Beyond the Canvas
Overlooked and underrated: Bologna's Renaissance.
Eclipsed by Ferrara's and crushed between Venice's and Florence's, Bologna's Renaissance art fails to garner the attention and...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Sep 23, 2022
- 1 min
Masterpieces of Bologna's Pinacoteca Nazionale: Ludovico Carracci's San Pietro Toma Crocifisso, 1613
Compared to other Italian painters of the 17th century, I find that the Carracci (brothers Annibale and Agostino and their cousin...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jul 24, 2022
- 2 min
A nameless painting and a story of new beginnings
Antonio Pedrazzi was a family man, a husband, a father of four. After studying at Bologna University to become an agronomist, he worked...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 12, 2022
- 1 min
Ukrainian artists: Kinder Album
"There will be a painting that shows our victory, for sure." - Kinder Album (interviewed by Bird in Flight) The truth is we do not know...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 26, 2022
- 2 min
Ukrainian artists: Oleg Tistol
My dear Ukrainian friend Halyna makes veggie borsch for me. She also makes kapusta (red cabbage), Olivier (Russian) salad and blinis,...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Cops and lovers
Today Instagram is aflood with red hearts, declarations of eternal love, schmaltzy quotes and unmissable promotions. And while swathes of...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Feb 2, 2022
- 2 min
Appropriating Jacopo Pontormo is a really bad idea
"Good artists copy; great artists steal." - Apocryphal quote The history of modern and contemporary art is littered with instances of...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 22, 2021
- 2 min
Drunk on art.
Whether it’s the first one or the latest of many, a visit to Florence’s Uffizi is bound to leave you breathless. Such are the quality and...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
On World AIDS Day
"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live." - Robert Mapplethorpe In this powerful self-portrait Robert Mapplethorpe looks...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Nov 13, 2021
- 1 min
Domenico Gnoli at Fondazione Prada, Milan
“I always use simple elements, I don’t want to add or subtract anything. I never even wanted to deform either: I isolate and I represent....
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Beyond the Canvas
- Sep 4, 2021
- 2 min
Women who defend themselves
At long last, my reading drought has come to an end. I am currently re-reading the original version of The Life Before Us written in 1975...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Apr 29, 2021
- 1 min
Nicola Samorì - Sfregi, Palazzo Fava, Bologna
"I try to make bright paintings, but every time I fall into the shadows, maybe because darkness is the ultimate condition of things,...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Mar 23, 2021
- 2 min
Laura Aguilar's courageous rebellion
“My photography has always provided me with an opportunity to open myself up and see the world around me. And most of all, photography...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Nov 14, 2020
- 2 min
Art is essential, now more than ever.
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Pablo Picasso Dust. How many tonnes of dust are we currently covered in?...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
Fourteen days to the US Presidential election.
“We are at a precipice in this country, and we are either going to move forward or we are not.” - Carrie Mae Weems In 2016, nearly half...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Sep 20, 2020
- 1 min
Americans in Venice
Venice is, among many other wonderful things, synonymous with glass. The work of the Murano glassblowers has inspired countless artists...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Sep 3, 2020
- 1 min
Héctor Zamora's Lattice Detour, The Met rooftop
"The wall is a monument to openness over enclosure, lightness over heaviness, transience over permanence — it’s also fraught with...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Jul 27, 2020
- 2 min
Dwelling: In This Space We Breathe, Khadija Saye (1992-2017)
‘The series was created from a personal need for spiritual grounding after experiencing trauma. The search for what gives meaning to our...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Apr 16, 2020
- 2 min
Flashback no. 4: Egon Schiele's flowers at Leopold Museum, Vienna (27 January 2017)
The Leopold Museum in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier is one the many gems of the city's outstanding cultural offering, arguably among the...
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Beyond the Canvas
- Apr 13, 2020
- 2 min
Flashback no. 3: Robert Longo at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (19 October 2016)
Discovery no. 1: Gorky Park is a name I used to associate with a spy movie from the 80s. Now I know where it is, it took me well over an...
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