Dentrocasa | Federico Infante
FEDERICO INFANTE, APPARIZIONI Article by Gianbattista Bonazzoli The intrinsic balance between the expressive act of painting and the mystery of experiences related to spirituality Federico Infante was born in Santiago de Chile in 1982, he devoted himself mainly to painting, in 2002 he graduated in Fine Arts at Finis Terrae University (Santiago, Chile) and in 2013 he completed the Master in Illustration… Read more
FONDAZINE VAF | Il Resto del Carlino | Vaccaro Valeria
VAF Foundation Award, the exhibition in the Castle The first three classified in the recognition are L’orMa (Lorenzo Mariani), Valeria Vaccaro and Enrico Minguzzi  Article by Francesco Franchella That the VAF Foundation has landed in Ferrara is certainly positive. For the city, in fact, it means fully inserting itself into the dynamics of national and international contemporary art. The homonymous award of… Read more
Oltre | VA: 4 sguardi sulla città
A choral song interprets Varese You can get to know Varese walking through its streets and under the arcades appreciated by Stendhal, walking through the parks going up to the Sacro Monte along the lake. Or you can love it through the eyes of the four artists protagonists of the collective of PUNTO SULL’ARTE, for years a reference gallery for Italian and… Read more
VA: 4 GLIMPSES OF THE CITY
Four languages in some ways diametrically opposed, in the discovery of a fascinating, multifaceted reality, where nature reveals itself as wild and where the hand of man has created architectural polyphonies, juxtaposing prehistoric sites and futuristic spaces and marrying baroque and rationalism in unprecedented harmony. French from Toulouse, JEAN-MARC AMIGUES (1965) runs over the city with his vibrant, blurred brushstroke, in perfect… Read more
VareseNews | VA: 4 sguardi sulla città
Varese reinterpreted by four artists: the new exhibition at Galleria Punto sull’Arte The opening reception on Saturday 11 February was also attended by the mayor of Varese Davide Galimberti together with the curator of the exhibition Alessandra Redaelli, the owner of the Gallery Sofia Macchi and the artists exhibiting. Have you ever thought about how Varese can be seen by a foreign… Read more
La Prealpina | VA: 4 sguardi sulla città
Varese shows off its most seductive views Article by Andra Giacometti Art initiatives start again in Varese. Exhibitions of appeal that constitute the pulse of the city, of its ability to invent creative appointments, of its desire to attract insiders and curious, of its dynamism on the cultural front. You can see a red thread that connects exhibitions, events, private galleries, public… Read more
ArteVarese | VA: 4 sguardi sulla città
Varese, “4 glimpses of the city” At the Punto sull’Arte gallery at the opening the collective exhibition that investigates unpublished realities Varese – With “4 glimpes of the city” the exhibition calendar continues at the Punto sull’Arte gallery. The new exhibition opens on Saturday (11 February) from 17 to 20 at the headquarters in Viale Sant’Antonio. It is a tribute to the… Read more
Annalù ALCHEMICA | Finissage and Talk
TALK with ANNALÙ JANUARY 21, 2023 H 4.00 pm After the great success of the opening reception of her solo exhibition “Alchemica”, ANNALÙ will be back at PUNTO SULL’ARTE Gallery on SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 at 4pm for an exclusive interview with Alessandra Redaelli, journalist, art critic and art curator. It will be a unique opportunity to meet the artist, learn more about… Read more
PUNTO SULL’ARTE Poems | 30 Shades of Art | Volume 3
PUNTO SULL’ARTE Poems Volume 3 Galleria d’Arte Italiana Scopri “30 Shades of Art”, un’eccezionale raccolta di poesie ispirate a opere d’arte, tra cui dipinti e sculture, di artisti italiani e internazionali. Punto sull’Arte ha realizzato questa raccolta di poesie scritte da Eugenio, il quale, attraverso le sue parole, ha dato voce alle bellissime opere esposte nella galleria. Esplora “30 Shades of Art”… Read more
December Opening hours
Opening hours until December 23: PUNTO SULL’ARTE at Viale Sant’Antonio (Varese – Casbeno) Tuesday- Saturday: 9.30 am-5.30 pm Sunday, November 27 th: 3.00 pm-6.00 pm Other hours by appointment PUNTO SULL’ARTE II at Via S. Martino della Battaglia (Varese – Historical Centre):  Tuesday – Friday: 9.30 am-1.30 pm | 2.00 pm-5.30 pm Saturday: 9.30am-1.00 pm | 2.00 pm-6.30 pm Sunday, December 4th… Read more
