Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram
Have you ever wondered what happens when an artist is not content to paint on a canvas, but decides to take everyday objects and turn them into works of art? Robert Rauschenberg was the master of this revolution. With his hybrid works, somewhere between painting, sculpture and collage, he shook the foundations of modern art, proving that everything can become art if looked at with the right eyes.
If there is one artist who knows how to shake the viewer of his works, it is Vittorio Valiante.
His visual language is made of raw material and painted flesh, of urban fragments transformed into metaphors of human existence. His new artistic research focuses on the body as a primary experience, as a bridge between reality and perception.
However, do not expect an idealisation of physicality. Here, the flesh is not a hymn to beauty, but a symbol of fragility, consumption and decay.
Many watercolours, one protagonist: Fat Boy. It is he, a chubby and funny figure, who guides us on a hilarious and irreverent tour through the works of the great masters, from Raphael to Maurizio Cattelan, from Mantegna to Picasso.
With a mix of bright colours, powerful symbols and hinted eroticism, this character shows us art from a new perspective, made of irony and amazement.
Inspired by the ceramics of the pre-Columbian civilisation of the Mimbres, Fat Boy knows no temporal or stylistic boundaries: he tries his hand at uprights, lies in perfect perspective next to the works of Mantegna and imitates the contorted poses of Picasso’s girls. Nothing escapes his curious and somewhat irreverent gaze, not even Jannis Kounellis’s black rose or Raphael’s Three Graces.
Beware though, it is not just a game: through Fat Boy, Radl builds a visual narrative that spans centuries of art, merging tradition and contemporaneity in a single creative flow. In each watercolour there is a story, a detail that winks at the great masterpieces but at the same time reinvents them.
Il David di Donatello al Museo del Bargello di Firenze
Museums have always been places of discovery, learning and wonder. However, in the age of mass tourism, many museums face a challenge: balancing their educational and cultural role with the growing demand for entertainment.
What happens then when visitor numbers become a priority over the cultural mission?
Are museums losing their essence, turning into tourist attractions?
In this post I will analyse the pros and cons of this transformation, trying to answer a crucial question for the future of heritage.
Have you ever looked at a detail and felt that the world was about to open up before your eyes?
This is the magic conveyed by the works of Elisabeth Scherffig, an artist who transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, merging art, nature and architecture in a unique visual language.
