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The Italian Art Guide, Milan (2025)

19/12/2025

"Pain of Pleasure"
Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Mads Hyldgaard Nielsen, Sally von Rosen
Curated by Domenico de Chirico
Text by Domenico de Chirico
Tempesta Gallery, Foro Buonaparte 68, Milan
27.11.2025-06.02.2026

Read the complete text on theitalianartguide.com web platform (🔗 in stories) and find the exhibition on the offseen map ().

In Western thought, pleasure has always been conceived as a positive, compensatory, at times domesticated experience—one capable of offering a brief reprieve from the sense of emptiness. Yet each time pleasure asserts itself, it also reveals its own negation.There is no pleasure without risk, excess, exposure, or dislocation—nor without the shadow of a wound. Georges Bataille, in fact, described pleasure as a transgression of being: an outward impulse, a rupture of the boundaries that enclose the subject within its seemingly stable form, the moment when the naked self separates from the ego cogito.

[...] Pleasure thus appears as a paradox: a vital force that carries within it the shadow of death, a form of knowledge that emerges only in the moment it is consumed

[...] Thus, in an age when pleasure is often reduced to consumption and pain to spectacle, the works of Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Mads Hyldgaard Nielsen, and Sally von Rosen restore their original dimension: extreme, vital experiences that return to sensitivity its complexity, its darkness, and its depth. (from pr)

Images: "Pain of Pleasure" exhibition views, ph Sarah Indriolo , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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18/12/2025

"EMBODIED SURFACES"
Isatou Jallow, Nina Emge, Jamal Nxedlan, Yul Tomatala, Manutcher Milani, Sebastián Dávila
Curated by Deiara Semeco Kouto & Rafael Kouto
Text by Luminanza
Supported by Prohelvetia, Città di Locarno, Cantone Ticino, Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Guggenheim Stiftung, Canton de Vaud, U-jazdowski Residencies
La Rada Locarno, via alla Morettina 2, 6600 Locarno, Switzerland
08.11-14.12.2025

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The works on display invite us to perceive space as a place of transformation, where bodies become sensitive surfaces and continuous movement. (from pr)

Images: "EMBODIED SURFACES" exhibition views, ph Riccardo Giancola , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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17/12/2025

Published today: “Why Write About Art” (“Perché scrivere di arte”) by Maria Vittoria Pinotti.

The article inaugurates our new column, “Offbeat” (“Controcorrente”), conceived as an active field of inquiry—one in which artists, their research, their works, and their words are presented and critically examined.

“In the operational dimension,” notes the author, “writing requires keen, nuanced clarity of vocabulary, demanding a clear understanding of what one wishes to convey. Like a tool in contact with the most silent and profound aspects of art, language presents itself as a smooth, continuous surface, where each point emerges distinct from the others, as if it were the simplest, most comprehensive, and intuitive thing that could exist."

Edited in Italian by Marianna Reggiani .reggiani
Translated to English by Dobroslawa Nowak

Drawing by Giulio Catelli

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Pubblicato oggi: “Perché scrivere di arte” (“Why Write About Art”) di Maria Vittoria Pinotti.

L’articolo inaugura la nuova rubrica del nostro portale, “Controcorrente” (“Offbeat”), concepita come un campo di indagine attivo, in cui artisti, ricerche, opere e parole vengono presentati e analizzati criticamente.

“Nella dimensione operativa”, scrive la autrice, “il lavoro di scrittura presuppone un’acuta e sensibile chiarezza del lessico, in cui è fondamentale sapere cosa si vuole dire. Alla pari di uno strumento in contatto con le cose più mute e profonde dell’arte, il linguaggio si mostra come una superficie liscia e continua, dove ogni punto emerge distinto dagli altri, come se fosse la cosa più semplice, comprensiva e intuitiva che possa esistere.”

Editato in italiano da Marianna Reggiani .reggiani
Tradotto in inglese da Dobroslawa Nowak .

Disegno di Giulio Catelli

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16/12/2025

"The Post-material archive 02"
Elisa Capucci
Curated by Contemporary Cluster
Text by Contemporary Cluster
Supported by Danish Art Council and Art Hub Copenhagen
Semiottagono - Idea Murate Park, Piazza Madonna della Neve 8, Florence
04-20.12.2025

Read the complete text on theitalianartguide.com web platform (🔗 in stories) and find the exhibition on the offseen map ().

