Gaetano Fiore wins the 2011 Il Segno Contemporary Art Prize

Artist Gaetano Fiore and wife Elizabetta at the Il Segno Prize Ceremony

The other weekend I was invited by my ever productive and active Italian artist friend Gaetano Fiore to attend the Il Segno Art Prize awards ceremony at the Zamenhof Art Gallery in Milan.I'd heard on the grapevine that Gaetano might well win a prize.  Indeed, he did.For his evocative and … [Read more...]

Talented Italian Artists at the Zamenhof in Milan

Last week, Italian artist friend of mine Gaetano Fiore asked me if I would like to attend the opening evening of the Anima Mundi exhibition at the Galleria Zamenhof in Milan.  I'm pleased to say that I went, and aside from learning more about Italy's contemporary art market, I also met some … [Read more...]

Artful Moves

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Italy is in, Blog from Italy's sister site dedicated to showing off to the world Italian contemporary artists and their art, attracted the attention of an Italian hacker.Fortunately this hacker did not try to take Italy is in down.  No, on the contrary, he wanted to tell me about a project he is … [Read more...]

Manic Monday

Yes, I know Monday is now but a memory, and that it is now Wednesday. But Monday was a fun day!Why a fun day? Well, aside from the usual stuff, I also made a vulgar suggestion to an artist I had never spoken to before - in Italian, then, after having retrieved the little one from his school, I met … [Read more...]

Italy Is In – An Italian Art Project

It's Gianpietro Carlesso's fault. He gave me the idea, and so I set something up to help showcase contemporary Italian artists and, of course, their work. Let's just say that I'm hoping to become a sort of art a&r man, or, rather an 'art hunter'.Hence Italy is in, which is now in it's second … [Read more...]