Conversation with Alberta Pane
I thought of my encounter with Marie Denis and her work Memento Mori, although I could tell countless stories that have moved me and continue to shape my everyday life…
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Conversation with Umberto Zagarese
“A work that struck me particularly recently is You or Me by Maria Lassnig (1919–2014), painted in 2005. It is a rather unsettling oil painting, as are most of the…
Conversation with Alessia Zorloni
There have been at least two events that marked something significant in my professional and personal journey. The first took place during New Year's Eve in 2003, when I was…
Conversation with Fabrizio Plessi
"I was born in Reggio Emilia and lived in my hometown until I was 15. After graduating from the Art High School, I continued my education at the Academy of…
Conversation with Will Ramsay
The work that has always communicated something important to me, ever since I first saw it, is The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich. I love…
Conversation with Angelo Bellomo
"I have no hesitation in naming two works that are fundamental to me, gigantic: View of Toledo and The Vision of Saint John, both by the immense El Greco. For…
Conversation with Denis Isaia
I believe few people remember the logo of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Above the inevitable five rings, there was a stylized athlete. The head was blue like the sea, and…
Conversation with Elena Zaccarelli
Behind a painting, there is often a love story. The work I’m in love with actually represents the end of a love story. It was February 1971, and David Hockney…
Conversation with Alessandro Piangiamore
The Sicilian artist Alessandro Piangiamore presented a work by the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich for the column.
Conversation with Salvatore Mirabile
Art in Times of “Cholera”. Two artists, profoundly different yet united by a revolutionary approach to their work and tied by a tragic fate: both died prematurely at the age…