chronicle

2020/03/14, it's pandemic

glass sculpture by Tomas Rigali

2020/03/20, SOSPESA / SUSPENDED

2020/03/29, Caravaggio, La morte della Madonna, 1601-06

2020/04/01, Italy in the bubble

2020/04/10, UNTITLED (SPEECHLESS)

2020/04/17, INCOMPETENCE

2020/04/21, DIED OF SOCIAL ISOLATION

Jean Pierre Raynaud, Container Zéro, 1988-2014, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2020/04/26, I stayed at home

Giacomo Manzù, David, 1938, bronze, 58 x 53 x 48 cm, private collection, Milano

2020/04/27, ITALY AFTER LOCKDOWN

Marino Marini, Piccolo miracolo, 1951, bronzo, 54,2 x 67,8 x 33 cm, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze

2020/04/28, NEW TABOO AT TIME OF COVID-19

Antonio Canova, The Three Graces, 1814-17, carved marble, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2020/05/01, THE DREAM MACHINE IS BROKEN

Eva Kot'átková, The Dream Machine is Asleep - Cutting the Puppeteer's Strings with Paper Teeth (Brief History of Daydreaming and String Control), 2016, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Mi

2020/05/03, Unité d'Habitation at Time of Covid-19

Antoni Tàpies, Homenatge a Picasso (Tribute to Picasso), 1981

2020/05/08, toutes les matins son angoissante

Giorgio de Chirico, Le matinée angoissante, 1912, olio su tela, coll. VAF-Stiftung

2020/05/10, and then nobody came to see you anymore...

Alighiero Boetti, Il muro, 1972-93, 75 elements, mixed media, Museo del Novecento, Milano

2020/05/15, after the tunnel there is another tunnel, and another more

Enzo Mari, Structure n. 386, 1957, wood and steel, Museo del Novecento, Milano

2020/05/17, PRESS CONFERENCE

Tiberiu Bucsa, Orsolya Gal, Stathis Markopoulos, Adrian Arama, Oana Matei, Andrei Durloi, Selfie automaton, 2016, Romania, Biennale d'arte, Venezia

2020/05/18, ciascun rivederà la trista tomba, ripiglierà sua carne e sua figura, udirà quel ch’in etterno rimbomba

each shall revisit his sad grave, shall resume his flesh and form, shall hear that which resounds to all eternity

Luca Signorelli, Inferno, cappella di san Brizio, duomo di Orvieto

2020/05/22, on ice...

People's Republic of China, Biennale di architettura 2018, Venezia

2020/05/29, esquisse pour le naufrage de l'Europe

Théodore Géricault, Études pour le Radeau de la Méduse: le Radeau abandonné, 1818, dessin à la plume et encre brune

2020/06/05, KOSSUTH BEFORE CORONAVIRUS

Joseph Kossuth, Titled - Art idea as idea - The word Qualitative, 1968, photographic print, Museo del Novecento, Milano

link:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/h5dTxWLyvIIkTA5iqRhBSOn5d_0bHCD7TZh2tkoRmMhlJe5ub0V8_4HcA4EEF66EFpLmynJUL__LPIbdILdNOOQ=w1280

2020/06/11, Raffaello Sanzio - di Giovanni de' Santi (Raphael), [Self-]Portrait of Pope Julius II ([Auto]Ritratto di papa Giulio II), 1511, Oil on poplar (Olio su tavola di pioppo), 81 (108,7) x 81 cm, National Gallery, London

The vow not to shave his beard again until the expulsion of the French [end of the pandemic].

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/raphael-portrait-of-pope-julius-ii