Guerrino Boatto is considered to be one of the Masters of the hyperrealism and Paolo Cornieti defines him as "one of the greatest illustrators in the world". Guerrino Boatto worked for a long time in the advertising industry, for the most important international brands, but painting was always in the foreground: his works, meticulously realistic, do not make use of reproductive technologies, like photography or computer manipulations; they are rigorously painted. They are nice, lively ...

ANDREA ZUCCHI Double game/Doppio gioco Appropriazioni & Astrazioni/Appropriations & Abstractions curated by Sergio Risaliti Opening: April 13th, 2013 from 5 PM From April 14th to May 12th 2013, the Fondazione Stelline in Milan hosts the exhibition "Andrea Zucchi. Double game - Appropriations & Abstractions ": fifty recent works of the milanese painter, between figuration of distant metaphysics ancestry and abstraction. The initiative is part of "Open Space Stelline", format of hospitality events created by external parties in collaboration with the Fondazione ...

Over 200 photographs protagonists of White Women, Sleepless Nights, Big Nudes, an exhibition that brings Helmut Newton at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome Wednesday, March 6 after the initial stages in America (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) and Germany (Museum for Photography in Berlin). Shots originally appeared in the earlier volumes of the photographer, from the book White Women (1976), who sees a fifty Newton struggling with his first monograph that will get the prestigious Kodak ...

At the Triennale in Milan until March 24, 2013 they will focus on the lord of the night par excellence, the protagonist of the show "Dracula and the vampire myth" created, produced and organized by Alef-cultural project management in partnership with La Triennale di Milano and in collaboration with the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Among the works on display also a beautiful portrait of the famous Valentina of Crepax, seduced by the charming and bloodthirsty count, ...

Tiepolo Passi Villa is open every Sunday morning: it's situated in the province of Treviso, in the village of Carbonera. It's one of the many precious venetian villas filling Treviso landscape and belonging to the socalled Civiltà di Villa (Villa Culture) started by the Serenissima, the Venice Republic, while it was turning from a mere sea power into a mainland power. The building dates back to the early XVIth century, just in the brightest period of ...

Carnival is one of the most overwhelming venetian appointments that gives a colourful and joyful atmosphere to the city. It allows to live again an ancient popular event. When Vitale Falier was doge, in 1094, we have the first written proof referring to some public entertainments which have been made official in 1296. By the way only in the XVIII century this event became renowned all over the world. People were waiting for Carnival all the year long ...

Not many people know that the young Andy Warhol was a tireless draftsman. Constantly striving to describe in a few lines the American reality of the '50s, the artist in the beginning shows a keen desire to reproduce his contemporaries, laying the foundations of a process that will give birth to great critical works of Pop Art. But one of the questions that revolve around the major exhibition of 300 drawings, open until February 21 at the ...

Arte Boccanera is pleased to present white of Christian Fogarolli, following the worldwide recognition of dOCUMENTA (13). The artist shows in the exhibition space the projects lost identities, worthy of the international scene in Kassel, and blackout. In the work lost identities, Christian Fogarolli - interested from the very beginning of his career in questions challenging the essence of the identity dimension – explores the archive of an Italian psychiatric institution. Working with the examined documentation allowed the establishment of a close dialogue, ...

E-lite Studio Gallery in Lecce, in collaboration with Famiglia Margini (Milan) and in partnership with Vestas Hotels & Resort, presents the solo exhibition of the Milanese artist Anna Caruso "C’ero, una volta” (I was there, once), curated by Giovanna Lacedra, Claudia Pellegrino & Grace Zanotto. The exhibition is open until October, 8th at the gallery spaces, which host the pictorial section, and at the Jane Ross hall of the Risorgimento Resort, where it is on ...

The other Venice organized, for the Carnival 2013, a treasure hunt in Venice. Discover in the middle of the Carnival noise Venice’s unknown sites and have a special fun: a serene treasure hunt through ancient streets and hidden places, in search of riddles and secrets that want to be unveiled. We welcome all ages, also costumes and masks. Participation in groups, couples or individuals. Introduction and explanation will be held in English, German, French and Italian. The treasure hunt takes about ...