The countercultural stories of Jago, Banksy, TvBoy on show

Tuesday November 15th, 2022 , Events and Exhibitions

THE COUNTERCURRENT STORIES OF JAGO, BANKSY, TVBOY ON SHOW

The works of Jago, Banksy and TvBoy on display in Bologna to create a ‘virtual’ dialogue between the mysterious British artist and two of Italy’s most influential artists.

What do these three artists have in common to justify an exhibition that, with 60 works on display, presents itself as one of the most important on the contemporary art scene?
What they have in common is the fact that they have subverted the rules of art, refusing to become part of a system that squeezes artists rather than enhancing them, excludes the best to make room for those who are better at fitting into an economic system.

Jago, Banksy, TvBoy

Photography as information technology

Saturday November 12th, 2022 , Events and Exhibitions

Fotografo sconosciuto, pubblicità della Recordak con etichetta “Tutti questi assegni in 30 metri di rullino. Un bel risparmio”, 1955 c. Università di Rochester, Libri Rari, Collezioni Speciali e Conservazione (RBSCP), Kodak Historical Collection / Photographer unknown, photo for a Recordak ad, labelled “All those checks in a 100-foot roll. That’s economy”, ca. 1955. University of Rochester, Rare Books.

PHOTOGRAPHY AS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

How many photographs have you taken with your smartphone in the last seven days? How many images have you received and left stored on your phone?

Photography is an integral part of our lives.
From its inception to the present day, it has had the ability to insert itself into every area of society, from science to art, from politics to information, from industry to the personal lives of each of us.

An exhibition in Bologna tells a different story of photography, one that goes beyond the fact that photography is an art, but considers this tool in its countless practical uses and communicative power.

Photography as information technology

PASSION FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Works from Paul Klee to Damien Hirst on show

Friday November 11th, 2022 , Events and Exhibitions

PASSION FOR THE 20TH CENTURY. FROM PAUL KLEE TO DAMIEN HIRST

From Paul Klee to Damien Hirst, works that tell the story of collecting are on display at Palazzo Medici, in Florence, for an exhibition that tells the story of love for art and culture.

From 24 September 2022 to 8 January 2023 in the palace where modern collecting was born at the time of Cosimo the Elder and Lorenzo The Magnificent, a prestigious selection of works by 20th-century masters from Florentine and Tuscan private collections will be on public display.

From Paul Klee to Damien Hirst

The Chaos Within. An exhibition on Frida Kahlo in Turin

Wednesday October 26th, 2022 , Events and Exhibitions

CHAOS WITHIN. AN EXHIBITION ON FRIDA KAHLO IN TURIN

To understand Frida Kahlo it is necessary to enter her world, and an exhibition in Turin allows us to get to know the kaleidoscope of cultural and political fragments, of family roots (her mother of Spanish and Amerindian origins and her German father, the photographer Guillermo Kahlo Kaufmann, who was naturalised Mexican), of sufferings from illness and then from the serious accident that immobilised her when she was 18 in bed and from miscarriages, but also of love and passion, such as that for the Mexican artist and unfaithful husband Diego Rivera, as well as for other charismatic men, such as the Bolshevik revolutionary Lev Trockij.

Frida Kahlo exhibition in Turin

An exhibition on van Gogh in Rome

Tuesday October 25th, 2022 , Events and Exhibitions

AN EXHIBITION ON VAN GOGH IN ROME

In Rome, at the Palazzo Bonaparte, an exhibition dedicated to the world’s most famous and beloved artist: VAN GOGH.
An exhibition itinerary that through an exceptional loan of no less than 50 works, all from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, recounts his human and artistic story.

The exhibition in Rome reconstructs van Gogh’s human and artistic life and celebrates his works through a chronological itinerary. In this post you will find information on how to visit the exhibition.
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