The Post-material Archive 02 explores the kinships between living and non-living beings, the interactions between species and productive infrastructures, and the possible configurations of post-human futures. Capucci's research does not consider sculpture as a mere formal or aesthetic outcome, but as an active, epistemic, and pedagogical practice. [...] Haraway's notion of Communities of Compost guides Capucci's inquiry into the vitality and agency of organic, urban, and industrial matter, shifting attention from the formal outcome to the relational process that dissolves the boundaries between body, space, species, and infrastructures.The artist uses sculpture as an apparatus capable of generating new narratives through the layering, interference, and metamorphosis of materials. (from pr)

Images: "The Post-material archive 02" exhibition views, ph Leonardo Morfini , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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16/12/2025

"Crossroads Shimmer like Hesitant Stars"
Jakub Choma
Curated by Easter
Text by Adam Vít
Easter, Collesino Chiesa
15.11-06.12.2025

Read the complete text on theitalianartguide.com web platform (🔗 in stories).

(In Czech, the phrase for ‘to spend time’ literally means ‘to digest time.’)

Every time I encounter Jakub’s work, I find myself wondering how much time he actually asks of you— how much attention you’re willing to spare in order to read it. Because it’s layered, with a capital L. Layered to the point where you begin to feel the weight of those layers, their accumulation, their resistance. And it’s not just that he thrives on assigning meaning to every particle of it—from dust to the dawn of the material—but that the atmosphere itself, the saturation of the material world, becomes the very point of departure.

[...] In Jakub’s work, these terrains are not virtual but visceral. On top of everything, the space is filled with chestnuts, probably one of the most significant symbols of this area. It’s a bit late in the season, though, so it’s again a stage of slight decay that kind of drives your choreography through the show, making a connection with the lower parts of the works, where you can see different kinds of old food materials glued to the surface or lying underneath. it’s all kinda pre-digested for you. Like with everything, the decision has already been made, while you were gone. (from pr)

Images: "Crossroads Shimmer like Hesitant Stars" exhibition views, ph Jakub Choma, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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15/12/2025

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It is with great pleasure that we open this year’s festive season with an online gallery featuring artworks by two Italian artists, Marco Rossi and Josse Renda, both of whom have previously been featured in our growing archive of Italian contemporary work.

Through this online gallery, we wish to encourage the practice of thoughtful gift-giving. We believe that such a quiet gesture invites a personal form of celebration, where an encounter with art becomes rewarding for all involved: the recipient, the giver, and the artist alike.

In our online store, you will find six unique artworks, each accompanied by a certificate of authenticity—an intimate and meaningful gift to be shared and remembered.

The artworks can be viewed via the link in our bio or directly in our gallery at www.theitalianartguide.com

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È con grande piacere che apriamo la stagione festiva di quest’anno con una galleria online che presenta le opere di due artisti italiani, Marco Rossi e Josse Renda, entrambi già presenti nel nostro archivio in continua crescita dedicato all’arte contemporanea italiana.

Attraverso questa galleria online desideriamo incoraggiare una pratica del dono consapevole e riflessivo. Crediamo che un gesto così silenzioso e attento favorisca una forma di celebrazione intima, in cui l’incontro con l’arte diventa significativo per tutti i soggetti coinvolti: per chi riceve l’opera, per chi la dona e per l’artista stesso.

Nel nostro store online sono disponibili sei opere uniche, ciascuna accompagnata da un certificato di autenticità: un regalo intimo e significativo, pensato per essere condiviso e custodito nel tempo.

Le opere possono essere visualizzate tramite il link in bio o direttamente nella nostra galleria sul sito www.theitalianartguide.com

15/12/2025

"Male Extinction"
Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Nora Aurrekoetxea, Caterina De Nicola, Eva Gold, Miranda Secondari .jpg .seco
Curated by Massimiliano Scuderi
Text by Massimiliano Scuderi
Galleria Solito, Piazza Enrico De Nicola 46 - Former Lanificio complex - Staircase B - 1st floor, Naples
14.11.2025-08.01.2026

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The exhibition begins with a question: What might a future without men look like? Recent studies by several geneticists suggest that the Y chromosome - a key factor in determining a person's gender - is starting to deteriorate. So, what could this mean for the future?
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In 2008 near Seville, Spain, archaeologists uncovered the burial of a young individual surrounded by luxurious grave goods, including an impressive ivory horn. This find became known as the legend of the “Ivory Man”, with researchers believing he was the most influential person on the Iberian Peninsula. However, thirteen years later, protein analysis of dental enamel revealed that the individual, once thought to be the Ivory Man, was actually the Ivory Woman. (from pr)

Images: "Male Extinction" exhibition views, ph Roberto Della Noce , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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12/12/2025

"Manuel d'exposition"
Carlos Casas, Mary Helena Clark, Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, Ignazio Fabio Mazzola, Nour Ouayda .ellardjohnstone .fabio.mazzola
Curated by Stefano Miraglia
Supported by
La Box — ENSA Bourges, 9 Rue Edouard Branly, 18000 Bourges, France
23.10-14.12.2025

Read the complete text on theitalianartguide.com web platform (🔗 in stories) and find the exhibition on the offseen map ().

