Magazine · Italy
Every feature, guide and encounter published by Acquistare Arte.
84 · Archive
01Digital art · Inside the work
Inside Massimo Scognamiglio’s interactive artwork: seventeen experiences linking solitude, memory, cinema and computers. An illustrated journey and a map of digital art institutions worldwide.
02Complete guide · Markets, documents, costs and choices
Primary market, auctions, a €1,000 first work, documentation, editions, inheritance and resale: twelve practical modules with more than forty verifiable links.
03Dossier · Painting, moving image and artificial intelligence
From David Salle to Massimo Scognamiglio: eight practices show how AI can enter painting, drawing, video and installation without becoming one style.
04Interview · Painting, AI and memory
A long interview with Massimo Scognamiglio on his new ROOMS cycle: solitude, love, adolescence, digital painting, AI, torn paper and gold leaf.
05AI ART DOSSIER · PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHYGITAL
From 1990s digital photography to Floramagnifica, Intermundia and Lumen et Ombra.
06AI ART DOSSIER · PHILOSOPHY AND AUTHORSHIP
Generative error, latent space, copyright and responsibility.
07AI ART DOSSIER · CINEMA AND MEMORY
Thirteen films from 2023 to 2026: synthetic figures, surveillance, memory and psyche.
08Exhibition notice · Rome Art Week 2026
In Rome from 15 to 31 October 2026: a group exhibition curated by Andrea Iezzi and conceived by Alberto D’Amico, Paolo Bielli and Stefania Fabrizi.
09Criticism · Digital art, markets and technology
From Beeple’s record to the speculative crash: what remains of NFTs, why a token is not a digital artwork, and what may come next for blockchain, AI and generative art.
10Art books · The artist speaks
Career, art, money and persona: a critical guide to Hirst and Burn’s book-length interview.
11Art books · The market explained
Why does contemporary art reach extreme prices? Bibliography, thesis and practical lessons from Don Thompson.
12Art books · The dissenting voice
The pamphlet challenging Hirst and conceptual art: arguments, limits and reasons to read it before buying.
13Practical guide · Budget, documents and conservation
A progressive collection from €500 to €5,000: annual budgets, mistakes, insurance, documentation and criteria for selling or holding.
142027 guide · European women artists and market
Critical profiles and market evidence for ten European women artists: works, museums, galleries, documented prices and cultural reasons to follow them.
15Fair guide · Italy
How to use Solo Show, New Entries and Photography to discover new practices in Rome.
16Fair guide · Italy
Artist-run spaces, collectives, young galleries and non-profits beyond the standard booth.
17Fair guide · Switzerland
Basel’s fair for young galleries and focused presentations by emerging artists.
18Fair guide · Germany
A guide to Academy, awards and young practices during Berlin Art Week.
19Fair guide · France
Young galleries, non-profits, nomadic architecture and free entry: how to read the programme.
20Fair guide · United States
How to navigate NADA members, Projects and international galleries without buying on fair pressure.
21Platforms · Saatchi Art
How to read an open artist marketplace: three different practices, public budgets, real costs and a method for building a collection without buying blind.
22Platforms · Artsy
Artsy aggregates galleries, auctions and viewing rooms. Three accessible examples show how to read price, seller and documents.
23Platforms · Artfinder
A marketplace built around direct contact with artists: three price levels and a checklist for quality, returns and documentation.
24Platforms · Singulart
Global delivery, certificate and returns: how to compare three artists and understand what the published price really includes.
25Platforms · Artsper
Three highly visible artists, different price ranges and a method for separating multiple, unique work, gallery and secondary market.
26Platforms · Avant Arte
From Ai Weiwei multiples to unique works on paper: how to read releases, sold-out status, editions and prices in the digital primary market.
27Exhibition notice · Photography and counterculture
Acquistare Arte recommends Punk Aristocracy · 10 years by Massimo Scognamiglio, opening on 9 October 2026 at BlackShedBar in Cosenza.