ICCIUK | Matteo Massagrande
ICCIUK | Italian chamber of commerce and industry for the UK [ .. / luckily, there is a light that we,  Mediterranean people, were ab/e not to lose. These few words by the French philosopher and author Albert Camus perfectly encapsulate the spirit of “Luci della Grecia”, the new collection of paintings by Matteo Massagrande. The celebrated ltalian painter, renowned for his… Read more
La Provincia di Varese | Annalù | ALCHEMICA
Exhibition “Alchemica”, PUNTO SULL’ARTE Art Gallery | Varese On November 26th at 5.20 pm there will be the inauguration of the exhibition ALCHEMICA | ANNALÙ Curated by Angelo Crespi After having exhibited in metropolises around the world (from Miami to Singapore, from Hong Kong to Dubai, from Bruxelles to Montecarlo – just to name a few), ANNALÙ returns to the PUNTO SULL’ARTE… Read more
ALCHEMICA | Annalù
Amongst her most iconic and powerful artworks, the Dreamcatchers that seem to be generated by an explosion, “an explosion which however disperses without ever deflagrating – as written by the art curator Angelo Crespi – the embedded centrifugal force finds a balance in the centripetal force, so that one’s glance is compelled to the outer and, falling back, the inner, in a… Read more
OLTRE | Annalù | ALCHEMICA
The fiberglass that comes to life Article by Stefano Mazzatorta Incontrovertibly, after the chromatic impact, the first sensation that is felt in the presence of the works of Annalù (San Dona di Piave, 1976) is that of being in front of the representation of that greatness that in physics is called force. To prove it, you can visit the artist’s solo exhibition… Read more
La Prealpina | Forbici e Vicari | Cyan-Ide 2.0
Forbici-Vicari, The cyanide paradoxes Article by Mario Chiodetti VARESE, Italy – More and more artists are attentive to environmental problems, to the damage that modernity brings to ecosystems, with heavy climate change now visible to all. Jernej Forbici and Marika, united also in life, have long denounced with their works the drift of our planet, victim of all kinds of pollution and… Read more
CYAN – IDE 2.0 | MARIKA VICARI & JERNEJ FORBICI
Nature enters our everyday lives in many different forms, spaces and moments, and art increasingly takes on the task of expressing and recording reality, like a sphere of action on the dynamics of the transformation of the earth, the world and of man.  The transformation of the landscape, the process of environmental mutation that man has triggered like a point of no… Read more
Oltre | Johannes Nielsen | Silent Anatomy
Johannes Nielsen and his steeds with an elongated and slender body Article by Serena Colombo They seemed to come out of the pages of Calvin’s Viscount halved. Faces carved only in half, bodies divided, cut in two by a knife. These are the silent anatomies of Johannes Nielsen, one of the greatest Swedish sculptors of the same generation, represented in Italy by… Read more
SILENT ANATOMY | Johannes Nielsen
His sculptures are classical and the privileged material is bronze, which nevertheless preserves  a dimension of strong contemporaneity, as for example in the series dedicated to human bodies, in which the crisis of modern man finds exemplification in slim figures at the limit of visual endurance, which are decomposed or have discrepancies with respect to their axis, although always remaining faithful to… Read more
Quotidiano Piemontese | Valeria Vaccaro
The “Burning Times” exhibition in the most beautiful house in the world in Turin Article by Redazione QP The Number 6, the most beautiful house in the world built by the Building Group in via Alfieri 6 in Turin and winner in 2015 of the Building of the Year by ArchDaily, from 22 September hosts its temporary premiere with the works of… Read more
La Prealpina | Johannes Nielsen | Silent Anatomy
The fragility of man | The ten unpublished works by Nielsen Article by Mario Chiodetti Observing the sculptures of the Swedish Johannes Nielsen one immediately thinks of silence, of the total absence of any acoustic accident. Tacetto. Pure contemplation, stylized bronze figures, intertwined bodies and trotting horses with raised tails and arched necks, matryoshkas of wiry men to make Giacometti’s ones seem… Read more
