In the clarity of disquiet the human being lives. Images and thoughts are produced and consumed. Feeling and sentiment waver in reality. Acceptance and conception are rusty keys of a carnal vault. Powerlessness and nostalgia, the art of the sublime, pure and social romanticism. Lucas Memmola, “Stella del mattino”, oil on panel, 30 x 40 cm, 2024, ph Irene Guerrini, courtesy the artist and Galleria Tiziana di Caro Lucas Memmola (Bari,1994) welcomes conflicting emotions into his work, leaving it to his hands to execute a reasoned thought, a recondite thought, as silent as it is deafening. He is ..read more

Democritus’ ontology was based on the intuition of infinite eternal, immutable and indivisible atoms, the first principle of all reality, in incessant movement within an infinite empty space. The Democritean atoms, infinitesimal quantities of the same matter perceptible only through the intellect, were completely devoid of qualitative determinations, but differed in the quantitative aspects of shape, order and position. This concept, taken up by Epicurean physics and subsequently by the Latin poet Lucretius in De rerum natura, was the basis of the clinamen atomistic theory, according to which ..read more

It sometimes happens that some artists emerge much later than their colleagues, because they are far from the official narrative of art history and independent of the market. This friction, however, gives them a personal style that is far removed from the most famous fashions and movements. Anna Paparatti (Reggio Calabria, 1936) is an authentic artist, faithful and grateful to painting. Her gurus are Toti Scialoja, Julian Beck and the Dalai Lama; she is deeply attached to India, and her works are marked by a nostalgia and a sense of belonging to this land. She was rediscovered only a few years ..read more

That of Young Art Hunters is a reality, born a few years ago, with the aim of carving out a space within Milan that is to all intents and purposes of art and for art. The very young founders Barbara Basile (curator of exhibitions and coordinator of artists) and Elia Panori (art director), together with collaborator Enrico Pescarolo (contact person for the international part) tell us about it. From the left: Enrico Pescarolo, Lorenza Pagliari, Barbara Ludovina Basile, Elia Panori. Foto di Niccolò Misrachi, courtesy The YAH Factory, Milano Anna Setola: What you created is a very young environm ..read more

The Other is different. Otherness is fear. Judgments as historical courses and recurrences, “the eternal return of everything” as Nietzsche points out, unfortunately. Struggles and fleeting teachings to reality, to understanding, to compassion. Interaction as salvation, interaction as conquest, interaction as redemption, interaction as art. Fondazione Made in Cloister is the place where relations and traditions, memories and contemporaneity, cultures and reflections meet. INTERACTION is the second edition of the international contemporary art biennial – curated by Demetrio Paparoni – whose the ..read more

What image is more evocative than the artwork as a generator of intertwined words, where forms and metaphors offer the syntax of a brilliant creative disorder? This is the case of Alessio Ancillai, on display with “Il turno di note” curated by Davide Silvioli, at the Roman space COSMO, until April 21st, 2024. This project investigates with acute intelligence and powerful imaginative exploration the theme of work, the dimensional aspect of the artwork and the word. The exhibition presents itself with the specific awareness of an experiential journey of an unprecedented and summary interpretatio ..read more

«When I read Sara Varon’s graphic novel Robot Dreams, I devoured it. I loved it so much, and in the end, it even moved me. The characters are anthropomorphic and the emotions very human, similar to those we can all experience: that’s why I decided I could make an animated film for the first time» recounts the award-winning Spanish director Pablo Berger (born in 1963) about his film Robot Dreams (2023). The truly astonishing film opened the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and was nominated for the 2024 Oscars in the animation category. Recently released in Italian theaters, distributed by I Wonder ..read more

The national premiere of The Idiot by the Japanese choreographer and dancer Saburo Teshigawara (Tokyo, 15 September 1953), Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2022 Dance Biennale, was staged last April 9th at Teatro Arena del Sole in Bologna, as part of the CARNE – focus on physical dramaturgy programme curated by Michela Lucenti. The show, inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, was conceived ten years ago during a stay in Italy by the founder of the Karas company, founded in 1985 with the aim of searching for “a new form of beauty” in total freedom, a direction that still guides ..read more

«Prima che di te resti solo la voce» (Before only the voice of you remains) recites a warning in which the transience of being and the inevitable disappearance resonates deeply. This poetic sentence is encapsulated in the site-specific work “Sibilla” (2024), born from the collaboration not only between Camilla Gurgone and C. Sidonie Pellegrino – the two artists who have recently presented the double solo show “Softly Disappear” – but also among mysterious prophecies and modern artificiality. The exhibition by Camilla Gurgone (Lucca, 1997) and C. Sidonie Pellegrino (Castellammare di Stabia, 200 ..read more

Francesca Svampa, independent producer, filmmaker and Italian visual artist living in Barcelona, Spain, exhibits “A Movie in a pic”, a collection of negatives that generate micro films, from 5 to 28 April 2024 at Il Meccanico gallery in Verona. The project, exhibited together with “Gli Stressonauti” series by Giovanni Sellari in the double show entitled “Analogue – Artificial” presents itself as an alternative way of understanding analogic photography. The images originate in a negative, part of it or a manipulation of some kind. A collection of very short films. A project that was born as a g ..read more