keane work – barganews

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1 Nov 2025 — 31 Dec 2026

San Cristoforo di Barga – La Statua di Legno nella Luce e nel Tempo

Un’esposizione di Keane In collaborazione con la Parrocchia del Duomo di San Cristoforo, Barga Luogo: Duomo di San Cristoforo, Barga All’interno del Duomo di San Cristoforo…

23 Aug 2025 — 28 Sep 2025

Fondazione Ricci – Keane – exhibition 40 years

The exhibition “40 Years Documenting Tradition and Change – 40 anni documentando tradizione e cambiamento” by KEANE, promoted and organised by Fondazione Ricci, is held under…

9 Aug 2025 — 11 Sep 2025

San Cristoforo di Barga

This August marks the Barga artist Keane’s 40-year retrospective at Fondazione Ricci — and simultaneously at Palazzo Pancrazi, his return to the monumental centerpiece of Barga’s…

1 Aug 2024 — 1 Sep 2024

Sillico – exhibition – Arte al plurale

Ha lasciato casa e scuola a 15 anni e ha lavorato in vari mestieri: lavoro nei campi. stuccatura in fibra, riparazione di pianoforti, verniciatore a spruzzo,consulente…

10 Jul 2024

Nessuno invecchia a tavola

Continuing the narrative of making art based on local culture, it is impossible to overlook that the preparation and enjoyment of food are central to the…

1 Jun 2024 — 31 Oct 2024

The Pennati exhibition in Barga Vecchia

powerful images of woodland implements known as “pennati.” In the most general sense, the term applies to gently curved blades, ending in a beak-like point, that…

1 Apr 2024 — 30 Nov 2024

Tarot – Ristorante Alfonso Piazza Angelio, Barga

Last night it was the turn of Keane with a series of his paintings on reused metal publicity panels with black outlines and limited colouring, all…

21 Oct 2023 — 30 Dec 2023

Vanghe exhibition – MURF

The latest exhibition by Keane, 9 paintings in lacquered oil mounted in the MURF – Museo Rocche e Fortificazioni in Barga Vecchia, is an eloquent study…

15 Jul 2023 — 30 Sep 2023

“Corsonna”

TRADITION AND CHANGE IN KEANE’S “CORSONNA” – Palazzo Pancrazi, BARGA to August 31 By Frank Viviano In “Corsonna,” a current exhibition at Palazzo Pancrazi, the Barga…

1 Jun 2022 — 31 Aug 2022

Palazzo Pancrazi – the playing cards paintings

All paintings are oil paint, charcoal, acrylic, spray paint, chalk, marker pen on mixed media 60 cms x 100 cms . Playing cards appeared in Italy…

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1 Oct 2021 — 1 Oct 2022

The Barga Shrine

Every day he left the house with his latest "creation" in his backpack, he traveled the stretch of road that leads up to the old castle…

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1 Sep 2021 — 1 Aug 2022

The playing cards paintings

Keane: THE PLAYING CARD PAINTINGS 2022 work in progress in the studio in barga vecchia All paintings are oil paint, charcoal, acrylic, spray paint, chalk, marker…

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1 Apr 2021 — 30 Sep 2021

“Spiritum”: Keane at the OXO Gallery in Barga

“Spiritum” explores the tension between venerable traditions and runaway change in the small Tuscan city he has called home for three decades. At a brief first…

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1 Aug 2020 — 1 May 2021

painting live in the studio

painting live in the studio at the Oxo Gallery in Barga Vecchia during lockdown

1 Oct 2019 — 30 Mar 2021

The Barga Social Distancing Project

The Barga Social Distancing Project is an attempt to capture a particular moment in the life of this community with series of images which we can…

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15 Aug 2019

La mostra dedicata al Pennato

Più che una mostra una grande installazione artistica di notevole effetto ospitata nella Oxo Gallery di via di Borgo (visibile fino al 15 agosto) che ci…

