#bologna

Beyond the Canvas

Jul 31, 20231 min read

Andreas Gursky: Visual Spaces of Today - MAST Foundation, Bologna

"I do see myself as a chronicler. My pictures try to encapsulate our time." - Andreas Gursky Whatever he sees himself as, Andreas Gursky...

Beyond the Canvas

Oct 31, 20221 min read

Overlooked and underrated: Bologna's Renaissance.

Eclipsed by Ferrara's and crushed between Venice's and Florence's, Bologna's Renaissance art fails to garner the attention and...

Beyond the Canvas

Jul 15, 20222 min read

Domenichino's Sibilla Cumana at Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Being inside an empty museum at night might well be the ultimate art lover's fantasy. Apart from not having to share the space with herds...

Beyond the Canvas

Oct 9, 20211 min read

Viva Vittoria: knitting against violence

Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation and a public health epidemic. It occurs daily across the world and is widely...

Beyond the Canvas

Aug 1, 20212 min read

The memory of open wounds

There are wounds so deep they never really heal. They are the wounds we share with other people, whether we know them or not, the wounds...

Beyond the Canvas

May 24, 20212 min read

Richard Mosse - Displaced, Fondazione MAST

'Beauty is the main line to make people feel something.' - Richard Mosse It's easy to be fooled by the alluring colours of the striking...

Beyond the Canvas

Sep 13, 20202 min read

Niccolò dell'Arca's Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1463) - Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna

"This Christ will never be forgotten. Was it made from earth? Was it rotting flesh? I didn’t know what the medium was […] The three Marys...