“We have just talked about the coexistence between abstract and anthropological world; the idea is similar about the canvas: some paintings are not entirely painted, you can see the rough canvas, while others are entirely filled with colors. Sometimes the sign is free...

"Artist's Shit. Contents 30gr net freshly preserved produced and tinned in May 1961."

Piero manzoni, Artist's Shit n°8. 

Thinking about the Artist's Shit we wonder what is the meaning behind Piero Manzoni’s provocative work: a series of ninety cans, all numbered an...

David Ostrowski is one of the youngest and most discussed personalities of the international

contemporary art scene, as well as a revelation of the art market.

In the past two years his works have captured international attention, being exposed in Berlin, Paris, Zurich,...

Turi Simeti is considered one of the great masters of Italian art of XXth and XXIst century. He played an active role in the Zero Movement, developed in Germany during the Sixties and based on the idea of a new beginning of the artistic experience, which want to break...

Agostino Bonalumi has been one of the main protagonists of the Milanese artistic scene during the sixties. His research is deeply connected to minimalism and the exploration of the space by the creation of new dimensions for art, following the example of his mentor Lu...

Paul Klee was one of the most important exponents of Abstractism. He was born in Berna in 1879. After an initial formation at Franz Von Stuck's atelier, Klee outperformed his academic studies thanks to the experience of several travels in Italy and France.

In 1912 he m...

Alberto Biasi was born in Padua on the 2nd of June, 1937. He lost his mother during the war and went to live with his grandmother in a small village in the country outside Padua, where she ran a tavern. He studied architecture and technical drawing in Venice, where he...

Dadamaino has been one of the most eclectic and multifaceted artists of the Italian artistic scene, protagonist together with Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana and Enrico Castellani of the Milanese avant-garde during the ’50.

Born in Milan in 1930, Eduarda Emilia Maino too...

Mapplethorpe was born in 1946 and grew up as a Roman Catholic of English and Irish heritage in Floral Park, Queens, New York. He was an American photographer, known for his works featuring celebrities portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits and still-life imag...

Term used to identify a group of British artists active in London from the 1980s to the late 1990s. The term was derived from a series of six exhibitions, Young British Artists I to Young British Artists VI, held between March 1992 and November 1996 at the Saatchi Gall...