In Padua, “Pietro Bembo and the invention of the Renaissance”

19 February 2013

For about two decades between the 1520s and the 1540s, Palazzo Camerini in Padua (today in via Altinate) was one of the most notable places of the Italian Renaissance, where Pietro Bembo had his house and home. He spent most of his adulthood in that villa with garden, where he welcomed the friends and pupils […]

Collages in exile: Kurt Schwitters at Tate Britain

29 January 2013

Newspaper scraps, bus tickets, food wrappings, leaves, rope and fabric pieces, even cigarette ends. For Kurt Schwitters, no object was unworthy of attention. The task he had taken up—perhaps a playful one in the beginning, even though its repercussions on his life turned out as dramatic—was precisely this: “A complete breach of inhibitions […] creating […]

In Turin, celebrating Gianini and Luzzati, the cartoonists loved by Fellini

23 January 2013

Those who were children in the Sixties and Seventies will recall the sense of wonder attached to it. Those who were parents, will have already appreciated the expressiveness of its stroke and the intensity of the soundtrack. Children and parents from the following decades continue to get the same feelings still today. Thus the exhibition […]

Ana Tzarev’s flowers of joy, at Rome’s Palazzo Venezia

15 January 2013

Big, pulpy and joyful flowers will light up Rome’s winter in 2013. Starting from today (January 15), Ana Tzarev’s solo exhibition “The life of flowers” opens up at the museum of Palazzo Venezia, in the Room of the Old Refectory. Born in Croatia in 1937, Tzarev has been extraneous to the art world until her […]