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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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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Who is afraid of the black cat?
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
n the dark times of the Middle Ages, when the cat fell out of favor it was associated with witches, a fact that has marked the iconological evolution deviating much the figure of the cat from what is its real archetypal meaning. Recently, the psychoanalyst C. Widmann in The Cat and Its Symbols has presented
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Ute Lemper plays Neruda at Festival Aperto
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
She has done with the public, Ute Lemper, what spring does with the cherry trees? We think so. Just look at Saturday, October 4th spectators’ faces full of excited marvel at the exit of Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia. Ute had just sung the love poems by Pablo Neruda. Event of Festival Aperto 2014, the
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Atelier. Lucia Conversi
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
The road along the valley of the river is one of those narrow, shady and cool roads, in the distance the water course begins with clear and calm beaches. A brief – and steep – slope and here it is the house, with the barn still cluttered with furniture and antiques collected by her father,
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David Lynch in Lucca: found visions
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
From the darkness of night, an image that instantly evokes the figure, gushed a light filled, unexpected, revealing. That – we will see it – of a man who knows. David Lynch for his “first” in Tuscany, at Lucca Film Festival, he could get out of a huge pink pinna, or he could do it
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The lost time of ruins: Silvia Camporesi
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
There are many photographers who work on an abandoned place and often their images are evocative, exciting, involving the viewer through the details of the peeling walls, the few furnishings corroded by termites or rusted, human traces which still stand despite the man does not live there anymore for years, for decades. Even Silvia Camporesi
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Liz Nicol: a renewing past
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
She’s been taking pictures since the Seventies, now Liz Nicol works moving back and forth between England – she was a teacher in Plymouth University Digital Art & Technology Master and now she’s Associated Professor in the School of Art & Media – and Venice, her second hometown where she lives in Sestiere di Castello.
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Design in 400 words: keep an eye on these eyeglasses!
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
It happens that during a Fuorisalone event I run into a shop where are exposed very special pair of glasses models, too good to be “standard brand”… I got in and I met Guido (Sofia the next time) and I got out with a pair of glasses with a square lens and a round one!
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Design in 400 words: Fantacentrica
Wednesday, 04 June 2014
It’s called “Siabbottoni” (Buttoning) Simone Abbottoni’s website, that explains to those who enter for the first time: “N.1 Si is the beginning of Simone, and Abbottoni is the surname No.2 Si Abbottoni – imperative of “to button” in italian – is a gentle invitation to those who talk too much and badly”. But Simone Abbottoni
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