Obsession for the woman: Campigli rediscovered
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
These motionless figures appear like archetypes, distant, untouchable: they are Campigli’s women, female beings that have always existed in Western art, familiar to us because they remind of suggestions and images ranging from portraits of Fayum to Greek korai, from Etruscan funerary sculptures – the painter was struck by Etruscan art during a visit to
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Ice and water: Axel Hütte in Modena
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Between 2012 and 2013 Axel Hütte, German photographer counted among the most significant members of the Düsseldorf School, devoted himself to an artist residence in the Modena Apennines, during which he took pictures so far unpublished. These, like other large format prints belonging to the series Glaciers (1997-2002), Water Reflections (1998-2007), Caves (2008) and New Mountains
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Design in 400 words: Willow
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
I love Willow’s work, his paintings seem an animated gif in a frantic movement, so important contours give more strength to the “comic book”. Yeah, they look like a cartoon! Long ago, scrolling the pictures depicting his work with a child by my side, this one invented an alien story for each canvas to the
Klimt, to the origins of a myth: the exhibition in Milan
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Masterpieces from the “golden age”? Do not look for them at the exhibition at Palazzo Reale in Milan: «Klimt, origins of a myth» exhibits – among others – twenty works by the artist from Belvedere Museum in Vienna, but few of these are known to the general public. The first room is full of promises,
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
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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Robert Johnson and the 27 Club
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
There is a club where to enter you have to be dead at age 27, after a life full of exaggeration, a life as cursed musicians. In a few take it into account but the real founder of this macabre group is Robert Johnson, one of the greatest blues guitarists, who died just at 27
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The New Genesis by Sebastião Salgado
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
The planet is the Earth, the instrument is a camera, the look is Sebastião Salgado’s, one of the most important living documentary photographers. So important that Wim Wenders has just dedicated a biopic, Shade and Light, made with his son Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and presented at the last Berlin Film Festival. The researches of the
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Cake design: art and tradition
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
To imagine the confectionery in the United States means thinking to large decorated cakes, covered with colored sugar paste, mounted in bizarre shapes. A widespread fashion, now a few years in Italy, where it found great support among consumers and some crooked nose between ancient confectioners. At first glance, it seems the importation of a
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Curiosity e-book: interesting links
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Today I want to tell you about two sites where you can find free e-books, one in English and one in Italian. The first is called Forgotten Books, and defines itself as “the largest online library in the world, with 484.473 books available on request”; for the most part, these books are in English but
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Atelier. Pino Guzzonato
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
On the wall there is a panel with many photographs: “They’re all friends”, says Pino Guzzonato, and we recognize the faces of Luigi Meneghello, Mario Rigoni Stern and Marco Paolini, among many others. On the table, the logbook, a collage of snapshots of each meeting, a collection of calligraphy, testimonies and memories. Guzzonato chose a
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