A truly erratic psychology, that of Aldo Mondino, a man, a poet, an artist, devoted to his work as an enterprising inventor, innovator, capable of looking, simultaneously, backwards and forwards, leaving the spark of emotion to the present, always in….
On my Idola cover, there's the Venus of the Rags, by this eccentric artist, Michelangelo Pistoletto; and this says a lot about the direction of my thoughts towards him. Reaching ninety years, a life rich in invention, has...
I, with a study on the ground floor and the house in the middle of the garden, designed and furnished by Mario Bellini, and him on the third floor of the staircase to the left of the main entrance. In via Corridoni, Milan. Thus for years. The eighties, nineties. With Ken Scott, a genius comparable to...
I owe my friend, the cultural anthropologist Marcello Faletra, a careful reading, which I found convincing, that was recommended to me by the legendary and lucid Bruno Ceccobelli, of the banality, the sly and manipulative stupidity, I add, of so much pseudo-art that chases after itself, yes...
“Liberty is sought…” thus wrote Dante. And we are still on that road, in a system that, in the present time, is increasingly closing itself off, in vested interests, in inherited advantages, which seem to me like medieval privileges, real chains for every manifestation….
Nitsch. Homage. City. Burri. Castle. Milan I have just returned from Città di Castello, where I inaugurated a selection of works by Luca Alinari and stayed in the city for two days, just enough time to meet my friend Bruno Corà and go for a stroll,...