Who’s next?… Dick Ket

by Valentina Biondini, art and literature amateur

Self-portraits

Who’s Next? Dick Ket, a Dutch painter who is still surrounded by an aura of fascination both for his art and for his life, filled with irony and tragedy. His art and life are both like a beautiful feather fallen to the ground and suddenly blown away by the force of the wind. Initially influenced by Post-Impressionism, he later gravitated towards the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement and, finally, to the so-called Magischer Realismus (Magic Realism). Read more

Who’s next…? Romana Loda

By Valentina Biondini, literature amateur

Romana Loda

“Who’s Next?”. We answer this question by dealing with a person whose talent found expression not thanks to her own works, but through the identification, enhancement and display of other people’s artworks, especially other women. We refer to Romana Loda, an eclectic, ingenious and energetic woman, who in the 1970s founded the Multimedia Gallery in the small village of Erbusco, then moved to Brescia. Read more