I believe that art happens — when it is true art — when there is a complex dialogue with the state of things. And although works of art sometimes have the ability to arouse differing interpretations by viewers, I believe that the world of creation always aspires to something universal and shared. My passion for…

On Thursday, 18th December 2008 in Amsterdam, in the prestigious central venue of the Zuiderkerk, the Museumplein 1891-2020 exhibition opened, organised by the Municipality of Amsterdam and the Municipality of Oud-Zuid, with the cooperation of Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, which, last May, awarded the 19th International Carlo Scarpa Garden Prize to the Museumplein, a crucial…

The exhibition made all of the materials which were handed in by the participants for the second edition of the competition to describe “their” 188 outstanding places available, reordering and setting them up in the first room to provide an overview of the reported sites and to browse through all the paper documentation, donated publications,…

The nineteenth edition of the International Carlo Scarpa Garden Prize, dedicated to Amsterdam’s Museumplein, also includes an exhibition of drawings and documents on the Museumplein history and on the work of Sven-Ingvar Andersson. The exhibition is directly connected to the publication dedicated by the Foundation to the Museumplein and in general to the documentation work…

Before work began, someone sent a letter to the newspapers asking for Palazzo Bomben-Mandruzzato to be kept as a ruin, as a constant memorial of the Allied bombing of 7th April 1944 and the terrible damage it caused: they were wrong. The documents show that it was not bombs but human neglect that reduced the…

The exhibition displayed photographs taken by Eugenio Turri starting from the early 1960s. The photographs show villages, depicted in aspects of life, form and measure, bearing witness to the scientific focus on the topic of villages. Each photograph is considered as a fragment of a complex investigation involving several trips and visits to the same…