BookCity Milano 2025

Art Conversations return in collaboration with Johan & Levi

Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics

by Frederic Spotts

With Michele Dantini and Roberto Dulio. Moderated by Giulio Silvano

From the spectacular party rallies in Nuremberg to architectural works designed to achieve immortality, from the hatred of modernism to Hitler as the “guardian of Western civilization”: a reflection on the role of culture in the vision of an Aryan Super-State, where it is used as a means to seize and maintain power.

Understanding the power of twentieth-century aesthetics also becomes a tool for analyzing the long shadow cast by the artistic and architectural positions of totalitarian regimes and their effects on the contemporary world.

Lucio Fontana. The Possibility of a Beyond

by Paolo Campiglio

With Paolo Campiglio, Flavio Fergonzi, and Giorgio Zanchetti

A life split between two worlds—Italy and Argentina—and two ways of conceiving art, the nineteenth and the twentieth century. Lucio Fontana is best known for his iconic “cuts,” yet his creative journey is far richer and more complex.

The result of thirty years of research, Paolo Campiglio’s biography reconstructs one of the most innovative and multifaceted artistic personalities of the twentieth century, beyond all stereotypes. What emerges is Fontana’s fighting spirit, irony, and irresistible charm—qualities that led the art critic Raffaele Carrieri to say: “In everything he does, the temperature exceeds the normal voltage.”