Thin and anxious: Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures in exhibition in Rome
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
It is the reconstruction of a corner of New York that welcomes visitors to the exhibition Giacometti. The sculpture at Galleria Borghese in Rome. There are three figures commissioned in 1960 – Standing Woman I, Great Woman II, Man Walking I – intended to be placed in front of the sixty-storey skyscraper in the Chase
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Adopt a word
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Adoption. A true act of love towards people, animals, (ideologically) causes and, with the proper proportions, to our language. If you have never thought it was possible to take care of a word, something that we use daily and without which we would be lost, you will change idea. The Dante Alighieri Society, who care
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A table with holes
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
All of us have read Mickey Mouse even once. I had also earned medals as a young explorer but I cannot remember in which competition or collection points, I still have the diplomas that they sent me at home, but… But… I’ve never eaten a meal sitting at a table in the shape of cheese
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part four)
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
La rivalutazione del gatto giunge con Leonardo da Vinci, che lo definì “un capolavoro” e gli dedicò numerosi studi. Nel famoso “foglio di schizzi” datato 1490, in cui il gatto è raffigurato nei suoi atteggiamenti abituali, nascose ben 73 giochi enigmistici tutt’ora irrisolti. Nell’angolo in basso a destra del foglio, accanto al timbro della Royal
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The bibliophile’s handbook
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Large fold – Special folding sheets technique; using it, the texture of paper is disposed parallel to the spine of the book (from top to bottom). Apocryphal, book – Generally referred to a non authentic work or not recognized by the author or unrelated to the traditional canon of his writings. Famous examples are the
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Atelier. Erjon Nazeraj
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Erion Nazeraj defines himself as a sculptor, but what he shows me first of all are drawings. Dozens and dozens of images on different media, recovered pieces of paper that in the artistic operation lose their original functionality, sometimes the graphic sign intersects with collages, sometimes paper layering prevails and there is a strange tangency
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 12 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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Liberty. A style for modern Italy: the great exhibition of Forlì
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Liberty, a style internationally spread, called Art Nouveau in France, Jugendstil in German and Central European area and Modern Style in Anglo-Saxon countries. Between nineteenth and twentieth century the new style and new “taste” yearned to overcome historicism and naturalism that had dominated much of the nineteenth century. The recently unified Italy in fact aspires
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part three)
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Soon the Fathers of the newborn Church decided to get rid of the Mothers of ancient cults, fearing that they could hide assertive aspirations that could undermine their power. To ensure that charges of idolatry would find greater foundation, Christian theologians established a division between good and evil even in animal world and cat ended
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Shots of silence. Riccardo Varini and photography in Reggio Emilia
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Today it’s snowing. Big and light flakes that slowly cover roofs, trees and the resting fields. A photographer will certainly go out with his camera, he will reach the hills and capture light and greatly charming images. This photographer is called Riccardo Varini and he made of snow one of his muses, so as to
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