Happy bicentennial, Richard Wagner!
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
22nd May 1813 – 22nd May 2013: Saxony celebrates the two hundredth birthday of Richard Wagner’s romantic musical genius. Born in Leipzig, moved after his father’s death in 1814 to Dresden and then came back later in Leipzig, Wagner has linked its name to various locations in the German “Land”. Here, then, that throughout 2013
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Prokudin, all the colors of the Great Russian Empire
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Sergej Prokudin was born in 1863 and studied chemistry with Dmitrji Mendeleev (the inventor of the Periodic Table, to be clear); when the latter one founded a photograph society, the young Prokudin became fond of photography and in the late nineteenth century, exploiting his studies, became in fact one of the pioneers of color photography.
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Atelier: Nino Migliori
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
A striped sofa and a mannequin covered with gold, crushed plastic bottles and empty jars of glass. But above all, a vintage pinball Explorer, fully functional. Nino Migliori is playing while I am looking around taking some photos to the archive, those black boxes in perfect order containing a life as an artist. And before
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Travels and Memories at “Mangia Come Scrivi” (Eat As You Write)
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
After the world mountaineering legend Kurt Diemberger, guest of honor of the appointment of March, for the month of April, the event “Mangia Come Scrivi” wants to stay on the “top” focusing on the oldest newspaper of Italy (La Gazzetta di Parma) and the most awarded abroad tricolor brewery (il Birrificio del Ducato). The protagonists
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Cinzia Munari: painter with her head up
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
“When someone says, I can do it too, it means that he knows redo, otherwise he would have done before.” This sentence of the brilliant Bruno Munari welcomes the site guests of Cinzia Munari, bookseller and painter. As we read in the short biography, Cinzia was born in Lodi, and after a first artistic period
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A black and white style
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
When spring is approaching and you are tired of wearing warm clothes, our thoughts fly straight to the must-haves of the season. Last year Pantone elected as color of the year Tangerine Tango, while in 2013 the emerald green predominates over all. But it is not only bright colors to dictate the rules of the
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A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
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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Places for cats
Friday, 22 March 2013
What makes a cat to choose, at home, a place rather than another? Curiosity leads the cat to explore every corner of its territory and to smell anything new, but the reasons for his preferences are sometimes mysterious. Apart from the search for niches hot in summer and cool in winter, or comfort – although
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Gabriele Basilico, the space as an actor
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
“When you try, in a space, to photograph a subject and the subject is the space itself, it happens that one moves, looks far, near and makes some strange movements as if it were a dance, enacts a sort of gesture as that of a diviner who goes looking for something that cannot be seen
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One Pixel a day
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
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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