Dentrocasa | Lene Kilde
LENE KILDE, CON LA PUREZZA DI UN BAMBINO article by Gianbattista Bonazzoli La poesia dell’infanzia e le sue potenzialità espressive Lene Kilde nasce a Rrelingen, piccola citta­dina nel pressi di Oslo. In Norvegia. nel 1981. Frequenta la Scuola d’Arte ad Asker e studia scultura alla Einar Granum School of Art a Oslo. Ha esposto i suol lavori in mostre personali e collettive… Read more
ART STAYS FESTIVAL 2022
PUNTO SULL’ARTE is glad to announce that the Artists VALERIA VACCARO, ALEX PINNA and ALICE ZANIN have been selected for ART STAYS, the prestigious International Festival of Contemporary Art that will take place in Ptuj, Slovenia, from July 7 to September 18, 2022. ART STAYS is one the most important multidisciplinary Festival dedicated to visual art in Slovenia and a well-established European… Read more
VareseNews | Valeria Vaccaro
Scatole in marmo di Carrara, dipinti di camere da letto e caramelle: un autentico PUNTO SULL’ARTE Article by Antonio di Biase It is not easy to find art galleries capable of expressing a quality worthy of the center of Milan. Yet on the outskirts of Varese there is a truly noteworthy place. The “Ultrareale” exhibition promoted by the Galleria PUNTO SULL’ARTE in… Read more
<20 15×15/20×20 | 2022
17 artists have been invited this year to accept the challenge of the small formats, Italian and foreign painters and sculptors with different artistic paths. As in the past edition, core element of the exhibition will be the size of the works, 15×15 cm and 20×20 cm: new artworks created by the artists for this specific project. Everyone will express himself with… Read more
Dentrocasa | Valeria Vaccaro
VALERIA VACCARO, “IL FUOCO CHE RIGENERA” Combustion: a creative force capable of shaping matter and giving life to unusual forms of art Articolo di Gianbattista Bonazzoli Valeria Vaccaro was born in Turin in 1988. After attending the Art School she studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. Since 2005 she has regularly exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in… Read more
HUMANIZED FORMS | Jill Höjeberg
Höjeberg’s works are indeed creations towards which it is possible, if not even necessary, to stretch one’s hand to have tactile feedback of one’s sensations. Elsewhere, it would not be allowed to touch sculptures, for the arcane fear that a touch could take something away from them. With the works of this artist, however, it’s exactly the opposite: we could not perceive… Read more
VareseNews | <15×15/20×20 | 2022 & Humanized Forms
Doppio vernissage alla Galleria PUNTO SULL’ARTE a Varese Giovedì 9 Giugno dalle 17 alle 20 doppio vernissage per l’apertura di due attesissime mostre: la IX Edizione della Rassegna <20 15×15 / 20×20 | 2022 e la nuova mostra personale della scultrice americana residente in Svezia Jill Höjeberg dal titolo “Humanized Forms”. Giovedì 9 Giugno dalle 17 alle 20 la sede principale della… Read more
BELVE | Massimo Caccia
“Belve”, the title chosen for the exhibition, is actually a play on meanings. The animals that inhabit the dazzling scenes of Massimo Caccia do not have a frightening aspect: even those that in nature we know as ferocious and dangerous, in these works generate in the viewers empathy and tenderness, at the point that they seem much more similar to us, human… Read more
The Female Curators | Silvia Levenson
Open dialogues: interview with Silvia Levenson Article by Margaret Sgarra Through complex and emblematic works of art with an installation nature, the artist Silvia Levenson investigates the complexity of today’s society, reflecting on the critical issues and problems of the present, with a particular reference to the condition of women within both family and society. Her works, made of glass, are as… Read more
Pikasus ArteNews | Ultrareale
Quando l’occhio del pittore iperrealista si confronta con l’immagine riprodotta in foto e dimostra si saper vedere oltre quello che appare. Fondata da Sofia Macchi nel 2011, la galleria d’arte PUNTO SULL’ARTE di Varese si è affermata negli ultimi anni come punto di riferimento per i collezionisti. Membro di ANGAMC, Associazione Nazionale Gallerie d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea dal 2013, ha debuttato ad… Read more
