Phaidon's Destination Art and Dantini's Arte e politica in Italia
Two books on Italian contemporary art are reviewed. 'Destination Art' (Phaidon, 2018) catalogs 500 artworks worth traveling for, organized into seven macro-regions with GPS coordinates. Italian highlights include Robert Irwin at Villa Panza, Roman Signer at Zegna Trivero, Anselm Kiefer's Seven Heavenly Palaces at HangarBicocca, Wolf Vostell at Fondazione Mudima, Maurizio Cattelan's middle finger in Piazza Affari, Robert Gober at Prada, Dan Flavin at Chiesa Rossa, Jason Dodge in Reggio Emilia, Daniel Buren at Fattoria di Celle, Federica Marangoni in Chianti, Michelangelo Pistoletto at Porta Romana, Niki de Saint Phalle's Tarot Garden, Arnaldo Pomodoro at Vatican Museums and Tivoli, Jannis Kounellis in Naples metro, Anish Kapoor at Pollino Park, and Alberto Burri's Cretto. Milan is deemed Italy's contemporary art capital. Michele Dantini's 'Arte e politica in Italia' (Donzelli, 2018) is a dense historical essay challenging critical prejudices about Italian art between fascism and the Republic, notably examining Giuseppe Bottai's progressive policies.
Key facts
- Destination Art (Phaidon, 2018) collects 500 artworks worth traveling for, with GPS coordinates.
- Italian works include Robert Irwin at Villa Panza, Anselm Kiefer at HangarBicocca, and Cattelan's middle finger in Milan.
- Milan is identified as Italy's contemporary art capital in the Phaidon volume.
- Michele Dantini's 'Arte e politica in Italia' (Donzelli, 2018) is a 154-page historical essay.
- Dantini's book covers Italian art between fascism and the Republic, challenging critical prejudices.
- Giuseppe Bottai's progressive art policies are highlighted in Dantini's book.
- Both books were published in 2018.
- The review was written by Marco Enrico Giacomelli for Artribune Magazine #46.
Entities
Artists
- Robert Irwin
- Roman Signer
- Anselm Kiefer
- Wolf Vostell
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Robert Gober
- Dan Flavin
- Jason Dodge
- Daniel Buren
- Federica Marangoni
- Michelangelo Pistoletto
- Niki de Saint Phalle
- Arnaldo Pomodoro
- Jannis Kounellis
- Anish Kapoor
- Alberto Burri
- Michele Dantini
- Marco Enrico Giacomelli
Institutions
- Phaidon
- Villa Panza
- Zegna
- HangarBicocca
- Fondazione Mudima
- Prada
- Chiesa Rossa
- Fattoria di Celle
- Parco Sculture del Chianti
- Porta Romana
- Giardino dei Tarocchi
- Vatican Museums
- Parco del Pollino
- Donzelli
- Artribune
Locations
- Italy
- Milan
- Trivero
- Reggio Emilia
- Tuscany
- Chianti
- Florence
- Rome
- Tivoli
- Naples
- Pollino
- London