1 Aug 2019 — 1 Sep 2019

Keane – Pennati – ancient Memories

“Ancient memories,” the exhibition by Keane now featured at Barga’s Oxo Gallery - the latest chapter in his decades-long meditation on the fate of tradition in…

1 May 2019

Images from the upcoming PENNATI exhibition

Images from the upcoming PENNATI exhibition in the OXO collection Gallery in Barga Vecchia August 1st - August 15th --- more images here

30 Mar 2019 — 1 May 2019

Pop Tarot in Palazzo Pancrazi

Italy is said to be the birthplace of the tarot, which according to playing-card historians was originally a card game invented in the fifteenth century -…

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9 Jan 2019 — 10 Jan 2019

La storia infinita dei pennati

NOI TV - Keane a Barga non solo è artista ma un fulcro della ricerca dell’essenza che sta alla base della bellezza di questo paese. Nato…

29 Aug 2018 — 30 Aug 2018

Invisible cities – Guzzoletti and Keane

The newly opened Oxo Collection Gallery in Barga Vecchia commissioned an event based on literature, art and music all centered around one small book - Invisible…

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14 Aug 2018 — 30 Aug 2018

Gurdjieff and Hartmann in Barga

piano - Massimo Salotti visuals - Keane

1 Oct 2017 — 1 Feb 2018

The Barga shrine paintings

A new phenomenon in this area was most readily seen after a recent trip to Lago Santo . A lakeside crucifix had been adorned with not…

1 Jul 2017 — 31 Aug 2017

Palazzo Pancrazi: The Barga Vanga paintings

The latest exhibition by Keane, 10 paintings in lacquered oil mounted back-to-back in the lobby of Palazzo Pancrazi, is an eloquent study in the suggestive complexity…

10 Mar 2017 — 25 Mar 2017

The wine stain paintings – tempus fugit

A series of work which attempts to recreate that unhappy/happy accident using red wine in place of the paint and and a series of square blank…

10 Oct 2016 — 30 Oct 2016

The Barga wine glass paintings

A unframed collage of simple bistro glasses stands in the lobby of Palazzo Pancrazi, Barga’s municipal hall. Tinted with red wine, they look unprepossessing at first…

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1 Jun 2016

The Barga Pop Tarot paintings

inauguration of the Barga Pop Tarot paintings by Keane in the new Bistro at the Locanda di Mezzo in Barga Vecchia -- - - inaugurazione del…

18 Mar 2016

The Pop Tarot paintings of Barga

Paintings based on the Tarot of Marseille cards restored by Philippe Camoin and Alexandre Jodorowsky which have been installed in the Pop Tarot room at the…

20 Jan 2016

The Jodorowsky Tarot paintings

Four times over the past thirty years Keane has started started to make images about the card players to be found in local bars playing with…

20 Dec 2015

The Jodorowsky Tarot drawings

Coloured drawings on card - Work in progress by Keane based on The Tarot of Marseille cards restored by Philippe Camoin and Alexandre Jodorowsky. ... images…

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1 Nov 2014 — 1 Feb 2015

Biroldo and the #loveproject

Biroldo – even the name is fascinating as it not really a local Italian word but a name that was probably brought down from the north…

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29 Sep 2014

24 Waves with David Lynch at Lucca Film Festival

Barga had a strong presence at the event as last night at the official opening of the Festival there was the first performance with the participation…

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15 Aug 2013 — 31 Aug 2013

The Green Room Portraits

A series of portraits which were being taken every night during the Barga Jazz festival 2013 at the Eno Jazz after hours sessions at Villa Libano by the photographers…

5 Aug 2013 — 6 Aug 2013

Nuns of Barga – final salute

Back in 2005 I started work on a series of paintings based around a small group of people who have been living and working in Barga…

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1 Jul 2013 — 1 Dec 2013

The Duomo of Barga Paintings

All winter there has been a continuous trickle of images coming out of Keane's studio in Barga Vecchia and being published on various social networks. Finally…

