I’ve known the work of Yoshitaka Amano for years even without knowing it was his, and so have you. He’s the mastermind behind Final Fantasy but you might also know him for his work in The Sandman, and there’s a splendid exhibition in Milan showcasing his work. I went to see it last week. Here […]
Last weekend I was in Turin to catch some exhibitions and, in addition to the one on Giger I talked about yesterday, we also caught a really neat one on another of my favourite visionaries, William Blake, set in the former Royal residence and hunting lodge called Venaria Reale. The show is articulated into 6 […]
Turin mounted a small but very nice exhibition with some fine pieces I had never seen before. The concept is that H.R. Giger, the Swiss visionary behind the xenomorph in Alien, is so much more than that. I was already familiar with the rest of his production, but it was nice to see. Can’t get […]
If you remember from the last time I talked about him, I’m not overly fond of Picasso as a man. I can’t get over his attitude towards women and I think it’s high time to rethink his appropriation of African art. The Picasso Museum itself agrees with me. That being said, this recent exhibition at […]
I have no idea why, but the English versions of the panels for this exhibition in Milan translate the title as “Munch’s Inner Fire“, while literally the title has no shame in referring to Munch’s most famous work, the infamous Scream. Anyway, aside from giving me a chance to admire some of this artist’s lesser-known […]
Dulle Griet, literally “Mad Meg,” is a figure from Dutch folklore and art, often depicted as a terrifying figure leading an army of women into Hell. In the most famous depictions, she is shown as a woman dressed in ragged clothes or clad in armour; she often wields a weapon such as a sword or […]
…and I don’t mean it metaphorically; I mean it literally. I recently discovered that many young artists either struggle with the rules and concepts of perspective or find that boring, as they’re more oriented towards character and creature design, so here’s a list of games that use either perspective or axonometric representation as a really […]
In a fortuitous coincidence, I was strolling through a bookshop with a friend and I stumbled across this charming tiny book by Lorenza Pieri on the life and work of Niki de Saint Phalle, and it’s extraordinary because I ad just added her Tarot Garden in Tuscany to a list of must-see places we’re drafting […]
I was down at Palazzo Reale to see the Dolce & Gabbana exhibition and I took the chance to see the free exhibition on Valerio Adami, whom I didn’t know. The Author Valerio Adami is an Italian painter renowned for his distinctive visual style that blends influences from various artistic movements, including the visuals of […]
I was very late to this exhibition, but I managed to catch it on one of the last days, and I am extremely glad I did, for it really is as beautiful as people were saying. Should you be late as I was, you still have a couple of days left to make a dash […]