Max Klinger: the unconscious of reality
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
Accustomed as we are to the idea of the suffered and perhaps disturbed artist, it is almost surprising to read a character with a full and happy life: Max Klinger. Born in Leipzig February 18th, 1857, he has the good fortune to grow up in a family of wealthy middle class that encourages his early
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The light of hope in the reportage by Alessandro Gandolfi
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
A child. With yellow shirt and vest also profiled of yellow, blue hat and two big eyes behind new lenses, those lenses that allow him to see his world. And then an old man who hides behind his ophthalmologists’ test glasses, the wonder of a view recovered. Andhō in Nepali means blind, and in rural
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New Hollywood II, an exhibition rediscovers classics
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
You go at a festival to discover new talents. This is its mission. And to understand how the great of today were influenced by the geniuses of yesterday. Sometimes the two goals fit together! Especially if we talk about great American filmmakers still active that then were moving the first steps. Meanwhile, we mourn the
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Happy drawings and crazy animals: Luka Va
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
Luka Va, a male name for a female Lithuanian illustrator with a great sense of humor who lives in Melbourne, Australia, and paints – by her own admission – “happy drawings” and “crazy animals”. As recounted in several interviews, she is always looking for new and different techniques, but every time she tries to do
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The Cal in Milan
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
It is called The Cal, as if it were the one and only calendar in the world. Born in 1963 from a brilliant marketing operation of Pirelli UK which has transformed a gadget for truckers into a sought cult, Pirelli calendar is an object of desire – only a small number of powerful customers and
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The Magical Cats Academy
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Curiously that, the very day on which in Italy falls the Feast of the Black Cat, I find myself writing – one more time – about cats. Since the dawn, as is well known, the cat is considered the magical animal par excellence: worshipped as deities, demonized as a familiar of witches, even studied by
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New sheen for “rebels without a cause”
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
In the magnificent version restored by the Cineteca of Bologna has been returned to the public Rebel Without a Cause (1955) by Nicholas Ray, Mr. Cinema-Cinema. Sensuality on edge, explosive technicolor on first stirrings of the heart and the restlessness of a “rebel without a cause” generation. The film has aroused the concerns of the
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Not only Picasso
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Let’s start from the center, from the heart of the exhibition Picasso and the Spanish modernity: sections The Monster and The Tragedy are housed in a darkened room, the gloom suited to protect the fragile designs of the Catalan painter. Two extraordinary cores, rarely leaving the Museum Reina Sofia and testifying to a journey that
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The founders of the Magnum: photographers of war for peace
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
It is May 22nd, 1947: in the restaurant of the MoMA in New York Robert Capa, David Seymour “Chim”, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger founded a photo agency that takes its name from a bottle of champagne. Magnum is born and begins a history of photojournalism and photography which marks the twentieth century and continues
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Design in 400 words: Steven Guarnaccia, design illustrator
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
A colorful character that flexes backwards to photograph a showcase of… books! They are children’s books, no… they are for adults, mah! They sure are design books, or rather, are storybooks revisited with taste, with good taste. Photographing them because they are his creations, his works. But what brings an internationally renowned illustrator for a
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