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Blog 6499 is a space dedicated to exploring the world of modern and contemporary art.
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The articles of our blog
Klessidra | Giò Pomodoro. Ales. Theatre.
It must have been a mental association, strange but not overly so, caused by the death of his brother Arnaldo,...
Klessidra | Timeless Craftsmanship. D & G Rome
Baroque. Baroque. Baroque. From a Spring/Summer ’25 collection. In Rome. He is the true “god” of fashion,...
Klessidra | Two C. Benincasa: Polcina
Today is all Valentino. Immense. Splendid. Radiant. But one day, back in the mythical eighties,...
Hourglass | Engraved. Art. Lion
Incipit. The name of the gallery (storage/gallery, to be more precise) deservedly high-sounding,...
Klepsydra | Giovanni Leto. A King's Workshop, Midas!
There was a time when it used to be said, almost like a cleaver, enough is enough! Continuing with, enough is enough,...
Pendant | Paciotti. Elegance. Unrivalled.
Today, the twelfth of October 2025, Cesare Paciotti has died. Comparing him to other shoemakers is...
Hourglass | Nato Frascà. The form. The formless.
He passed away a few years ago, in 2006, but his relevance is fantastic, biting, both from the point of...
Clepsydra | G.D.D. Sumer. Eternal.
Gilgamesh meets Urvashi and thus cancels every form of archaeology of the past, every chimera of...
Clepsydra | Arnaldo Pomodoro. Michelangelo. Modern.
With the death of Arnaldo Pomodoro, an artistic era of Michelangelo-esque calibre comes to an end,...
Klessidra | Andrea Volo. Colour. Psyche.
Her painting is made up of the chapters of a visual novel that unfolds according to an articulated...
Clepsydra | Spoerri. Memory. Remains of the Banquet.
Memory games are truly unpredictable. Of something that doesn't appear to you for years and years,...
Hourglass | Snail. Classic. Contemporary.
His one we can consider a transmutation, an imaginary transliteration, made by a...
Hourglass | Pinelli. As painting. Painting.
I have to praise a great friend, a great painter, whom I met way back in...
Hourglass | Well. Praise. Scripture.
I was introduced to writing at the age of five, as an external observer in the first year of primary school, which...
Klessidra | Galliani. Classic. Modern.
I have known Omar Galliani since the early eighties, ever since within an art movement...
Klessidra | Wolves. Design. Pedagogy. Aesthetics.
I spent a long time, back in the eighties and nineties, in the Mario Bellini circle, Italo...
Klessidra | Alfredo Romano. “Poor”. Cultured. Surreal.
Alfredo Romano, my lifelong friend, represents the younger generation of art that has...
Klessidra | Vangi. Fantastic. Regal. Dreamlike.
How Francis Bacon shattered the mask of the persona, turning it into a multifaceted...
Klessidra | Cini. Boeri. Ori. Colati.
He would now be a hundred years old, but he preferred to leave at ninety-six. With the grace,...
Clepsydra | Richard Serra. Cyclopean. Poetic.
Thinking big is a form of thinking that requires a bold, exploratory worldview,...
Hourglass. Icon/Idol. Ancient/Modern
The substantial inspiration comes from Bruno Ceccobelli. The title of his paper (January 2024 on Arts...
Klessidra | One. Floorboard. Architecture. Design.
Urban space, as it is increasingly becoming, chaotic, in the proliferation, at full...
Hourglass | Forms of today. Playful. Idolatrous. Symbolic
It is said that each of us, one by one, retraces throughout our life, the entire journey...
Klepsydra | Artificial. Fashion. Copy. AI.
“Copy” is the result of Midjourney plus ChatGPT, like the stuff of science fiction seasoned with human instructions...
Hourglass | Wax seal. Tents. Dervishes. Chocolate.
A truly erratic psychology, that of Aldo Mondino, a man, a poet, an artist, devoted to his...
Clepsydra | Pistoletto. Poor. Rich. Heavenly.
On my Idola album cover, there is the Venus of the Rags, by this whimsical artist, who is...