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30 Jun 2013 — 30 Jul 2013

l’immortalita’ della carta – Porcari

l'immortalita' della carta - Porcari

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29 Mar 2013 — 30 Mar 2013

Charcoal drawings for the Duomo of Barga exhibition

charcoal drawings in the sketch book for the Duomo of Barga exhibition

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14 Feb 2013 — 15 Feb 2013

Inside the Studio – The Duomo of Barga paintings

The duomo of barga - paintings by keane

1 Aug 2012 — 2 Aug 2012

Suitcase performance in Barga Vecchia

For many residents of Barga there is a sound which denotes the arrival of summer. It is the unmistakable noise made by suitcases being trundled through…

4 Feb 2012 — 5 Feb 2012

Arti Differenti: intervista

Keane sei senza ombra di dubbio un figura fondamentale per l’arte e per la cultura del comune di Barga, hai dimostrato molte e molte altre volte ancora…

1 Dec 2011 — 31 Jan 2012

The Death of TV- Palazzo Pancrazi

L’atrio di un palazzo cinquecentesco e un’installazione di arte contemporanea. Comincia con questi due elementi la nuova vita culturale di “Barga città d’arte”. Lo spazio in questione…

7 Oct 2011 — 7 Nov 2011

The Walls of Barga

Barga, its fondest promoters love to say, is a “classic example of a Tuscan hilltown.” But what exactly defines the classic appearance of Barga – or…

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1 May 2011 — 30 Jul 2011

The thumbnail Nuns of Barga

The contribution to the cultural life of Barga during the summer of 2011, ironically has so far gone mainly unnoticed as it was decided that “size…

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1 Aug 2010 — 2 Aug 2010

The Cube

Trumpet king/composer Andrea Guzzoletti and keyboard magician Simone Venturi, two of Italy’s outstanding jazz talents, began playing selections from Guzzoletti’s riveting “invisible Cities,” inspired by Italo…

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1 Aug 2010 — 20 Sep 2010

Sold out in Barga

The two artists featured this month at Barga's Casa Cordati couldn't be more different, apart from a peculiar common element in their work: faces. Or more…

27 Oct 2009

Nuns removed from Barga

Three weeks ago during the night, a couple of painted nuns appeared on a wall on a disused building in Barga Vecchia. Although nobody ever took…

10 Jul 2009

Umbrella look for the Soul Festival

The Lake Angels Soul festival which is scheduled to run this weekend is about to have a definite change of colour. Their usual military style green…

12 Nov 2008

The Nuns of Barga

There have been quite a few emails and Skype calls to the barganews office today enquiring about the condition of the work in the the painter Keane’s studio…

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1 Sep 2008 — 10 Oct 2008

Esplorazioni Artistiche – Alpi Apuane, Rifugio Rossi

Keane: Esplorazioni Artistiche 2008 "Margini" Alpi Apuane, Rifugio Rossi, Molazzana - video by Fabrizio Da Prato

1 Jun 2008

Dark umbrellas at L’osteria

A short exhibition (lasting only three days) of some very dark umbrellas at the L’osteria in Piazza Angelio opened this evening. The artist Keane who painted…

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23 Sep 2006 — 23 Oct 2006

New exhibition space in Barga

new outside exhibition space in Barga Italy opened with an exhibition of paintings by Keane on the subject of icecream

12 Jun 2006 — 10 Jul 2006

Generated collision images – digital

Two web cams were set up sending images to the same page on the internet at 30 second intervals. Webcam 1 was fixed and pointing out…

11 Jan 2006 — 10 Mar 2006

The Mutande of Barga

What you notice, before anything else, is that the subjects of Keane`s brush have an unlikely beauty. They are banners aflutter in the shifting Garfagnana winds,…

1 Nov 2004 — 1 Dec 2004

Leaning Tower of Pisa – taking back that which is ours

Leaning Tower of Pisa – taking back that which is ours – photographs

21 Sep 2004 — 21 Nov 2004

Images created by text

26 Jul 2003 — 10 Aug 2003

Signs at Casa Cordati

The views from the top of the mountains looking out across the divide between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna are to say the least, spectacular but each time…

