10 × 10
WORKS × YEARS
The first collection: ten works, ten years, one method.
A progressive plan from €500 to €5,000, including insurance, conservation and the errors worth avoiding.
READ THE GUIDE ↗
PAGOSÌ;)
Independent art journal · Italy · English / Italian
YES TOMORE ART;)
Look longer. Ask better. Buy art without buying the story first.
OPEN THE NEW ISSUE ↗
NOT A BANK. STILL PAGO.
INTERFERENCE.
ENTER THE WORK ↗THE PAGE IS NOT
A WHITE CUBE.
IMAGE / PRICE / POWER / DESIRE / ERROR / BODY / MONEY / MEMORY
IF IT IS COMFORTABLE, LOOK AGAIN.
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THE POINT
The work gets the last word.
PAGO SÌ does not tell you what to buy. It gives you time, questions and verifiable sources so taste can become knowledge—and knowledge can remain pleasure.
Pay attention. Not more.
64 ROOMS / 17 EXPERIENCES
NEW · INTERACTIVE ART
HIKIKOMORI. Inside the room.
Sixty-four rooms, seventeen experiences, twenty images and two films: an artwork that asks the visitor to enter before judging.
ENTER THE DOSSIER ↗A MANUAL, NOT A SALES PITCH
12questions. One method.
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Primary market, auctions, a first work from €1,000, documents, photography, paper, costs, inheritance and resale. Forty-plus declared links, zero promises of financial return.
40+verifiable sources
OPEN THE MANUAL ↗AN IMPOSSIBLE GALLERY
The image was here. The image is elsewhere.
Works do not live in a timeline. They return, collide and change meaning each time the present looks at them.
PASTNOWNEXT
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THE PAST IS NOT OVERTHE PRESENT IS NOT STILLTHE FUTURE IS NOT EMPTY
PAINTING × ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI is not the artist. The artist is still the problem.
Eight practices use robotics, datasets, cinema and moving images without reducing the work to a technological trick.
STARTING A COLLECTION
€500 can start something serious.
Price does not assign cultural quality. Method, documents, condition and the artist’s trajectory matter more than the rush of a fair.
20K
FOUR STRATEGIES
How to build a collection with €20,000.
One anchor work, three mid-career artists, six emerging names or a hybrid model—with costs made visible.
COMPARE THE BUDGETS ↗THE COMPLETE MAGAZINE
Five sections. One restless eye.
The editorial architecture of Acquistare Arte, now inside PAGO SÌ: artists, collaborations, languages, criticism and the full archive.
01Artists
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02Collaboration
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03Languages
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04Criticism
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REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO · 01
CASSILS · 02
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON · 03
THE BODY DOES NOT FIT THE FRAME.
PEOPLE WHO CHANGE THE VIEW
Five curators. Five arguments.
PAGO SÌ — YES TO MORE ART ;)
Buy less story.See more work.
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