Piero Manzoni: genius or provocateur?

Monday April 14th, 2025 , Artists and Works

If today an artist were to put tins on sale with the words ‘Merda d’artista’ (artist’s shit), he would probably be accused of being just a provocateur chasing likes. Well, in 1961, when Piero Manzoni did it, the matter was much more serious (or was it?).

Because Piero Manzoni was no ordinary artist. He challenged the very meaning of art with a cutting irony, an uncommon conceptual ability and a natural talent for playing with the art system like a cat plays with a ball of wool.

But who was Piero Manzoni really? A visionary genius? A tireless provocateur? Or simply an artist with a laugh in his pocket and a great sense of humour? Let us find out together.

WHO PIERO MANZONI WAS

Mario Schifano genius Italian art

Monday March 31st, 2025 , Artists and Works, No Category

Have you ever seen a painting by Mario Schifano and felt a shiver go down your spine? If you have, you are not alone. Schifano did not simply paint canvases, but fragments of a turbulent existence, a cry for freedom soaked in colours and images that still speak powerfully to us today.

Considered one of the greatest exponents of ItalianPop Art, he was much more: a visual poet, a rebel unafraid to get his hands dirty with life.

WHO MARIO SCHIFANO WAS

Monsters, myths and fantasy: Arianna Fioratti Loreto’s fantastic bestiary

Friday March 21st, 2025 , Artists and Works

Get ready for a journey into an extraordinary world, populated by legendary creatures, mythological monsters and extinct animals that seem to come back to life before your eyes!
In her new works Arianna Fioratti Loreto takes us to a parallel universe, where imagination mixes with science and mythology to create a modern bestiary.

An ancient treasure map? No.

A forgotten scientific manuscript? Not even. Rather, an exercise in pure fantasy in which every detail is designed to fascinate and amaze.

THE FANTASTIC BESTIARY OF ANNA FIORATTI LORETO

Robert Rauschenberg: the artist who created the Future of Art

Monday March 17th, 2025 , Artists and Works, No Category

Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram

Have you ever wondered what happens when an artist is not content to paint on a canvas, but decides to take everyday objects and turn them into works of art? Robert Rauschenberg was the master of this revolution. With his hybrid works, somewhere between painting, sculpture and collage, he shook the foundations of modern art, proving that everything can become art if looked at with the right eyes.

WHO ROBER RAUSCHENBERG WAS

The art of Vittorio Valiante: matter, body and contrasts

Wednesday March 12th, 2025 , Artists and Works, No Category

If there is one artist who knows how to shake the viewer of his works, it is Vittorio Valiante.
His visual language is made of raw material and painted flesh, of urban fragments transformed into metaphors of human existence. His new artistic research focuses on the body as a primary experience, as a bridge between reality and perception.

However, do not expect an idealisation of physicality. Here, the flesh is not a hymn to beauty, but a symbol of fragility, consumption and decay.

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