Diego Giolitti
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Diego Giolitti is a trusted specialist in emerging art markets with a focus on Iranian and Russian contemporary art.

He studied at the University of Venice as well as the University of Cambridge. He has worked as a lecturer at SOAS in London and the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice.

He is an experienced gallery director, having worked in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Paris and his native Venice.

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Vulnerable

(0) Comments | Posted 22 September 2012 | (15:41)

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Could the new image of a strong woman be one who is able to put forward her frailty, her intuitive intelligence and her natural understanding as a value for humanity without requiring protection?

Annouchka Brochet's new series of paintings, Vulnerable, focuses on the power...

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The Crown

(0) Comments | Posted 13 July 2012 | (13:32)

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I am pleased to present The Crown, a photographic exhibition that is "the multicultural trash-dreaming" vision of The Fourth Height, a Russian collective of three artists: Dina Kim, Katya Kameneva, and Gala Smirnskaya. Working with renowned Swiss photographer Urs Bigler, these...

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Penumbra

(0) Comments | Posted 19 May 2012 | (18:04)

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The word penumbra is often rendered "half-light." The Latin origin paene umbra literally means "almost shadow." In between the shadow and the light there is a zone through which we may see what is in the penumbra, but we see it with this darkened...

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Vladimir Ovchinnikov: An Aesthetic of Freedom

(0) Comments | Posted 27 April 2012 | (20:03)

Vladimir Ovchinnikov is undoubtedly one of most prominent figures of Russian Nonconformist Art and, starting from the mid-1960s, was a point of reference for artists claiming the possibility of an art not aligned with Soviet ideological propaganda. Furthermore, his work exerted strong influence on the subsequent development of the Nonconformist...

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Ilya Gaponov: Tradition Meets Modern Challenges

(1) Comments | Posted 19 April 2012 | (15:50)

The still life genre has a rich history, one of the richest in all of art history. At its simplest, the still life is a collection of objects, but it is this very restriction that has obliged artists to imbue the genre with imagination and invention to achieve true originality...

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Contemporary Russian Art

(0) Comments | Posted 12 April 2012 | (18:11)

Among the so-called emerging art markets, one of the most active, fruitful and worthy of attention is Russia. Russia's entry into the international market presents reasons for great interest, both for what is on offer and for the demand for works of art. Russia is a country that boasts an...

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