Klessidra | Ken Scott. Genius. Poet. Designer. All-rounder.
I, with a ground-floor studio and a house in the middle of the garden, designed and set up by Mario Bellini and...
Clepsydra | Art. Enigma. Market. Pragmatism. Now.
I owe my friend, cultural theorist Marcello Faletra, a careful reading, which I found convincing, that...
Metronome | A controversy for Warhol. Portrait. Invisible.
“Liberty he seeks...” thus wrote Dante. And still we are upon that road, in a system that,...
Hourglass | Nitsch. Homage. City. Burri. Castle. Milan.
Nitsch. Tribute. Città. Burri. Castello. Milan. I have just returned from Città di Castello,...
Hourglass | View from the Bridge. Messina. Reggio.
We have a bridge. We can say it. We can shout it. Finally, this is the right time to move from...
Klesydra | Portuguese. Paolo. Post. Modern. Contemporary.
The world of towers, with the subtitle “from Babylon to Manhattan”, has bound me, for this...
Clepsydra | Isozaki. East. West. Uffizi. Allianz.
The death of Arata Isozaki distances our lived-through twentieth century ever further and ever more...
Hourglass | Mystery. Almost Mystery. Reality. Lagerfeld.
K.L.’s greatest and most enduring artistic invention is called Lagerfeld, for that sacred of his...
Klessidra | San Remo. San Remo. Sanremo.
In 17th-century Holland, to be precise, in 1636, the tulip mania bubble bursts, perhaps the first...
Klessidra | Paris. London. Grand Market.
A contested supremacy, that between Paris and London, with a sort of commuter-like movement that now favours...
Clepsydra | The Art of Scarring. Last. Van Gogh.
Third-to-last, truth be told, because as I write news comes over the radio of the vandalism of the facade...
Hourglass | Abolish luxury!? No! No! No!
Abolish luxury cars. Abolish private jets. Abolish large pleasure boats. And...
Hourglass | Cloud. Proud. Rome. Market.
The Fuksas Cloud is the Fuksas Cloud and no mistake. A light, luminous monument to...
Hourglass | Macrolotto Zero. Prato Factory. Air.
The city, as the very etymology of civility, in the sense of order, organisation, verticality, of...
Klessidra | Claes. Oldenburg. Pop. New York A.Z.
Manhattan is an island. And nobody can deny this because geography says so. It is the heart of the...
Metronome | Mambor. Casino. Opera. Immovable.
I got to know Renato Mambor many years ago, but his fame had been known to me, you might say, ever since I can remember,...
Klessidra | Dolce & Gabbana. Luxury. Party. Syracuse.
Actually, Marzamemi too. And Palazzolo Acreide tangentially. But centred on Syracuse, between...
Clepsydra | Contamination. Lexus. Art. Design.
Imagine the future. Design for a better Tomorrow. “ONY” is an installation. “Rewind” is a...
Clepsydra | Bellini. Mario. Genius. Architect. Designer.
I've known Mario Bellini since my Milanese days, with intensive socialising in his...
Hourglass | Aldo Rossi. Design. Milan. Design. Milan.
The proposal of the work by one of the greatest design masters of the last century and, for us, of all time...
Klessidra | Cretto. Burri. Gibellina. Corrao.
By now they just call it the Grande Cretto, to refer to the artwork created by Alberto...
Clepsydra | Venice. Biennale. Pavilion. Tosatti.
Italian Pavilion which reproduces on a 1/1 scale an ordinary textile pavilion of one of the many...
Hourglass | Hermann Nitsch. He is dead. He is alive. He is…
“I have taken great care. Not to laugh at, not to lament, nor to detest human actions, but to understand them. It is...
Water clock | Segesta. Varotsos. Merz. Mortellaro.
Modernity has inaugurated, since its very birth, the sense of time, of analogy and of...
Clepsydra | Video. Rome. Ergo Sum.
There will come a day… (which has partly already arrived) when walls will no longer be made of stone and...
Klessidra | Kapoor. London. Rome. P. Cipolla.
It is called “London Calling: British Contemporary Art Now”, featuring 30 works by 13 artists, working in...
