Sergio Risaliti

Medardo Rosso. Edz. italiana e inglese. Ediz. bilingue

Bettina Della Casa

Giulio Paolini. When Is the Present? is an unprecedented exhibition project divided between the rooms of the Museo Novecento and the Convent of San Marco (18th March - 7th September 2022). The exhibition takes us on a journey through Giulio Paolini's latest reflections on artistic creation and its many implications. Questions about art are combined with questions about existence and its flow. With the refinement that has always distinguished his work, the artist ponders the value of time and our inability to hold on to it, in an investigation that today would appear to be inspired by a deeper examination of the inexorable passing of the days. On this journey, a necessarily individual one despite its universal nature, Paolini draws us into a space riddled with references to the twilight of life and the enigmas that mark our passage on this earth: a journey punctuated by infinite instances where, despite everything, eternity nestles. "The artist is neither 'outside of the world' nor 'in the world'. He doesn't want to communicate directly, in real time, and impose his voice, but to listen, capture an echo." - Giulio Paolini

When Is the Present?

Giulio Paolini

Stefania Ricci

A journey in search of the sources of Salvatore Ferragamos creativity. Salvatore Ferragamo was a shoemaker, proud of being one and defined himself as such. Growing up in the workshop, he cultivated the craft and that connection between mind and hand which underlies many masterpieces of art. This beautifully illustrated catalogue describes Salvatore Ferragamos craft trying to identify the sources of his creativity and his innate ability to assimilate the spirit of the times. Through almost 100 models for footwear the book takes into consideration two periods in his life where conditions encouraged inspiration and visions to flourish and which influenced the artists later life: his move to California around 1915 and his return to Florence in 1927. Ferragamos experience in Hollywood was an opportunity to meet extraordinary people of the emerging cinematographic industry. The culture of the territory also was source of inspiration: the decoration used by the American Indians, the fabrics and colours of quilts made by Quaker communities, the richness of South American craftsmanship, are reflected in the models of those years and return decades later in his innovations like a signature style. In Florence Ferragamo was impressed not only by the architecture, but also by the public and private collections of applied arts. Alongside an interest in tradition and historical finds, he was also affected by experiments with material and colour carried out by avant-garde artists, the Futurists in particular, for whom in the Twenties Florence itself was a first order cultural epicentre.

Inspiration and Vision

Salvatore Ferragamo

Jeff Koons in Florence

Sebastiano Barassi

The book, dedicated to Henry Moore (1898-1986) - one of the most renowned artists of the twentieth century - has been published fifty years after the great Florentine exhibition in Forte Belvedere. The graphics and sculptures of the British master, reproduced in color, are accompanied by critical texts that reconstruct his life and artistic path. "Drawing keeps one fit, like physical exercises - perhaps acts like water to a plant - and it lessens the danger of repeating oneself and getting into a formula. It enlarges one's form repertoire, one's form experience." - Henry Moore

The Sculptor's Drawing

Henry Moore

Sergio Risaliti

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