When steampunk becomes sound and performance
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
On the top hat a fake butterfly flutters. A guy who fumbles around for steampunk gadgets wears it unlikely to achieve useless/incomprehensible/nonsensical results. In no order, we have: a compressed air horn, a skeleton spider playing a toy drum, a bubble machine, a smoke gun. He wanders, activating surreal-poetic experiments generating a fascinated and bewildered
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Mr. Fijodor: poetry, instinct and Street Art
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Small and pink, relegated to the corners or distributed in the middle of the work, the elephants are never lacking in the paintings of Mr. Fijodor, street artist living in Turin that found its distinguishing mark in the image of a Dumbo declined in a contemporary key. Why Dumbo? Because the elephant with big ears,
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Ó.P.L.A., the art book for children lives here
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
n Merano there is a special place: the archive of the artist’s book for children Ó.P.L.A (Oasi Per Libri Artistici – Artistic Books Oasis). Project coordinated by Barbara Nestico and with the expert advice of Marcia Corraini, the archive comes from the desire to bring together the work of many artists (painters, sculptors, designers…) that
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Laura Cadelo Bertrand: jewelry or sculptures?
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Thin and light, the works of Laura Cadelo Bertrand overstep the boundaries between jewel design and sculpture. They are wearable art, but also real three-dimensional or “wall mounted” creations, as Crudités: a series of metal plates on which stand out insects pierced with pins in a stylish sublimation of a gruesome scene – witness the
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Bruno Barbieri, flavor of pleasantness
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Dinner with the Chef! Trying to avoid the heaviness, perhaps minimizing the sauce with toasted bread. Did you understand who are we talking about? Exactly. B. B. Bruno Barbieri has been star and guest star at the same event on Monday 20th October in Reggio Emilia, on the second floor of Loris Malaguzzi center. Here,
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Special like each feline 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 really
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Who is afraid of the black cat?
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
n the dark times of the Middle Ages, when the cat fell out of favor it was associated with witches, a fact that has marked the iconological evolution deviating much the figure of the cat from what is its real archetypal meaning. Recently, the psychoanalyst C. Widmann in The Cat and Its Symbols has presented
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The Wind Rises: abandon ourselves to it without reserve
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
“The wind rises, we must try to live.” Framed by these emblematic verse, borrowed from Marino Cemetery by Paul Valéry, the latest film by Hayao Miyazaki is not only the last of his works in chronological terms, but his artistic testament, a prelude to a withdrawal from the scene that will leave a void not
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Not only publisher. Corraini reveals in Parma
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Beyond the door pops the head of a giraffe that invites visitors to enter. Moreover, in the cozy rooms of Palazzo Pigorini in Parma runs a fun and exciting exhibition that combines important works of contemporary art illustrations, children’s games and educational corners. The protagonist is Corraini, historical Mantuan publisher – nay, “editorial workshop” –
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Shots from Andes: a Peruvian history of photography
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Cuzco and Arequipa, two Peruvian cities, two towns that in the late nineteenth century saw the flourishing of prestigious photographic studies from which came out fine and original shots. Now a selection of fifty photographs is on display at the Fondazione Fotografia in Modena, where the curator Jorge Villacorta proposes a journey into the extraordinary
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