Mark Tobey. Threading Light

Saturday May 27th, 2017 , Events and Exhibitions

MARK TOBEY. THREADING LIGHT AT THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION

Coffee is the common thread running through the museums, the collections and the cities I visited in this period, and the latest exhibition I saw at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, dedicated to the American artist Mark Tobey is no exception. The ritual of coffee is that moment which allows you to share your first impressions about an event with people next to you at that moment, but also to exchange opinions and talk about what you’re going to see.

Then, it was beautiful to come back to Peggy Guggenheim’s house, place that I adore, to discover an American artist about whom I knew little, and to find out that, actually, that is not only an art exhibition, but the first leg of a collaboration between Lavazza and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Actually, Lavazza has been Global Partner of the Guggenheim New York since 2014, but now it focuses on Venice, too.

Mark Tobey: Threading light is the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition in the latest years, in Europe, dedicated to the American artist Mark Tobey.
The exhibition will be on view until September 10^th 2017, and you’ll have the whole summer to visit it. In this post I’m writing about my visit to the exhibition.

Exhibitions 2017: exhibitions you can’t miss in June

Friday May 26th, 2017 , Events and Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS 2017: EXHIBITIONS YOU CAN’T MISS IN JUNE

A list of exhibitions you can’t miss in June 2017.

Exhibitions and new exhibitions are finishing, shows that I’ve seen, and I want to see exhibitions.
Aspect to read your opinions in the comments and reviews on the exhibitions you have seen and the shows that you recommended and which are not in this list;-)

Where the cinema of the Lumière brothers was born

Thursday May 25th, 2017 , More than art

Image source: http://it.france.fr/it/da-scoprire/institut-lumiere-lione

IN LYONS WHERE THE CINEMA OF THE LUMIERE BROTHERS WAS BORN

Are you a cinema lover? Do you like searching for those places where you can experience your favourite scenes of the big screen?
Well, then you must visit the city of Lyons, because here the seventh art was born, thanks to the Lumière brothers, who at the end of the 19^th century invented the cinèmatographe and released the first movie in history.

READ ALSO: before cinema, thee Museum of PRECINEMA in Italy.

The Brera Art Gallery: the works you can’t miss

Wednesday May 24th, 2017 , Cities of Art, Museums

Image source: MuseoMilano.it

THE BRERA ART GALLERY: THE WORKS YOU CAN’T MISS AND HOW TO PLAN YOUR VISIT

The Pinacoteca di Brera (Brera Art Gallery) is a great museum which unlike other great Italian art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, didn’t originate from aristocratic collecting.
The works displayed at the Brera Art Gallery don’t come from collections belonging to a Prince or noble families, but is the collection of works used for the education of students attending the Academy of Fine Arts.
In the early 19^th century, thanks to Napoleon Bonaparte, it turns into a museum.

Venice Biennale 2017: why i didn’t like it and why you must visit it

Tuesday May 23rd, 2017 , Contemporary Art, Events and Exhibitions

VENICE BIENNALE 2017: WHY I DIDN’T LIKE IT AND WHY YOU MUST VISIT IT

It may seem a strange thing that I write a bad review of the Venice Biennale 2017, and at the same time I suggest that you visit it.
After the Biennale 2013, dedicated to artists and thinkers, and the Biennale 2015 characterized by fragmentation and all the world’s possible futures, in this edition curated by Christine Macel, entitled VIVA ARTE VIVA I expected a Venice Biennale 2017 made up of hopes and artists able to describe the dream of a better world.