I attended for a long time, in the eighties and nineties, in the Mario Bellini, Italo Lupi circle, surrounded by a host of common friends, architects, designers, industrialists, politicians, bankers (in short, an elite) in which everything was discussed; a light-hearted way of...
Alfredo Romano, my lifelong friend, represents the younger generation of art that has had (and continues to have) eternal witnesses in Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Pier Paolo Calzolari, in their naked as well as cultured and wise structurality,...
Just as Francis Bacon twisted the mask of the persona, making it a multifaceted form of the soul's face, in the same way (but with an opposing outcome) that Bernini flushed out the face of Louis XIV, the Etruscan sense of Giuliano Vangi (1931-2024) has given us...
She would have been a hundred now, but she preferred to leave us at ninety-six. With the grace, style, and elegance always. Cini Boeri, with the very Milanese and Lombard habit of using a nickname as her name, instead of her given name Maria Cristina, which is also not...
Thinking big is a form of thinking that requires a worldview, bold, exploratory, nomadic, capable of overcoming the lines of the natural horizon and prescribing others. Others that are a form of labyrinth, of twisting and turning, in a guise reminiscent of the erm...