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 | 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...
by Giacomo Castagnini | 2 Apr, 2025 | Art Criticism
The Stabbed Transitional Object and a Society That Has Forgotten How to Console. The starting point for this article is a 2009 lecture by Donna Varga, Professor of Childhood Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, entitled “Teddy Bear Culture: Childhood...
