Who’s next?… Anna Banti

Who’s next?… Anna Banti

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written by Valentina Biondini, literature expert

This time “Who’s next?” is dedicated to one of the most eclectic female talents of the Italian twentieth century, wrongly underestimated. We refer to Anna Banti, nom de plume of the versatile Lucia Lopresti, art historian, literary, theater and film critic, translator and, above all, Italian writer of the last century. And it is precisely this overlapping of artistic contexts, together with feminine and autobiographical themes, that will make her modus scrivendi original and unique for the literary landscape of the time. Read more →

Greg Sand//The photography of absence

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by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi

Chronicle: Gesture #2

Can photography have such a figurative ability to tell the temporality of existence? Greg Sand, an American artist/photographer who uses found photographs with the aim to explore concepts like memory, absence, loss and death, seems to feel the need to answer to this question. In fact, in his works these themes emerge through a manipulation of images that gives back an almost surreal connection between the existing figure depicted in the photo and the consequent inescapable vacuum to which it is destined. Read more →

Hannah Hughes/In the space between.. an interview

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by Romina Ciulli e Carole Dazzi

Mirror Image #52 (2020), collage

The value of the photographic image reviewed through the abstract language of collage. The works of the British artist Hannah Hughes consist of assembled and deconstructed parts with the aim to examine in depth the meaning of a modern visual culture that seems more than ever fragmented and  artificial. Using materials extracted from books, newspapers, advertising images and even catalogues of auctions, Hughes’s work actually tries to recreate new specular shapes of just as many reproduced images, but that they similarly find a concrete position in the physical world. Read more →

Who’s next?… Eva Hesse

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Written by Valentina Biondini, literature amateur

Eva Hesse

Our column “Who’s Next?” turns the attention to a woman whose artistic style had the power to change contemporary art forever. We are talking about Eva Hesse, an American sculptor of Jewish origin who, during her short career, reinvented and revolutionized the language of sculpture, making use of a chaotic aesthetic process, bordering on the eccentric, in which emerge intensely the notions of physicality and sensitivity.

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