Who’s next?… Vera Pagava

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by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

The Great Suburb, 1953

Vera Pagava (1907-1988) was the first Georgian female artist to gain recognition in the European art world. She was a well-rounded artist, devoted herself to drawing, decoration, and especially painting over the course of a fifty years career. She emigrated to Europe with her family in the 1920s, shortly before Georgia’s annexation by the Soviet Union. First, she settled in Germany and then in Paris, where she remained for the rest of her life, while maintaining strong ties to her homeland. Read more →

Open dialogues: Marta Scavone

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by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator

Time Expired, Bazaar of the Unconscious

Marta Scavone is an artist from Turin, born in 1998, who blends various expressive means to create visually and conceptually stimulating images. In 2017 she graduated in Fashion Design at the art high school and in 2020 she graduated with honors in Photography at the IED institute in Turin. Multidisciplinarity is a key word in her artistic approach. In fact, her work combines photography, fashion, artistic installation and theatrical performance with the aim of exploring contemporary themes in a conceptual and creative way. Read more →

Jo Hummel/The art of minimalism and repetition

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by Romina Ciulli and Carole Dazzi

Stars Wrapped in Skin II, 2025

The works of artist Jo Hummel are characterized by a minimalist balance, made of symbolic forms which recall spiritual concepts, and pastel colors that produce unexpected sensory vibrations. A geometric and layered construction, intentionally abstract, through which are investigated the themes related to the human condition, everyday life, repetition and subjectivity. Also paper is the preferred material she uses in her works, manipulated with scissors and other tools of everyday life, and with which pictorial collages are created. This, not only it reflects the constant flow of the creative process, but it also delve into the primitive dynamics of the human subconscious. Let’s talk about it with the artist. Read more →

Who’s next?… Alberto Martini

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by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Vanitas with self-portrait, 1920

Alberto Martini was an Italian artist with many talents who strongly influenced the imagination of his own and the following era. Today his fame is almost exclusively relegated to the lovers of fantastic art, but actually Martini was also a symbolist painter, a precursor of Surrealism, as well as an illustrator of literary texts with a precise and refined line. It is no coincidence that in London, on the occasion of his exhibition in 1914, he was nicknamed “Italian pen-and-ink genius”. As an illustrator, he created images combined with texts by Dante Alighieri and Luigi Pulci, but also by Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare, the poems of Paul Verlaine and the work “Poemetti in prosa” by Mallarmé. Read more →

Who’s next?… Nori de’ Nobili

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by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Nori de’ Nobili, self-portrait

Nori (Eleonora) de’ Nobili is a painter and poet originatig of Marche, who spent half of her life in a mental hospital. Nori, the eldest of four children, was born in Pesaro in 1902 in a very wealthy family with whom she used to spend her childhood summers at the beautiful house known as “Villa Centofinestre” in Ripe, a small town in the province of Ancona. Read more →