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Atelier. Massimo Lagrotteria

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 by Redazione

The background is often dark, it occupies only part of the canvas surface and the black paint with drops trickles and smears on not painted areas. Brush strokes are broad and smooth, fast and accurate, immaterial and real at the same time. To Massimo Lagrotteria (Carpi, 1972) painting is an intimate necessity, a need that

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Of cats and art: La Romieu and the village of stone cats

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 by Redazione

On the Camino de Compostela, in an area that saw alternating exploits of Cathars and Templars, dotted with monasteries, collegiate churches, cathedrals, in 1062 two German monks returning from a pilgrimage to Rome decided to devote the rest of their lives to prayer and founded the hermitage de la Romieu. We are in Gascony, in

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A Pixel with mustache

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 by Redazione

It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is

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Design in 400 parole: Venice in a bottle

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 by Redazione

You walk placidly, you’re in Venice, when you stop dead on your track and come back, as if something were calling you, some sort of subliminal message in your walk… a few steps and you’re before that white shop window which, as it seems, is already stamped in your mind, maybe it’s for the rainbow

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Good wine makes… good ink!

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 by Redazione

Wine and comics: two effective synonyms for pleasure and tradition, a combination so much dear to intellect as to senses, in which we Italians, modestly speaking, struggle not to be second to anyone. A meeting that was made concrete on Sunday, September 7th at the Grape Festival of Gattinara, municipality of Vercelli which produces the

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Liz Nicol: a renewing past

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 by Redazione

She’s been taking pictures since the Seventies, now Liz Nicol works moving back and forth between England – she was a teacher in Plymouth University Digital Art & Technology Master and now she’s Associated Professor in the School of Art & Media – and Venice, her second hometown where she lives in Sestiere di Castello.

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Fermoeditore presents its e-book

Wednesday, 17 September 2014 by Redazione

Even Fermoeditore launches itself into the world of e-books. From October 1st in fact will be available in major online stores – and soon in the appropriate section of fermoeditore.it website – three titles, two already published in paper and a new arrival. We could not miss the very first book Fermoeditore, La scomparsa della

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Fermoeditore Photo Contest: the winners

Wednesday, 18 June 2014 by Redazione

We interviewed the winners of the first Fermoeditore’s photography contest. Here are their answers to the questions “where you took your photo? Is there any particular memories related to this image?” Domenico Guddo: in Cefalù, in Sicily. Fabrizio Ara: to the buildings at the abandoned mines of Montevecchio (Arbus); I love abandoned places, that I

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The bibliophile’s handbook

Wednesday, 18 June 2014 by Redazione

Fiori di tarlo (worm flowers) – Small holes visible on the surface of the paper or in the binding resulting from the wormhole; the insect can also produce tiny granules in proximity of the holes. Fioriture (Blooms) – Alterations of the appearance of the page surface of a book or of the blanket, caused by

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Design in 400 words: keep an eye on these eyeglasses!

Wednesday, 18 June 2014 by Redazione

It happens that during a Fuorisalone event I run into a shop where are exposed very special pair of glasses models, too good to be “standard brand”… I got in and I met Guido (Sofia the next time) and I got out with a pair of glasses with a square lens and a round one!