This water envelops everything with its reflections, spreading across the drawings, blurring their edges, and with its shimmering, it alters the pencil marks like an unstable, undulating elastic.
Since the Renaissance, the book in art has symbolized knowledge, with the codex—both as an object and a concept—becoming a metonym for scholarship and learning.
The work of art felt to me, at a certain point, like a possibility for meeting, like an invitation to participate, addressed by the artists to each of us. ---Carla Lonzi, Autoritratto, 1969.
From an outdoor public commission in London to an exhibition based on art critic Carla Lonzi’s book Autoritratto and Danh Vo’s solo show in Tokyo, our editors on what they’re looking forward to this month.
Tornabuoni Art Paris is pleased to present Painting and Poetry. Ungaretti and the Art of Seeing, an exhibition that celebrates the convergence of literature and visual arts through the figure of the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti (Alexandria, Egypt 1888 - Milan 1970).
Twelve years after the last retrospective devoted to the work of Mario Ceroli, Tornabuoni Art Paris is presenting, starting in June 2022, an exhibition dedicated to this major artist of the Roman art scene.
Art Basel has announced the 289 galleries that will take part in its upcoming edition in the Swiss city, which is scheduled to run June 16 to June 19, with preview days on June 14 and June 15.