The week on TV, from the new documentary about Oliviero Toscani to the art of Bellini and Mantegna – Arte.it

Sky Arte programmingA year after his death, an authentic and visionary portrait commemorates Oliviero Toscani, the photographer who revolutionized the language of images. On January 13 at 9:15 PM, Sky Arte will present the new Sky Original documentary “Oliviero Toscani. Whoever loves me must follow me”an investigation into the life, thoughts and artistic legacy of one of the most influential Italian photographers of the twentieth century.
Director Fabrizio Spucches, who worked with Toscani for more than ten years, collected and organized the master’s enormous private archive. Images, videos and unpublished material thus become the source of a story that interweaves memory and contemporaneity. The portrait will be enriched by the contributions of the characters who lived and worked with Toscani, from Patti Smith to Luciano Benetton, from Nicolas Ballario to Vittorio Moretti. Streaming NOW only and available on demand, “Oliviero Toscani. Whoever loves me must follow me” is a production of Sky, TIWI and AdLine Entertainment, in collaboration with Cucù.

Also on Tuesday 13, Artbox guides the public on a new journey into contemporary art. The new installment of the column begins from the Gallerie d’Italia in Naples, home of the exhibition Women in Spanish Naples. Another seventeenth centurydedicated to the forgotten protagonists of Baroque art. Under heading Iinvitation to travelMaria Vittoria Baravelli reflects on the predominance of the male gaze in the representation of the female body. In the second part of the broadcast we move to the MAO in Turin, home of Chiharu Shiota’s retrospective entitled The soul trembleswhile the visit to the Museum of Civilizations of Rome closes the episode.

Oliviero Toscani, 1989 © Oliviero Toscani

Wednesday 14 Gian Paolo Barbieri. Man and Beauty offers an intimate look at another great Italian photographer, through testimonials from those who worked with him in the fields of art, fashion and film.

Omaggio and Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons: A Private Portrait is the title of the documentary that brings to Sky Arte on January 15 the story of the artist who managed to transform kitsch and pop into masterpieces like few visionary artists in recent history. A leap in time therefore brings us face to face with the Great Masters. If Bellini took Venice out of the Middle Ages and projected it into the Renaissance, Andrea Mantegna was an artist who was able to create absolute masterpieces and became one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance.

Scheduled for Friday January 16, Michelangelo – Infinity, produced by Sky Cinema, offers a compelling portrait of the man and the artist, played by Enrico Lo Verso, while on Saturday 17 Operation Caravaggio invites you to explore the complicated history of Birth by Caravaggio.

Enrico Lo Verso in a scene from the movie “Michelangelo Infinito” Courtesy of Sky

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To learn new techniques, the artists of the now dim Ottoman Empire left for Europe from the end of the 19th century. Little by little, the empire’s artists began to describe a world full of unknown treasures, giving life to an alternative modernity. We know more thanks to the documentary broadcast on ARTE.tv entitled “From Istanbul to Cairo: Another Art History”.