MIlano, 8 sets. (askanews) – Not a ranking, but a list, a selection, then published in a simple alphabetical order and without other hierarchies. The Journal of Art has chosen, for the September and online issue, the hundred most influential characters of the contemporary art scene in ItalyAn investigation that, in some way, eventually becomes, beyond the names, a collective photograph of a world that is made of cultural demands, but also of power, of vision and also of relationships.
The director of the Journal of Art, Luca Zuccala, their “Power 100” presented us. “Artists, gallery owners, art advisor, curators. -he told askanews -.. who is really changing the panorama a little? Who is it elected? Who did something a little more different, something more? Who gave that added value this year to contemporary art in Italy? We made a list. We have been the most subjective and objective. I like this dialectic because we must necessarily be subjective, but we do not want to pontificate, no rhetoric, nobody explain who he is “.
By super artists such as Maurizio Cattelan or Francesco Vezzoli edited as Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti or Marta Papini, From directors such as Lorenzo Giusti or Andrea Lissoni in Patronati and collectors such as Francesca Lavazza or Patrizia Sandretto, the list is rich and varied, but perhaps, more than the simple game of names, it is really interesting to ask what these names represent. “Represent the system, for better or for worse – added Zuccala – that is, they represent those who have spent for years to invest as a patronage or as a production of museum organization, that is, those who spent themselves for many years and therefore pulled the files especially for 2025 to read the present, what is the contemporaneity. And here by expanding the scope of fire of the answers, indeed of questions and answers and judgments, in the end the feeling is that we are faced with a system with all its contradictions but I think we have managed to trace a red line of what is the system, for better or for worse “.
And looking at contemporary art it is necessary to preserve the search for a complexity, As well as safeguard the contradictions. The fascinating thing of this “Power 100” We think is right here: it can be a game, a sort of “Who’s Who”, but it is made with the same type of open -mindedness that the contemporary requires us as spectators. Certainly those names may not be the final list, but the way this list has been designed is philologically consistent with the topic.
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