Artbox on Sky Arte explores Kandinsky's impact on Italian abstraction

The latest episode of Artbox, airing January 27 on Sky Arte, investigates how Wassily Kandinsky's work influenced Italian abstraction. The episode centers on the exhibition 'Kandinsky e l'Italia' at MA*GA in Gallarate, which brings together 130 works, including 20 by Kandinsky, alongside pieces from Venice's civic collections at Ca' Pesaro and examples of Italian abstract tradition. The show also visits 'Sailing To Byzantium' at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, a show linking New York's 1980s underground scene via prints by Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, and Donald Baechler. Another segment covers 'Provincia Novecento. Arte a Empoli 1925-1960' at Empoli's Antico Ospedale di San Giuseppe, highlighting local artists from 1925 to 1960. Regular contributor Maria Vittoria Baravelli discusses art as narrative, from Lascaux cave drawings to Byzantine mosaics to Van Gogh, Goya, Boltanski, and Calle. The episode also features 'Internati giapponesi. L’altra America,' documenting Japanese American internment after Pearl Harbor through the work of Dorothea Lange and Ruth Asawa. Curators Emma Zanella (also MA*GA director), Richard Milazzo, Belinda Bitossi, and Cristina Gelli participate. Artbox content is curated by Artribune.