Art books: Shakespeare’s sonnets
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The book’s journey was a very long one. I really love Shakespeare’s sonnets, their content, their style, the way they are written, their imagery… they somehow filtered through me, grabbed me by the heart and created such an impression on me that I had to visually interpret them. Many months of my life are incorporated
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Cuisine of past times
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Christmas began with Santa Lucia and the first snowfall. There were many things to be done: gathering moss along the road to school for the crib, finding a Christmas tree in the pine wood, getting bunches of mistletoe in the oak woods, preparing the mixture for the spongata cakes and writing Christmas cards for relatives.
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“Sun and Snow” at Mondadori, evening with friends
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
The first event in the presentation exhibition “Metti il Venerdì da Mondadori”, dedicated to Luigi Alfieri and his “Sun and Snow”, proved to be a pleasant meeting with friends in a relaxed and intimate atmosphere. After a short introduction by the author and the illustrator, the painter Enrico Robusti, the book spoke through the reading
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One Pixel a day
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
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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Steve Hackett, Genesis Revisited II – Album and tour
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
“Paper late!” cried a voice in the crowd”. It happened on 22.10.2012! Not just yesterday, but even in a time so remote as to make the information superfluous. It really happened. It has been released the sequel of Genesis Revisited published in 1996. It is called, imagine, Genesis Revisited II (after all what else should
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Cats with style
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Judging by logistic preferences of domestic felines – the subject of a future post – the most of the houses has already a “basic” equipment appreciated by furries. Often, however, the human hosts are not satisfied and want to offer some more comfort to the beloved cat, actually giving themselves the chance to satisfy their
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Pepén, tasty “institution” of Parma
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
I eat a sandwich standing, in a sort of little bar full of people. Scents, I am hungry just to smell them, especially the one from the mythical “carciofa”. To eat in Pepén’s you can bear everything, confusion, expectations, lack of chairs and tables. Because Pepén is a “must” that is well worth some small
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Atelier: Graziano Pompili
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Hands that sculpt, hands that with precise and measured gestures model air aroud words, like they would model clay around an image or would lead the chisel through the lines of an idea. They are a sculptor’s hands, as Graziano Pompili, which bear the signs of doing and tell of strength and precision, delicacy and
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“Sun and snow” goes to New York
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Italian flavor in New York: on the 10th of March “Sun and snow” will be introduced during the traditional annual meeting of Berceto Foundation, born to keep bonds and traditions with Valtaro alive. The association that gathers emigrants from Berceto to USA will have as welcome guests the author of the book, Luigi Alfieri, and
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