure colours.
Composition 8 by Kandinsky Continue reading
Edoardo Tresoldi: Sacral, 2016 © Fabiano Caputo
Edoardo Tresoldi is the artist of “Absent Matter” and wire-mesh cathedrals, inserted by Forbes among the most influential European artists under 30 in Europe in 2017.
After the reconstruction of the Early Christian Basilica in Siponto, that won the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture, the huge installation “Etherea“ in the USA for the “Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival” and “Opera“, the installation on the seafront of Reggio Calabria, the artist exhibits in Ravenna “Sacral“, built in 2016 and set up for the exhibition dedicated to Dante “Un’ Epopea POP” organized by the MAR – Art Museum of the City of Ravenna.
Edoardo Tresoldi Continue reading
Mario Gatto, Come il grano
Few things shake you like a work of art, and even fewer challenge you in quite the same way: nowadays, coming to grips with an artist’s work is almost like coming to grips with what Mallarmé called the drama of the blank page. It is disorienting, disorienting … but exciting.
The exhibition of Mario Gatto‘s works at the Arte Spazio Tempo gallery in Campo del Ghetto Nuovo in Venice is a perfect example of how the contemporary visitor approaches art: They approach art with caution, intrigued but also intimidated, they enter on tiptoe, as if “NessunDorma” were a warning and not just a title, they examine each piece with a slightly questioning look aimed at searching for its hidden meanings and they move with a soft step, careful not to miss any detail of a story that the artist has skilfully woven together without pretending to understand it.