28Practical guide · Buying from a studio
How to find the right channel, write to a studio, check documents and build a collection with 20 mid-career artists and transparent budget questions.
29Dossier · Five countries, five living archives
Italy, France, England, Germany and Switzerland: five galleries active for at least sixty years and the ways they turn archives, exhibitions and digital tools into public relationships.
30News · Galleries, photography and urban projects
The new Via dei Narcisi 21 venue, an artists’ archive and fifteen years of exhibitions, installations and collaborations across Rome and Italy.
31The curator’s craft · 01
From High Line Plinth to Brick House: how a curator builds space, duration and audiences around a monumental work.
32The curator’s craft · 02
More than 150 works across three floors: how Massimiliano Gioni and Margot Norton turned a survey into an argument about gender, desire and power.
33The curator’s craft · 03
At Ca’ Corner della Regina, more than sixty works reconstructed Kounellis’s practice through material, architecture and exhibition memory.
34The curator’s craft · 04
Triumphant Scale crossed fifty years of work and showed how dimension, material and postcolonial history can redraw a museum.
35The curator’s craft · 05
Mastry framed thirty-five years of painting as a history of Black representation without separating visual pleasure from political responsibility.
36Practical guide · Budget and collecting
One anchor work, three mid-career artists, six emerging names or a hybrid model: complete budgets, hidden costs, artists to research and a method for building a coherent collection.
37Collecting performance · 01
Body, political violence and memory: what remains collectible after the action, from photographs and video to editions and documentation.
38Collecting performance · 02
Endurance, trans identity and matter: photographs, films, sculptures and physical traces show how a Cassils performance enters a collection.
39Collecting performance · 03
From The Visitors to Woman in E: how musical and durational actions become video installations, editions and works with precise protocols.
40Guida essenziale · Collezionare arte
How to begin collecting contemporary art: choose a focus, compare works, keep documentation and care for what you acquire.
41Complete guide · Investing in contemporary art
A complete 2026 guide to major contemporary art: blue-chip artists, editions, authentication, provenance, costs, risks and ten mid-career practices to study.
42Tre artisti · 01
From Shkodër to Milan, Luli uses video, print, LED and installation to question how we construct reality.
43Tre artisti · 02
The Buenos Aires-born artist turns celebration into a shared space through reflective materials, performance and temporary structures.
44Tre artisti · 03
The Milan-based artist moves from editorial illustration to kinetic sculpture, ceramics, books and the official Milano Cortina 2026 poster.
45Europe · art under $50,000
Massimo Scognamiglio: a Roman visual artist with a documented career from 1998, from Palazzo delle Esposizioni and Centro Pecci to the LÌMEN collection, MACRO Asilo and The Gold Standard.
46Africa · art under $50,000
Lawrence Amoo · Africa · US$5.000 · olio unico pubblicato.
47Asia · art under $50,000
Takashi Murakami · Asia · US$5.000–7.500 · serigrafia.
48Americas · art under $50,000
Juan Roberto Diago · Americas · US$5.000 · fotografia pubblicata.
49Oceania · art under $50,000
Fiona Omeenyo · Oceania · US$650 · dipinto unico pubblicato.
50Rome · Artists, cinema and neighbourhood life
From Pasolini and Rossellini to contemporary studios: the people who turned Pigneto into a form of storytelling.
51Rome · Neighbourhood, galleries and artist studios
A cultural guide to San Lorenzo: the 1943 bombing, Pastificio Cerere and the work of Monitor, Matèria and Numero Cromatico.
52Exhibition · Rome, Silk Road and contemporary Chinese art
Curated by Claire Shiying Li, the exhibition brings together seven artistic practices and reads the Silk Road as a living space of exchange, identity and change.
53Focus · Art market and collecting
Six clear questions about museum editions, prints, posters, multiples, provenance, framing and value.
54Focus · Art market and collecting
Photography, video and installation ask where an image begins and what remains of the physical print in digital circulation.
55Focus · Art market and collecting
Public auction results show how to read this market band without turning evidence into an investment promise.
