Is there still life on the planet Bohemia?

Is there still life on the planet Bohemia?

“The great artist of tomorrow will be underground.”  
Marcel Duchamp

Is art dying of too much visibility? Does the word “underground” still mean anything in art, or has it simply been replaced by rooftops? Is there still a place today for any kind of friction, disquiet, or problematic attitude in art? And what role is still played by real communities of people and real physical encounters in a social-media-based global art world? What is the role of beauty, mystery, magic, sentiments, and feelings in today’s art? Has art criticism really died?

Scenes:
1) The Street
2) The Bar
4) The Poet
5) The Beauty
6) The Studio

Antonio Grulli (La Spezia, 1979) is an art critic and curator based in Italy. He is the curator of Luci d’Artista, the public art project commissioned by the City of Turin (lucidartistatorino.org). In 2024, he curated the Albanian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. He has previously overseen the contemporary art collection and programme of Palazzo Bentivoglio in Bologna (palazzobentivoglio.org), served on the board of Viafarini in Milan (viafarini.org), and directed the CAMeC - Centro per l'arte moderna e contemporanea di La Spezia. Over the years, he has initiated and curated numerous exhibition, research, project-based, and publishing initiatives, often developed in collaboration with artists, curators, and collectors. 

For MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, he conceived Sentimiento Nuevo together with curator Davide Ferri, an ongoing investigation into the current state of art criticism through conversations, conferences, lectures, and performances. Grulli is also involved in two independent, non-profit exhibition spaces: Lucerna in Milan, founded together with Federico Pepe, and FBI, located in the studio of artist Jacopo Benassi in La Spezia.