Brownfield, birth of a project
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
“A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” is the title of a book by DF Wallace, but it is a statement that I could use at the end of my career that I want to tell now, although I know full well that I won’t ever believe in the assertion above but rather, if
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The art of Galya Popova
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Galya Popova has always known that she wanted to be an artist. Born in Moscow in 1978, she attended since she was a child art studios and art schools. When she was six years old, she already began to show exceptional talent, so that her teacher enrolled her in a studio for adults. While she continued to train in her spare time,
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Furoncoli, telling through images
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Franco Furoncoli, 1945, has always lived in Parma. His passion for photography is evident in the ’60s, when he produced his first picture with his dad’s Retinett. We will tell you about him, using his own words. «In ’68, while attending the Faculty of Geology, I set up a darkroom in the basement for the
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“The Concourse” of Johannes and Philipp
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Two brothers, born in a small Bavarian town in 1984 and 1986. Philipp is the youngest. Grown among thousands of comics, they soon began to draw, invent stories, develop fantasy worlds, spending days thinking about characters and adventures. As long as the serious side of life has knocked on their door: the school was over,
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Galerie Vevais introduces its newest book series: Vevais-Werkdruck
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Edition Galerie Vevais is the brainchild of the German architect and poet, Alexander Scholz. Coming from the world of architecture has allowed Scholz to approach “the book” in fresh, original, and dramatic new ways. His art editions, CDs, and DVDs look like nothing else that exists in the publishing world. Scholz began in 1997 working
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Sculptures in limestone and metal
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Alabama Sculptor DeeDee Morrison’s studio is nestled in a limestone quarry. An active one. “It’s an old Republic Steel Plant that closed down, but it’s got wonderful buildings,” she says. “Now it’s an operable quarry for road-grade material”. For an artist, that can lead to some interesting moments. “When they blast, some of the stone
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Silvia’s unbearable lightness
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
“Have you ever written a haiku?” This is the question that Maurizio asked his friend Silvia some time ago. The answer was negative; Silvia did not know that word meant, but remembered having read a book many years before with the glaring title Snow – a novel by Maxence Fermine in which haiku was also
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About self-sufficient glamour and about who invented it (2nd part)
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The most important conceptual and formal innovation of photography by Ghergo is the abandoning of picturesque iconography and the creation of a sophisticated yet sobre image, created with careful geometry, where light models the shapes of the subject; and it is this talent that doses the light that marks the boundary between ordinary portrait and
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About self-sufficient glamour and about who invented it (1st part)
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
“It’s difficult to be photographed after Ghergo, difficult to see another Alida Valli, or Sylva Koscina, or Sophia Loren. Ghergo in his austere studio transfigures them into the light which defines the outlines of the faces (…). With this Ghergo defines it (the light) a real process of beatification in an ideal heaven”. These are
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First, precious Italian tribute to Steve Jobs
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
What is a minivan Volkswagen, symbol of the hippie culture, doing on the second floor of the Museum of natural sciences in Turin… ah yes, it is the “Steve Jobs 1955-2011″ exhibition; who, when he was 18 years old had one, and sold it to found Apple Computers. It was 1976: with approximately $ 600
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