Klessidra | Aldo Loris Rossi. Archè. Naples.
I never met Aldo Loris Rossi in person, the Neapolitan architect, urban planner and landscape designer,...
Clepsydra | Closes. Garage. Museum. Moscow
A wolf stood higher up, and a lamb at a distance lower down. Then the robber, incited by his wicked maw, [sought] a cause for a quarrel...
Pendulum | Field of the Sun. Trasimeno. Sculptures.
Pietro Cascella brought me, in 1992, with his wife, who is also a creator of the sculpture park, to...
Hourglass | Damien Hirst. For the… Scene
For the love of God, translate it into Italian, in an old-fashioned style, to the exclamation of just any...
Hourglass | Chile. Fashion. World Turned Upside Down.
To begin with, I want to say it. I love fine clothing, I love fine living, I love fine travel, I love...
Clessidra | Lagerfeld. Grande Collezionista. At Sotheby's.
Karl Lagerfeld has died at the age of 85. His iconic figure remains intact in its enigmatic form...
Hourglass | Earth and Earth. Design. Train
And speed it is! As for design, it is a perpetual challenge, in the shifting form of its centralities and...
Hourglass | Populous. (The) Cathedral. San Siro
The society of the spectacle is consubstantial with us, with each and every one of us, whether we want it to or...
Chronometer | I'm talking about Gagosian. Gagosian is talking about us!
It's a compliment, I don't want to deny it. And on the other hand, as they say, when it's deserved, you mustn't...
Klessidra | The city of L'Aquila flies! High! Maxxi!
Seeing the city of L'Aquila is a joy for the eyes, for the heart, for our self-esteem...
Clepsydra | Finally. Ulpian Basilica. Anastylosis.
Good news needs to be celebrated, because in the end, when you hear it, it brings joy, it sets in motion the...
Clepsydra | Market. Art. Culture. True Wealth.
Beautiful November in the New York of Christie’s, the international auction house, which confirms itself as a...
Klessidra | School of Nude. Academy. Rome.
Tells the fabulist: in a distant time, when Zeus of Olympus ruled in the sky, it happened, among...
Clepsydra | Milan. The canals of the future. On land. In the air.
No sooner had I finished praising the vertical than I find myself contradicting it (and I do so with...
Hourglass | Milan. Futura Garden. Vertical.
I always dream, I don't stop dreaming and dreams aren't always nice, sometimes they're bad, unsettling...
Klessidra | Milan. Miart. Year 2021
A pink month, this September, for modern art, which some strive to distinguish from...
Klessidra | Creativity is a Mobile Salon
“September, let's go,..” D'Annunzio comes to mind, who was form par excellence, care of...
Hourglass | Honey colour. Solomeo. Quantity. Quality.
When wealth and well-being establish themselves and are able to build upon a cultural substratum,...
Klessidra | Calatrava. Naples
Santiago Calatrava, Spaniard, super-architect, who is known in Italy for fascinating creations,...
Klessidra | Rome Fashion Week
The location is the legendary one of Cinecittà, which we all hold in our hearts and imaginations, for the many...
Clepsydra | Bridge or no bridge
Those were the days of my youth when, first and foremost, I heard from my friend the Honourable Pippo Gugliemino,...
Klessidra | Dance house dance
Great insights are strategic, earth-shattering, they cut epochs in two, creating a scan,...
Clepsydra | Beuys Nature London
I noticed Beuys many years ago, the media felon was Vettor Pisani, with a...
Clepsydra | Museum Design
One, double it, become two, hoping that the two becomes four and the four ... eight, into a lovely ...
Hourglass | Picasso Super Picasso
Some consider the market a demon, others an angel, and they are both wrong, because it doesn't...
Klessidra | Piano Piano Renzo
The quarrel between the old and the new, in a country like Italy rich in history and documents of...
Clepsydra | Italy Pavilion
The next Venetian biennale, postponed because of Covid, and this seems like a wise decision to me,...
Clepsydra | Nuvola di Fuksas
I saw her again on the occasion of my COVID-19 vaccination, as I entered the cavernous...

