BRAFA 2024 – The Hundredth Anniversary Of The Birth Of Surrealism
This year I had the honour of being invited to Brussels for the 69th annual BRAFA Art Fair 2024. One of the most prestigious and long running art fairs in Europe. This year BRAFA 2024 featured 132 galleries from 14 countries (Including our own Cortesi Gallery) offering a range of specialities from Antiquity to contemporary art. BRAFA 2024 - Cortesi Gallery © Olivier Pirard Each year the art fair chooses to highlight a theme, gallery or artist. This
Tiffany & Co redesigns flagship stores in Tokyo and New York
Art and design are my two great passions and, naturally when the two elements collide it’s double the excitement. July 9, 2023 marks the Tiffany & Co re-opening of their Tokyo flagship store featuring an extraordinary installation of Damien Hirst's Cherry Blossoms. The new façade consists of 292 aluminium and glass panels arranged at different angles, allowing light to enter the interior spaces and diffuse similar to as it would on the surface of a carefully cut
GIANFRANCO PARDI. ARCHIPITTURA
I am very excited to invite all of you to the latest Cortesi Gallery exhibition. Titled GIANFRANCO PARDI. ARCHIPITTURA, the new exhibition dedicated to Gianfranco Pardi is on view from 30 March to 31 May 2023 at Cortesi Gallery in Milan. Created in collaboration with the Archivio Gianfranco Pardi and the Galleria Gió Marconi, it is an ideal pursuit of research on the artist's work presented by the gallery in the important exhibition Gianfranco Pardi. Autoarchitettura,
Lucrezia Roda, photographer of light
Today I would like to talk about the artist Lucrezia Roda, photographer of light and matter, capable of transforming the physical object into an abstract dimension that excites the viewer. A young photographer with a great artistic future. From the light to the fire in the Venini furnace, where the ancient art of blown glass began, in her work this artist portrays the glass from the Venini furnace through unprecedented perspectives, transforming elements of substance into