Piero della Francesca, Nativity, 1460-1475 (detail) In 1925 Franz Roh (1890-1965) theorized Magic Realism (Nach-Expressionismus – magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäisches Malerei, Leipzig, Klinkhardt & Biermann), stating that painting had the task of opposing the vague and demonic flow of existence. The pictorial representation therefore had to crystallize the volumes, making them solid, immutable and timeless. The works belonging to Magic Realism, and to the previous pictorial experiences that generated it (Metaphysics in particular), owe that sense of […]
Photo: Emiliano Russo We have entered the altermodern era, which succeeded postmodernism and in turn succeeded modernism, what suggested it was the retrospective held in 2011 at the Victoria and Albert Museum entitled Postmodern – Style and Subversion 1970 – 1990, curated by Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt, declaring the conclusion of postmodernism itself according to the French critic Nicolas Bourriaud (1965). Now two questions must certainly be asked: the first concerns the date of this conclusion, i.e. the […]
Although linked to my site, it is not my intention to make this blog a promotional tool of my painting production. Instead, it wants to support my research, which I have never understood only as a visual expression, with a series of reflections on the language of images and on the historical-cultural context of which my generation, whether it wants it or not, must be considered legitimate or illegitimate daughter. I am obviously referring to the postmodernity within which we […]
Karel Appel, Frog with umbrella, 2001 (1993), Crocevia Kalvermarkt – Grote Marktstraat e Het Spui, L’Aia Esiste a livello internazionale una costellazione di autori che si esprime, o si è espressa, senza confronto intenzionale con l’arte ufficiale del proprio tempo, disegnando mondi originali, unici, e di difficile o impossibile catalogazione. Artisti che – secondo l’epoca in cui sono vissuti e le pratiche artistiche adottate – gli storici dell’arte hanno incluso nelle categorie dell’Art Brut o Outsider Art e più […]
Helen Shulkin, Vancouver Cruise Terminal II, 2018 Post-urbanity Technological evolution has changed urban objects. Many urban spaces have lost their previous function like postindustrial areas and many urban objects are influenced by a postmodernism, and should be therefore be defined as post-urban spaces and objects. Posturbanity reveals new strata of recent sociological, cultural and technological developments. Some of its architectural identities deepened into the style of neofuturism and some into the structural expressionism like hightech architecture. These changes force […]
