Numinal, to play with symbols
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Numinal is a system of symbols that the designer Danilo Seregni has collected and put aside over the years; most have met him through his work of art and took form of works at first – paintings, small sculptures and lamps – in which he dealt with the depiction of animals in a symbolic key
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part five)
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
In the eighteenth century the cat peeps in a wide variety of works and styles, going from taverns to drawing rooms, from boudoir to the charming sorceresses cavern. Around eighteenth and nineteenth century, Francisco Goya (1746-1828) depicts several times cats behind a child yet but already cruel Don Manuel Osorio de Zuniga [image 1], three
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The words of the heart
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
“Language must be regarded as a civic value, to preserve and monitor as a monument”. These are the words, and thought, by Massimo Arcangeli from Dante Alighieri Society who has been studying and preserving Italian language. The work of preservation of language in so many ways, including campaigns and initiatives in his defense as “Words
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Atelier. Andrea Saltini
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
“I paint almost in the dark, I leave on only one light bulb, you see? Just so you can make the light and shade… sometimes even turn off the light and work by candlelight.” Those distinctive chiaroscuro are the “fingerprint” of Andrea Saltini’s works, they are the brush strokes that give expression to portraits, the
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The Bassa, Tokyo and the logs: Gianni Pezzani
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Gianni Pezzani was born in 1951 in Colorno, in the province of Parma, in the “Bassa”. That area near the Po, that Po Valley with boundless and often indistinguishable horizons because of the fog, those difficult and sometimes hostile lands with unbearable climate and abandoned farmsteads, but also rich of evocative images, poetic echoes which
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Design in 400 words: a 360° degrees designer, Stefano Giovannoni
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Have you seen Fruitscape? In my opinion it is the object par excellence, so elegant, harmonious, it really is the most beautiful design object of the century. To lean a fruit upon it is a ritual, it seems to be wrapped up when it goes to lie down in the space designed for it. A
A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 26 February 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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Curiosity e-book: Davide Mana
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
While surfing in the web looking for curious books I came across Davide Mana and his blog Evolutionary Strategies, where the author offers for free some of his writings that I found interesting. I have chosen to focus on three titles, but feel free to read the others. Here Davide describes them, in his own
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GIPI, “astory” on exhibition
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Gipi debuted in 1994 as an illustator on Cuore magazine, then he published some short stories and beautiful illustrations on Blue, La Repubblica, Internazionale, Lo Straniero and IlPost.it. In 2003 he published the collection Esterno Notte and in 2004 the graphic novel Appunti di una storia di guerra for Coconino, publisher of all his subsequent
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The Silent Dreams of Irene Kung
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Dark funds or neutral blacks of the night or smoky fog from which emerge quiet and muffled pictures by Irene Kung. The artist, Swiss but settled in Italy and trained as a painter, recently chose to use photography as an expressive medium, and her works will inevitably keep track of a pictorial than for this
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