56Art, mind and survival · Quote 01
A sentence became an artwork: creation did not erase torment for Bourgeois, but gave it form, rhythm and distance.
57Art Brut and freedom · Quote 02
Dubuffet’s idea of a “positive madness” meets Carlo Zinelli’s ordered and irreducible visual language.
58Van Gogh, Artaud and society · Quote 03
In his essay on Van Gogh, Artaud treats creation as a way out and indicts a society that reduces difference to illness.
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59Criticism · Young artists and the market
Aelita Andre, Andres Valencia and Mikail Akar: three rapid rises and documented entry points below €5,000, without turning youth into a guarantee of value.
60Visual languages · Posters, editions and reproductions
A clear guide to recognising a well-printed art poster, distinguishing it from a fine-art edition and buying Gilbert & George for visual quality rather than financial expectations.
61Photographer profile
Documentary practice, reconstruction and imagination reveal the choices hidden inside photographic truth.
62Photographer profile
Colour, social tension and everyday strangeness shape an American landscape that keeps its contradictions open.
63Photographer profile
Long-form reporting shows how climate, landscape and isolation shape human life.
64Photographer profile
Symbol, light and intervention address fractured communities, disappearance and memory without turning pain into spectacle.
65Feature · Photography and handwork
Found photographs, embroidery, paint and geometry: Julie Cockburn turns anonymous images into layered, unique objects.
66Feature · Drawing, text and humour
Drawing, writing, print, sculpture and animation: David Shrigley uses humour to turn the obvious into something unexpectedly ambiguous.
67Feature · Public graphics and print culture
From OBEY to political images, Shepard Fairey uses posters, murals and screenprint to question power, consent and access.
68Guide · Contemporary art photography
Edition, process, signature, provenance and care, with Cristina de Middel, Gregory Halpern, Nanna Heitmann and Yael Martínez as international examples.
69Collecting · Six practices, a real budget
Elena Ketra, Massimo Scognamiglio, Marco Réa, David Shrigley, Julie Cockburn and Shepard Fairey: documented prices, unique works, editions and practical questions.
70Focus · Cultural journalism, photography and identity
A focus on Francesco Arena and Exibart’s weekly Other Identity column: photography, video and performance as tools for reading identity, self-representation and public space.
71Feature · Painting and memory
Autobiographical painting, resin-sealed books, words and collage: the Italian artist’s path through memory, nature and art history.
72Digital art · Philosophy
Philosopher, artist and writer: a practice using generative errors, latent spaces and artificial intelligence to question identity and authorship.
73Public art · Action
The collective initiated by Marco “Canz52” Cantarelli leaves artworks in cities for passers-by to take and complete the performance.
74Guide · Method
Seven documentary signals for reading continuity, sources, exhibitions, language, provenance and price without predicting financial returns.
75Feature · Criticism and publishing
Criticism, curating and independent publishing: art a part of cult(ure) as a space for depth, relationships and memory.
76Feature · Independent galleries
Photographer and gallerist: a view on independent mediation, relationships with artists and transparency for collectors.
77Opening feature · 01
From female empowerment to sologamy, a multidisciplinary practice transforms symbols and stereotypes into acts of self-determination.
78Opening feature · 02
Painting and photography meet around portraiture, fashion and identity, from torn magazine works to Tales of Humans in a Landscape.
79Opening feature · 03
Stencil, line and altered advertising surfaces: melancholic figures emerge when public images lose their seductive function.
80Mapping the contemporary
Cesare Biasini Selvaggi’s Exibart volume: 222 profiles, methods, data, prices and the limits of a map of emerging art in Italy.
81Market · Data
Affordable contemporary art is not a minor category: data, media and responsible questions for a first acquisition.
82Practical guide
A clear first-acquisition guide covering certificate, signature, provenance, medium, condition, edition, shipping and additional costs.
83Guide to media
Original, edition, technique and conservation: how to compare two different economies of the artwork.
84Documented opinion
Why a lower price does not define cultural quality, ambition or the seriousness of an artist’s research.
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