The avant-garde movements are essential to step further into the realm of art. When we talk about art, we refer to a mood or conglomeration of individuals with a common perspective, sometimes coming together by coincidence or systematically organized to address a problem in art, while questioning, and going deeper in artistic representations. What is shown, however, is that the avant-garde does not have a specific location in time, nor fixed starting points. They always appear isolated cases of the same aesthetic in various parts of the world.

The problem of categories in contemporary art, sometimes tends to neglect important symbolic participants of a certain style or proposal. The work of curators, museums and galleries is, sometimes, re-write the history of these characters, who are not noticed very well or fail to have the same recognition as others.

Thus, the marginalization of the art is another condition that is exemplified by the avant garde. Being against the “status quo” of art is undoubtedly a serious risk that every artist must have in mind. Sometimes this slogan forget the vanguard. Today, being an avant-garde artist proved to be an extremely automatically and the wide spread of the conceptual arts at all levels of communication and political discussion, current contemporary art located in a state of despondency, not to use the word crisis that is so fashionable today. Hard to believe then that the vanguards are gone, that the problems of contemporary art comes as easily to academic spaces to meet in these not necessarily the best thing is being done in contemporary art.

Thus, the marginalization of the art is another condition that is exemplified by the avant-garde. Being against the “status quo” of art is undoubtedly a serious risk that every artist must have in mind. Sometimes this slogan forgets the vanguard. Today, being an avant-garde artist proved to be an extremely automatically and the wide spread of the conceptual arts at all levels of communication and political discussion, current contemporary art located in a state of despondency, not to use the word crisis that is so fashionable today. It is hard to believe then that the vanguards are gone, that the problems of contemporary art comes as easily to academic spaces to meet in these not necessarily the best being done in contemporary art.

The Italian trans vanguard was a movement of the mid 80′s and was a response to the rise of Arte Povera, also of Italian origin. Its proposal was completely anti-conceptual, rather entrenched in the management of color in the painting partly influenced by expressionism. Among its representatives are Nicola de Maria, Mimmo Paladino and Francesco Clemente just to name a few. The avant-garde was a return to subjectivity and sensuality in painting, from a classic mode of expression. So, they resort to visual storytelling of various ancient myths and subjects bordering on the heroic, in a unique way that puts their job in a state of suspension of time, without exactly setting the conceptual, the resources of various ages are used in shades of intense. To learn more about the work of these rebels, against the rebels known at that time, visit the Palazzo Reale in Milan and enjoy this fabulous show until March 2012. For more information, visit this website: http://www.mostratransavanguardia.it/

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The Palazzo Reale in Milan held thousands of works of art in its interior as well as hundreds of cultural exhibition which came from all over the world. In the last months of 2011 it will host the exhibition titled ‘Artemisia Gentileschi, story of a passion’, that which such a title it promises to show much more than just paintings, because there we will find love among many other feelings.

Artemisia Gentileschi was a 17th century Italian artist. She was born in Rome in 1593 and she grew up watching her father work. Her father was Orazio Gentileschi, another great Tuscan painter who was responsible for the insertion of his daughter in the world of art, painting and drawing. The strong point of the works of the young artist were the great dramatic accentuation and the prolixity of the details in every drawing, a quality inherited from her father.

But women, at that time, had a hard time being successful in a social and culture sphere and, because of that,  the works of Artemisia Gentileschi took over three centuries in order to be recognized, first on a national level and then on an international one. Today, her paintings are famous and thousands of fine arts students  analyze every detail of her strokes.

In the 1990s, joint exhibition of the Gentileschis, father and daughter, were carried out in New York, Rome, St Louis and many other places. This was to spread the works of Artemisia, although she was always left in the background until the contemporary artists managed to discover that she had the same attributes as her father and that her style was brave, original and, above all, unique, on a personal level.

The subjects on the paintings of Artemisia are varied, from love to sex. They also accused her of being a feminist for a long time, of being an a dignified representative of her gender. But, according to investigators, she painted out of pleasure, looked for nothing in return and never imagined that her works would reach all the corners of the Earth.

The most interesting thing about this exhibition that will take place at the Palazzo Reale in Milan is that there will be 40 joint exhibited works and they’ll be divided in four phases which represent the chronology of the life of the artist:

1. The beginnings of her career in the Rome Opera, the influence of her father in the life of the artist.
2. Her years in Florence.
3. Twenty years in Rome, during which time the father was a fugitive and once again we can see the importance of this figure in her life
4. The nearly 25 years of activities in the region of Naples: public works and gradual recognition of her work.

The exhibition will be open to the public from September 2011 until the 29th of January 2012. The Palazzo Reale opening times (of this exhibition in particular) are Mondays from 2.30pm to 7.30pm, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from 9.30am to 7.30pm and Thursdays and Saturdays from 9.30am to 10.30pm. Therefore, there are no excuses in order not to visit this museum which is a work of art in itself.

If you want more information visit the official website: http://www.mostrartemisia.it/

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They called him  ”The Asian Banksy” due to the force of his messages and theformal quality of his works. He became known in the world of Street Art, the world which at first stood in firm opposition to exhibit at art galleries, proposing very precise ideas and standing in a  very rebel positions, creating “ephemeral” art  that could not be sold purchased or possessed as it belonged to the city, a display of gray walls that give it an artistic life of its own, and consequently message to society as a whole.

However, in recent decades (probably from the era of the great artist Basquiat and Banksy finally reaching today media phenomenon) the world of street art has increasingly moved to the conventional circuit of exhibitions and auctions, and the artists whose canvas was formerly on the metropolis, are now engaged to perform a somewhat different versions of their works,  for they can be transported, displayed and, finally, sold.

Can this be considered treason? Some say yes. Others, more cautiously, assert that the galleries provide a space for the socially engaged work of these artists to install their message and their challenge directly into the usual circuit of art sales. But there is no doubt: this same message, displayed on the walls of the exhibition loses all its force at these aseptic spaces.

For all these reasons, it’s worth visiting at least a show of this kind: to get an idea of ??what it means to move a message from acity  to cold art gallery, and to see how (sometimes radically) the artist changes his content .

Farhan Siki is a young artist from Indonesia who had never had a personal exhibition in Europe. His moment is now when the Primo Marella Gallery in Milan decided to give him this opportunity and lend him this space ending on  January 28, 2012. In the exhibition, which will open on the 14th of December at 19hs, will present 15 major works of Farhan, all unpublished.

Siki Farhan’s work presents its messages in a humorous and bold way butalso exploring in depth the textual element. In fact, he often uses logos, icons and symbols of local and global mass culture , to arrange them in his paintings (until recently on walls), loaded with  hyperbolic functions and parodies. It is a language in a way, how he approaches the world of advertising and communication, and through which the artist presents the ironic and bitter contradictions of contemporary life. Somewhat paradoxically, his polemical attacks are also directed to the art world, criticizing some artists in the ” art star system” (he is no doubt referring to the likes of Damien Hirst – whose  diamond skull sold for $ 74 million) .

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So if you are interested in reflecting on the meaning of advanced criticism by street art to date, we recommend you do not miss the opportunity to see this exhibit. You can rent apartments in Milan and spend a few days of art and culture, directly in the capital of “fashion” in Italy.

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