01The body asks no permission
From female empowerment to sologamy, a multidisciplinary practice turns symbols and stereotypes into acts of self-determination.
The international guide to accessible, high-quality Italian artIssue zeroSeptember 2026
Finding your way through contemporary art
Buy art.
Choose better.
An independent Italian guide for approaching artists, studios and artworks through precise questions, verifiable sources and time to look.
Three opening features
Three practices.
Three ways to inhabit the image.
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02Between perfect image and wounded matter
Painting and photography meet around portraiture and identity, from the torn magazine works to Tales of Humans in a Landscape.
03The portrait after the face
Stencil, line and altered advertising images: melancholic figures emerge when the public image loses its seductive function.
New focus · Photography and identity
Francesco Arena.
Other Identity.
An unmissable Exibart column becomes an archive of contemporary identity, read through Robert Gligorov, Stefano Gervasoni and Massimo Scognamiglio.
Read the focus and see the images →Our point of view
Buying art does not mean predicting a return. It means recognising a practice, understanding its path and choosing to accompany it.
Essential guides · Ready to read
01222 artists: reading the map
What the 2026 Exibart selection actually measures.
02Art under €5,000
Data, opportunities and realistic expectations.
03Your first artwork
Eight checks without turning art into a supermarket.
Further encounters
Criticism, mediation
and memory.
04Stefano Esposito · Takeawaygallery ↗
Looking from the gallery’s side
A photographer and gallerist on independent mediation, relationships with artists and transparency for collectors.
05Barbara Martusciello · art a part of cult(ure) ↗
Removing the background noise
Criticism, curating and independent publishing as a space for depth, relationships and memory.
06Melancholy becomes narrative
Autobiographical painting, resin-sealed books, words and collage: personal memory and art history accumulate in dreamlike images.
Two lateral stories
The work changes
when the process changes.
Public art · Action
Arte da Rubare
For twenty years, the work has come alive when a passer-by carries it away and becomes part of the performance.
Read the story →
Digital art · Philosophy
Francesco D’Isa
Generative error, latent spaces and authorship after the artist accepts a partial loss of control.
Read the feature →Paths and further reading
04Painting or photography?
Original, edition, medium and conservation.
05Affordable, not minor
Price does not assign cultural quality.
06Reading an artist’s career
Seven documentary signals before choosing a work.