With Nanof, the composer investigates the Fernando Oreste Nannetti story, psychiatric patient exponent of art brut

Between the '800 and '900, everything changed, in visual art as in music: dissonance takes more and more space, the avant-garde disrupts the systems and the very sense of art, by removing the pregnancy of the concept of beautiful or ugly. Kandinsky invites us to listen to the colors.

For over thirty years, he explores the social, ethical and political issues that divide the United States

Portraits like Flemish paintings, objects like still lifes, photographs that look like classic paintings without sacrificing their pop character. The Maillol Museum offers, until October 20, “Portraits of America”, by Tempora agency, a journey into the work of the American artist Andres Serrano, from the first realizations of the 80s to the latest creations.

An exhibition presents Byzantine African art, the other investigates the ‘900 Harlem Renaissance

Our Lady Kyriotissa (“Ruler of the world”) seated on a throne with the Child in his hand. They both look up, slightly to our right, towards eternity, but not directly. It looks like a goddess, probably Isis, first Egyptian, then Roman, finally Christian. Next, in slight prominence, two saints in sacred and military vestments, the only ones from the incarnation of this world, the severe gaze turned to us, as to mark a threshold and prevent a passage.

An edition that reflects an increasingly foreign and queer society

The LX Biennale di Venezia promises to be foreign and queer. Already in the title, “Strangers everywhere”, reflects the crises of our world, with exodus of people physically moving between nations and boundaries, and psychically between concepts of identity, race, gender, sexuality, facing all the pitfalls connected with these concepts.

In his work, material and intangible entities penetrate. Metaphors and mythological symbols that refer to the suspended time of waiting

“I was born in a hospital basement. That’s where my mother gave birth to me and that same night our house was bombed”. Born and raised in the rubble of a country razed to the ground, Anselm Kiefer (Donaueschingen - Germany, 1945) is today one of the greatest living artists.

On display 49 works divided into 4 sections

One of the most awaited exhibitions of the year, and in my opinion one of the most successful, opened its doors in Fondazione Prada headquarters in Milan: “Pino Pascali”, curated by Mark Godfrey.

50 shots on view where the artist desecrates the documentary role of photography

In the brilliant comedy directed by Marc Foster “Stranger than Fiction”, IRS agent Harold, surprised by the breaking in of an inner voice in his boring and predictable daily life, realizes that he is part of a novel. The planes of reality and narration mix, sometimes fight against each other, and at other times compensate, but, in the end, they converge in a compromise between the character and the writer.

An exhibition curated in every detail by the artist recently passed away

The Guggenheim dedicates a great retrospective to Giovanni Anselmo, entitled “Beyond the Horizon” (curated by Gloria Moure, until May 19th). The artist - who passed away on December 18th - designed and curated this exhibition in every detail: from the structure of the spaces of the iconic building signed by Frank Gehry to placing his photo on the cover of the catalogue.

There is a rebus in the art world of difficult resolution. And it is an exciting theme, extraordinarily important and decisive in the intersection between artistic production and its commercialization. I have known, for many years, artists, gallery owners, collectors. I interpret, on many occasions, the path, the fantasy, the scheme of the game. But they have, basically, a trait I would say common, in some ways irreplaceable.

About twenty unpublished works that have the Mediterranean routes as theme on view

The Mediterranean as a space of a story that has been going on for centuries, that has created and contaminated our culture, with the migrations that have made us become what we are. This is the background of Giuseppe Modica’s exhibition “Rotte mediterranee e visione circolare” (“Mediterranean routes and circular vision”), in the spaces of the Hendrik Christian Andersen House Museum, curated by Maria Giuseppina Di Monte and Gabriele Simongini.