Author Archives: jolanta

In his mid-20th century book, Art and Visual Perception, German art and film theorist, Rudolph Arnheim, calls for us to re-focus our attention on the “virtues of vision.” In a world where “concept is [increasingly] divorced from precept,” he urges us to re-establish the connection to our innate “gift of comprehending things through the senses,” […]

Beginning May 19, the GAM Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art presents the exhibition “Eroi (Heroes)” curated by Danilo Eccher and with contributions from Alessandro Rabottini. The exhibition explores the work of artists who carry out daring choices to the point of becoming the carriers of new social values through their own art. The […]

  At a time when communication technology is rapidly shrinking the size of our collective world-view, presenting an idea in the canon of a national identity can still present us with ideological blinders. We may be able to communicate with the other side of the planet with the click of a button, but attaching a […]