There's a point where painting stops being representation and becomes an organism. Louise Bonnet found it, and hasn't looked back since. A budding illustrator and graphic designer , in 2008 she decided to abandon the smooth surface of the line to immerse herself in the possibilities of pictorial matter . First with acrylic on paper ,...
There are artists who don't just paint images , but construct puzzles. Anna Weyant , born in 1995 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada , arrived in New York like a contemporary coming-of-age story , and has now become one of the most discussed and observed figures on the international scene . Her meteoric rise , punctuated by records...
Contemporary art exists in a paradox. On the one hand, it proclaims freedom, experimentation, and breaking with norms; on the other, it operates within a rigidly codified system, where the value of a work stems not from its intrinsic strength, but from the journey it takes through exhibitions, reviews, collections, and retrospectives. It's a system that rewards...
From November 20, 2025, to August 31, 2026 , the M9 in Mestre will host an exhibition that is not just an exhibition, but an act of civic remembrance: Pertini. The Art of Democracy . For the first time in Italy, a major exhibition is dedicated to Sandro Pertini , the President who more than any other embodied the values...
Ferrari Sheppard , born in Chicago in 1983 and now residing in Los Angeles , is not just a painter: he is a thinker who uses painting as a tool for philosophical reflection . His canvases, often large in scale , do not simply represent abstract figures or fragments of memory: they become true visual essays ...
There are voices that don't belong to time , but suspend it. Ornella Vanoni was one of these: a voice that didn't just sing, but inhabited space, transforming it, making it fragile and solemn at the same time. She wasn't just the " Lady of Italian Music ," she was an architecture of memory, an interior theater...
There's a man writing to his brother , and in his words you can hear the wind in the dunes, the languor of hunger, the fatigue of a body that can no longer cope. But at the same time, you can feel the fever of a soul that refuses to give up. It's Vincent van Gogh, and his letters are more than a document:...
WRITTEN BY ANGELO ANSELMO DI BELLA
Every human being is born immersed in a sea of perceptions. Consciousness is the first shore we touch: a fragile landing place that allows us to say "I" to the world. But consciousness is not a fixed point: it is a movement, a flow that renews itself every moment. It is the ability to recognize that we are alive and that...
Not all artists seek to arrest the flow of time : some chase it like a wild animal, others pass through it like a raging river. Thomas Dhellemmes belongs to this second lineage: his photography is not an act of fixation, but of movement. He doesn't freeze the moment, he sends it fleeing. He doesn't preserve it, he...