Artscore | Ultrareale
Ultrareale. Cinque visioni che superano il sensibile, in mostra a Varese Article by Michela Ongaretti Ultrareale. Is it not enough today to say real, or realistic? Not for art capable of restoring to the gaze, and to thought, something that goes beyond the mirror of the sensitive, while describing its matter. Even when we talk about hyperrealism, we do not remember that… Read more
Catalogo Ultrareale
“Ultrareale” lays out five different ways of returning the visible through painting, showing that in general when we speak of hyperrealism, very often we go no further than the surface. The truth is that when true painting enters a contest with photography, the result is the possibility of tapping into a beyond, which the eye – even that of a camera –… Read more
Critica Inattuale | Ultrareale
Ultrareale Diciamolo subito, senza indugio alcuno: il cimento pittorico è superato, ampiamente e senza dubbio; la maestria del disegno è tale che sembra eccedere la capacità che mano umana possa possedere quando essa sia armata di bastoncino ornato di setole o una penna a sfera. Eppure i risultati sono lì, davanti ai nostri occhi, riuniti in questa mostra collettiva che Punto sull’arte… Read more
OLTRE | Ultrareale
“Ultrareale”: five artists who show that painting is alive more than ever  Let’s say it right away: the pictorial challenge is outdated; Mastery is full-blown. Punto sull’Arte di Varese brings together five artists in a collective exhibition that borders the most strongly mimetic side of figurative painting, titled, arguably, Ultrareale. Oltre [Read the article] (Only in Italian)… Read more
La Prealpina | Tom Porta
The spiritual journey in Japan | Tom Porta at PUNTO SULL’ARTE Art Gallery Article by Mario Chiodetti A globetrotter fascinated by the passage of time, able to grasp the signs on objects and in the stories of men, an observer who engraves his gaze on the canvas and unites past and present in a sort of experimental brotherhood. The Milanese artist Tom… Read more
GAIJIN / LO STRANIERO | TOM PORTA
TOM PORTA, one of the most refined painters of his generation, comes to Varese: his sublime figuration is characterised by a lyrical style in which he skilfully mixes the flavour of Italian tradition with the newest international painting trends. In this latest series, “Gaijin / The foreigner”, Tom Porta completes a long research journey dedicated to Japan and its imagery. Following in… Read more
FONDAZIONE VAF | Vaccaro Valeria | Vincitori IX Edizione
PREMIO FONDAZIONE VAF IX EDIZIONE VINCITORI The Jury of the VAF Foundation, composed of Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Volker W. Feierabend, Daniela Ferrari, Elena Pontiggia, during the inauguration of the exhibition at the Stadtgalerie Kiel announced the winners of the IX edition of the VAF Foundation Award. After careful examination and scrupulous consultation, the Jury of the VAF Foundation came to the unanimous… Read more
Artribune | Vaccaro | FONDAZIONE VAF award
VAF Foundation Award is back Article by Giulia Giaume The nine finalists of the IX edition of the VAF Foundation Artistic Prize have been chosen, the biennial prize of the homonymous German cultural association that collects and makes known in Germany modern and contemporary Italian art. The exhibition for the finalists will be held in Germany at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel, on… Read more
Exibart | Vaccaro Valeria | Premio Artistico Fondazione VAF
Alla Stadtgalerie di Kiel la nona edizione del Premio Artistico Fondazione VAF OPENING by Elsa Barbieri The ninth edition of the VAF Foundation Artistic Award (Volker and Aurora Feierabend) opens, fromMarch 11 toMay 22, at the Stadtgalerie in Kiel, Germany, with the finalist works by Luca Azzurro, Renata and Cristina Cosi, Silvia Inselvini, KEM collective, L’OrMa, Enrico Minguzzi, Sebastiano Raimondo, Dario Tironi,… Read more
PARKVIEW MUSEUM | Pulcinelli Rudy | Università del Dialogo
The View: The Universality of Dialogue | RUDY PULCINELLI Articolo di THE PARKVIEW MUSEUM di Beijing, Cina The View is a featured column based on the brand DNA of Parkview Green FangCaoDi. Hosted by Parkvie w Green FangCaoDi and undertaken by The Parkview Museum Beijing, The View releases in the “Parkview Green FangCaoDi” WeChat subscription account biweekly. Each issue features an article… Read more
