Design in 400 words: OTTAVIO the forgetful
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
In case you need a design object to be inserted in the children room I would like to introduce to you “OTTAVIO Lo Smemorato” (OTTAVIO the forgetful), prototype on display at SHARING DESIGN, container of events in Fabbrica del Vapore organized by Milano Makers at the last Salone del Mobile. OTTAVIO is a “rare” kind
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Acqui Terme, illustrators in Festival
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
The Cultural Association Campo di Carte, in collaboration with Libreria Cibrario, is ready for the third edition of Anomali Illustration Festival. Unlike the previous editions, the festival will take place in Spring, from April 27th to May 4th. By the end of April is expected the end of the project Righe Amiche, which involved the
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A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 08 April 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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Walking books in bibliobus
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Man is a hunter, a discoverer, a seeker by nature. He’s always been searching for what he needed to evolve, adapt, feel good. And also to learn, to have fun, to know. On one hand, the hunter, on the other the prey, the object of pursuit, desire, sometimes. The book. Entity that lives on the
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The bibliophile’s handbook
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Compendiary, writing – Type of writing that, in order to save time and space, uses a conventional system of abbreviations but without prejudging to the interpretation and meaning of the text. Continue, writing – Type of writing in which the words are not interspersed with spaces. The division of words appears in the mirror of
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A museum for the industrial Bologna
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
In fine weather, it’s nice to get there by walking along the Navile Canal, used for transporting goods until the second post-war. It is the Furnace Galotti “Battiferro”, built in 1887 and from 1997 charming home of Museum of Industrial Heritage of Bologna, which documents, displays and spread economic and productive history of the city
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Obsession for the woman: Campigli rediscovered
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
These motionless figures appear like archetypes, distant, untouchable: they are Campigli’s women, female beings that have always existed in Western art, familiar to us because they remind of suggestions and images ranging from portraits of Fayum to Greek korai, from Etruscan funerary sculptures – the painter was struck by Etruscan art during a visit to
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Ice and water: Axel Hütte in Modena
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Between 2012 and 2013 Axel Hütte, German photographer counted among the most significant members of the Düsseldorf School, devoted himself to an artist residence in the Modena Apennines, during which he took pictures so far unpublished. These, like other large format prints belonging to the series Glaciers (1997-2002), Water Reflections (1998-2007), Caves (2008) and New Mountains
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Design in 400 words: Willow
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
I love Willow’s work, his paintings seem an animated gif in a frantic movement, so important contours give more strength to the “comic book”. Yeah, they look like a cartoon! Long ago, scrolling the pictures depicting his work with a child by my side, this one invented an alien story for each canvas to the
Klimt, to the origins of a myth: the exhibition in Milan
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Masterpieces from the “golden age”? Do not look for them at the exhibition at Palazzo Reale in Milan: «Klimt, origins of a myth» exhibits – among others – twenty works by the artist from Belvedere Museum in Vienna, but few of these are known to the general public. The first room is full of promises,
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