contemporary art

Open dialogues: Giada Degortes

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by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator

Let’s interview Giada Degortes, a young Sardinian photographer and director, who through her artistic imagination manages to blend real, powerful and collective stories with her own inner and personal experience.

What does photography mean to you, and what do you want to communicate with your works?

For me, photography is a powerful means of expression. We know well that our subconscious operates primarily through images, clearly memorizing shapes and colors even after a long time. These images are the invaluable pieces that compose our imagination, fueling our fantasy and influencing our choices. This is why visual communication is so powerful.

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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 →

Open dialogues: Roberta Bertazzini

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by Margaret Sgarra, contemporary art curator

Libero arbitrio

Roberta Bertazzini, is a visual artist with a predilection for installation-based works, she creates multi-material pieces which articulate in space and lend themselves to multiple interpretations. Fundamental is the relationship between structure and concept, expression and form. Aspects that, in most cases, dialogue with the user. So that, the viewer acquires a prominent role within the creative process, while remaining anonymous. Read more →

Elisa Zadi/The pictorial act as a search for truth and beauty

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by Romina Ciulli and Carole Dazzi

Bruciare illusioni, PicNic (2023)

The portrait, and the self-portrait, are the forms with which the artist Elisa Zadi investigates the bond between man and nature. A research that ranges from painting to installation, from performance to poetry, and that through an intimate and introspective path focuses on issues related to femininity, identity, and knowledge. In her works the human figure stands out in all its frank and refined frontality, giving life to a narrative that is not only pictorial, but above all anthropological and existential. Thus emerges a spontaneous and suggestive creative act, often represented through the fragmented idea of polyptychs, where the images seem to make use of a symbolic connotation to reflect on the complexity and fleetingness of everyday reality and human relationships. Read more →