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    A Wound in the heart of Florence, JR at Palazzo Strozzi

    “The subject is accessibility at the Covid time. The installation speaks to us about this challenging time when culture is denied to the public, and we want to put people in touch with art, public art.” Arturo Galansino, General director at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence When I was a student, I’d never have photographed a building with people in the scene. Still, after years of working on Michelucci’s writings and drawings, my preference for the perfection of form faded considerably, favouring the research for the human dimension in architecture. That’s why I didn’t post on social media a photo…

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    Thanks Marina!

    2009 – It all began 9 years ago when Marina Abramović won the “Lorenzo Il Magnifico” Lifetime Achievement Award at the 7th Florence Biennale and presented her Manifesto for the first time at the Fortezza da Basso. She was intense in her being an artist, in her interpreting and giving meaning to every word. She was sensual; she was magnetic; she was “present”. After a rush of applause and paparazzi flashes that seemed to diminish the value of her Manifesto, it was time to leave, with the frustration of not having met her. I then continued my tour of the…

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    Thomas De Falco – RED

    “Beauty will save the world”, Fyodor Dostoevsky professed this thought in The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, and after more than a century, it seems to be the only sentence that reassured the art world after the terroristic attacks in Paris of November 13th. For a strange coincidence in the same evening at the Marino Marini Museum in Florence took place the RED performance by Thomas De Falco, the artist who through the wrapping technique aimed to create “a magical net of roots which let flow the desire of inner harmony”. I only wished those roots could have been more deep…

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    Photography: FINE IS ART. 25 Scatti d’Autore

    While the Italian art world for some days is migrating to Turin for the art fair Artissima, I prefer to go against the flow, recommending an interesting event for the lovers of photography: the opening of FINE IS ART. 25 Scatti d’autore, the exhibition that tells the nearly 40 years of the Center Chrome of Florence.

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    Fabio Viale – PUNK

    I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time. If you’re young and tight, maybe it’s OK, but … Karl Lagerfeld about tattoos Personally I hate tattoos. I do not like them and I’m not at least attracted by them, especially if they’re just due to a temporary trend, rather than a personal special event to remember. I do not know how many times I dissuaded friends or colleagues from ​​getting a tattoo, especially when they wanted a tribal design, without being part of any kind of tribe. But maybe this time is different … Alexander McQueen…

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    Tamara de Lempicka exhibition in Turin

    Until August 30th the exhibition “Tamara de Lempicka”, produced by 24 ORE Cultura and Arthemisia Group, turns the Palazzo Chiablese in Turin into a documentary catalog in which photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine covers, drawings, films and paintings, unmask every secret of the great painter. Room by room, the curator Gioia Mori analyzes episodes and themes that led Tamara de Lempicka to be who she was and still is: a female model of strength and independence; an intimately and emotionally fragile woman; a not very caring mother, but haunted by the presence of the daughter; a glamour icon in every age…

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    Dolci trionfi e finissime piegature

    For the Expo 2015, Florence invites you to a special dinner in its museums, and also a wedding! No joke, this is the theme of the latest exhibition at the Galleria Palatina of Palazzo Pitti that propose the sumptuous wedding feast of Maria de ‘Medici and Henry IV of France, so far from the convivial scenes painted by Gherardo delle Notti, now on display at the Uffizi Gallery.

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    Exhibition – JACOPO LIGOZZI “PITTORE UNIVERSALISSIMO”

    Until September 28th the iconic Sala Bianca of Palazzo Pitti in Florence will host Jacopo Ligozzi “PITTORE UNIVERSALISSIMO”, the exhibition curated by Alessandro Cecchi, Lucilla Conigliello, Marzia Faietti in collaboration with Anna Bisceglia and Giorgio Marini, that for the first time showcases the wide activity of the Veronese painter Jacopo Ligozzi in the Florentine panorama. Among the famous series of “naturalia”, allegories and altarpieces is a real surprise to discover even his role as designer of clothes, bizarre glasses, scenic design and fine storied marble tops made by the grand-ducal manufactory. Tavole naturalistiche – Gli Uccelli – Ficus Carica (Ficus…