Carlo Vanoni e l'arte a Corato

CARLO VANONI, an art historian, is a consultant for various art galleries and a curator of exhibitions. He has brought successful shows to the theater (including "Art is a Candy" and, with Leonardo Manera, "The Best Paintings of Our Lives") and is often a guest on radio and television programs. He is the creator of BienNoLo, the Milan Biennale of Art.

The author will be a guest on Friday, December 13th at 6:30 PM at the event space of Sonicart B-Side Bookstore in Corso Mazzini 8, Corato, to present his new book published by Solferino titled "Art When It Burns." The event will actively involve some teachers and students from the Corato Art High School, and there will be some pleasant surprises!

-The Book- Art is not a museum; it is a landscape to travel through: it becomes sweeter or more rugged depending on the time and geography, it changes with varying external conditions, and it allows itself to be modified by personal and collective passions.

This book is an itinerary in the Country of Art, with five unique protagonists, each guiding us through a decade of the 20th century. We enter Pollock's granary and the bloodstained room of Francesca Alinovi; the peeling venues of the Bronx and the legendary Leo Castelli gallery on the Upper East Side. We discover the places of urban counterculture and the paths of collecting, from one side of the Atlantic to the other. Carlo Vanoni, with his rich and inspired writing, navigates between anecdotes and analysis, recounting major movements and fundamental works, allowing us to dream the dreams of the artists who wanted to narrate, by changing them, the eras and the world. Even at the cost of burning: styles, categories, materials, and sometimes even themselves.