Julian Schnabel's film, "Van Gogh - On the Threshold of Eternity", awarded at the recent Venice Film Festival and just released in Italian cinemas, is the highlight of the weekend edition of FIRST Art, the FIRSTonline portal entirely dedicated to the world and the art market and cultural current events.
“Cinema – reads the presentation of the film on FIRST Arte – is already in itself a complex artistic expression and it is even more so when it deals with other arts. If we then add that the director is known more for his pictorial production than for his works on the big screen, the reflection becomes even more complicated".
In addition to the presentation and critical analysis of the film on Van Gogh, in this weekend's issue of FIRST Arte, in addition to the usual review of exhibitions and auctions in Italy and around the world, Caravaggio's return to the Capodimonte Museum stands out after 15 years of Naples with an exhibition that will open in April and will last until November 2019 and which will be entirely dedicated to one of the most important artists who worked in Italy between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Also interesting is the presentation that FIRST Arte dedicates to the exhibition, which has just opened in Sabbio Chiese, in the province of Brescia, which is entitled "The Wood and the Sacred" and which takes us into the magic of prehistory.
Also not to be missed is the report on the Urs Fischer exhibition in Beverly Hills and the one on the Sotheby's auction for the “April” tapestry which presumably belonged to the collection dedicated to the months of Admiral Andrea Doria Pamphilj of Genoa.
Also intriguing is “Shapeshifters”, the collective exhibition of three female artists who interpret the reincarnation of the body, which opens on January 12 at The Approach Gallery in London.
The Sunday Tale, edited by the Thesis literary agency, completes the weekend edition of FIRST Arte: this time it's about “The Big Obese” by Lionel Shriver.