12 Apr 2003 — 15 Apr 2003

Water Decay – drawings and prints

29 Jan 2003

Hands of the Artists – installation/performance

Hands of the Artists – installation/performance for two artists – Livorno - A one hour installation/performance for two artists, Fabrizio Da Prato and Keane on the beach…

1 Jan 2003 — 1 Feb 2003

Da Vinci Table – painted sculpture

I and three other artists were asked to each make a table for a performance/theatre based around the word “Sale” the Italian word for salt. In this part…

1 Jan 2003 — 1 Mar 2003

147 CAI markings – paintings

1 Oct 2002 — 1 Apr 2003

The Decaying Site Project

1 May 2002 — 1 Apr 2004

Tulse Luper Suitcases- images for Peter Greenaway

Images made for Peter Greenaway as part of his Tulse Luper series of films

12 Jun 2000 — 25 Jun 2000

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-a-cream

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice -a- cream - work in progress June 2000 This work exhibited in its final form during August…

1 May 2000 — 1 Aug 2000

200 Yellow Bicycles of Joensuu Finland

200 yellow bicycles put on the streets of Joensuu Finland as a means of free transport, have all gone missing. Why are they now turning up…

1 Jun 1999 — 1 Aug 1999

Oma Maa Mansikka Muu Maa Mustikka – Finland

Subject:Oma Maa Mansikka Re: OMA MAA MANSIKKA ...a message from Italy land of the MUSTIKKA Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:48:02 +0300 From: Tasavallan_Presidentti@tpk.vn.fi Sorry, can't…

1 Jun 1998 — 1 Sep 1998

The Death of Paper – Finland

Paper has been one of the main methods of communication and transmission of culture for centuries, does it still hold this position of power ? With…

18 Feb 1998 — 20 Feb 1998

Packets sound poem – Japan and Italy

This is a site specific installation originally commissioned for Piazza Angelio but which has since grown into a piece of work involving most of Barga Vecchia.…

1 Jan 1997 — 27 May 1997

CUSEEMESEX safe sex on the net

CUSEEMESEX safe sex on the net - What I found was 7 people in video conference (8 including me, who was now known as a "lurker"…

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1 Feb 1996 — 12 Sep 1997

sorzali

Video of the house Sorzali in Fosciandora with each room full of paintings

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1 Apr 1994 — 20 Jul 1994

The Dig – Artists at Work – Gallicano

The Dig - Artists at Work - Gallicano

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24 Apr 1993 — 30 Apr 1993

The Tunnel – artists at work – Gallicano

The Tunnel - artists at work - Gallicano

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1 Jan 1993 — 28 Feb 1993

Exhibition in Gallicano – Artists at Work

Experiments with visual effects using old TV's and a video camera First part of exhibition in all the shops in Gallicano (part 2 is here)

2 Mar 1992 — 2 Nov 1992

The Umbrellas of Barga

Visitors to Barga over the years who have noticed the brightly coloured umbrellas that are to be found all over the city have often assumed that…

20 Jul 1990 — 30 Oct 1990

China

Pastels from Nanjing, China on cheap Chinese wrapping paper

1 Feb 1989 — 24 Aug 1989

Pantelleria

Pantelleria - oil paintings from the black pearl of the Mediterranean

20 Aug 1986 — 22 Aug 1986

Hands on election day

Hands on election day photographs from Fosciandora Italy

1 Jun 1985 — 1 May 2002

Fosciandora

Keane spent 7 years, from 1985 -1992, living and working in the small comune ( 728 inhabitants ) of FOSCIANDORA in the province of Lucca, Tuscany,…

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26 May 1982 — 27 May 1982

Colour an everyday decision 26 may1982

Colour an everyday decision 26 may 1982 The Falkland war was on. Margaret Thatcher was doing her worst. The HMS Coventry had just been sunk ....…