A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 26 February 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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Curiosity e-book: Davide Mana
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
While surfing in the web looking for curious books I came across Davide Mana and his blog Evolutionary Strategies, where the author offers for free some of his writings that I found interesting. I have chosen to focus on three titles, but feel free to read the others. Here Davide describes them, in his own
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GIPI, “astory” on exhibition
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Gipi debuted in 1994 as an illustator on Cuore magazine, then he published some short stories and beautiful illustrations on Blue, La Repubblica, Internazionale, Lo Straniero and IlPost.it. In 2003 he published the collection Esterno Notte and in 2004 the graphic novel Appunti di una storia di guerra for Coconino, publisher of all his subsequent
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The Silent Dreams of Irene Kung
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Dark funds or neutral blacks of the night or smoky fog from which emerge quiet and muffled pictures by Irene Kung. The artist, Swiss but settled in Italy and trained as a painter, recently chose to use photography as an expressive medium, and her works will inevitably keep track of a pictorial than for this
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Thin and anxious: Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures in exhibition in Rome
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
It is the reconstruction of a corner of New York that welcomes visitors to the exhibition Giacometti. The sculpture at Galleria Borghese in Rome. There are three figures commissioned in 1960 – Standing Woman I, Great Woman II, Man Walking I – intended to be placed in front of the sixty-storey skyscraper in the Chase
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Adopt a word
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Adoption. A true act of love towards people, animals, (ideologically) causes and, with the proper proportions, to our language. If you have never thought it was possible to take care of a word, something that we use daily and without which we would be lost, you will change idea. The Dante Alighieri Society, who care
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A table with holes
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
All of us have read Mickey Mouse even once. I had also earned medals as a young explorer but I cannot remember in which competition or collection points, I still have the diplomas that they sent me at home, but… But… I’ve never eaten a meal sitting at a table in the shape of cheese
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part four)
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
La rivalutazione del gatto giunge con Leonardo da Vinci, che lo definì “un capolavoro” e gli dedicò numerosi studi. Nel famoso “foglio di schizzi” datato 1490, in cui il gatto è raffigurato nei suoi atteggiamenti abituali, nascose ben 73 giochi enigmistici tutt’ora irrisolti. Nell’angolo in basso a destra del foglio, accanto al timbro della Royal
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The bibliophile’s handbook
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Large fold – Special folding sheets technique; using it, the texture of paper is disposed parallel to the spine of the book (from top to bottom). Apocryphal, book – Generally referred to a non authentic work or not recognized by the author or unrelated to the traditional canon of his writings. Famous examples are the
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Atelier. Erjon Nazeraj
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Erion Nazeraj defines himself as a sculptor, but what he shows me first of all are drawings. Dozens and dozens of images on different media, recovered pieces of paper that in the artistic operation lose their original functionality, sometimes the graphic sign intersects with collages, sometimes paper layering prevails and there is a strange tangency
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