Exhibition, guided tour, creation of display systems, alternative architectures, musings on the gaze, the composition of a catalog: by bringing together all these gestures, Manuel d’exposition attempts to reveal the inherent curatorial qualities of the moving image. Accompanied by a wall scattered with clues, Manuel d’exposition presents contemporary artworks that crystallize questions and dynamics related to the act of showing and exhibiting (whether physically or virtually, real or imaginary). (from pr)

Images: "Manuel d'exposition" exhibition views, ph Raphaëlle Giaretto , courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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12/12/2025

"Dye Bias"
Stella Sieber
Text by Stella Sieber
Matteo Cantarella, Rådmandsgade 45 2200, Copenhagen
28.11.2025-17.01.2026

Read the complete text on theitalianartguide.com web platform (🔗 in stories) and find the exhibition on the offseen map ().

Cool people enter the exhibition space. The exhibition provides digital cameras and a green screen. People take photos of each other. The resulting shots show the figures against a blank background, the gallery itself made invisible. It's a really cool exhibition. Realtime in the foreground. The potential to act in a boundless space. The call to action is handed over to the beholders, skillfully indicating that the artist's action here is the gesture that declares change to be material. (excerpt from the text by Stella Sieber)

Images: "Dye Bias" exhibition views, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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11/12/2025

"Marginalia"
Blanca Gracia .gracia
Supported by Real Academia de España en Roma
ADA, via dei Genovesi 35, Rome
07.11.2025-17.01.2026

Read the complete text on theitalianartguide.com web platform (🔗 in stories).

Marginalia are annotations, drawings, and doodles that appear in the margins of stories, documents, or illuminated manuscripts. Extravagant creatures that deviate from the central discourse of the work, housed in foliage surrounding the main text. What happens outside the walls creates gardens that overflow the boundaries of the page. In these margins, a herbarium unfolds in which botanical species are suspended in time between two bodies: human and plant. (from pr)

Images: "Blanca Gracia, Marginalia" exhibition views, ph Roberto Apa, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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10/12/2025

Siamo entusiasti di annunciare l'inizio di una nuova rubrica mensile con articoli di Maria Vittoria Pinotti.

Non vediamo l'ora di condividere con voi il primo articolo di questa rubrica, in uscita tra una settimana esatta, mercoledì 17 dicembre, con un titolo evocativo: "Perché scrivere di arte".

🇮🇹🇬🇧 Tutti gli articoli pubblicati saranno disponibili in italiano e in inglese per soddisfare le esigenze dei nostri lettori internazionali.

"Controcorrente è uno spazio dedicato all’arte contemporanea e nasce dall’esigenza di definire un campo di indagine attivo, in cui gli artisti, insieme ai loro studi, lavori e parole vengono raccontati e analizzati criticamente.
È un luogo di esame mai imparziale: se scrivere equivale a conoscere per esporsi, ogni scrittura nasce da interrogativi in cui il dubbio, lo studio e la curiosità sono all’origine di ogni riflessione. La sua funzione risiede in una critica che intende mostrare le cose così come sono e perfino come non sono, piuttosto che limitarsi a interpretarne il significato." (estratto dal testo introduttivo di Maria Vittoria Pinotti)
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new column featuring articles by Maria Vittoria Pinotti, published monthly.

We can't wait to share with you the first article in this column arriving in precisely one week, on Wednesday, 17.12, with a telling title "Perché scrivere di arte" ("Why write about art").

🇮🇹🇬🇧 All the published articles will be available in Italian and English versions to accommodate our international readers.

"Offbeat is a space dedicated to contemporary art, created to foster an active field of inquiry where artists and their research, works, and words are presented and critically analyzed.
It's a place of never impartial examination: if writing equates knowledge to self-exposure, all writing arises from lines of questioning in which doubt, study, and curiosity are at the root of every reflection. Its function lies in a critique that seeks to show things as they are and even as they are not, rather than simply interpreting their meaning." (excerpt from the introductory text by Maria Vittoria Pinotti)

10/12/2025

"PROJECT ROOM #12 - Lucia Leuci"
Lucia Leuci .leuci
Curated by Barbara Garatti
Text by Antonio Moresco
Archivio Atelier Pharaildis Van den Broeck, via Marco Antonio Bragadino, 2, Milan
29.09-05.12.2025

Read the complete text on theitalianartguide.com web platform (🔗 in stories).

The artist presents the results of her research on the archive and life of Pharaildis Van den Broeck, starting from the idea of vernacular: something that's becoming less common these days, but still alive, fluid, and able to change and create new meanings. (from pr)

Images: "PROJECT ROOM #12 - Lucia Leuci" exhibition views, ph Tiziano Ercoli .ercoli, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

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