The Italian design over the crisis, at the Triennale
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Seventh edition of the Triennale Design Museum: the focus is on a theme linked to actuality, productive self-sufficiency. The way to deal with the crisis differently adopted in three crucial periods in history – the ’30s,’70s and early ’00s – it shows how economic crises are conducive to the stimulation of design creativity. With the
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Classics of comics: Alberto Breccia
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Studies about Argentine comic develop since the sixties of the last century thanks to the comic adventure and action of Salgarian matrix, graphically characterized by the cinematic style of illustrators and designers of the Escuela Panamericana de Arte. Arrived in Argentina in the late forties, thanks to the initiatives of the Editorial Abril of Cesare
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A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
t’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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A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 11 November 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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The bibliophile’s handbook
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Littera antiqua – Writing that Florentine humanists Coluccio Salutati, Poggio Bracciolini and Niccolò Niccoli imitated by codes in Carolingian minuscule of IX-XII centuries, considering mistakenly penned by ancient Roman writing of the classical age. This type of writing became widespread in the fifteenth century, taking the name of humanities and evolving into two types: the
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The style between doors: re-opening the wardrobes of the Fondazione Magnani Rocca
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
What does it mean to open old wardrobes? It means to bring to light stories and history, especially when wardrobes and chests are the ones that from distant past preserve clothes and objects of a cultured family, fully integrated in the twentieth-century elite and in close contact with artists and poets, musicians and intellectuals. This
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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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