Shoutout Miami | Tom Porta
Meet Tom Porta | Artist We had the good fortune of connecting with Tom Porta and we’ve shared our conversation below. Hi Tom, how has your perspective on work-life balance evolved over time? As soon as I realize I could be a fulltime artist the balance just faded. Being an artist is not really a work, is a state of being. So,… Read more
WSI-mag | FUN 4 KIDS
Fun 4 kids 12 feb — 26 mar 2022 at Punto sull’Arte in Varese, Italy The first event of the year at Punto Sull’Arte gallery is a delicate exhibition, four artists who seek to focus on childhood, on play and those objects which are all intents and purposes a child’s work tools, with which they construct their own identity. The protagonists are… Read more
La Repubblica | FUN 4 KIDS
“FUN 4 KIDS” Painting and sculpture at PUNTO SULL’ARTE Gallery Until March 26, 2022 CLAUDIA GIRAUDO, LENE KILDE, SABRINA MILAZZO and VALERIA VACCARO are the protagonists of the “Fun 4 Kids” exhibition, until March 26 at PUNTO SULL’ARTE Gallery – at the headquarters in Viale Sant’Antonio, 59/61 in Varese. A poker of artists, two painters and two sculptresses, who want to focus… Read more
El Mundo | Bernardi Roberto
Borja Thyssen is also a millionaire in paintings (and will exhibit his collection for the first time in October) Article by Beatrice Miranda The taste of him as an art lover and collector is very colorful. He loves Richard Estes, Charles Bell … and Maria Blanchard’s cubism. For the first time there will be an exhibition with paintings that he personally purchased… Read more
FUN 4 KIDS | Claudia Giraudo, Lene Kilde, Sabrina Milazzo, Valeria Vaccaro
SABRINA MILAZZO (Turin, Italy, 1975) presents us with a new series of her high resolution oil canvases, where the Disney characters that have fed the imaginations of the last few generations seem to melt onto backgrounds of inflamed and luminous colours, in a kind of uneasy moment of transit between the age of innocence and that of awareness. And the point of… Read more
FUN 4 KIDS | Giraudo, Kilde, Milazzo, Vaccaro | PUNTO SULL’ARTE
The first event of the year at PUNTO SULL’ARTE gallery is a delicate exhibition, four artists who seek to focus on childhood, on play and those objects which are all intents and purposes a child’s work tools, with which they construct their own identity. The protagonists are two painters, SABRINA MILAZZO and CLAUDIA GIRAUDO, and two sculptors, VALERIA VACCARO and the Norwegian… Read more
VareseNews | FUN 4 KIDS
Alla Galleria Punto sull’Arte 4 artiste puntano lo sguardo sull’infanzia e sul gioco Vernissage sabato 12 febbraio. Lene Kilde approda, per la prima volta, in Italia da PUNTO SULL’ARTE a Varese. Insieme a lei 3 volti noti della galleria varesina: Claudia Giraudo, Sabrina Milazzo e Valeria Vaccaro   Dopo aver esposto le sue sculture a Dubai, Taiwan e in alcune tra le… Read more
La Prealpina | FUN 4 KIDS
Fun 4 Kids – Ritorno all’infanzia Di Mario Chiodetti Vernissage oggi pomeriggio, sabato 12 febbraio. L’Universo misterioso e affascinante dell’infanzia è il protagonista della prima mostra del 2022 di Punto sull’Arte, tutta al femminile con la partecipazione di due pittrici, Sabrina Milazzo e Claudia Giraudo e altrettante scultrici, Valeria Vaccaro e la norvegese Lene Kilde, che per la prima volta espone in… Read more
Borghi & città | Ciro Palumbo
I PAESAGGI IMPROBABILI by Ginevra Bacilieri Ciro Palumbo paints the unconscious  Mindscape is a neologism that combines psyche and landscape: it is also used by Vittorio Lingiardi, a Jungian psychoanalyst, who wrote the book of the same name on Mindscapes  (Raffaello Cortina, 2017). “Rivers, mountains, ruins and beaches – writes Lingiardi – inhabit our mind, our travels and our dreams. As psychic… Read more
Dentrocasa | Claudia Giraudo
CLAUDIA GIRAUDO, “L’ETÀ DELL’INNOCENZA” by Gianbattista Bonazzoli La poesia dell’infanzia e le sue potenzialità espressive Claudia Giraudo nasce nel 1974 a Torino e nel 2001 si laurea con il massimo dei voti all’Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti sempre di Torino. L’artista si racconta così ai lettori di DENTROCASA… “Potrebbe bastare la prima quartina di uno dei Sonetti a Orfeo di Rainer Maria… Read more