Un’idea di arte, un’idea di pittura. Intorno a L’artista e la sua realtà di Mark Rothko

As part of the Rothko exhibition in Florence (Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, March 14 – August 23, 2026), the Fiesole Museums offer a meeting that, moving between art and philosophy, introduces us to the thought of one of the undisputed masters of modern American art. Art as a repository of the thrill or blush that passes through us when the unexpected strikes us: when the unexpected manifests itself, like a flash, in a painting. Luca Farulli, Professor of Aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, guides us through an analysis of the main themes that emerge from Mark Rothko's unfinished text, "The Artist and His Reality." This work recounts the work of the Latvian-born American artist as a "mole toward the light"; a kind of thought in painting that engages philosophy and its forms. Video shooting and editing: Andrea Tamassia – Fonen Suonoarte