by Giacomo Castagnini | 29 Sep, 2026 | Art Criticism, Openings
Sergey Eylanbekov’s Saint Michael the Archangel, a plaster model donated to the Lucca Police Headquarters. A classical lesson in restraint, seen up close. I first saw Sergey Eylanbekov’s Saint Michael in its earliest form: a plaster model just over a metre high,...
by Giacomo Castagnini | 4 Aug, 2026 | Art Criticism, Art History, Non categorizzato
Nilda Comas’s Sculpture and the Memory of San Mateo de Cangrejos In the forecourt of the Del Chiaro foundry in Pietrasanta, Saint Matthew holds a crab above his head. Nilda Comas’s bronze has not yet reached the place for which it was conceived. It will travel to...
by Giacomo Castagnini | 27 Jun, 2026 | Art Criticism
On Juggernaut, the dark fantasy by the Ricci brothers and Krilov, and on what remains once desire has been granted. For more than two years, Juggernaut has been travelling through festivals across much of the world, where it has so far collected thirty-five awards and...
by Giacomo Castagnini | 23 Jun, 2026 | Art Criticism
A method that outlives its author Carlo Ginzburg died on 17 June 2026. He was the historian who described, better than anyone else, a way of knowing the world through traces: clues, symptoms, signs. It is a method I recognise in two different practices: technical...
by Giacomo Castagnini | 24 Apr, 2026 | Art Criticism
Someone looks at a work by Ibrahim Mahama, sees a sewn, torn, weathered jute sack, and thinks of Burri. That sack climbs a wall, wraps a sail, binds an architectural structure, and the reflex immediately changes name: Christo and Jeanne-Claude. It is a shortcut so...
