Venice Art Biennale 2024
Paris is widely known as the city of love. I beg to differ. I believe said title by all rights should belong to Venice. If you wish to fall in love you might as well do it here. The city is positively permeated by romance. Maybe that's why when I visit, even for work, it always ends up being a pleasure trip. April was truly a “tour de force” month. With barely enough time to dash
Arnaldo Pomodoro: The possible movement.
It is my great pleasure to once again invite all of you to the latest Cortesi Gallery exhibition: Arnaldo Pomodoro: the possible movement. Curated by Alberto Salvadori in collaboration with the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro the exhibition aims to explore the career of one of the most accomplished Italian sculptors. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to explore the beginnings and the most important stages of the artist’s career, for the first time presenting a group of
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
NFT exhibition – Unpredictable Lines
I am very pleased to invite all of you to the latest Cortesi Gallery exhibition dedicated to digital artists. The exhibition presents four generative artists whose artistic research focuses on the creative process and movement, in which the viewer becomes the protagonist. Anna Carreras, Jean-Jacques Duclaux (aka Eko33), Julien Gachadoat and Nadieh Bremer have been creating generative artworks from algorithms and codes that aim to promote and continue this dialogue between artist and viewer by presenting works resulting from a process over which the artist has partial control. The unpredictable
Tiziana Lorenzelli – Naturalismo Cosmico
Artist Tiziana Lorenzelli and Dangira Cortesi Cortesi Gallery Lugano is pleased to present Naturalismo Cosmico (Cosmic Naturalism), a solo show dedicated to Tiziana Lorenzelli, curated by @veracanevazzi.artconsulting. Nature is the exhibition's main theme, meant in all its terrestrial and cosmic forms, the mechanism of the forces that regulate it, and the increasingly urgent need to protect it. It is conceived in its mutability, ongoing transformation, and evolution with other elements, with the space surrounding it, with light
CHIARA DYNYS | UN’ETERNA GHIRLANDA BRILLANTE
Curated by Giorgio Verzotti. Milano | Via Morigi 8 5 May 2022 until 5 July 2022from Monday to Friday 10 am - 6 pm A constellation of bodies that, almost as if without matter, define a luminous universe. A garland that appears before viewers’ eyes and enraptures them, as if captured by an image of total weightlessness that almost seems to fly before our eyes. Luminous and ultra-light elements in transition, but in actual fact complex aluminium creations.
Redefining Space – the new exhibition dedicated to NFTs
The Redefining Space exhibition brings together the works of three important and multifacetedcontemporary artists who work with sculpture, print, video, NFTs and virtual reality: Leo Caillard,Emanuele Dascanio and Matteo Mauro. The exhibition aims to establish an exciting dialogue between the classical and the contemporary.The show renews the traditional concept of space anchored to the physical and material dimensionof reality to extend it beyond itself into the virtual sphere of contemporaneity. The works on display narrate the birth of the Metaverse, which is a process equal to creating theuniverse