On the 9 March 2016 the second edition of ZAB ART was inaugurated. On display the works of art of the maestros of the Scuola d'Arte e dei Mestieri Nicola Zabaglia in Rome. They are passionate teachers, but also committed artists. On display the works of 21 maestros. Among them Alessandra Pasqualoni, whose painting Claudus, a big work made with pure pigments on damasc fabric (see picture), I liked very much, and Elisabetta Accoto, who presented two projects. The first one, a very original and...
I bumped into Marta Czok's works of art in 2011, almost by chance, while visiting the exhibition Icon&Idols at the Macro Testaccio di Roma, with a friend of mine. Her paintings impressed me so much that I started following the artist at her exhibitions and at her art gallery in Castel Gandolfo, the Spazio Ingranaggi d’Arte. It was the perfection, incisiveness, and harmony of her sign that impressed me most, together with the bitter irony of the subjects portrayed. The fact of the matter...
World has always changed. It is a fact, however, that in the latest decades the transformation process has stepped up in a sudden way, never experienced before: new technologies contribute to change the reality, our reality, day by day. Transformation is now, more than ever, a key world in our times and lives. This is where the artistic trend called Transformers, visible in the West but even more present in Asia, Latin America and Africa: transformers are artists that seek to respond to the...
In 1948 a group of artists from Northern Europe decides to lay the foundations of an avant-garde movement named "CoBrA" after the initials of the three capitals, which they come from (Copenhagen, Bruxelles e Amsterdam). In open contrast with the academicism concomitant with regimes and the tradition of classical conventions, CoBrA takes its inspiration from the primitive art, the child's drawings and fantastic and grotesque motifs that are typical for Northern European cultures. It also...