Remembering Carlo Cardazzo

In Venice, Milan and Rome the exhibitions of the most important art of the second half of the 20th century

“With reference to your letter of 9 November, I would like to inform you that Sir Cardazzo is still not in Italy... I can only suggest that you await his return to Naviglio.

Rome • At Villa Borghese the fake archaeological finds of Damien Hirst

Obsessions, obvious theatricality, fake underwater debris confirm the artificial character of his aesthetics

Public authorities greet Damien Hirst’s exhibition “Archaeology Now” at the Galleria Borghese as a sign and stimulus of a “new Italian renaissance” - the fifth in the last five or six years, if I’m correct.

Barcelona • At MACBA an exhibition to reflect on the poetics of Gonzalez-Torres

Arrived in New York in 1979, the Cuban artist is the witness of a generation fighting against all taboos

Forty years ago it was the Aids virus that dominated, triggering fear and loneliness, but it seemed that it was destined only for homosexuals and borderline people. Even if this was not the case, for a long time the expiatory categories, between governmental indifference and respectability.

Berlin • Paintings from the Birkenau series on display at the Nationalgalerie

He imposes on his painting resonances with history, national identity and the universal collective memory

To threaten the proper enjoyment of the exhibition events of Gerard Richter’s works, we always find the syndrome of the double concept of master and masterpiece. Two nouns, by now adjectival, that impose on the spectator a prejudicial interpretation and prevent in-depth analysis and reflection, as happens for some geniuses of the history of Western art.

Monte Carlo • Alberto Giacometti at the Grimaldi Forum

230 works on display, including sculptures, paintings and prints. There are, also The Spoon Woman, The Walking Man and The Large Nude Female

. Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was born at the dawn of the new century, son of art, his father Giovanni is a post-impressionist painter. At the age of twenty he moved to Paris and studied with Émile Antoine Bourdelle, a pupil of Rodin.

At the start the celebrations for the 1600 years of the foundation of Venice

The city in the course of its long history has always overcome all adversities. A plethora of excellent exhibitions now underlines its rebirth after the Covid disaster

This year marks the 1600th anniversary ab urbe condita. Actually, the Queen of the Adriatic blew out the candles on the 25th of March, but the Covid situation was not the best and so the celebrations will be held throughout the year.

Venice: 1600 years ab urbe condita. A long conversation with the Governor of Veneto on the history and future

The memory of good governance and the industriousness of the inhabitants as a point of strength to overcome all difficulties

Meeting Riccardo Guarneri

The lightness of his images gives moments of immeasurable interpretative sweetness

"My intent is to suggest emotions of delicate harmony

The pictorial path of Riccardo Guarneri, directed towards a palpable lightness of the image, is a gift to be shared because of its colloquial immediacy: it conquers the soul even before being looked at and takes possession of the imaginary inducing it to model a personal landscape. He has a seed that gives fruits of immeasurable interpretative sweetness.

Spotlights on Sandi Renko

For the artist creating art means sinking into the certainty of a pre-defined, controlled and rigorous line

Trieste has always been a border town with recognised intellectual freedom: Sandi Renko, born in 1949, Paduan by adoption but Triestine by birth, he experienced cultural ferment at a time when, between the end of the ‘60s and the following decade, protest and emergence took on a new meaning.

Pornhub’s latest idea

To impersonate her, a testimonial with an impeccable curriculum: Ilona Staller

Maybe it’s because of the torrid climate so propitious to voluptuousness, maybe it’s because of the starry summer nights, maybe it’s because of the forced abstinence induced by lockdown and the consequent fear of indulging in a new encounter for dread of contracting the deadly virus, but statistics speak for themselves: porn sites register an unprecedented surge of visitors.