Le Alchemiste by Anselm Kiefer at the Palazzo Reale

Anselm Kiefer’s Le Alchemiste

I saw “Le Alchemiste” by Anselm Kiefer at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, and although I have seen many exhibitions by this German artist, I have never seen anything like this. He creates large vertical portraits of about forty women who worked as alchemists and healers in various European communities in the period between antiquity and the nineteenth century.

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Io Sono LEONOR FINI – Decoding the Sphinx of Surrealism

Installation view, Io Sono LEONOR FINI (I Am LEONOR FINI)

The grand halls of Milan’s Palazzo Reale currently host a seminal tribute to artistic defiance and fierce individuality. On view from February 26 through June 22, 2025, Io Sono LEONOR FINI (I Am LEONOR FINI) presents one of the most comprehensive retrospectives dedicated to an artist whose untamed, rebellious gaze still challenges and mesmerizes viewers from across the temporal divide.

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