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17/03/2026

être en quête d’équilibre

08/03/2026

This is a list of Women Alchemist Anselm Kiefer mentioned in his latest tribute to women courage.
• Caterina Sforza – Renaissance ruler who wielded power both through politics and through hundreds of alchemical, medical and cosmetic “secrets” tested in her own laboratories.
• Isabella Cortese – 16th‑century Italian alchemist whose bestselling “I secreti…” opened up recipes in alchemy, metallurgy and beauty to a broad female readership.
• Maria the Jewess – semi‑legendary Alexandrian alchemist credited with inventing core lab apparatus like the bain‑marie, laying groundwork for later chemistry.
• Marie Meurdrac – French chymist who wrote an accessible chemistry manual “for the benefit of ladies,” insisting women belonged inside scientific knowledge.
• Rebecca Vaughan – enigmatic 17th‑century partner of Thomas Vaughan, remembered only in fragments as the body and eros of an esoteric alchemical practice.
• Mary Anne Atwood – English hermetic writer who redefined alchemy as a path of inner, spiritual transformation rather than a hunt for literal gold.
• Anna Maria Zieglerin – daring German court alchemist who claimed “lion’s blood” and was burned at the stake, turning into a symbol of lethal risk around female ambition.
• Sophie Brahe – Tycho Brahe’s sister and collaborator, moving between astronomy and alchemical medicine, uniting heaven’s calculations with earthly matter.[beforenewton]
• Camilla Erculiani – Paduan apothecary whose letters link everyday pharmacy, weather and elements into a distinctly female natural philosophy.
• Anne Conway – philosopher of living, transformable substance, whose metaphysics echoes the alchemical vision of a world in constant refinement.
• Dorothea Juliana Wallich – barely documented healer‑alchemist whose archival near‑absence itself becomes a figure of the forgotten women Kiefer brings back.
• Elisabeth Grey – noble patron and practitioner on the edge of the record, standing in for the many aristocratic women who quietly hosted and funded alchemical work

07/03/2026

Anselm Kiefer turns the wounded Sala delle Cariatidi into an alchemical theatre of memory, where history, myth and matter collide. He composes his own pantheon of women alchemists and thinkers, drawing them out of the margins of history: Caterina Sforza, Isabella Cortese, Maria the Jewess, Marie Meudrac, Rebecca Vaughan, Mary Anne Atwood, Anne Marie Ziegler, Sophie Brahe, Camilla Erculiani, Anne Conway, Dorothea Juliana Wallich, Elisabeth Grey. Kiefer himself moves like an alchemist in his studio, transforming lead, ash, straw, charred books and shards of glass into vast, fragile landscapes of memory and ruin. Monumental canvases rise to the scale of the ballroom walls, so you don’t just look at them – you enter their gravitational field. This ensemble took years of research and preparation to crystallise into a site‑specific cycle, on view in Milan throughout 2026, as a tribute to both the brilliance and the peril that shaped these women’s lives.

25/02/2026

Imagine opening a door in Milan and stepping not into a hotel room, but straight into Piero Fornasetti’s imagination: architectural facades on cabinets, columns turned into chair backs, mirrors everywhere inviting you to get deliciously lost. This is the Fornasetti Suite at Mandarin Oriental, Milan — a one‑of‑a‑kind space where you don’t just look at Fornasetti, you actually live inside his world for a while. You feel like Alice slipping through the looking glass: walls whisper in patterns, the ceiling turns into clouds, and under your feet a red key‑hole carpet watches you with a single curious eye.
The real fear is never even knowing places like this exist, never learning the artist’s name, rushing through Milan and missing the door to this universe — or stumbling in unprepared and not having the time or the language to read every detail that’s quietly telling you a story. And if you fall for this world the way I did, you can take a piece of Fornasetti home with you — from candles and plates to furniture and collectible objects — through his official online boutique and a handful of carefully curated design and fashion stores around the globe.

22/02/2026

Milan Fashion Week is about to begin, but some of the season’s most powerful images are still hanging in my mind from “Helmut Newton. Legacy” at Palazzo Reale, Milan, in 2023. Horses rearing, bears growling, women in heels and feathers facing down the elements — every frame is a lesson in controlled drama, desire, and unapologetic style. These photographs didn’t just illustrate fashion; they scripted the visual codes we still see on today’s runways. Viva Transitor, and to Helmut Newton, whose vision keeps Milan’s shadows just as compelling as its spotlight.
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31/01/2026

Art Genève 2026 doubles down on its “intimate-but-international” profile at Palexpo, with just over 80 galleries and 27 institutional projects launching the European art calendar in a compact, curated format. Blue-chip players like Hauser & Wirth, Pace, Eva Presenhuber, Mennour, Templon, Galerie Lelong, Tornabuoni and Waddington Custot appear alongside a strong Swiss and Paris-centric scene including Karma International, Gowen, Fabienne Levy, Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Papillon, Suzanne Tarasieve, In Situ – fabienne leclerc, Les filles du calvaire and Magnin-A. The fair foregrounds a tightly edited Solo section of 16 booths tied to the Art Genève–Piaget Prize and an acquisition for MAMCO, plus Sur-Mesure large-scale installations, performances and AI-driven immersive projects, keeping the atmosphere closer to a boutique biennial than a mega-fair. For collectors, the tone is measured rather than trophy-driven, with mid-market energy, headline sales like a Kehinde Wiley around 550,000 USD, and a wide band of works by artists such as Ivan Navarro, Martial Raysse and Chiharu Shiota in the low-to-mid five figures, confirming Geneva as a quieter, accessibly priced gateway to the winter art circuit rather than a battleground for record-breaking trophies.

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