The bed is unmade. She is completely naked, there is a lit oil lamp and a moth – a butterfly symbol of death, but also of transformation and research of light – which flutters, perhaps the light annoys it. But is the girl alone? Or there is a man, somewhere, that observes her? Another painting

In order to visit a museum you sometimes have to ascend a monumental staircase, or perhaps two. The first one was designed for Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma by Farnese dukes’ architect Simone Moschino around 1608, and leads to the triple entrance of the National Gallery, Farnese Theatre and Palatine Library. After having crossed the

They’re just kids, “just kids”. Only? What does it mean that “only” when it comes to children? We know, we who we are no longer that, explore their light thoughts, we remember the time when we discovered our shadow? Valerio Berruti is an artist who has long dealt with childhood: in his works always appear

Located in the heart of Romagna, a short distance from “Terra del Sole”, old strategic center for its close relations with Tuscany, until, in 1830, on the occasion of a process for saltwater smuggling, a Florentine expert examined Castrocaro water, discovering the precious thermal properties that for long centuries had fallen into oblivion. Terra del

Shelves full, environments populated of bond paper, chairs and tables for studying, precious objects that are preserved in places of culture. The series dedicated to bookstores and libraries by Massimo Giannoni (Empoli, 1954, lives and works in Florence) are long glances that investigate memory and transmission of knowledge and put in the middle the places

Gianni Pezzani was born in 1951 in Colorno, in the province of Parma, in the “Bassa”. That area near the Po, that Po Valley with boundless and often indistinguishable horizons because of the fog, those difficult and sometimes hostile lands with unbearable climate and abandoned farmsteads, but also rich of evocative images, poetic echoes which

Glass diamond, zanfirico a reticello or milky, crescent moon, or dots, or transparent murrine; still, etched and opal glass, layered, wrought, corroded, iridescent or submerged are just some of the types of glass works and techniques that characterized the refined history of Venini glass factory in Murano, to which the Cini Foundation in Venice is

Sabrina Mezzaqui’s works are often full of presences. The visible ones – such as writers and poets – and invisible – people who contribute materially to the realization of the works. She is an artist who always choose lightweight materials, especially the pages of the most beloved books which, through her interpretation and her sensitivity,

Why and when did she start to photograph? What prompted her to use more than 150,000 negatives, jealously preserving without showing them, without revealing herself as a photographer, without contacting those who could have organized her an exhibition? Vivian Maier was a nanny. From the fifties of the last century she looked after New York